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Microsoft's January Windows update has delivered another blow for unsuspecting users – apps including Outlook might freeze when saving files to cloud storage services such as OneDrive or Dropbox. The megacorp acknowledged the latest issue days after releasing an emergency out-of-band update to deal with connection and authentication failures in the Windows App. Yet another

Britain's digital economy minister has sent forth a raft of companies as "ambassadors" to help organizations across the land embrace the UK's Software Security Code of Practice. Baroness (in waiting) Liz Lloyd unveiled the scheme in a speech last week that for some reason was not noted by the government's own press service until yesterday.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms kicked off its run with a makeshift funeral: Dunk (Peter Claffey) buries Ser Arlan of Pennytree (Danny Webb), his longtime master, on a muddy hillside. It’s a turning point for the former squire, who decides to take Ser Arlan’s sword and head to the nearby tournament at Ashford to

If the fifth season of Stranger Things taught us anything, it’s that Netflix can’t always please everyone, despite all the power, money, and influence the company has at its fingertips. However, there’s one big exception that can’t be denied: KPop Demon Hunters , which amassed a delighted following of satisfied customers so huge, it has

Way back in March of 2019, this weird thing happened where a relatively insignificant tech nonprofit called OpenAI became a “capped” for-profit company—whatever that is. The month earlier, OpenAI had announced the creation of an uncanny, über-powerful language model called GPT-2 that was supposedly just too dangerous to release. Then in November, OpenAI seemingly changed

Donald Trump was dubbed the “Crypto President” before he even took office early last year, as the 45th and 47th President of the United States promised to do everything from establishing a strategic bitcoin reserve to removing perceived crypto villain Gary Gensler from the SEC. Trump has largely followed through on many of his crypto-focused

[Sketchiest Guy in the World Voice] Hey kid, wanna see the X algorithm? It’s right over here.  No really, Elon Musk appears to be partly making good on his promise about a week ago to open up the X recommendations algorithm for public perusal and input, theoretically making the main feed on his social media

Chaosamran_Studio - stock.adobe. Organisations are beginning to implement zero-trust models for data governance thanks to the proliferation of poor quality AI-generated data, often known as AI slop. By Alex Scroxton, Security Editor Published: 20 Jan 2026 21:30 Unverified and low quality data generated by artificial intelligence (AI) models – often known as AI slop –

Hacktivists aligned to the Russian state are ramping up their targeting of UK organisations with denial of service attacks By Alex Scroxton, Security Editor Published: 20 Jan 2026 20:47 A wave of denial of service (DoS) attacks against UK organisations allegedly orchestrated by hacktivist Russian threat actors has prompted the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

NatWest Boxed tech team doubles up as the force behind NatWest’s challenger bank, as well as its white-label banking service By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 20 Jan 2026 17:00 NatWest Bank is using a standalone tech led division to ride two waves in the financial technology (fintech) sector. Through its