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Microsoft 365 Basic gives you 100GB of OneDrive space (but no Office) for $2

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is adding a new low-end subscription tier to its Microsoft 365 service designed to cater to existing OneDrive subscribers and people who want more features for their Outlook inboxes…

Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long

Enlarge / Stewart Coonrod holds up an official 2023 Chuck E. Cheese floppy disk in a TikTok video. It contains dance moves for in-store animatronics. (credit: Stewart Coonrod) On Sunday, a Chuck E.…

FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file

Enlarge / Travelers wait in a terminal at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, during an FAA outage that grounded flights across the US on January 11, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Saul…

Hundreds of SugarCRM servers infected with critical in-the-wild exploit

Enlarge For the past two weeks, hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in the SugarCRM (customer relationship management) system to infect users with malware that gives them full control of their servers.…

Indigenous tech group asks Apache Foundation to change its name

Enlarge / A 2015 photo by Zaheda Bhorat (shared by Rich Bowen) showing many of the original Apache Software Foundation's creators, with co-founder Jim Jagielski holding aloft the Foundation's feather logo. The photo…

Report: Apple plans to use its own Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip in future iPhones

Enlarge / The iPhone 14 Pro. (credit: Apple) For years now, Apple has wanted to replicate its success in processors with its own in-house cellular modems. The company spent $1 billion to buy…

A fifth of passwords used by federal agency cracked in security audit

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than a fifth of the passwords protecting network accounts at the US Department of the Interior—including Password1234, Password1234!, and ChangeItN0w!—were weak enough to be cracked using standard methods,…

Controversy erupts over non-consensual AI mental health experiment [Updated]

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person talking to a secret robot therapist. (credit: Ars Technica) On Friday, Koko co-founder Rob Morris announced on Twitter that his company ran an experiment to…

Iran to use facial recognition to identify women without hijabs

Enlarge (credit: James Marshall/Getty Images) Last month, a young woman went to work at Sarzamineh Shadi, or Land of Happiness, an indoor amusement park east of Iran’s capital, Tehran. After a photo of…

Flights grounded nationwide as FAA’s notice system suffers outage [Updated]

Enlarge / As of 7:30 am Eastern, all domestic flights have been grounded due to a NOTAM outage. (credit: Getty Images) Update 9:20 am ET: The Federal Aviation Administration has lifted the ground…