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Microsoft confirms Intune is broken right now

Usama Jawad — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:16:01 +0000

Microsoft Intune is broken right now and might cause headaches for IT admins if they attempt to update their security baseline profiles. Read more...

Windows 11 24H2 RTM build off to rocky start with broken virtualization, 64-bit .NET support

Sayan Sen — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 20:00:01 +0000

Microsoft is preparing to release the next major Windows 11 feature update, version 24H2, later this year. Reports suggest the RTM is almost here and it's off to a rocky start with broken support. Read more...

How to take a laptop with a broken screen and make it a usable computer

Adam Bottjen — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:00:01 +0000

Do you have a laptop laying around with a broken screen, that you just didn't want to fix? What if you could still use it as a computer? Join us today in this week's Tech Tip Tuesday to find out how. Read more...

'Hey Google' on Wear OS has been broken for months, but a fix is finally in the works

Usama Jawad — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 06:40:01 +0000

The "Hey Google" voice command used to trigger Google Assistant on Wear OS smartwatches has been broken for months. Google has now finally acknowledged the issue and is working on a fix. Read more...

PSA: If you're experiencing high resource usage, update Malwarebytes [Update]

Florin Bodnarescu — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 23:16:01 +0000

In case you are using popular anti-malware software Malwarebytes and are experiencing high resource usage (particularly RAM), it's recommended you update to the latest version available. Read more...

Instagram BETA for Windows Phone is currently broken

Usama Jawad — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:24:01 +0000

If your feed on Instagram BETA app for Windows Phone isn't refreshing, you're not the only one facing an issue. The app currently appears to be broken and there is no word on a fix yet. Read more...

Durability test: Xbox One versus PS4, which one survives?

Usama Jawad — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:12:01 +0000

Wired's Battle Damage segment put the two current gen consoles through some pretty brutal durability tests in a video to determine the last one standing. The loser gets chainsawed in half. Read more...

Bang On: It's easy to hate the Xbox 360

Christopher Vendemio — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:09:33 +0000

The Xbox 360 has had quite a poor record when it comes to build quality. My experience with Microsoft's wonder console does little to change what so many people already know: The Xbox 360 is... Read more...

MD5 encryption broken, Microsoft warns

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:49:04 +0000

Microsoft Security Advisory warned today that a possible attack against the MD5 hash digital certificate could allow an attacker to generate their own certificate with information from the original. Microsoft warned that only the... Read more...

Father sentenced for killing toddler over broken Xbox

Steven Parker — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:25:22 +0000

A man who killed his 17-month-old daughter in a rage over a broken Xbox has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison. Tyrone Spellman, 27, of Philadelphia, killed Alayiah Turman with at least... Read more...

3 of 5 broken undersea cables to be repaired by Sunday

Simon Andrews — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:23:01 +0000

Three of the five undersea cables that were severely damaged and caused disruptions across the middle east will be repaired by Sunday, one of them being repaired by Saturday, according to authorities currently dealing with... Read more...

Vista Ultimate's promised add-ons just broken promises?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:53:38 +0000

Microsoft Corp. has failed to deliver on its promise of downloadable extras for the highest-priced version of Windows Vista, critics claim. Dubbed "Extras" and exclusive to Vista Ultimate, the downloads were touted before, at and... Read more...

Broken botnet cuts global spam by a third

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:07:21 +0000

New email monitoring data has revealed a "sudden" 30 per cent reduction in global spam volumes over the past week. Security firm SoftScan believes that the drop is most likely to be the result of... Read more...

2K Games announces Dungeon Siege II: Broken World available

Todd Tanner — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:20:14 +0000

2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., today announced Dungeon Siege II: Broken World, the official expansion pack to the award winning action role playing game, is now available for PC at retail... Read more...

World Network Speed Record Broken for Third Consecutive Year

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:53:13 +0000

An international group of scientists and engineers have broken the world network speed record for the third consecutive year. The team consists of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers from the California Institute of Technology,... Read more...

Fourth Broken Sword game announced for PC

Todd Tanner — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:37:21 +0000

THQ Inc. and Revolution Software today announced that the fourth installment of the award-winning Broken Sword games is currently scheduled for release on Windows PC in summer 2006. A unique and successful brand that has... Read more...

A fix for a Broken Patent System?

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:43:48 +0000

The U.S. patent system will undergo its most substantial overhaul in decades if a bill introduced on Wednesday becomes law. Rep. Lamar Smith, who heads the House of Representatives committee responsible for... Read more...

SHA-0, MD4, MD5, HAVAL-128, and RIPEMD broken

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:56:43 +0000

At this years CRYPTO'04, a security conference, it was announced that on variety of popularly used security protocols, security researchers had found collisions. Cryptography Research have published a Q & A on the implications of... Read more...

200 days to fix a broken Windows

Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:27:15 +0000

Security researchers are both criticizing and empathizing with Microsoft for the 200 days the company needed to create its latest critical software patch. The six-plus months is the longest the software giant... Read more...

Broken Sword 3 Demo

Marcel Klum — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 14:12:51 +0000

THQ has (finally) released the playable demo of Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon, allowing you to try out this recent adventure game developed by Revolution Software. While downloading the demo, be sure to read... Read more...

Microsoft's response to broken Cumulative Patch MS03-032

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 11:39:37 +0000

On the 20th August Microsoft issued the Cumulative Patch MS03-032 for Internet Explorer. It dealt with several issues: A vulnerability that involves the Internet Explorer cross-domain security modelA vulnerability that occurs because Internet Explorer does... Read more...

Beep! Beep! You have Broken the Law.

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:58:45 +0000

Authorities in China are turning to technology to nab vandals--they use a computer program that spams the wrongdoers' mobile phones until they turn themselves in. Officials in Hangzhou, the capital of China's... Read more...

Plus! Digital Media Edition Broken in :)

Tom Warren — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 01:59:30 +0000

A group called the "Holics Project" have again, according to various reliable resources, successfully released a working "crack" that disables Plus! Digital Media Edition's WPA (Windows Product Activation) module. The group responsible for cracking Office... Read more...

Office 11 Broken in :)

Sat, 18 Jan 2003 00:21:56 +0000

So it would appear - i must firstly thank Agent Jones for sending this in - extremely kind! A group called the "Holics Project" have, according to various reliable resources, successfully released a working "crack"... Read more...

RC5-64 broken in 1,757 days

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:35:07 +0000

Slashdot has just announced that RC5-64, RSA's 64 bit encryption challenge has been broken. On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively characterless PIII-450 in Tokyo returned the winning key to the distributed.net keyservers. The key 0x63DE7DC154F4D03... Read more...

IMHO: Microsoft Activation is Broken

Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:26:33 +0000

"I'm an optimistic sort of person. You need to know this before you read on. I tend to be very forgiving of weird tech issues, and others in my circle have noticed that most hardware... Read more...

Windows can be broken down. Oh no it can't. Oh yes it can.

Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:59:56 +0000

"Microsoft has contended all along that Section 1 (of the states' proposed remedy) cannot be done," Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said Wednesday. "It cannot be done. You cannot create modular versions of Windows. You cannot... Read more...