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    Trial of Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes: news, updates, and more

    Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of disgraced blood-testing company Theranos, has been found guilty on three counts of wire fraud, as well as a count of conspiracy to commit fraud along with her co-founder Sunny Balwani. On November 18th, 2022, she was sentenced to 135 months, or about 11 and a half years, in prison for defrauding 10 victims…

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    Windows 11 KB5051987 & KB5051989 cumulative updates released

    Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5051987 and KB5051989 cumulative updates for versions 24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and issues. Both KB5051987 and KB5051989 are mandatory cumulative updates as they contain the February 2025 Patch Tuesday security updates for vulnerabilities discovered in previous months. Windows 11 users can install today’s update by going to Start > Settings > Windows Update and clicking on ‘Check for Updates.’ You can also manually download…

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    All the news and updates as they happen

    Refresh 2025-02-11T11:01:21.624Z We hope you enjoyed today’s live coverage on the from the ground at Cisco Live EMEA 2025. Stay tuned for more great coverage from ITPro diving deeper into the announcements and what they mean for businesses around the world. 2025-02-11T10:59:15.198Z That was a veritable whirlwind of announcements and Cisco really packed a lot in to time they had.…

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    PlayStation Network down — live updates on major PSN outage

    If you were planning on getting some gaming in on your PS5 or PS5 Pro this weekend, think again. The PlayStation Network is still down after going dark worldwide Friday evening, making this one of the largest PSN outages ever. The PlayStation status page says only “some services are experiencing issues,” but this appears to be a full outage, with…

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    New Microsoft script updates Windows media with bootkit malware fixes

    Microsoft has released a PowerShell script to help Windows users and admins update bootable media so it utilizes the new “Windows UEFI CA 2023” certificate before the mitigations of the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit are enforced later this year. BlackLotus is a UEFI bootkit that can bypass Secure Boot and gain control over the operating system’s boot process. Once in control, BlackLotus can disable…

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    Microsoft script updates bootable media for BlackLotus bootkit fixes

    Microsoft has released a PowerShell script to help Windows users and admins update bootable media so it utilizes the new “Windows UEFI CA 2023” certificate before the mitigations of the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit are enforced later this year. BlackLotus is a UEFI bootkit that can bypass Secure Boot and gain control over the operating system’s boot process. Once in control, BlackLotus can disable…

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    PyPI adds project archiving system to stop malicious updates

    The Python Package Index (PyPI) has announced the introduction of ‘Project Archival,’ a new system that allows publishers to archive their projects, indicating to the users that no updates are to be expected. The projects will still be hosted on PyPI, and users will still be able to download them but they will see a warning about the maintenance status, to…

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    January Windows security updates break audio playback

    ​Microsoft has confirmed that the January 2025 Windows security updates are breaking audio playback on some systems with external DACs (digital-to-analog converters). DACs are commonly used at home, in professional music studios, and in portable music players to improve audio quality, process signals, or convert digital audio into analog signals for playback through speakers or headphones. As the company further…

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    January Windows updates may fail if Citrix SRA is installed

    Microsoft is warning that the January 2025 Windows 11 and Windows 10 cumulative updates may fail if Citrix Session Recording Agent (SRA) version 2411 is installed on the device. As part of today’s January 2025 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released the Windows 11 KB5050009 and Windows 10 KB5049981 updates to fix numerous security vulnerabilities, including zero-day flaws. The release notes for both updates warn…

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    Windows 11, 10 January 2025 updates arrive with KB5050009, KB5050021, KB5049981

    Microsoft is now pushing out the January 2025 Patch Tuesday Update for Windows 11 24H2, known as KB5050009 (build 26100.2894), and builds 22621.4751 and 22631.4751 (KB5050021) for Windows 11 23H2 and version 22H2 respectively with some security fixes and changes. Alongside these releases, the company is also making available the update KB5050021 (builds 19044.5371 and 19045.5371) for Windows 10 22H2…

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