Monthly Archives: March 2024

4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss

More than a decade ago, the concept of the ‘blameless’ postmortem changed how tech companies recognize failures at scale. John Allspaw, who coined the term during his tenure at Etsy, argued postmortems were all about controlling our natural reaction to an incident, which is to point fingers: “One option is to assume the single cause is incompetence […]

New BIFROSE Linux Malware Variant Using Deceptive VMware Domain for Evasion

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Linux variant of a remote access trojan (RAT) called BIFROSE (aka Bifrost) that uses a deceptive domain mimicking VMware. “This latest version of Bifrost aims to bypass security measures and compromise targeted systems,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Anmol Maurya and Siddharth Sharma said. BIFROSE is one of the long-standing

Microsoft addresses a Windows 11 update installation failure with Workaround

Microsoft has recently acknowledged and provided a workaround for a critical issue plaguing the Windows 11 February 2024 Patch Tuesday update (KB5034765). In some affected systems, the update process stalls at 96%, display the message “Something didn’t go as planned. No need to worry – undoing changes. Please keep your computer on,” and fails to […]

Elon Musk wants OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to be sacked, files a lawsuit

Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company he co-founded in 2015. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that OpenAI has strayed from its original mission of developing safe and beneficial artificial intelligence (AI) for the public good and has become increasingly focused on profit-driven ventures. […]

First Windows 11 feature drop of 2024 is rolling out with tweaks to Copilot, Widgets, and more

Code-named internally as “Moment 5” the update brings tons of quality of life improvements to Windows 11 Read More: First Windows 11 feature drop of 2024 is rolling out with tweaks to Copilot, Widgets, and more