“Tens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon,” reports CNBC:”We’re investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,” Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in a post on X… The number of reports that services such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft...

Long-time Slashdot reader MojoKid writes: AMD took the wraps of its next gen RDNA 4 consumer graphics architecture Friday, which was designed to enhance efficiency over the previous generation, while also optimizing performance for today’s more taxing ray-traced gaming and AI workloads. RDNA 4 features next generation Ray Tracing engines, dedicated hardware for AI and ML workloads, better...

“We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible,” Mozilla explained Wednesday in a clarification a recent Terms of Use update. “Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice.” But Friday they went...

Hidden layers of rock below the surface of Mars “strongly suggest” the presence of an ancient ocean, according to an international team of scientists including researchers at Penn State. From the university’s announcement: The new research offers the clearest evidence yet that the planet once contained a significant body of water and a more habitable environment for life, according to Benjamin...

Active since 1995, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (or CPAN) hosts 221,742 Perl modules written by 14,548 authors. This week they announced that the CPAN Security Group “was authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)” to assign and manage CVE vulnerability identifications for Perl and CPAN Modules. “This is great news!” posted Linux kernel maintainer Greg...

San Francisco-based biotech startup Loyal says a drug it developed to increase dogs’ lifespan “has passed a significant milestone on the way to regulatory approval,” reports the Washington Post:The Food and Drug Administration certified the daily pill as having a “reasonable expectation of effectiveness” at extending senior dogs’ lifespans. The regulator’s Center for Veterinary Medicine still...

Magnus Carlsen “announced this week that he is auctioning off the Italian luxury brand jeans that started a dress code dispute at December’s World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships,” reports the Associated Press. (“Condition: Pre-owned,” says the listing on eBay, where by Friday night bidding on the charitable auction was up to $14,100.) But Carlsen drew more attention on The Joe Rogan...

“Tesla is taking steps to launch a ride-sharing service that could compete directly with Uber, Lyft and Waymo,” reports Axios, noting that Tesla “has filed for a transportation charter-party carrier permit from the California Public Utilities Commission, Bloomberg reported Thursday.””That classification means Tesla would own and control the fleet of vehicles,” Bloomberg reported… “In its...

Memory safety bugs are “eroding trust in technology and costing billions,” argues a new post on Google’s security blog — adding that “traditional approaches, like code auditing, fuzzing, and exploit mitigations — while helpful — haven’t been enough to stem the tide.” So the blog post calls for a “common framework” for “defining specific, measurable criteria for achieving different levels...

Skype will ring for the last time on 5 May as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders.