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March Patch Tuesday brings 57 fixes, multiple zero-days

Microsoft has dropped a grand total of 57 fixes to mark the third Patch Tuesday update of 2025 – rising to closer to 70 when third-party vulns are taken into account – including six zero-days and six critical flaws needing urgent attention. The zero-days comprise a security feature bypass in Microsoft Management Console, two remote…

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The end is near for Windows 10 and Microsoft won’t let you forget it

If you’re still using Windows 10, Microsoft wants to make sure you know that time is running out. The company has officially started emailing users with a not-so-subtle reminder that support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025. The message is clear: upgrade now or risk being left behind.The email was recently spotted…

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Salesforce execs at TDX 25: Agentforce a whole system AI play

At the TDX 2025 developer conference in San Francisco, Salesforce executives presented its Agentforce agentic AI technology as a “whole system” approach, where large language models (LLMs) are less significant than a “trinity” of data, applications and agents. Relatedly, they consistently disparage “DIY” artificial intelligence (AI) programmes. Paula Goldman, the supplier’s chief ethical and humane…

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US Congress demands UK lifts gag on Apple encryption order

US lawmakers have hit out at the Home Office for “attempting to gag” US companies by preventing them from telling Congress whether they have been subject to secret UK orders requiring them to hand over their users’ data. In an unprecedented intervention, five lawmakers from both sides of the US political divide, led by senator…

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The Security Interviews: Yevgeny Dibrov, Armis

Over the past 20 to 30 years, the intelligence community has generated a stream of cyber security leaders – private cyber security companies are littered with former operatives of the American and British intelligence services. But in Israel’s case, the intelligence-to-cyber pipeline has produced arguably the highest density of cyber security startups and organisations in…

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Apple’s big AI-powered Siri upgrade was just delayed to 2026

The long-anticipated personalized Siri allegedly coming with iOS 18.4 has now been delayed to 2026. To Daring Fireball, Apple’s spokeswoman Jacqueline Roy said the more personalized Siri experience powered by Apple Intelligence will take longer to be released.Here’s what she said: “Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and…

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Microsoft Office might get a free tier with ads

Microsoft might release a free tier Office version with ads in the future. According to Beebom (via The Verge), the company started testing this possibility for Windows PCs. At this moment, the Redmond firm isn’t publicly promoting this bundle, even though it acknowledged the test after the media started talking about the possibility of an…

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Microsoft Copilot now offers unlimited free access to Think Deeper and Voice features

Microsoft announced that its Copilot’s Think Deeper and Voice features are now available for free, with unlimited access for all users. Powered by OpenAI’s o1 model, you can talk with Copilot using Voice and use Think Deeper’s reasoning models to help with more complex tasks.This announcement comes as OpenAI expands its Operator capabilities to more…

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DeepSeek is rushing to get its next-gen R2 model out sooner than expected

After taking the world by storm with the debut of its R1 reasoning model in January, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly looking to maintain the momentum by rushing its new R2 model to market as quickly as possible, Reuters reports.DeepSeek at first planned to launch R2 in early May, but sources familiar with the…

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Microsoft overcomes quantum barrier with new particle

Microsoft has published the culmination of 20 years of research into subatomic particles, known as Majorana fermions, which it aims to use to build a million-qubit quantum computer. The research has involved developing topological qubits, which Microsoft research anticipated would offer more stable qubits, requiring less error correction. A research paper on the property of…

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