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Red Sea undersea cable cuts that slowed internet over the weekend blamed on commercial shipping
A few days after signs of cable disruptions surfaced in the Red Sea, experts are pointing to a more prosaic explanation than initial fears of targeted sabotage.
Multiple undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, hampering internet performance
Undersea breaks on SEA-ME-WE 4 and IMEWE systems disrupted Microsoft’s Middle East transit over the weekend.
New report blames Phison's pre-release firmware for SSD failures — not Microsoft’s August patch for Windows
The curious case of failing SSDs, following Microsoft’s August security patch for Windows, has once again taken an unexpected turn.
Microsoft offers a one-year free Microsoft 365 subscription to college students
Microsoft is offering U.S. college students free access to Microsoft 365 for a year.
Bill Gates’ 48-year-old Microsoft 6502 BASIC goes open source
Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 source code is now available on Github, under the MIT license.
Microsoft-backed research team builds hollow-core cable with lowest signal loss recorded in optical fiber
Researchers from Southampton spinout Lumenisity have built a hollow-core cable with what they claim is the lowest signal loss ever in any optical fiber.
Microsoft swats down reports of SSD failures in Windows
Microsoft says that the KB5063878 update did not cause the drive failures that have been widely reported on social media.
Windows 8.1 graphics get bit-crushed into working in 40-year-old EGA graphics mode
Tech enthusiast gets Windows 8.1 to install on a system restricted by the ancient (1984) EGA graphics standard.
