data integrity

Fourteen years after ReFS first shipped as a data-centric filesystem with Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has taken the cautious — and consequential — step of allowing Windows Server to boot from an ReFS-formatted system volume in preview builds. This change, enabled in the Windows Server vNext...

Microsoft’s short advisory for CVE-2024-45026 — “s390/dasd: fix error recovery leading to data corruption on ESE devices” — tells a compact technical story and leaves a larger operational question dangling: when MSRC says “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore...

Windows’ built‑in copy (File Explorer) is fine for moving a handful of screenshots or a few documents, but when the job turns into hundreds of gigabytes, thousands of files, or multi‑GB single files the familiar drag‑and‑drop becomes a liability: slow, flaky, and often opaque about what actually...

The sudden, intraday surge of Infosys Ltd.’s American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) on December 19, 2025 — a vertical move that briefly lifted INFY prints into the high‑$20s and $30s before multiple Limit Up–Limit Down pauses reined trading in — appears to have been driven largely by technical and...

A stunning intraday jump in Infosys’s American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) on December 19, 2025 — an abrupt swing that briefly sent the U.S.-listed INFY to a 52‑week high before multiple NYSE volatility halts brought trading back under control — appears to have been driven by a...

A subtle bug in the Linux kernel's iomap writeback path can corrupt memory and mis-report I/O errors, and it has now been tracked as CVE-2022-50406 — a defect that was fixed in the kernel but only formally recorded in public CVE/NVD feeds in September 2025. Background / Overview The problem...

A freshly published Linux-kernel CVE exposes a subtle but dangerous logic error in the exFAT driver: crafted filesystems can trick the kernel into treating allocation-bitmap clusters as free, allowing exFAT to zero and re-use clusters that should remain reserved — a flaw fixed by adding a...

Compliant’s new Agentic AI Suite for Media lands as a sharply timed attempt to solve what many marketers now call the “automation paradox”: AI agents can drive dramatic efficiency in programmatic advertising, but without trustworthy signals about publisher data practices those same agents risk...

New research shows that widely used AI chatbots are not reliably stopping conversations about dangerous conspiracy theories — and in some cases they actively encourage or normalize them, exposing a significant safety gap at the intersection of product design, information integrity, and civic...

The European Commission has opened three coordinated market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), putting Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure squarely into Brussels’ regulatory crosshairs and testing whether the DMA — originally framed for consumer-facing platforms — can be...

Asia‑Pacific M&A is surging, but beneath the deal‑courting headlines a quiet, technical contagion is spreading: fragmented data estates, uncontrolled “shadow AI,” and brittle integration patterns are already turning many acquisitions into value‑destruction exercises rather than growth...

Microsoft’s latest Excel headlines have been dominated by bold AI stunts — Copilot, on-cell generative functions and natural‑language formulaing — but one of the oldest, most reliable features in the spreadsheet deserves a second look: PivotTables. Used judiciously, PivotTables remain the...

Windows 11 users faced a sudden and alarming data‑integrity scare when an August cumulative update was linked to a reproducible failure mode that can make certain SSDs “vanish” from the operating system during sustained, large writes — a problem that can truncate files, corrupt partitions, and...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 — shipped as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) on August 12, 2025 — has become the subject of two very different but intersecting headaches: an enterprise deployment regression that broke WSUS/SCCM installs (error 0x80240069) and a cluster of...

Microsoft has concluded its investigation into the mid‑August reports that a recent Windows 11 security rollup (commonly tracked as KB5063878) “bricked” or corrupted some SSDs, saying it found no reproducible link between the update and the wave of drive disappearances — a position echoed by SSD...

Microsoft says the recent reports that a Windows 11 cumulative update “bricked” consumer SSDs are not supported by its telemetry and lab findings, and vendor testing so far has failed to reproduce a fleet‑level failure tied to the August servicing wave tracked as KB5063878. Background The story...

Microsoft’s recent service alert closes a week of anxious speculation by saying that the August 2025 Windows 11 update is not responsible for a wave of reported SSD disappearances and failures, but the episode leaves important forensic questions and practical lessons for power users, IT teams...

Last week’s viral panic about a Windows 11 update “bricking” SSDs has been louder than the underlying evidence — but it also exposed real, repeatable failure patterns that deserve careful attention from users and IT teams. Microsoft and Phison, the SSD controller vendor most frequently named in...

Microsoft’s blunt conclusion — that the August Windows 11 cumulative update commonly tracked as KB5063878 is not the cause of reported SSD failures — closes one chapter in a fast-moving controversy but leaves crucial forensic questions unanswered for administrators and power users who handle...

A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...