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Monday July 21, 2025. 09:58 AM
Implementing AI: what’s the risk? We recently reported about how McDonald’s AI hiring tool’s password ‘123456’ exposed the data of 64M applicants. Not a great day for the fast-food giant, but our readers were lovin’ it. Or at least they read the article in their...
In the latest episode of First Person I spoke with Aaron Momin, a seasoned cybersecurity and cyber risk professional with over 30 years of experience in managing cyber and technology risk. In a fascinating conversation Aaron told me how he studied computing at college after...
Friday July 18, 2025. 01:59 PM
Windows are cracking. And it’s not just Apple that’s seeing the benefit; some users are jumping on the Linux bandwagon as a way to avoid the Microsoft upgrade tax. Case in point: Linux has broken the 5% barrier for desktop operating systems in the US for the first...
While Chinese car manufacturers are increasingly turning their vehicles into a mobile entertainment centers with features such as karaoke, laser or LED projectors, and retractable screens, German manufacturers are looking to transform their vehicles into mobile offices....
You’ve heard of vibe coding, right? Vibe coding, a phrase coined by Andrej Karpathy in February, means using natural language to tell an AI tool what you want your software to do, and letting AI write the code for you. The top three vibe-coding platforms are Hostinger...
According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, thanks to AI, “The world will be more productive. There will be higher GDP. There will be more jobs. But every job will be augmented by AI.” And according to Doug Matty, the US Department of Defense’s Chief AI Officer, the...
Man, oh, man — I don’t know about you, but tech news right now has me feeling a haunting sense of déjà vu. Have ya heard? Android and ChromeOS are, like, totally merging. Again. Like, any minute now. For realsies, this time. That’s the buzz around this wacky ol’...
This article was originally published in German at Computerwoche. Microsoft Teams continues to gain ground as a business collaboration tool, in part because Microsoft has tied the meeting and messaging app ever more tightly to the rest of its Microsoft 365 (formerly Office)...
Thursday July 17, 2025. 05:31 PM
Over the last decade, Slack has amassed millions of users. The average user has Slack open 10 hours a day and actively uses it a couple of hours daily. A lot of enterprise knowledge flows through channels, direct messages, and meetings. Extensive new generative AI (genAI)...
How hard can it be to abandon a 10-year old operating system in favor of something more modern, more stable, and more secure? That’s the opportunity IT enjoys with the coming expiration of Windows 10 support in October, giving admins the freedom to make a better choice....
Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o and Google’s Gemma may appear confident, but new research suggests their reasoning can break down under pressure, raising concerns for enterprise applications that rely on multi-turn AI interactions. A study by researchers at...
The next browser revolution — this time with an AI interface — is just around the corner. At least, that’s how OpenAI, The Browser Company, and Perplexity see it. These companies are all developing AI browsers designed to do an even better job of presenting...
Wednesday July 16, 2025. 06:28 PM
For a while now, OpenAI has been rumored to be working to develop its own web browser, with the aim of challenging Google’s dominance in the segment. And that browser will apparently be named “Aura”, according to Bleeping Computer. The browser name was referenced in...
Engineers in China are maintaining US Department of Defense computer systems under a contract with Microsoft, a news report said Tuesday. The arrangement relies on US staff known as “digital escorts” to supervise the Chinese workers, but the escorts often lack the skills ...
Several major US companies announced sweeping investments in AI and energy infrastructure this week, aligning with President Donald Trump’s push to strengthen the country’s dominance in the rapidly expanding tech sector. Google signed a $3 billion deal with Brookfield...
Siobhan Kwiecien, director of HR Process Enablement at pharma and biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, has spent the past year working to embed generative AI (genAI) into her company’s internal chatbots. “And that’s been quite a road,” she said. The consumption...
Sometimes, the best way to look something up is to provide an image of what you’re thinking about rather than trying to describe it. Android phones offer a convenient “Circle to Search” feature, which is now integrated with Google’s Gemini AI assistant. You can get...
Fair warning: The tip you’re about to ingest has nothing to do with any of the fancy-schmancy, accuracy-challenged AI ballyhoo that dominates most tech news coverage at the moment. Nope — it’s just a good old-fashioned utilitarian upgrade for your favorite Android...
AI builders are starving for agentic integrated development environments (IDEs), which help developers code more efficiently and thus, ideally, speed up production. And nowhere has this been more apparent than in the tug-of-war over Windsurf. In the latest development, AI...
Tuesday July 15, 2025. 01:47 PM
As I’ve noted before, it will take the better part of a decade for Apple or anyone else to manufacture smartphones in mass market quantities in the US. Getting there requires huge investments to solve big problems, including training, manufacturing, component sourcing, ...
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