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Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings 2025-01-18 at 16:33 By Richard Speed Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home Microsoft is trying a new way of enabling Administrator Protection in Windows 11. The latest Windows Insider Canary build adds a setting that removes the requirement […]

Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA’s retiring Milky Way mapper 2025-01-18 at 14:48 By Richard Speed Gaia makes its final science observation The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Milky Way mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion observations over the past decade.… This article is an

How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history 2025-01-18 at 11:33 By Liam Proven With added manga and snark. What’s not to like? Opinion  Windows 1 and 2 flopped almost as badly as OS/2 did. How did Microsoft stage one of the greatest comebacks ever with Windows 3?… This article is an excerpt

U.S. Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm Over Treasury Hack Tied to Silk Typhoon 2025-01-18 at 08:20 By The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions against a Chinese cybersecurity company and a Shanghai-based cyber actor for their alleged links to the Salt Typhoon group and the recent compromise of the federal

TikTok says it will go dark Sunday unless Biden admin assures service providers they won’t be punished 2025-01-18 at 04:46 By Reuters The statement came hours after the Supreme Court upheld a law banning TikTok in the United States on national security grounds if its Chinese parent company ByteDance does not sell it. This article is an

CISA: Wow, that election had a lot of foreign trolling. Trump’s Homeland Sec pick: And that’s none of your concern 2025-01-18 at 04:46 By Jessica Lyons Cyber agency too ‘far off mission,’ says incoming boss Kristi Noem America’s lead cybersecurity agency on Friday made one final scream into the impending truth void about election security

Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall 2025-01-18 at 01:15 By Iain Thomson Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds Capital One is still battling to fix whatever brought down its systems on Wednesday, which has left people unable to access their money.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Tech founder pledges to give away half his wealth to ‘share’ the American dream, address inequality 2025-01-18 at 00:33 By Associated Press Entrepreneur Jeff Atwood sees the staggering wealth inequality in the U.S. today as unfair, astonishing, and un-American. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original

FCC to telcos: Did you know you must by law secure your networks from foreign spies? 2025-01-18 at 00:18 By Jessica Lyons Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from intercepting communications isn’t mere

Bumble shares fall after founder Whitney Wolfe Herd announces impending return as CEO 2025-01-17 at 23:34 By Reuters Wolfe Herd, executive chair of Bumble, will take the reins from Lidiane Jones, who steps down after a tenure of about a year that was marked by a nearly 50% decline in the company’s shares. This article is

Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it 2025-01-17 at 22:35 By Jessica Lyons Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there’s something for everyone in the presidential directive Analysis  Joe Biden, in the final days of his US presidency, issued another cybersecurity order that is nearly as vast in

China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies 2025-01-17 at 21:48 By Dan Robinson Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors The “chip wars” between the US and China show no sign of cooling off as Beijing prepares to examine whether America is unfairly subsidizing its own semiconductor companies. Meanwhile,

So, is TikTok banned now? The Supreme Court decision and the Tiktok ban explained 2025-01-17 at 21:01 By Thomas Barrabi TikTok is widely expected to go dark on Sunday – leaving more than 170 million American users unable to access the China-owned app. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews

Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading 2025-01-17 at 20:51 By Connor Jones Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year Fortinet has confirmed that previous analyses of records leaked by the Belsen Group are indeed genuine FortiGate configs stolen during a zero-day raid in 2022.… This

Looming TikTok ban poses financial nightmare for Google, Apple — and other American tech firms ties to China’s ByteDance 2025-01-17 at 20:22 By Thomas Barrabi A looming ban on TikTok set to take effect on Sunday presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology

EU steps up probe into Elon Musk’s X, days ahead of Trump inauguration 2025-01-17 at 19:35 By Reuters The Commission said President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House did not affect its commitment to enforcing its laws. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View

Clock ticking for TikTok as US Supreme Court upholds ban 2025-01-17 at 19:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo With Biden reportedly planning to skirt enforcement and kick the can to Trump, this saga might still not be over The US Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring TikTok to either divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance

EU demands a peek under the hood of X’s recommendation algorithms 2025-01-17 at 18:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Commission insists the timing has nothing to do with Musk meddling in German politics ahead of election The European Commission is stepping up its ongoing investigation of Elon Musk’s X with a request to examine recent changes made