Technology

• Windows 10 End of Life is just four months away but installations of Windows 11 actually went backwards last month.
• Data from StatsCounter saw Windows 11 installations decline by 0.5 percent.
• This continues the trend seen since Windows 11 launched in which users are resistant to upgrading given the hardware requirements of the operating system.

• From April 11, 2025, in the US, you can no longer link your PayPal account directly to the Google Wallet app. PayPal accounts that are already linked to your app will continue to work. Learn what happens to your PayPal account.
• Starting June 13, 2025, if you have a PayPal account linked to your Google Wallet app, you will no longer be able to use it for payments. Linked PayPal accounts will be automatically deleted and no longer supported.

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• Over 20,000 civil servants were given the latest AI tech for 3 months, using it to draft documents, summarise meetings and more
• from policy officials using it to cut through jargon and streamline consultations, to Work Coaches speeding up support for job seekers – officials said the tech boosted their ability to deliver the Plan for Change
• comes as expansive research shows half of office work can be helped by AI, as government continues push to save £45 billion by creating a lean, modern state using tech

• New WHO resolution aims to curb digital marketing of baby formula
• Scaling up breast feeding could prevent 823,000 infant deaths a year
• AI violations detector can help countries enforce marketing rules

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Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England, arms depot explosions in Czechia, and an attempted coup d’etat in Montenegro. But its activities in cyberspace remained in the shadows — until now. After reviewing a trove of hidden data, The Insider can report that the Kremlin’s most notorious black ops squad also fielded a team of hackers — one that attempted to destabilize Ukraine in the months before Russia’s full-scale invasion.

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Police believe live facial recognition cameras may become “commonplace” in England and Wales, according to internal documents, with the number of faces scanned having doubled to nearly 5m in the last year.

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Approximately 6.5 terabytes of data from the interconnected companies Psyclone Media and Political Media in addition to client data such as The Post Millennial, acting as their "face to the political world". Political Media describes itself as a "right of center new media consulting firm" for political and public relations campaigns and is a co-owner of Psyclone Media and Psyclone Hosting. The companies provide website, email and marketing services, in addition to video production and SEO optimization through their "cooperative partners".

Psyclone Media and Political Media's clients have included political action committees (PACs) and Super PACs, congressional candidates and other political organizations including the Tea Party, as well as conservative media figures and outlets such as Parler, Tucker Carlson, and The Washington Times. Their formal campaigns have promoted use of raw milk and disputed the narrative around the 2012 Benghazi attack, in addition to the narratives promoted by their clients through the "Conservative Stack" service, a content management service catering to conservative users.

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When hackers hit a school district, they can expose Social Security numbers, home addresses, and even disability and disciplinary records. Now, cybersecurity advocates warn that the Trump administration’s budget and personnel cuts, along with rule changes, are stripping away key defenses that schools need.

“Hardmaxxing is NECESSARY. Softmaxxing alone will NEVER mog you into viability — it’s like putting a fresh coat of paint on a crumbling building,” declares a chatbot featured prominently on OpenAI’s GPTs page. It has just analyzed a photograph of a man and deemed him “subhuman”. The page, prominently linked from the sidebar in the ChatGPT interface, lists “Looksmaxxing GPT” as #6 in the “Lifestyle” section, behind bots promising astrological analysis, color analysis, and “fictional not-real therapy”.