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Windows Server 2025 is now available – but Microsoft warns admins to watch out for three major bugs, including one that causes the dreaded blue screen of death
Microsoft has released the latest version of its server operating system, Windows Server 2025 — but it comes alongside a trio of bugs. Windows Server 2025 is Microsoft’s latest version of its server OS, following on from Windows Server 2022. The new version is arriving alongside System Center 2025, which Microsoft said means it’s possible to “make the most” of…
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Character.AI and Google sued after chatbot-obsessed teen’s death
A lawsuit has been filed against Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google in the wake of a teenager’s death, alleging wrongful death, negligence, deceptive trade practices, and product liability. Filed by the teen’s mother, Megan Garcia, it claims the platform for custom AI chatbots was “unreasonably dangerous” and lacked safety guardrails while being marketed to…
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How to resolve any Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue on Windows 11
A Blue Screen of Death on Windows 11 can have many solutions that will depend on the issue. You must first troubleshoot the problem to determine the cause so you can then apply the appropriate fix. This guide covers the troubleshooting steps as well as solutions for bugcheck errors due to buggy updates, drivers, graphics problems, hardware issues, data corruption,…
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The death of the paperless office? HP wants to make printing easier than ever — and it’s betting that AI will be the key
You may have thought that digital transformation would spell the end of printing, but it’s 2024 and we are still very keen on a sheet of paper or two. There are many reasons for this – some are personal preferences, some are job-related – but there is also a great benefit in having physical documents. Some even argue that it’s…
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Man sentenced for hacking state registry to fake his own death
A 39-year old man from Somerset, Kentucky, was sentenced to 81 months in federal prison for identity theft and faking his own death in government registry systems. A press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) informs that Jesse Kipf used stolen credentials to access the Hawaii Death Registry System to register himself as a deceased person. The reason…
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New Windows vulnerability could repeatedly trigger the blue screen of death on millions of devices
A new Windows vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to generate an unrecoverable inconsistency and repeatedly crash affected systems, researchers have warned. Ricardo Narvaja, principal exploit writer at cybersecurity and automation software company Fortra, uncovered a vulnerability in the common log file system (CLFS.sys) driver of Windows. Disclosed by Fortra on 12 August, CVE-2024-6768 is said to have been caused…
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