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Tuesday November 26, 2024. 12:00 PM
I recently wrote about how President-elect Donald J. Trump’s actions on AI might affect Microsoft. This week, I’m focused on what his antitrust regulation and environmental plans — and the biggest wildcard of all, his personal vendettas — could do to the company. ...
For decades, enterprises have allowed their workers to use whatever free browser they wanted to access the most sensitive files possible. CIOs believed that security software in the environment — such as endpoint security apps or supposedly secure web gateways — would...
Monday November 25, 2024. 08:12 PM
The “robust computer that’s very, very tiny” — introduced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs almost 20 years ago — just got even tinier. And once again, if you’re thinking of switching from Windows, there’s little excuse not to climb aboard; the “most affordable Mac...
Microsoft has released a new collection of tools and a guide to fix security issues that have arisen around the way the company’s generative AI (genAI) Copilot assistant handles information. Namely, the tool’s indexing of an organization’s internal data can lead to...
After a series of delays, Microsoft’s Windows Recall feature is now available in a limited preview for Copilot+ PCs. Recall, which takes regular snapshots of a user’s screen to provide a searchable timeline of actions, drew criticism from security and privacy experts...
The US government has scaled back Intel’s preliminary CHIPS Act grant from $8.5 billion to under $8 billion, reflecting concerns over the company’s delayed investments and financial woes, The New York Times reported. The funding was part of the government’s effort to...
Virtually every PC manufacturer has announced, or is already producing, machines with embedded artificial intelligence (AI) functionality. The question is: Why? Generative AI (genAI) for consumer use already exists through any number of cloud-based services, from OpenAI’s...
Saturday November 23, 2024. 05:25 AM
The announcement that Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be Anthropic’s primary training partner confirms rumors of an even tighter partnership between the two companies. They announced Friday that Anthropic will use AWS Trainium processors to train and deploy its Claude...
Friday November 22, 2024. 06:06 PM
OpenAI is reportedly thinking about developing its own browser with the aim of challenging Google’s dominance in the market, according to The Information. The new browser would have built-in support for Chat GPT and Open AI’s search engine Search GPT. OpenAI...
Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S headset owners will soon gain access to the “full capabilities” of Windows 11 in mixed reality, Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference this week. Users will be able to access a local Windows PC or Windows 365 Cloud PC “in...
Once upon a time, we’d say software is eating the planet. It still is, but these days our world is being consumed by generative AI (genAI), which is seemingly being added to everything. Now, Apple’s Siri is on the cusp of bringing in its own form of genAI in a more...
The agents are coming, and they represent a fundamental shift in the role artificial intelligence plays in businesses, governments, and our lives. The biggest news in agentic AI happened this month when we learned that OpenAI’s agent, Operator, is expected to launch in...
Well, I’ll be: We’ve just barely finished welcoming Google’s Android 15 update into the world, and already, Android 16 is teasing us with a tiny early taste. Yes, indeedly: Google has now officially launched the first developer preview of next year’s Android 16...
Amid the uncertainty around what makes a Windows 11 PC a Copilot+ PC, and how that differs from an AI PC, Arm is bringing some clarity — or perhaps a new source of confusion — with its definition of what constitutes an Arm PC. For decades, the heart of every PC running...
Thursday November 21, 2024. 08:20 PM
Microsoft is working on a new Windows feature, “Quick Machine Recovery,” that will allow IT administrators to use Windows Update with “targeted fixes” to remotely fix systems that can’t boot, according to Bleeping Computer. The new feature is part of the Windows...
As regulation threatens to tear Google apart and fundamentally both damage both Android and Apple, yet another regulatory noose is tightening around Cupertino, as its Apple Pay service will in future be regulated like a bank. All this comes as company lawyers attempt to...
AI agents will soon be everywhere, automating complex business processes and taking care of mundane tasks for workers — at least that’s the claim of various software vendors that are quickly adding intelligent bots to a wide range of work apps. Many companies appear to...
DuckDuckGo has urged the European Commission to open three investigations into Google’s compliance with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), alleging non-compliance with key obligations under the law. In a blog post, the privacy-focused search engine outlined Google’s ...
Wednesday November 20, 2024. 07:55 PM
In connection with this year’s Ignite conference, Microsoft has unveiled a new interpretation tool that will be added to Teams in the spring. What makes the voice cloning tool — currently called “Interpreter In Teams” — special is that users will be able to use...
Among the first things Apple IT admins woke up to this morning was news of a pair of actively exploited zero-day attacks in the wild targeting Intel Macs, iPhones, iPads, and even Vision Pro users. Apple has already released software patches for the flaws, which is why the...
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