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How to configure Quick Machine Recovery to auto-fix boot failures on Windows 11
On Windows 11, you can now use the Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) feature to fix your computer when it can’t boot correctly, and in this guide, I’ll show you how the feature works and how to configure it. The feature is built into the operating system and designed for seamless recovery. This isn’t your standard Safe Mode or Startup Repair. It’s a…
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Week-long Exchange Online outage causes email failures, delays
Microsoft says it partially mitigated a week-long Exchange Online outage causing delays or failures when sending or receiving email messages. While the company didn’t publicly share information on this incident, it tagged it as a critical service issue tracked under EX1027675 on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Microsoft has yet to share more information on what regions were affected by…
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IT workers are being ‘stretched to their limits’: Heavy workloads, tight deadlines, and management failures mean 75% have experienced stress and burnout
European IT workers are buckling under stress, new research suggests, with almost three-quarters saying they’ve experienced work-related burnout. According to new research from ISACA, the main cause is a heavy workload, cited by six-in-ten. Deadlines were a key problem identified by 44% of survey respondents, with a lack of resources affecting a similar number. Meanwhile, nearly half found that difficult…
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New Microsoft 365 outage impacts Teams, causes call failures
Microsoft is investigating a new Microsoft 365 outage that is affecting Teams customers and causing call failures. Since the incident started more than one hour ago, outage monitoring service Downdetector has received hundreds of reports, with affected users saying they’re also experiencing authentication problems. “Users may not be able to receive calls placed through Microsoft Teams-provisioned auto attendants and call queues,” the company said in…
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Windows 11 installation media bug causes security update failures
Microsoft is warning of an issue when using a media support to install Windows 11, version 24H2, that causes the operating system to not accept further security updates. The problem occurs when using CD and USB flash drives to install Windows 11 version with security updates released between October 8 and November 12. “When using media to install Windows 11, version 24H2,…
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Why Tech Buyers Face AI-Related Project Failures
Many U.K. businesses are struggling to get their AI projects off the ground because the technology is simply not applicable, an AI strategist claims. New research from data management platform Qlik has found that 11% of U.K. businesses have at least 50 AI projects stuck in the planning stage. Meanwhile, 20% have had up to 50 projects progress to planning…
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Sellafield issued hefty fine for cybersecurity failures
Sellafield has been fined £332,500 plus costs for security failings that were described as a ‘disaster waiting to happen’. The penalty has been imposed by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), and relates to the way Sellafield failed to meet the standards, procedures, and arrangements set out in its own approved plan for cybersecurity, as well as its failure to…
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Verkada to pay $2.95M for security failures leading to breaches
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposes a $2.95 million penalty on security camera vendor Verkada for multiple security failures that enabled hackers to access live video feeds from 150,000 internet-connected cameras. Many of the cameras were located in sensitive environments, such as women’s health clinics, psychiatric hospitals, prisons, and schools. FTC alleges that Verkada not only failed to implement basic security measures…
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Researchers tackle AI fact-checking failures with new LLM training technique – Computerworld
“They could give the model a genetics dataset and ask the model to generate a report on the gene variants and mutations it contains,” IBM explained. “With a small number of these seeds planted, the model begins generating new instructions and responses, calling on the latent expertise in its training data and using RAG to pull facts from external databases…
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A “disaster waiting to happen”: Sellafield plant admits to glaring cybersecurity failures
Sellafield Ltd, the firm in charge of managing one of Europe’s largest nuclear sites, has plead guilty to charges relating to cybersecurity failings at the facility, The company apologized for its shortcomings after the Westminster magistrates court was presented with a litany of security failings that could have threatened the UK’s national security. The Sellafield site was used for…
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