When Google announced Tuesday that end-to-end encrypted messages were coming to Gmail for business users, some people balked, noting it wasn’t true E2EE as the term is known in privacy and security circles. Others wondered precisely how it works under the hood. Here’s a description of what the new service does and doesn’t do, as…
Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their data center building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of the current tariff wars pushed by the United States. “This is obviously a fluid situation. The stated goal of the [US] administration is to bring more development into the…
Microsoft is urging Office 2016 and 2019 customers to upgrade to Microsoft 365 before support ends Oct. 14, but analysts said viable alternatives are available outside Microsoft’s walled garden. “Continuing to use unsupported software can expose your organization to security vulnerabilities, compliance risks, and operational disruptions,” the company warned in a blog post. Microsoft 365 is the cloud-based version of Microsoft…
In the wake of the Switch 2 reveal, neither Nintendo nor Nvidia has gone into any detail at all about the exact chip inside the upcoming handheld—technically, we are still not sure what Arm CPU architecture or what GPU architecture it uses, how much RAM we can expect it to have, how fast that memory…
Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World sees us learn how culture impacts digital transformation, the rise of cloud-based ERP, and desktop-based office software. Transform Faster Disruptive forces dictate the need for speed when it comes to key digital initiatives. This week we reported 12…
Screenshot via Genshin Impact YouTube | Published: Apr 3, 2025 12:52 pm Pint-sized Iansan is one of the best 4-star support characters in Genshin Impact. As a Natlan character, she has access to some unique builds that let her support both Natlan and non-Natlan teams. Here are the best artifacts and weapons for Iansan. Iansan’s…
Apple’s leadership is no doubt scrambling to identify a silver lining (if there is one) as the storm of US President Donald J. Trump’s punishing range of global tariffs rains heavily across the company’s supply chain. Even Apple’s attempt to mitigate the impact of anticipated tariffs on Chinese goods with big investments in manufacturing in India, Thailand, and elsewhere wasn’t enough. …
The Switch 2’s additional power opens the door to more complex games that could lag even more noticeably, especially if they’re ported from consoles that expect more than 50 times the storage bandwidth (Sony requires an SSD with read speeds of at least 5,500MB/s for the PlayStation 5). And that’s where SD Express comes in….
Samsung has turned to Chinese technology groups to prop up its ailing semiconductor division, as it struggles to secure big US customers despite investing tens of billions of dollars in its American manufacturing facilities. The South Korean electronics group revealed last month that the value of its exports to China jumped 54 percent between 2023…
When Google unveiled a new neural network design in 2017 called the Transformer architecture, it probably had no idea this would threaten Google Search’s dominance within seven years. When OpenAI applied Google’s Transformer architecture to generative language models, the GPT was born. (GPT stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer.”) OpenAI then took the GPT concept and…