Maun Internet & Computer Services

28/03/2026

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-03-chatgpt-literary-nonsense-alarm.html

OpenAI's GPT models can often be fooled into declaring that "pseudo-literary" nonsense is great, a German researcher has found.

26/03/2026

Make sure your Iphones are up to date with latest security.

DarkSword, a powerful iPhone-hacking technique, has been discovered in use by Russian hackers.

22/07/2025

Microsoft Rushes to Stop Hackers from Wreaking Global Havoc

A sweeping cyber espionage operation targeting Microsoft server software compromised about 100 organizations as of the weekend, two of the organizations that helped uncover the campaign said.

19/06/2025

Running Windows Server OS 2016, 2019, 2022 with DHCP service enabled? HOLD OFF on installing the latest security patches from a few days ago. On many servers DHCP stops working after the updates.

Microsoft acknowledged a new issue caused by the June 2025 security updates, causing the DHCP service to freeze on some Windows Server systems.

04/06/2025

When you're soo big, you don't give a s**t
GoDaddy hosting practices...

Taken from an article https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/26/security_in_brief

27/10/2024

Nice explanation of how Intel ended up on the back foot.
- Wrong business decisions
- Missed technology upgrades
- Proven anti competitive tactics and bribery

In this video we go over how Intel lost market share to AMD over the past few years. AMD stock has massively outperformed Intel recently. We will look into t...

19/10/2024

There is those days...
Many of our clients know that feeling... ;)

09/09/2024

Relaxing morning work :)

19/07/2024

When you rely too much on "online"...

A CrowdStrike update appeared to cause device outages for millions of users of Microsoft Windows devices. Several airlines reported disruptions.

07/06/2024

Microsoft will introduce "Microsoft Recall" shortly.
It takes a "snapshot" every few seconds of everything you do on your computer.
In essence a full and (almost) continuous track record of absolutely everything you do!

Privacy advisors want Microsoft to pull it. Is breaking most privacy laws in the world.

Security researchers want Microsoft to pull it as securiry risk. Bad guys compromise a computer and they can get access to everything you've been doing.

A researcher has developed a tool - calling it Total Recall - to already now access all that data in it.

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One is not allowed to record a phone call with permission of the other side.
But Microsoft their tool - enabled by default on new computers - will completely record everything you do.

As tool emerges to probe OS feature's SQLite-based store of user activities

03/05/2024

Not sure where this laptop went. But can only be in our neck of the woods. Using rolled up loo paper to hold a drive in place is new to me 😂