Tech hiring rose in December, dropping the IT unemployment rate to 2% — its lowest since November 2023, according to an analysis of the latest jobs data published today by the US Bureau of Labor statistics (BLS). The overall national unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%, according to the BLS. The tech sector added a…
Forty-one percent of companies intend to cut their workforce in the next five years as many tasks are automated with AI, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Future of Jobs Report 2025. At the same time, 70% of companies say they expect to hire people with knowledge of the new AI tools, reports CNN Business….
PC sales certainly weren’t going gangbusters in 2024: They only grew a paltry 1% over 2023. According to new figures from IDC, vendors shipped 262.7 million PCs in 2024. But things did pick up a bit in Q4 2024: Shipments grew 1.8% over the prior year, reaching 68.9 million. While all this may seem like…
Researchers at Google Deepmind and Stanford University have concluded that a two-hour interview is sufficient to create a realistic AI copy with the same personality as the interviewee. In an experiment, 1,052 people were interviewed using a questionnaire that addressed everything from personal life events to opinions about society. A digital AI copy was then created and…
Apple has vehemently denied that it ever abused recordings of Siri requests by using those records for marketing, ad sales, or any of the other creepy nonsense we’re being forced to tolerate with other connected devices. The company’s denial follows a recent $95 million settlement concerning a widely reported sequence of events when it became known that…
Recently, I was asked a question I haven’t heard in several years: Can you manage Apple devices without using MDM? The technical answer is yes. You can use configuration profiles and Apple Configurator to do this. But you really shouldn’t try that approach. With mobile device management (MDM) vendors licensing their software for as little…
Cybersecurity company Eset is now urging Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 or another operating system well in advance of Oct. 14, 2025, when support for Windows 10 ends. into”It’s about five to twelve minutes to avoid a security fiasco in 2025,” Eset security expert Thorsten Urbanski said, according to Bleeping Computer . Eset estimates there…
Want to free up space on your computer? With the right tools, you can quickly eliminate gigabytes of unnecessary files and get back to work — or whatever else you use your computer for. I’ve long argued you don’t need a “PC cleaner” app. You mostly just need the tools built right into Windows. They’ll…
Industry forces — led by Apple and Google — are pushing for a sharp acceleration of how often website certificates must be updated, but the stated security reason is raising an awful lot of eyebrows. Website certificates, also known as SSL/TLS certificates, use public-key cryptography to authenticate websites to web browsers. Issued by trusted certification…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a post on X, says the AI company is currently losing money on its ChatGPT Pro subscription. “People are using it much more than we expected,” he wrote. The company introduced its ChatGPT Pro subscription in December. The subscription costs $200 a month and gives users access to an upgraded…