A rash of planned feature and application retirements within the Microsoft 365 environment is the result of Microsoft wanting to centralize, modernize, operationalize customer spend, and ultimately economize by simplifying product offerings where it can, an industry analyst said Monday. Jeremy Roberts, senior workshop director at Info-Tech Research Group, said the fact that a number…
Nobody could accuse the British Government of lacking enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI). According to its newly published AI Opportunities Action Plan, the technology’s blossoming will remake the British economy, boost productivity, smooth bureaucracy, and transform the quality of state services such as healthcare. Through this, the government wants the UK to become an AI…
The Linux Foundation has unveiled a new collaborative organization called Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers designed to ensure that open-source projects with connections to Chromium get the necessary resources to be successful. Members of the group include Google, Microsoft, and Opera, the companies behind Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome, Edge and Opera. Facebook’s parent company Meta has…
Apple has told us Macs aren’t secure enough and it continues working to improve their security, as it does across all of its platforms. But a newly identified malware attack confirms that third-party developers can sometimes be a weak link in the perimeter. In this case, Checkpoint security has identified a malware-as-a-service attack it calls Banshee macOS Stealer. …
Meta’s mission statement is to “build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.” According to Meta, the future of human connection is basically humans connecting with AI. The company has already rolled out — and is working to radically expand — tools that enable real users to create fake users on…
AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses generative artificial intelligence (genAI) and natural language processing to help organizations find and analyze insights from sources like financial reports, news, earnings calls, and proprietary documents. The purpose behind the platform is to allow business professionals to access relevant insights and make data-driven decisions. Sarah Hoffman, director…
A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that a privacy lawsuit against Google, alleging the company improperly collected personal data from mobile devices, can proceed. Chief Judge Richard Seeborg dismissed Google’s argument that it had sufficiently informed users about its Web & App Activity settings and obtained their consent for tracking, paving the way…
Computers get clogged with digital “stuff” over time, and while we all like to think we’re good at managing all that D-detritus, there’s somehow never quite enough time to clean things up. If you’re new to the Mac, or even if you’ve used an Apple computer for decades, you need to learn these tips to…
Well, I’ll be: It’s a new year! Already. Somehow. I think. (For full disclosure, I’m still at least 77% asleep from my traditional end-of-year hibernation/hiatus. Kindly forgive any mid-sentence snores or nonsensical outbursts.) While most of the world is obsessing over Shiny New Stuff™ for 2025, though — with the avalanche of awkwardly overlapping announcements…
Nvidia has built its generative AI (genAI) business on delivering massive computing capacity to data centers where it can be used to train and refine large language models (LLMs). Now, the company is readying a diminutive desktop device called Project DIGITS, a “personal AI supercomputer” with a lightweight version of the Grace Blackwell platform found in its…