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Microsoft will forcibly remove Internet Explorer from most Windows 10 PCs today

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Internet Explorer 11 was never Windows 10's primary browser—that would be the old, pre-Chromium version of Microsoft Edge. But IE did continue to ship with Windows 10 for compatibility reasons,…

Latest attack on PyPI users shows crooks are only getting better

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than 400 malicious packages were recently uploaded to PyPI (Python Package Index), the official code repository for the Python programming language, in the latest indication that the targeting…

AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Over the past few days, early testers of the new Bing AI-powered chat assistant have discovered ways to push the bot to its limits with adversarial…

Apple releases iOS 16.3.1 and other updates with fix for “actively exploited” bug

Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple is releasing minor updates to all of its major software platforms today to address one high-priority security vulnerability and to fix a handful of other device- and service-specific issues.…

~11,000 sites have been infected with malware that’s good at avoiding detection

Enlarge (credit: CHUYN / Getty Images) Nearly 11,000 websites in recent months have been infected with a backdoor that redirects visitors to sites that rack up fraudulent views of ads provided by Google…

AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack

Enlarge / With the right suggestions, researchers can "trick" a language model to spill its secrets. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On Tuesday, Microsoft revealed a "New Bing" search engine and conversational…

Mozilla plans ground-up UI redesign for Thunderbird email client this July

Enlarge (credit: MZLA Technologies) "Why does Thunderbird look so old?" That's one of the most frequently asked questions about Thunderbird, according to Thunderbird Project Design Manager Alessandro Castellani (along with "Is Thunderbird dead?").…

This week’s Reddit breach shows company’s security is (still) woefully inadequate

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Popular discussion website Reddit proved this week that its security still isn’t up to snuff when it disclosed yet another security breach that was the result of an attack…

Microsoft Teams Free data won’t transfer over to Microsoft Teams (free)

Enlarge / Having a great meeting in Microsoft Teams. (credit: Microsoft) There is a free Microsoft Teams tier now, and there will continue to be a free Microsoft Teams tier after April 12,…

Want to delete your Twitter DMs? Good luck with that

Enlarge (credit: Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Twitter’s direct messages have always been a security liability. The DMs you send to friends and Internet strangers aren’t end-to-end encrypted, making your conversations potentially accessible if Twitter…