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 […]
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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 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 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. […]
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
Windows Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered assistant for productivity, is gaining a new feature that streamlines collaboration by allowing users to share files directly within the chat window. It was seen by Leopeva64 on X. Previously, users could only share links to files stored on OneDrive or other cloud storage services. With the new update, users can share […]
The Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance has issued a new cybersecurity advisory warning of cyber threat actors exploiting known security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure gateways, noting that the Integrity Checker Tool (ICT) can be deceived to provide a false sense of security. “Ivanti ICT is not sufficient to detect compromise […]
GitHub on Thursday announced that it’s enabling secret scanning push protection by default for all pushes to public repositories. “This means that when a supported secret is detected in any push to a public repository, you will have the option to remove the secret from your commits or, if you deem the secret safe, bypass […]
Microsoft is rolling out new Windows 365 Boot and Switch features, offering improved functionality and user experience for cloud PC users. For those who don’t know, Windows 365 Boot lets you boot directly to your Cloud PC on a Windows 11 device, while Switch allows you to easily switch between your Cloud PC and local […]