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Wednesday August 21, 2024. 01:43 PM
Last week, Microsoft released a security patch that is supposed to fix CVE-2022-2601, a two-year-old vulnerability in the GRUB bootloader. However, something went wrong with the update and as a result, Linux-based systems refuse to boot on computers with dual operating...
Say what you will about generative AI (genAI) enterprise perceptions, but it’s certainly neither nuanced nor balanced. For months, virtually everyone thought genAI was going to solve all business and global problems. Then the reality pendulum swung the other way, with...
Data encryption is critical. Whether you’re using a PC provided by your employer or working from your own personal computer, encryption ensures that thieves and anyone else who might get their hands on your PC can’t view any sensitive private data. Storage encryption can ...
The worldwide unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market is forecast to reach US$69.1 billion in revenue in 2024, an increase of 7.5% compared to last year, according to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC) released on Tuesday. IDC defines UC&C...
Tuesday August 20, 2024. 07:30 PM
Britain’s new Labour government is the latest legislature to consider how it might make it easier for digital workers using always-on technologies to turn them off at the end of the working day. In Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay, published before it won the UK’s July...
Microsoft has unveiled Loop “2.0,” bringing several UI updates to the productivity app. Announced in 2021, Loop is essentially Microsoft’s answer to the emergence of a new breed of flexible document creation apps such as Notion and Coda. The Loop app, available with...
Another day, another Microsoft security failure, this time involving vulnerabilities in the company’s productivity apps for Macs. Microsoft says it isn’t a problem. Security researchers disagree. What’s the problem? Security researchers at Cisco Talos have...
In case you hadn’t noticed, humanoid robots have joined the workforce. An evergreen staple of science fiction, autonomous AI-driven machines with feet, legs that bend at the knee, torsos, arms with hands and fingers, all topped with a head are now being deployed in real...
One of the best parts of owning a Google Pixel phone comes down to an oft-forgotten role these modern mobile devices play in our lives — and that’s the role of acting as, y’know, an actual cellular telephone. It sounds almost funny to say in our current call-averse...
Friday August 16, 2024. 12:00 PM
Agentic RAG is getting a lot of attention these days as a practical way to reduce — or, depending on the audacity of the vendor, eliminate — hallucinations from generative AI (genAI) tools. Sadly, it might not decrease hallucinations — but it could open the door to...
“Sal awakens; she smells coffee. A few minutes ago her alarm clock, alerted by her restless rolling before waking, had quietly asked ‘coffee?’ and she mumbled ‘yes.’ ‘Yes’ and ‘no’ are the only words it knows.” Then, the alarm clock tells the...
Pixel phones are filled with efficiency-enhancing Google intelligence, and one area that’s all too easy to overlook is the way the devices can improve the act of actually talking on your cellular telephone. That’s true for any Pixel model, no matter how old it may be,...
As the excitement about the immense potential of large language models (LLMs) dies down, now comes the hard work of ironing out the things they don’t do well. The word “hallucination” is the most obvious example, but at least output that is crazily fictitious stands ...
Thursday August 15, 2024. 07:24 PM
A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have opted to not just discuss all of the ways artificial intelligence (AI) can go wrong, but to create what they described in an abstract released Wednesday as “a living database” of 777 risks...
Jamf has removed yet another brick in the wall put up by Windows-centric IT staffers to fend off acceptance Macs in the enterprise, revealing a new partnership with Microsoft that simplifies management of both Windows and Apple devices using Microsoft Azure. The arrangement ...
For almost as long as it has existed, Google has been at the center of controversies around its data strategy, ranging from privacy concerns, data retention with its related cybersecurity implications, and compliance, to the debate about what kind of limits there should be...
Microsoft’s facial matching verification system, Face Check, is now available. The feature, part of Entra Verified ID, offers a new way to confirm a user’s identity and protect against unauthorized login attempts, Microsoft said. Face Check works by comparing selfie...
Hollywood actors’ union SAG-AFTRA said it has signed an agreement with talent marketplace Narrativ to let advertisers buy the rights from actors to recreate their voices using AI. According to Reuters, the agreement allows the actors themselves to set the price for the...
After the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Austrian advocacy group NOYB has now filed a complaint against the social media platform X, accusing it of using personal data to train its AI systems without consent. In a statement, NOYB said it has lodged GDPR complaints...
It’s long been possible to encrypt the contents of a Windows PC using the included BitLocker encryption tool. Beginning this fall, with the newest update of Windows 11 (version 24H2), the encryption will be activated by default during re- or new installations, according...
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