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Huge cyber attack forces Microsoft to offer free tech fix

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May The Fourth Be With You On National Star Wars Day

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Microsoft's Surface Book has a fabric keyboard

Unlike the Chromebooks, Windows 10 S machines can run the full desktop versions of different apps. Devices running Window 10 S, including the upcoming Surface...

Ukraine bans Russian contestant from Eurovision song contest

The final of The Eurovision Song Contest 2017 will be held on May 13. Russian viewers will not be able to vote in the contest either. Heavy security is in pla...

Global cyber attack dying down, 104 countries affected

Avast said the majority of the attacks targeted Russia, Ukraine and Taiwan. "From the analysis that has been done, it looks like it is the "EternalBlue" wea...

Malware Cyberattack Hits English Hospitals and FedEx, Hackers Demand Bitcoin

An exterior view shows the main entrance of St Bartholomew's Hospital, in London, one of the hospitals whose computer systems were affected by a cyberattack, Fr...

WannaCrypt/WannaCry ransomware patch released by Microsoft

A cybersecurity researcher appears to have discovered a " kill switch " that can prevent the spread of the WannaCry ransomware - for now - that has caused the c...

The hero who accidentally stopped the cyberattack from spreading

SAN FRANCISCO (CNNMoney ) - An anonymous malware researcher inadvertently helped stop the spread of a global cyberattack that targeted almost 100 countries. How...

Global cyberattacks: Microsoft issues security updates for older versions of Windows

What arrangements are now in place to protect our NHS, and its sensitive data, against cyber attacks? "The investigation is at an early stage but we believe t...

Eurovision 2017: Ukrainian attendant moons the show

After he was swiftly removed from the stage by security, the prankster was later revealed to be Ukrainian media personality Vitalii Sediuk, known for embarrassi...

Microsoft shifts policy after cyber attack, now makes fixes free

In the United Kingdom, hospitals were unable to take care of patients and had to attempt to carry on operations without the use of their computer networks. In B...

ITunes and Apple Music Coming to Microsoft's Windows Store

Virtual reality immerses users in an artificial world and is being pushed most actively for gaming, while augmented reality overlays images on the real world. B...

Microsoft Makes a Play for Oracle's Cloud Customers

Get Data Sheet, Fortune's daily tech newsletter. You can use a Gremlin console with a Cosmos DB database. The distributed nature of Cosmos DB means that c...

Major cyber attack hits companies, hospitals, schools worldwide

The BBC noted that the malware spread quickly on Friday, and since then there have been reports of infections in 99 countries. A Nissan worker from the city...

Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop with Windows 10 S

Should Microsoft be promoting the Surface Laptop as a student device, or going directly after Apple and MacBook Pro? By running only verified Microsoft apps, ...

ST Germain D J Co. Inc. Cuts Position in Corning Incorporated (GLW)

LaSalle Street Capital Management LLC's holdings in Corning were worth $632,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC. Other large investors have also mod...

HP laptops secretly recording user keystrokes

In their initial statement, Modzero researchers warned that the file has been present on HP computers since at least Christmas of 2015. "All users of HP com...

Hulu with Live TV Offers Good Channels for a High Price

You can watch the top national sports channels, with local sports channels in many cities, though some games are subject to regional availability and blackout...

Chinese president and new South Korean leader talk nuclear

As for curbing North Korea's nuclear and military ambitions, both leaders agreed they should be willing to negotiate with the regime, but also enforce sanctions...

Palace will beat Hull to survive, says Riihilahti

Allardyce also revealed he had spoken to midfielder Luka Milivojevic about his time working under Silva at Olympiakos, but stressed Palace's priority was handli...

UK government in dark over who behind cyber attack

The attacks apparently exploited a flaw exposed in documents leaked from the US National Security Agency (NSA). It also said the attack did not specifically t...

Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Goes On Sale Today

But the company has confirmed that a Redmi device will be unveiled in India this month. The Redmi 4X will likely get the same treatment when it's released lat...

Microsoft adds a major reason to choose Windows 10 S over Chromebooks

Apple's iOS model, which lets iPhone and iPad owners install only software from the App Store, has always been trumpeted as safer for users - it's extremely har...

Assassin's Creed: Origins Release Date, Story, Setting, & Everything Else We Know

The character model appears to have dark skin, wearing minimal armor (shoulder pads and maybe light protection on his chest), a shield strapped to his back, a...

Inside the Ring: North Korean Travel Warnings Issued to Americans

Prosecutor-general Kim Soo-nam tendered his resignation to new President Moon Jae-in one day after the new leader took office. Suga refused to confirm whether...

Star Wars Battlefront II PlayStation VR Content Under Development?

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UK hospitals turn away patients after cyberattack cripples computers worldwide

Iberdrola and Gas Natural, along with Vodafone's unit in Spain, asked staff to turn off computers or cut off internet access in case they had been compromised, ...

Injustice 2 out now on iOS and Android

Just like Injustice: Gods Among Us, Injustice 2 for mobile devices isn't a downgraded port of the console game, but a title that was built for smartphones and...

Microsoft outlines plans for Windows 10 update

Gartner (Frankfurt: 887957 - news ) analyst Jason Wong said the upcoming Windows update still reflected a view that desktop or laptop computers remained at the...

'Biggest ransomware attack in history' targets nearly 100 countries

Ransomware is malicious software that infects machines, locks them by encrypting data and then attempts to extort money to let users back in. Thousands of pat...