OpenAI fears irreparable harm from Musk, files countersuit

OpenAI fears irreparable harm from Musk, files countersuit

OpenAI has filed a countersuit against Elon Musk, accusing the billionaire of a sustained campaign to damage the company and urging a US federal court to block further actions it described as unlawful and disruptive. The legal filing, submitted in a California district court on Wednesday, marks the latest escalation in a dispute between Musk…

Drones are the future of cybercrime

Drones are the future of cybercrime

The Ukrainian military is teaching the world how to creatively use drones for battlefield offense and defense. Ukraine has built a vast arsenal of drones customized for precision strikes, reconnaissance, and kamikaze missions. But this innovation also extends to cybersecurity offense and defense. The world’s malicious cyber attackers are learning from the Ukrainian example. And…

April update has broken Windows Hello for some devices but there’s a quick fix

April update has broken Windows Hello for some devices but there’s a quick fix

A software hiccup has occurred with Windows Hello following this month’s security updates, one that could prevent users from logging in via facial recognition. Fortunately, instead of prompting an increase in password reset work for helpdesks, as people who usually just gaze at their computers to unlock them realize they’ve forgotten their passwords, Microsoft has…

IETF hatching a new way to tame aggressive AI website scraping

IETF hatching a new way to tame aggressive AI website scraping

For web publishers, stopping AI bots from scraping their best content while consuming valuable bandwidth must feel somewhere between futile and nigh impossible. It’s like throwing a cup of water at a forest fire. No matter what you try, the new generation of bots keeps advancing, insatiably consuming data to train AI models that are…

Stop typing in the Start menu — use this powerful new Windows launcher instead

Stop typing in the Start menu — use this powerful new Windows launcher instead

The Windows Start menu isn’t the best search tool when it comes to professional productivity. Sure, it’s convenient — it’s better than clicking your way through the entire menu to find what you need. But more often than not, it mostly just gets in your way.  In fact, Microsoft’s Start menu outright disrespects you by…

Broadcom favors stock buyback over investing in innovation

Broadcom favors stock buyback over investing in innovation

common stock, dampening IT department hopes that it might invest in innovation or make its products more affordable. Looking at the announcement of Broadcomm’s buyback plan, Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group, said this is consistent with Broadcom’s historic strategy and holds no good news for enterprise IT leaders. “They shouldn’t expect any relief…

China’s rare earth export controls threaten enterprise IT hardware supply chains

China’s rare earth export controls threaten enterprise IT hardware supply chains

China has announced immediate export controls on seven more rare earth elements critical to enterprise IT hardware manufacturing, firing a fresh salvo in the ongoing tech trade war. This move could significantly impact tech giants including Dell Technologies, HP, Apple, and IBM, along with semiconductor leaders such as Intel, Samsung, and TSMC. The new controls issued by…

Anthropic expands in Europe with new roles and EMEA chief

Anthropic expands in Europe with new roles and EMEA chief

Anthropic plans to add more than 100 roles across Europe, indicating a broader push to expand its global footprint amid rising demand for enterprise-ready AI tools. The new roles will cover sales, engineering, research and business operations, with most hiring focused in Dublin and London, according to a Reuters report. The company has also named…

Google NotebookLM cheat sheet: Get fast insights into your docs

Google NotebookLM cheat sheet: Get fast insights into your docs

When Google first launched the NotebookLM beta in late 2023, the company billed it as an experimental note-taking app with a generative AI assistant built in. You can still use it to create notes, but the app has evolved into something much more novel and powerful. Google now calls it “the ultimate tool for understanding…

How enterprise IT can protect itself from genAI unreliability

How enterprise IT can protect itself from genAI unreliability

Mesmerized by the scalability, efficiency and flexibility claims from generative AI (genAI) vendors, enterprise execs have been all but tripping over themselves trying to push the technology to its limits.  The fear of flawed deliverables — based on a combination of hallucinations, imperfect training data and a model that can disregard query specifics and can ignore guardrails…