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Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket 2026-04-14 at 12:01 By Richard Speed Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25 Having blocked new installations of Outlook Lite in October 2025, Microsoft will ” complete the retirement” of the app on May 25.… This article […]

UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program 2026-04-14 at 12:01 By Lindsay Clark Already £1.3B over budget and 4 years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond 8 years The UK’s state-backed savings bank has set out options for finishing its disastrous transformation program, including busting the current timeline.… This article is an excerpt from

108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users 2026-04-14 at 12:00 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign in which a cluster of 108 Google Chrome extensions has been found to communicate with the same command-and-control (C2) infrastructure with the goal of collecting user data and enabling browser-level abuse by

When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It’s trying to get back there now 2026-04-14 at 10:48 By Tobias Mann Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold When IBM PCs set the standard for personal

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs 2026-04-14 at 10:08 By Avram Piltch Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently Opinion  It’s not the first time this has happened to me and it won’t be the last. I pulled a laptop that I hadn’t used for six months out of a drawer, then waited

CISA Adds 6 Known Exploited Flaws in Fortinet, Microsoft, and Adobe Software 2026-04-14 at 09:14 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added half a dozen security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2026-21643 (CVSS score: 9.1) –  An

ShowDoc RCE Flaw CVE-2025-0520 Actively Exploited on Unpatched Servers 2026-04-14 at 09:14 By A critical security vulnerability impacting ShowDoc, a document management and collaboration service popular in China, has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-0520 (aka CNVD-2020-26585), which carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of 10.0. It relates to a case of

Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure 2026-04-14 at 06:29 By Simon Sharwood Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) thinks a manufacturing process that didn’t properly take into account the qualities of an adhesive caused the December 2025 failure