September 2023

Microsoft’s Surface Duo phone hangs up, drops out of support 12/09/2023 at 12:47 By Richard Speed Remember Microsoft’s first attempt at an Android foldable? Of course you don’t Microsoft has drawn a discreet veil over another of its attempts to become relevant in the mobile hardware space. The original Surface Duo has dropped out of […]

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Lawyer’s Microsoft email snafu goes from $1.75M lawsuit to Ctrl+Alt+Settle 12/09/2023 at 12:17 By Jude Karabus Accused software giant of MFA error that rendered work address useless The New Jersey attorney who sued Microsoft for $1.75 million claiming verification gremlins had cut him off from his paid work email filed for voluntary dismissal on Friday.…

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Automating cloud infrastructure: Do you want APIs with that? 12/09/2023 at 11:17 By Thomas Claburn Flipping the script to a control plane Interview  Cloud software automation generally begins with scripts, but at some point, according to Oren Teich, chief product officer of Upbound, that approach becomes unmanageable.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Microsoft Edge still forcing itself on users in Europe 12/09/2023 at 10:33 By Thomas Claburn Promised change to allow Windows system links open in the actual default browser not yet evident Last month, Microsoft said that for customers in Europe, its Insider build of Windows 11 now opens web links associated with Windows system components

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Alibaba set to unleash AI that offers financial advice – do you feel lucky? 12/09/2023 at 10:02 By Laura Dobberstein Claims it’s already comparbale to finance industry pros and capable of recommending insurance plans Alibaba’s fintech arm, Ant Group, has unveiled a large language model and related applications for the financial services industry that it

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Beware: MetaStealer Malware Targets Apple macOS in Recent Attacks 12/09/2023 at 10:01 By A new information stealer malware called MetaStealer has set its sights on Apple macOS, making the latest in a growing list of stealer families focused on the operating system after Stealer, Pureland, Atomic Stealer, and Realst. “Threat actors are proactively targeting macOS businesses by posing as

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Arm’s lawyers want to check assembly expert’s book for trademark missteps 12/09/2023 at 09:46 By Tobias Mann IPO-hungry chip biz promises to donate copies to universities – may also demand a reprint Reverse-engineering expert Maria Markstedter, whose domain names were wrestled from her by Arm the other week for trademark reasons, has said the British

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Google Rushes to Patch Critical Chrome Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild – Update Now 12/09/2023 at 09:02 By Google on Monday rolled out out-of-band security patches to address a critical security flaw in its Chrome web browser that it said has been exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-4863, the issue has been described as a

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Billions of ‘custobots’ are coming online. Marketers may need to learn SEO for AI 12/09/2023 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood You can’t take a machine to lunch or put it to sleep with PowerPoint, but you can try to shape its worldview Billions of new buyers of goods and services will emerge in coming years,

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