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"Tens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon," reports CNBC:
"We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services," Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in a post on X...
The number of reports that services such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure were down spiked after 3:30 p.m. ET. More than 37,000 i
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Russia is not a significant cyber threat to the U.S. anymore, Trump's new Defense Secretary says. Read more âș
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"Saturday Night Live" debuted Mike Myers in the role of impersonating Elon Musk on this weekend's show. Read more âș
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Lenovo's ThinkBook âcodename Flipâ concept combines two 13-inch OLED displays into one giant 18.1 unit with a choice of modes. Read more âș
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According to Rolling Stone, employees with the Federal Aviation Administration were told on Friday to âbegin finding tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal,â after The Washington Post reported that the FAA may cancel its $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the USâs airspace management systems and go with Elon Muskâs company instead. Whether the FAA has actually dropped its Verizon deal in favor of Starlink has... Read more âș
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Plus, there's a Lenovo laptop with a 3D screen, one with a vertical folding display, and another with literal wings. Read more âș
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President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met in the Oval Office on Friday to finalize a deal. No deal was made. Read more âș
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Officials at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday ordered staff âto begin finding tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink dealâ to upgrade air traffic control communications, anonymous sources have told Rolling Stone. The story follows reports that Starlink may be taking the job from Verizon, which already has a multibillion-dollar contract with [âŠ] Read more âș
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Lenovo is showing business laptops lovers some attention by announcing several new ThinkPads at Mobile World Congress 2025, including a new form factor for the T-series line, and updated internals across the business laptop lineup. The ThinkPad T14s 2-in-1 is by far the most interesting of the bunch, with a new convertible body that's similar to Lenovo's Yoga laptops, and supports the magnetic Yoga Pen stylus. The laptop comes with... Read more âș
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Lenovo hasnât even released its futuristic laptop with a rollable screen. But that hasnât stopped the company from taking that notebookâs core components and remixing it into a whole new thing at MWC 2025. Officially called the ThinkBook codename Flip AI PC Proof of concept (yes, that is its official name and itâs a real mouthful), the laptop uses the same flexible OLED featured in its rollable sibling, except this... Read more âș
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The reserve will include Ripple (XRP), Solana (SOL) and Cardano (ADA) tokens, according to a statement from the president. Read more âș
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Earth's core "burns with an estimated forty-four trillion watts of power," the New Yorker reminds us â enough to "satisfy the entire world's energy needs" with a power source that's carbon-free, ubiquitous â and unlimited. (Besides running 24 hours a day, one of geothermal energy's key advantages is "it can be used for both electricity and heating, which collectively account for around 38% of global climate emissions...") And one drilling... Read more âș
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Lenovo has another funky experiment itâs announcing at Mobile World Congress: the ThinkBook âcodename Flipâ AI PC Concept. Itâs a productivity / business laptop with a flexible display, allowing it to be used as a traditional 13.1-inch clamshell, a folded-up 12.9-inch tablet, or a laptop with an extra-tall 18.1-inch vertical screen. The ThinkBook Flip uses [âŠ] Read more âș
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I love a game that screams things like âneato!â and âgodlike!â while Iâm feverishly pressing buttons and darting my eyes around the screen, trying to make my fingers work as fast as my brain. My skills in the Playdate game XTRIS are definitely not godlike, but thereâs just something about that classic arcade announcer voice that makes me think each time, âthis is the one where Iâll finally crack the... Read more âș
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Eggs stay fresh much longer than you might expect. Don't throw them out too soon. Read more âș
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Lenovo has unveiled the ThinkPad X13 Gen 6 which is super-light at just 2 lbs and comes with the latest AMD or Intel AI CPUs. Read more âș
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Microsoft just released a Dev and Beta Channel that updated Task Manager to ensure that the way it calculates your CPU utilization is more accurate. Read more âș
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Anker Solix showed off its wearable charging prototype at Mobile World Congress, and I just had to try it on. Read more âș
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman last month reported that Apple was considering delaying at least some of its promised Apple Intelligence enhancements for Siri until iOS 18.5, and that plan appears increasingly likely based on his latest information. Gurman said Apple was initially planning to launch the Apple Intelligence enhancements for Siri in iOS 18.4, but it seems that the features have been pushed back until iOS 18.5 due to a lack... Read more âș
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Still think the final fight in Avengers: Endgame was one of the coolest things ever? If yes, then Lego's got a brand new set for you. Read more âș
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Apple said it planned to hire an additional 20,000 staff in the US over the next four years as part of a $500 billion American investment plan. Financial Times: The $500 billion figure [non-paywalled source], spread over Trump's second term in office, includes regular spending on thousands of US suppliers, data centres and corporate facilities, as well as new initiatives such as an academy in Michigan "to train the next... Read more âș
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has urged employees working on the company's Gemini AI products to be in the office "at least every weekday" [non-paywalled source] and suggested "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," according to an internal memo cited by The New York Times. The directive comes as Brin warned that "competition has accelerated immensely and the final race to A.G.I. is afoot," referring to artificial... Read more âș
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Inception, a Palo Alto-based AI company founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel diffusion-based large language model (DLM) that significantly outperforms traditional LLMs in speed and efficiency. "Inception's model offers the capabilities of traditional LLMs, including code generation and question-answering, but with significantly faster performance and reduced computing costs, according to the company," reports TechCrunch. From the report: Ermon hypothesized generating Read more âș
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North Korean hackers have executed the largest cryptocurrency theft in history, draining $1.5 billion from Dubai-based exchange Bybit by compromising its multisignature cold wallet system. The attackers stole over 400,000 ethereum and staked ethereum coins without exploiting code vulnerabilities or infrastructure. Security researchers from Elliptic identified North Korean signatures in the subsequent laundering operations, consistent with the nation's ongoing cryptocurrency theft operations that fund its. Read more âș
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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson urging the FTC to require that companies admit when you're not really buying an ebook or video game. From a report: Wyden's letter, shared with The Verge, requests guidance to "ensure that consumers who purchase or license digital goods can make informed decisions and understand what ownership rights they are obtaining." Wyden wants the... Read more âș
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI intends to eventually integrate its AI video generation tool, Sora, directly into its popular consumer chatbot app, ChatGPT, company leaders said during a Friday office hours session on Discord. Today, Sora is only available through a dedicated web app OpenAI launched in December, which lets users access the AI video model of the same name to generate up to twenty-second-long cinematic... Read more âș
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Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from IFLScience: A video that has gone viral in the last few days shows two artificial intelligence (AI) agents having a conversation before switching to another mode of communication when they realize no human is part of the conversation. In the video, the two agents were set up to occupy different roles; one acting as a receptionist of a hotel, another acting on... Read more âș
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Citigroup credited a client's account with $81 trillion when it meant to send only $280, an error that could hinder the bank's attempt to persuade regulators that it has fixed long-standing operational issues. Financial Times: The erroneous internal transfer, which occurred last April and has not been previously reported, was missed by both a payments employee and a second official assigned to check the transaction before it was approved to... Read more âș
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Amazon has introduced its first-ever quantum processor, dubbed Ocelot, designed specifically to reduce quantum error correction costs by up to 90% compared to existing approaches. The prototype chip uses "cat qubits" -- named after Schrodinger's cat thought experiment -- which intrinsically suppress certain types of quantum errors. Unlike conventional approaches that add error correction after designing the architecture, AWS built Ocelot with quantum error correction as the primary requirement. The... Read more âș
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A Disney employee's download of an AI image generation tool from GitHub led to a massive data breach in July 2024, exposing over 44 million internal Slack messages. The software contained infostealer malware that compromised Matthew Van Andel's computer [non-paywalled source] for five months, giving hackers access to his 1Password manager. The attackers used the stolen credentials to access Disney's corporate systems, publishing sensitive information including customer data, employee passport... Read more âș
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