The European Commission announced the mobilization of €200 billion (about $207 billion) for the InvestAI plan at the AI Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday, with the aim of enabling “open and collaborative development” of artificial intelligence in Europe. This was announced by Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen, who has also opened a new…
Apple’s platforms may be more secure by design than others, but that doesn’t make them invulnerable to attack. That’s why every user should install the company’s latest security patch — it fixes a hole Apple says may already have been in active use. It is important to note that the attack seems to be one that requires…
Microsoft is reportedly working on increasing the price difference between its Microsoft 365 suite bundled with Teams and the standalone Teams application in a bid to avoid an antitrust fine from the EU. The cloud services provider had been facing scrutiny from the European Commission — the executive arm of the European Union that governs…
Every enterprise CIO knows they cannot — and should not — ever trust a vendor’s policy position. Whether that’s because a vendor might not strictly adhere to its policies or can change policies anytime without notice, it doesn’t matter. Google’s move last week to back away from assurances it would not help make weapons or engage in surveillance…
The US Treasury Department’s payment servers hold the tax returns, social security data and bank account numbers of every adult citizen of the United States. They are, one would assume, among the most highly secured servers on earth and yet it seems that all the employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) needed…
Microsoft Teams users can expect a slew of new features in an upcoming update that is currently in full testing, including Storyline, a Facebook-like feed where users can share messages, news, or congratulations. Users can also follow people via Storyline, much as they would on Facebook According to The Verge, Storyline is considered a successor…
The unemployment rate among tech workers leaped almost a full percentage point from December to January, according to an analysis of US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday. The unemployment rate for tech workers rose from 2.0% to to 2.9%, according to IT industry association CompTIA, even as tech firms boosted employment by…
French AI company Mistral has released several updates to its generative AI assistant Le Chat and made it available on Android and iOS. Mistral describes the tool as a comprehensive genAI assistant for both life and work that can be used to access the latest news, plan daily tasks, keep track of projects, upload and…
In its limited wisdom, the deeply unpopular UK government has decided to break privacy for the entire world, slamming Apple with a top secret order that demands blanket access to personal data. Apple must create a “back door” to enable surveillance, according to The Washington Post. It’s a deeply dangerous, unaccountable, draconian demand that threatens privacy,…
A new Gartner survey of more than 200 C-level executives found 56% are “extremely likely” to quit their current jobs over the next two years — and 27% plan to exit within the next six months. The potential for a mass exodus of executives appears to be the result of burnout, renewed plans to retire…