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Thursday August 15, 2024. 12:00 PM
If there were any ounce of doubt remaining, I think we can safely set it aside now and say that Google’s all in on AI. And, let’s be honest: That’s probably putting it mildly. At its earlier-than-usual Made by Google Pixel launch gala this week, El Googabond made it...
Wednesday August 14, 2024. 03:44 PM
The battle between privacy and convenience in artificial intelligence (AI) has truly begun, as Google introduces its own Pixel take on AI smartphones, making a subtle (and unwise) indirect dig at Apple for being open to working with others. Because open beats closed, right? ...
A group of visual artists has scored a significant victory in their legal battle against AI image generators. A California federal judge has ruled that visual artists can continue to pursue some of their copyright claims against AI companies Stability AI, Midjourney,...
Microsoft plans to begin archiving unlicensed OneDrive user accounts after 90 days beginning Jan. 27, 2025 — with a fee required for account storage and re-activation. There are different reasons why businesses might have unlicensed OneDrive accounts, Microsoft said in...
Microsoft fixed 88 vulnerabilities on Tuesday as part of its monthly patching cycle. Six of those flaws were already being actively exploited in the wild before a patch was available and another four were publicly disclosed, putting the total number of zero-day...
The massive worldwide Windows outage caused by a disastrous update from the security company CrowdStrike made clear again just how reliant the world is on technologies few people understand — seemingly even the companies in charge of them. The incident is a case study in ...
Modern-day websites aren’t usually built for printing. Whether you want to print a web page on paper, save it as a PDF, or capture a clean screenshot for archival purposes, it’s often harder than it should be. Plus, so much junk — advertisements, pop-ups, navigation...
Tuesday August 13, 2024. 09:20 PM
Microsoft introduced Windows 365 three years ago, a service that lets the company cut partners out of the money-making loop by providing virtual PCs to customers. Rather than provide only the operating system or the OS and bits of other software — notably productivity...
Notion users can now create charts to display data held in the productivity app, providing a new way to visualize information such as project status. Notion Charts, available to paid users as of Tuesday, includes options for bar, donut, and line charts. These are...
Social media giant Meta and the music company Universal Music Group, UMG, are expanding their previous long-term music agreement. The new deal allows Meta’s users to share songs from Universal’s music library on Meta-owned Facebook, Instagram, Horizon, Threads and...
Apple’s insistence on taking a slice of subscription sales made on iOS from Patreon seems short-sighted, as it effectively takes money from the pockets of creatives who probably aren’t earning that much. Of course, from Apple’s point of view, its rules have to apply...
Apple’s competitors are reeling on bad news, which makes this a perfect moment for Apple to exploit their weakness and seize market share. And it’s well prepared to do so. Just in the last few weeks, several big events have taken place Cupertino could and should...
One of the biggest challenges CIOs face today is reconciling the constant pressure to deploy generative AI tools with the need to keep their organizations in compliance with regional, national, and often international regulations. The heart of the problem is a contradiction...
Monday August 12, 2024. 07:08 PM
Microsoft is urging all users of Office and Microsoft 365 to update the software as soon as possible, because hackers have started exploiting a serious vulnerability to access sensitive information on computers. To be fully protected against the vulnerability, designated...
July was another rough month for the tech sector, with a worse-than-expected jobs report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and analysis of that data by industry experts. And on top of that, uncertainties around tech talent remain, according to a recent pulse...
Thursday August 1, 2024. 01:36 PM
The Biden administration plans to introduce new restrictions on exporting semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, but key companies including ASML and Tokyo Electron could be exempt, Reuters reports. The latest measure aims to continue limiting China’s access to...
Though the unemployment rate for tech workers remains near historic lows, there’s been a shift in the rate at which firms are hiring — and what they’re seeking in new prospects. Coupled with a large number of layoffs last year at tech giants, the adoption of artificial ...
Wednesday July 31, 2024. 06:11 PM
Google parent Alphabet’s $2 billion investment in AI firm Anthropic has caught the eye of the UK’s antitrust regulator. On Tuesday, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) opened an inquiry into whether Alphabet’s partnership with Anthropic created a...
To get a sense of what a smarter Siri in iOS 18.1 might look like once it appears, Open AI just introduced a new voice mode in its app, albeit in limited alpha, meaning not every user will get ahold of the new tech. Delayed for a month in response to quality concerns, this...
Open AI on Tuesday began rolling out a preview version of Advanced Voice Mode to paying ChatGPT customers. With the help of the new function, users get access to a “hyper-realistic voice” that sounds exactly like a human. After a demonstration in May, Open AI was accused ...
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