How to troubleshoot a Windows ‘blue screen of death’
The notorious “Blue Screen of Death” — or BSOD for short — is the biggest disaster that can befall a Windows user. The system shuts down with a cryptic error message on a blue background…
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Classic Outlook gets an official ‘death date’ as users are urged to switch
Last month, Microsoft officially announced the coming end of its Mail, Calendar, and People apps. If you’re still using those apps, you’ll start receiving pop-ups notifying you that end-of-support is coming up on December 31,…
Classic Outlook gets an official ‘death date’ and users are urged to switch
Last month, Microsoft officially announced the coming end of its Mail, Calendar, and People apps. If you’re still using those apps, you’ll start receiving pop-ups notifying you that end-of-support is coming up on December 31,…
HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death
Brandon Kashani, a former student of Brain’s and startup mentor at NC State’s entrepreneurship clinic, recalled to the Technician about how he met with Brain on November 15. “He felt like his reputation was tarnished,…
How the FBI and Mandiant caught a ‘serial hacker’ who tried to fake his own death
In the early hours on January 20, 2023, a doctor’s user account logged onto the Hawaii Electronic Death Registry System from out of state to certify the death of a man named Jesse Kipf. The…
Senators propose “Digital replication right” for likeness, extending 70 years after death
On Wednesday, US Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Marsha Blackburn (R.-Tenn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act of 2024. The bipartisan legislation,…
Linux gets its own Windows-style Blue Screen of Death
Free operating system Linux is looking to Windows as its role model, at least in this one way: implementing its own Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to warn users in cases of a kernel panic.…
iTunes nears death on Windows as Apple launches Music, TV, Devices apps
Apple on Wednesday announced a major change for Windows users who use iTunes for Windows with an iPhone or to access Apple Music and Apple TV. For Windows 10 or later, Apple has released three…