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Wednesday February 12, 2025. 12:00 PM
Windows 10 has less than a year left before it hits its end of support deadline. Starting in October 2025, you’ll have to pay for security updates if you want to keep using Microsoft’s nearly-nine-year-old operating system. That means now is the time to think about...
The release of the latest version of the Chinese genAI bot DeepSeek last month upended the tech world when its creators claimed it was built for only $6 million — far less than the hundreds of billions of dollars Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and others have poured...
Look, if you’ve read this column for long now, you know I’m extremely guarded with my enthusiasm for Gemini and the other similar large-language-model AI answer-bots. Plain and simple, they just aren’t reliable as on-demand answer genies — despite being positioned as ...
Global enterprise technology spending is set to grow by 5.6% in 2025, reaching $4.9 trillion, as enterprises continue to prioritize investments in cybersecurity, cloud computing, generative AI, and digital transformation. North America and the Asia-Pacific region are...
It’s become increasing clear that quality plunges when moving from English to non-English-based large language models (LLMs). They’re less accurate and there’s a serious lack of transparency around data training, both in terms of data volume and data quality. The...
Monday.com has accelerated its push into artificial intelligence (AI) with the announcement this week of its AI vision, which includes three areas of focus: AI Blocks, embedded Product Power-ups, and a forthcoming Digital Workforce of AI agents. The new features, the company ...
Tuesday February 11, 2025. 09:17 PM
The escalating electricity demands of artificial intelligence systems are raising concerns about the technology’s sustainability — but that’s apparently of little concern to the governments of the US and the UK. They were among the invitees at the Paris AI Action...
Capital One has launched an AI agent designed to help customers with one of the more difficult and confusing purchase decisions: buying a car. The new chatbot, called Chat Concierge, will help customers with everything from researching vehicles and scheduling test drives, to ...
The European Commission announced the mobilization of €200 billion (about $207 billion) for the InvestAI plan at the AI Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday, with the aim of enabling “open and collaborative development” of artificial intelligence in Europe. This was...
It’s been possible for a while now to modify web pages using popular extensions such as Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey, which can be useful for avoiding annoying ads or tracking attempts. Now, starting with version 1.75 of the Brave browser, you don’t have to download...
Apple’s platforms may be more secure by design than others, but that doesn’t make them invulnerable to attack. That’s why every user should install the company’s latest security patch — it fixes a hole Apple says may already have been in active use. It is...
It’s often much easier to convey information with a well-designed diagram than to communicate through a large text blurb. As the old saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” That’s where Microsoft Visio comes in. Part of the Microsoft 365 suite, this app...
Microsoft is reportedly working on increasing the price difference between its Microsoft 365 suite bundled with Teams and the standalone Teams application in a bid to avoid an antitrust fine from the EU. The cloud services provider had been facing scrutiny from the European...
Elon Musk and a consortium of investors made a $97.4 billion offer to acquire the nonprofit controlling OpenAI, escalating a battle over the future of the ChatGPT maker, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman swiftly dismissed the bid,...
Monday February 10, 2025. 08:18 PM
Every enterprise CIO knows they cannot — and should not — ever trust a vendor’s policy position. Whether that’s because a vendor might not strictly adhere to its policies or can change policies anytime without notice, it doesn’t matter. Google’s move last week ...
The US Treasury Department’s payment servers hold the tax returns, social security data and bank account numbers of every adult citizen of the United States. They are, one would assume, among the most highly secured servers on earth and yet it seems that all the employees...
IT purchasers might be interested to learn that Apple is preparing to introduce a new entry-level and more affordable next edition iPhone SE. What sets this iteration apart is that it should be powerful enough to run Apple Intelligence. That means you can expect a good...
Microsoft Teams users can expect a slew of new features in an upcoming update that is currently in full testing, including Storyline, a Facebook-like feed where users can share messages, news, or congratulations. Users can also follow people via Storyline, much as they would ...
A growing number of buyers have reported purchasing supposedly new Seagate data center-grade hard drives, only to discover that they had been previously used for thousands of hours. A recent investigation by German news portal Heise has uncovered that used Seagate data...
The unemployment rate among tech workers leaped almost a full percentage point from December to January, according to an analysis of US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday. The unemployment rate for tech workers rose from 2.0% to 2.9%, according to IT...
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