Silicon Roundabout
Microsoft fixed Excel 2016 copy-paste bug. Then reintroduced it. Now it's fixed again
The Excel copy-and-paste bug is back, which means Microsoft is making a second round of fixes.The bug first appeared in the September update and manifested in multiple versions of Excel as a silent failure of the paste operation. Users copied conten...
'Stop dirty datacenters': Europe-wide protests planned demanding building moratorium
Campaigners against datacenter expansion are planning two days of coordinated action across Europe on November 6 and 7, demanding an immediate moratorium on new large-scale developments.Following the US midterm elections, where restrictions on massi...
Anthropic won't fix a Claude Dispatch flaw that could let attackers execute remote commands across corporate boundaries
A vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude products lets any browser extension that can control Claude Dispatch make Claude Desktop run code on the computer – or even a different machine signed into the same Claude account – with no browser exploit and m...
New York's Queens Public Library battles ransomware crims: Wi-Fi, checkouts, and website go dark
New York City's Queens Public Library (QPL) is battling a ransomware attack, it confirmed on Wednesday evening via social media and to patrons directly.The disruption has downed QPL's website, on-site computers, check-out and return machines, its pu...
Norway's aid agency pwned and all users' data is stolen
Norway's national aid agency, Norad, has confirmed that cyber criminals broke into its systems, stealing information about each and every registered user of its grant portal.Norad, which coordinates Norway's assistance for foreign development, said...
SAP promises to open out data flows in both directions
SAP has taken meaningful steps in opening its data to bidrectional sharing across the enterprise, and in decoupling the advanced analytics needed for AI from its ERP upgrade path. During a technical conference last week, the German software giant ad...
The hidden supply chain costs of the AI boom
Today, I’m talking with Willy Shih, an economist, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, and the author of the upcoming book,Where Does My Stuff Come From? The Powerful Economics Behind Global Supply Chains.Willy is one...
You can edit your videos with AI on Instagram’s new desktop Edits app
Instagram's standalone video editing app is now available on macOS, where you can plug in your AI agent of choice to assemble your videos. Instagram's Matthew Simari, head of product management for Edits, said in an interview with The Verge, "O...
WhatsApp will let you invite friends to events who aren’t on the app
WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature that allows you to invite friends and family members to events in the app - even if they don't have the messenger installed. When you create an event in WhatsApp, you can share a link with a friend or famil...
You can post AI music straight to SoundCloud from ElevenLabs
BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 16: In this photo illustration the logo of the music streaming service SoundCloud is displayed on a smartphone on January 16, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images) | Photothek...
Royal London plans IT outsourcing shake-up as staff brace for redundancies
Royal London plans to cut hundreds of IT jobs and shift work to India under an outsourcing deal with IBM, according to sources, with redundancies expected by the end of December.Sources said Royal London's chief technology officer, James Sandell, to...
Tech is about to get hammered in Congress
Tech CEO hearings. Tougher AI and data center guardrails. Investigations of Elon Musk's DOGE cuts. The gates are open for Democrats once they regain control of committee gavels come January after a historic win of majorities in both the House a...
The X-70 is NASA’s next experimental X-plane
Yesterday NASA announced the latest addition to its X-series of experimental aircraft that have included the Bell X-1 that first broke the sound barrier nearly 80 years ago, and the more recent X-59 quiet supersonic demonstrator. The new X-70 F...
The new iMac is a good desktop computer that needs a redesign
The 2026 iMac. I'm a simple guy. I usually work from my MacBook Neo wherever I end up sitting in my house. And while I have monitors, mice, and keyboards to plug it into, I often end up leaning over the MacBook and doing none of that. I rarely...
The touchscreen MacBook Pro is a winner
You can look, and you can touch. (Note: all the photos in this review are of the 16-inch PROLED Pro.) | Photo: Owen Grove / The Verge I keep forgetting the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display has a touchscreen. I've been testing this new lapto...
The M6 MacBook Pro is probably the last of its kind
Pictured: a great screen, best-in-class laptop, fine keyboard, and a very comfortable blanket (sold separately). | Photo: Nathan Edwards / The Verge On November 6th, Apple will release an all-new MacBook Pro. It's thinner and lighter and has a...
Spotify is coming to United Airlines seatbacks — with help from Starlink
United has built a custom, native Spotify app for seatback displays, allowing passengers to log directly in to their personal accounts and stream their own libraries, playlists, and video podcasts while flying 35,000 feet in the air. The new in...
When datacenters lose power, generators should kick in. That didn’t happen for Google in London
Google Cloud has revealed that the cause of the October 20 outage in its europe-west-2-b availability zone was a ‘misconfiguration’ of its systems that meant its emergency generators didn’t start.The outage at the London facility caused service inte...
VMware quietly offers European users extended sales and support for low-end vSphere
VMware appears to have made a concession to European regulators by extending the life of its low-end vSphere Standard and Enterprise Plus products.The virtualization pioneer quietly announced the extension in the November 4 blog post in which it ann...
Microsoft admits certifications can be a drag, launches creds that recognize skills
When The Register writes about professional certifications offered by vendors, we often receive comments arguing that such credentials are nowhere near as valuable as real-world experience. Now, Microsoft has acknowledged there’s some merit in that...