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Monday January 13, 2025. 06:02 PM
On the day the UK government confirms an AI future for the country (we’ll see how that goes), Apple’s App Store pricing model has gone on trial in London. Apple is accused of overcharging consumers for software sold via the App Store in a £1.5 billion class-action...
The Linux Foundation has unveiled a new collaborative organization called Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers designed to ensure that open-source projects with connections to Chromium get the necessary resources to be successful. Members of the group include Google,...
Adobe has unveiled a new Firefly “bulk create” feature that lets content designers make changes to thousands of images once, automating actions such as resizing assets and replacing backgrounds at scale. Up to 10,000 JPG or PNG images can uploaded to the Firefly Bulk...
The next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is already under way, as AI agents — AI applications that can function independently and execute complex workflows with minimal or limited direct human oversight — are being rolled out across the tech industry....
Saturday January 11, 2025. 03:23 AM
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said his decision to reduce his team’s weekly hours working on WordPress by 99%, from 4,000 hours to 45 hours, was designed to pressure WP Engine to drop its lawsuit against Mullenweg and Automattic “They don’t actually make WordPress....
Friday January 10, 2025. 08:46 PM
Tech hiring rose in December, dropping the IT unemployment rate to 2% — its lowest since November 2023, according to an analysis of the latest jobs data published today by the US Bureau of Labor statistics (BLS). The overall national unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%,...
Forty-one percent of companies intend to cut their workforce in the next five years as many tasks are automated with AI, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Future of Jobs Report 2025. At the same time, 70% of companies say they expect to hire people with knowledge...
Apple has told us Macs aren’t secure enough and it continues working to improve their security, as it does across all of its platforms. But a newly identified malware attack confirms that third-party developers can sometimes be a weak link in the perimeter. In this...
Meta’s mission statement is to “build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.” According to Meta, the future of human connection is basically humans connecting with AI. The company has already rolled out — and is working to...
Microsoft 365 (and Office 365) subscribers get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches, and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the...
PC sales certainly weren’t going gangbusters in 2024: They only grew a paltry 1% over 2023. According to new figures from IDC, vendors shipped 262.7 million PCs in 2024. But things did pick up a bit in Q4 2024: Shipments grew 1.8% over the prior year, reaching 68.9...
Thursday January 9, 2025. 09:23 PM
Researchers at Google Deepmind and Stanford University have concluded that a two-hour interview is sufficient to create a realistic AI copy with the same personality as the interviewee. In an experiment, 1,052 people were interviewed using a questionnaire that addressed...
Apple has vehemently denied that it ever abused recordings of Siri requests by using those records for marketing, ad sales, or any of the other creepy nonsense we’re being forced to tolerate with other connected devices. The company’s denial follows a recent $95...
AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses generative artificial intelligence (genAI) and natural language processing to help organizations find and analyze insights from sources like financial reports, news, earnings calls, and proprietary documents. The purpose ...
Recently, I was asked a question I haven’t heard in several years: Can you manage Apple devices without using MDM? The technical answer is yes. You can use configuration profiles and Apple Configurator to do this. But you really shouldn’t try that approach. With mobile...
A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that a privacy lawsuit against Google, alleging the company improperly collected personal data from mobile devices, can proceed. Chief Judge Richard Seeborg dismissed Google’s argument that it had sufficiently informed users about ...
Wednesday January 8, 2025. 07:57 PM
Cybersecurity company Eset is now urging Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 or another operating system well in advance of Oct. 14, 2025, when support for Windows 10 ends. into”It’s about five to twelve minutes to avoid a security fiasco in 2025,” Eset...
Computers get clogged with digital “stuff” over time, and while we all like to think we’re good at managing all that D-detritus, there’s somehow never quite enough time to clean things up. If you’re new to the Mac, or even if you’ve used an Apple computer for...
Want to free up space on your computer? With the right tools, you can quickly eliminate gigabytes of unnecessary files and get back to work — or whatever else you use your computer for. I’ve long argued you don’t need a “PC cleaner” app. You mostly just need the...
Industry forces — led by Apple and Google — are pushing for a sharp acceleration of how often website certificates must be updated, but the stated security reason is raising an awful lot of eyebrows. Website certificates, also known as SSL/TLS certificates, use...
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