Serious new Windows warning – with an update deadline NurPhoto via Getty Images Updated 11/07 with comments from Microsoft and a fix for the issue with the previous update. Microsoft Windows users are suddenly at risk from a “previously unknown” trick to attack their PCs. This threat is now actively exploiting a hidden vulnerability on … Read more
The update deadline is fast approaching NurPhoto via Getty Images Updated June 29 with details about a restart loop affecting some Windows 11 users. Timing is everything, and that’s especially true for the millions of Microsoft Windows users with a fast-approaching July 4 deadline to update their systems. Just two weeks ago we saw a … Read more
Experts are urging households to ‘read’ their smart meters as soon as possible to ensure they have lower energy bills. This warning from Go. Compare Energy anticipates Ofgem’s energy price cut on July 1, which sets the maximum amount companies can charge per unit of energy and fixed costs to households with average consumption. Between … Read more
Users now have less than 72 hours to update or quit Chrome dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Updated June 3 after warnings about cookie theft. For Google Chrome and its more than two billion desktop users, May will go down in history as a month to forget: four zero-days and emergency update alerts in ten … Read more
Another major airport will abolish the 100ml liquid rule in time for the summer holidays, but others will miss the June 2024 deadline. Airports in Britain are preparing to introduce new baggage scanners, meaning passengers will no longer have to remove liquids and electronic items from their luggage. The current rules state that liquids can … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Anglo American has expanded talks with BHP over a takeover bid, keeping the prospect of the mining sector’s biggest ever deal alive even after the British-listed group rejected a £38.6 billion third approach. BHP now … Read more
BT has extended the deadline for migrating customers from its copper-based Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to digital landlines to give vulnerable people, including telehealth users, more time to move. The state’s former telecom monopoly had planned to switch customers to internet-based services at the end of next year, but says it will now switch … Read more
Are you forced to switch? Email elizabeth.haigh@mailonline.co.uk BT has scrapped its timetable to move all landline customers from traditional copper wired phones to digital, internet-based services, after months of campaigning by groups representing vulnerable customers and MailOnline. In a long-awaited move, the group, which is also responsible for EE customers, has abandoned the sector’s previous … Read more