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Microsoft has released a total of 49 new patches marking the first Patch Tuesday event of 2024, addressing a variety of vulnerabilities across its product estate, among them two critical bugs affecting Windows Kerberos and Windows Hyper-V, but no zero-days or Exchange issues. This is the second relatively light Patch Tuesday drop on the […]

Cryptocurrency markets fluctuated wildly on the evening of Monday 9 January after the US financial regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), briefly appeared to claim it had approved spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for the first time. The fake announcement was made via X, the service formerly known as Twitter, at around 9pm

In the short few weeks since the Post Office public inquiry adjourned for Christmas, the national mood around the scandal has changed dramatically. When Sir Wyn Williams convenes phase four of the statutory inquiry on 11 January, the focus on the hearings will be greater than ever, thanks to the incredible impact of the

Scotland risks “sleepwalking” into a surveillance state that places every citizen in a permanent digital line-up if it does not deviate from the UK government’s data reform plans in 2024, according to the biometrics watchdog. The Scottish biometrics commissioner, Brian Plastow, has blasted the UK government’s plans to abolish the dual biometric and surveillance

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The first U.S. space mission in more than 50 years intended to land softly on the moon won’t reach the lunar surface, the company that designed it said Tuesday. The failure of Astrobotic Technology’s Peregrine lander is a setback for NASA’s effort to send a

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Millions of households will lose discounts on their internet bills in the coming months if Congress does not act to extend an affordable-internet program. The Federal Communications Commission says it will begin winding down the Affordable Connectivity Program this week if it cannot secure more

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save This article is a preview of The Tech Friend newsletter. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Tuesday and Friday. For a few months now, Amazon has been using artificial intelligence to generate short summaries of customer reviews. Amazon’s customer ratings and

With the next US presidential election less than a year away, and concerns growing in Washington DC that the democratic process will again be a target for cyber interference, a report compiled by Arctic Wolf has found that state and local IT and cyber security teams are dangerously underprepared and under-resourced as the next