In a landmark decision, a US District Judge has ruled that Google illegally monopolized the ad tech market. A federal judge in Virginia has found that the tech giant established “monopoly power” for two online advertising markets: publisher ad servers and ad exchanges that sit between buyers and sellers. The ruling in the second-largest antitrust…
The European Commission has issued so-called burner phones and simple laptops to certain staffers traveling to the US to reduce the risk of espionage, according to The Financial Times. The Commission issued the new guidelines to commissioners and senior officials traveling to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings next week. The EU…
South Korean AI startup Upstage is ramping up global expansion in the US and Japan, positioning its full-stack AI platform to serve enterprise clients. With a focus on boosting productivity through proprietary technologies, the AI firm is trying to replicate its domestic success in two of the world’s most advanced AI markets. Co-founded in 2020…
The last few months have seen an explosion of new agentic-like AI tools that can automate workflows within productivity applications, but analysts are recommending that enterprises carefully assess deployment risks before adopting them. “Enterprise leaders need to come up with a strategy for thinking about agentic AI in its true sense, and also governance for these solutions,”…
When Microsoft was founded 50 years ago this month, it wasn’t clear the company would last 50 weeks, much less 50 years. Since then, it’s grown from a three-person company with barely any revenue to one worth approximately $1 trillion, depending on the day’s stock price, with 228,000 employees in 190 countries. These seven game-changers paved the way for…
Tell me if this sounds familiar: You stumble onto something scintillating during your various digital dalliances — something you think might be a useful nugget of knowledge for work or maybe even a pertinent update for your personal life. Maybe it’s in an article you encounter somewhere online — in your browser, in a news…
Google has unveiled a new generative AI (genAI) model, Dolphin Gemma, which will attempt to decode how dolphins communicate with each other. Dolphins are among the most intelligent animals on the planet and communicate partly through whistles and calls. However, it is still unknown whether dolphins have an actual language. Google is hoping Dolphin Gemma…
Nominations for Computerworld’s 2026 Best Places to Work in IT program are now open! Click here to nominate a company today. The 2025 honorees have been announced! See our Best Places to Work in IT 2025 special report for the complete list of honorees, major trends from this year’s survey, and much more. About the Best Places…
Microsoft has released emergency patches to fix an apparent reporting error in Active Directory (AD) Group Policy, which allows administrators to manage and configure user and computer settings in Windows. The company reported in a Microsoft 365 message center update that the status of local audit logon/logoff policies might be incorrectly displayed, with audits showing…
President Donald Trump announced Sunday he will reveal new tariff rates on imported semiconductors this week, the latest in a series of rapid policy shifts that have thrown the technology sector into confusion and forced businesses to reevaluate procurement strategies. “We are taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN in the…