Kaspersky’s VPN, Password Manager, Safe Kids, and My Kaspersky portal failed worldwide from October 11 to roughly October 14 The outage began hours after Ukrainian drones shut down Yandex’s Vladimir data center, but no technical link has been shown between the two A viral post calling Kaspersky “practically dead” was wrong on database updates, lost…

YouTuber sends an AI avatar to attend an interview with an AI avatar Graham Dot Zip performs popular AI bot trolling pranks on his YouTube channel His AI avatar negotiated a salary over 50% lower than instructed A YouTube comedian has used an AI avatar to represent him in a job interview for an organization…

Bravolebrity Lisa Vanderpump is rolling the dice on her biggest project yet — she’s opening a her own hotel in Sin City. Vanderpump Rules: Lisa Las Vegas, a new three-part reality TV series, follows her race to open The Vanderpump Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. Expect lavish interiors, last-minute disasters, and familiar faces including…

As excitement around AI continues to build among businesses of all sizes, many leading voices are urging caution for those who might scale too quickly. At its recent Think EMEA event in London, IBM revealed research which claimed efforts to stay aware of potential risks and challenges posed by AI deployment and scaling are falling…

Apple’s new AI-powered home hub, the HomeView, is officially shipping on November 13. Featuring a 7-inch touchscreen, and coming in wall-mounted or tabletop versions, the new must-have Apple device seems a snip at just $299 / £299 / AU$449) — but that price doesn’t reflect the true cost of accessing its best features. One of…

Your social media profiles are a goldmine for scammers looking to harvest personal information for phishing, social engineering, or identity theft. Between birthday posts and family photos, you’re essentially building a detailed dossier that cybercriminals can weaponize against you. Here’s the good news: with just a few adjustments, you can dramatically reduce your attack surface…

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to explore development of a European constellation This could work as an alternative to Starlink, and allow networks to plug coverage gaps with satellites However, they still need a satellite partner to deliver any such plan Starlink has major mobile ambitions, seemingly seeing…

Microsoft pulls out of the UK’s largest data center project over concerns surrounding power supply The site was expected to be hooked up to the grid by 2027, but new estimates suggest it will not be operational until early 2030 Microsoft was the site’s only publicly announced customer Microsoft has announced it will pull out…

Windows 11 has a new preview build with a change to boost performance It’s just for Edge to begin with, and it means that if the browser is already running, new instances of the app will launch faster Microsoft’s plan is to introduce this to a wider range of Windows 11 apps Microsoft is making…

Three in five workers report physical discomfort with their desk setups Better tech means higher productivity and better wellbeing, Logitech says Hardware is more important than it was five years ago, especially among heavy AI users A new Logitech study has argued that something as simple as unsuitable or dated tech could be impacting workers…