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Friday November 29, 2024. 11:45 AM
If you’ve read this column for long, you probably know that when it comes to tech purchases — and tech decisions in general, really — I’m typically not one to be hasty. It’s practically in my blood at this point. I’ve spent so many years studying, researching,...
The Competition Bureau of Canada has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of abusing its dominant position in the online advertising technology market to stifle competition and harm advertisers, publishers, and consumers. The case, filed with...
Thursday November 28, 2024. 12:27 PM
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, scrutinizing its cloud computing, software licensing, cybersecurity, and AI businesses. The inquiry follows over a year of informal interviews with competitors and business...
There are important accounts to secure, and then there are important accounts to secure. Your Google account falls into that second category, maybe even with a couple of asterisks and some neon orange highlighting added in for good measure. I mean, really: When you stop and...
Intel’s $7.86 billion subsidy agreement with the US government imposes strict conditions on the company’s ability to divest stakes in its chipmaking division if the unit becomes independent. In a recent securities filing, Intel disclosed that it must maintain at least...
Wednesday November 27, 2024. 05:47 PM
For the past two or three weeks, upstart social network Bluesky has been attracting large numbers of new users every day, a crowd that quite evidently includes many Apple device users — the app has at times topped Apple’s App Store charts in the run-up to Thanksgiving...
Windows Recall is an AI-based feature that will be built into new Copilot+ PCs. Recall takes snapshots of your screen every few seconds and uses that data to make a searchable index of everything you’ve ever done on your PC. But, since that first controversial announcement ...
A US federal judge indicated that the trial addressing the Department of Justice’s proposals to curb Google’s dominance in online search will proceed as scheduled in April 2025, even if DOJ officials under President-elect Donald Trump seek to revise the remedies. The...
Tuesday November 26, 2024. 08:37 PM
Nvidia on Monday showed off a new generative AI (genAI) model that can be used to create all kinds of sounds and music: Fugatto (which stands for Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus 1). By entering a text prompt, a user can make Fugatto create basically any...
Brazil’s antitrust body has joined a chorus of regulators to demand that Apple permit external payment methods in iOS apps. It’s just the latest page in an ongoing story, but might be enough to break this camel’s backbone. What this means, at the risk of stating...
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...
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