In a move that will likely force IT to much more aggressively use web certificate automation services, the Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum), a gathering of certificate issuers and suppliers of applications that use certificates, voted Friday to radically slash the lifespan of the certificates that verify the ownership of sites. The approved changes,…
This month’s Patch Tuesday release is large (126 patches), broad and unfortunately very dynamic, with several re-releases, missing files and broken patches affecting both the Windows and Office platforms. Reports of an exploited Windows vulnerability (CVE-2025-29824) lead to a “Patch Now” recommendation for Windows — and the Office updates will require immediate testing and some…
The US Department of Defense is scaling back its reliance on IT consultants. In a new directive signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the DoD has ordered the cancellation of several contracts with firms including Accenture, Deloitte, and Booz Allen Hamilton, citing them as “wasteful spending.” Using the X account, Hegseth shared details in a…
Trump administration has issued a directive against Christopher Krebs, the founding director and former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) for weaponizing and abusing his government authority during his tenure. The memorandum issued by the government has not only called for the suspension of Krebs’ security clearance but also ordered a sweeping…
While politicians everywhere seem to be doing their best to make everything pretty difficult, the North Star for Apple remains what it always has been: creating products people seem to love. That’s what got the company through (and out of) tough times before. Now, it looks like that might happen again. The word on Apple…
Former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams is set to testify before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, revealing how the company’s AI model, Llama, played a critical role in accelerating China’s AI capabilities — particularly contributing to the rise of DeepSeek. Actively endorsed by Chinese officials, DeepSeek has emerged as a formidable rival to OpenAI,…
Google’s new on-demand generative AI (genAI) analyst for spreadsheets stood out among a slew of new AI features for its Workplace productivity suite announced at this week’s Cloud Next event in Las Vegas. The upcoming “help me analyze” feature in the Google Sheets application in Workspace can take information from tables and provide instant data analysis and insights. It does…
Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden have launched a formal inquiry into partnerships between tech giants Google and Microsoft, and AI startups, demanding detailed information about arrangements they fear may be circumventing antitrust scrutiny while consolidating power in the rapidly evolving AI market. In identical letters sent to Google and Anthropic, as well as…
Fair warning: This column is a fair bit different from the type of thinking we typically take on in these musty virtual quarters of ours. More often than not, when we talk about Android apps, we’re talkin’ about some manner of intriguing new possibility that’s worth your while to try — be it a series…
The American workforce is undergoing a shift, with major companies like Amazon, Apple, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Tesla enforcing return-to-office (RTO) mandates, leading to fewer remote work opportunities for employees. Despite the back to workplace push, a survey of 1,000 US workers in January found strong resistance to full-time office returns. In the last…