April 23, 2025

Tech & AI

Tech & AI

Microsoft Fixes 134 Vulnerabilities, Including 1 Zero-Day

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Image: Microsoft News Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday security update for April included 134 flaws, one of which is an actively exploited zero-day flaw. The security patches for Windows 10 were unavailable when the Windows 11 patches were released. The Windows 10 patches have since arrived, but the delay was unusual. Tyler Reguly,

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Tech stocks, crypto rebound after Trump pauses reciprocal tariffs

President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause on his reciprocal tariffs, and the stock market is already bouncing back — from the damage caused last week when Trump announced his reciprocal tariffs. Tech stocks, like Apple, Sony, and Microsoft, shot up quickly following Trump’s announcement, with Tesla rising particularly fast. As of this writing,

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Market Madness, Manufacturing, and the Liberation Day of It All

Louise Matsakis: Yes, that is an absolutely beautiful quote that I really want to put on a hat or a T-shirt or a bumper sticker. Just an absolutely incredible picture that Secretary Lutnick is painting there. There’s two basic camps within the Trump administration here, and I think that that’s part of why you’re seeing

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Threads is testing a feature that lets you follow the same creators you follow on X

Meta is starting to test a new feature in Threads that lets users follow the same creators they follow on X, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. “We’re currently testing a way for you to find and follow creators from other platforms on Threads, making it easier to connect with the people and conversations that matter

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Windows CLFS Vulnerability Could Lead to ‘Widespread Deployment and Detonation of Ransomware’

Image: nicescene/Adobe Stock Microsoft has detected a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) being exploited in the wild to deploy ransomware. Target industries include IT, real estate, finance, software, and retail, with companies based in the US, Spain, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-29824 and rated “important,” is

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Best candle deal: Save up to 50% on select Yankee Candle scents at Amazon

SAVE UP TO 50%: As of April 9, save up to 50% on select Yankee Candle scents at Amazon. One of the best ways to make your home smell great is a good candle. Whether you like the scent of freshly-baked cookies or crave a crisp lemon tang wafting through the kitchen, there’s a fragrant

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Getting Audited

Notes from a March 18 meeting, marked “Internal/Confidential,” show that a DOL lawyer presented colleagues with an overview of DOL’s interactions with DOGE. “So far,” the notes read, “they do not have write access. They have asked; we’ve held them at bay. We’ve tried to get them to tell us what they want & then

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MIT study finds that AI doesn’t, in fact, have values

A study went viral several months ago for implying that, as AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, it develops “value systems” — systems that lead it to, for example, prioritize its own well-being over humans. A more recent paper out of MIT pours cold water on that hyperbolic notion, drawing the conclusion that AI doesn’t, in fact,

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5 Reasons Why You Should Use a Password Manager

For the 2025 Specops Weak Password Report, researchers analyzed around 1.089 billion stolen passwords and found that the most commonly breached passwords consisted of eight characters. Alarmingly, out of the one billion compromised passwords, almost 230 million would be considered complex. This means they had a minimum of eight characters, a capital letter, a number, and

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Best grocery deal: Spend $20 and get $5 off at Amazon

SPEND $20, SAVE $5: As of April 9, spend $20 on select Amazon groceries and save $5. It’s expensive out there. Whether you’re trying to fill your cupboards with healthy food, or you just need something to snack on, a trip to the grocery can be a pricey excursion. Saving anything, even a little bit,

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