Fake calendar invites are spreading - here’s how to remove them and prevent more

 

Malwarebytes writes: We’re seeing a surge in phishing calendar invites that users can’t delete, or that keep coming back because they sync across devices. The good news is you can remove them and block future spam by changing a few settings.

Most of these unwanted calendar entries are there for phishing purposes. Most of them warn you about a “impending payment” but the difference is in the subject and the action they want the target to take. Sometimes they want you to call a number, and sometimes they invite you to an actual meeting.

We haven’t followed up on these scams, but when attackers want you to call them or join a meeting, the end goal is almost always financial. They might use a tech support scam approach and ask you to install a Remote Monitoring and Management tool, sell you an overpriced product, or simply ask for your banking details.

The sources are usually distributed as email attachments or as download links in messaging apps. READ MORE -or- contact DONLINE.

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Honda CEO says 'we have no chance' against Chinese automakers

Competing with Chinese-made EVs has been the goal — and demise — of many an automaker from Europe to America and Japan. This includes Honda, which announced $15.8 billion in losses as a result of trying to keep up with China's cheap EVs. These losses were the result of a dramatic pivot in its EV strategy, which saw the automaker canceling its electric 0 Series vehicles and the EV it was developing with Sony. 

With China's automakers releasing cheap EVs that boast looks, interiors, tech, and features to rival those from outside brands, automakers like Honda have started to struggle with sales in the country. Honda's sales in China dropped from 1.62 million units in 2020 to just 640,000 units in 2025, and annual production volume in the country may fall below 600,000 by the end of 2026. 

Even the auto giant Honda can't compete against the Chinese competition. So - what are we all going to do? Save a few quid & destroy what is left of our car industry? Not Kim & me. BUY BRITISH - before it's too late!

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Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave

Microsoft has committed to improving the quality and reliability of Windows, and a step on the path to that goal is… encouraging a chunk of its US staff to leave the company.

As confirmed by The Register sources, the company has announced, via internal memo, a voluntary buyout scheme for US employees. So if you work in that region, are at the senior director level or below, and if your age plus years of employment at Microsoft comes to 70 or higher – you might be eligible to leap from the gangplank of the good ship Nadella rather than receiving a shove from HR.

There will be some exceptions, including employees with sales incentive plans, but a figure of approximately 7 percent is a guide to how big a chunk of the workforce could be eligible. That translates to just under 9,000 employees.

Microsoft has laid off thousands of employees in recent years. In July 2025, it cut 9,000 jobs, and later that month, the company's CEO, Satya Nadella, wrote that the terminations were "weighing heavily on me." Yeh, Satya - all the way to the bank!

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New gas-powered data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than entire nations

 

New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit documents examined by WIRED show that these natural gas projects—which are being built to power data centers to serve some of the US’s most powerful AI companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI—have the potential to emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

As tech companies race to secure massive power deals to build out hundreds of data centers across the country, these projects represent just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the potential climate cost of the artificial intelligence boom.

www.wired.com

Amazon to invest up to another $25 billion in Anthropic as part of AI infrastructure deal

Amazon has agreed to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic, on top of the $8 billion that it has poured into the artificial intelligence startup in recent years, as part of an expanded agreement to build out AI infrastructure.

In the announcement on Monday, Anthropic said it’s committed to spending more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies over the next 10 years, including current and future generations of Trainium, Amazon’s custom AI chips. Anthropic said it’s secured up to 5 gigawatts of capacity for training and deploying its Claude AI models.

“Anthropic’s commitment to run its large language models on AWS Trainium for the next decade reflects the progress we’ve made together on custom silicon, as we continue delivering the technology and infrastructure our customers need to build with generative AI,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a statement.

Wow, I remember when $1 Billion was a lot to lose!

www.cnbc.com

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

Deezer announced on Monday that AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded to its platform. The company said it’s receiving almost 75,000 AI-generated tracks per day and more than two million per month.

The consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, at 1-3% of total streams, and 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and demonetized by the company.

The latest figure from Deezer highlights a continuous surge in artificial intelligence - generated music uploads to the platform. Deezer reported receiving around 60,000 AI tracks per day in January, up from 50,000 in November, 30,000 in September, and just 10,000 in January 2025, when it first launched its AI-music detection tool.

www.techcrunch.com

What is and why do we need End-to-End Encryption

JAVAAD Writes: There is a certain kind of argument that appears every time encryption comes up: Yes, yes, privacy is lovely. But think of the children!!!

And just like that, the conversation is over. Because once someone has wheeled in children, terrorists, organised crime, and a shadowy man in a basement who definitely has a beard, anyone asking awkward questions about privacy looks like they personally run a fan club for villains.

Which is a shame. Because encryption is one of those subjects where people are invited to have very strong opinions without anyone first bothering to explain what it actually does.

So let’s start there. Read this excellent & insightful article in full BY CLICKING HERE.

www.javvadmalik.com