Enterprise users are receiving unprovoked offers to upgrade to Windows 11 due to an issue in Microsoft’s device management tools. The issue is with Microsoft’s Intune software, which typically allows system administrators to manage mobile devices. Intune governs the use of Windows, macOS, and Android devices attached to enterprise environments. The news was first reported…
Nvidia now expects new US government restrictions on exports of its H20 chip to China will cost the company as much as $5.5 billion, Reuters reports. Nvidia’s H20 chip is used for AI development; the US government has said it wants to restrict exports of the chip to China because of concerns it could be…
In what may yet be seen by some as a triumph of some kind, funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system, the world-renowned security service trusted and used by Apple and other tech firms across the planet, has been summarily cut. CVE numbers are part of a globally recognized system used to identify and…
Anthropic has introduced two new features to its Claude AI assistant — Research and Google Workspace integration — marking its latest effort to position its AI assistant as a collaborative enterprise AI partner. These features, now in beta for select paid plans, enable Claude to autonomously search the web and organizational content while connecting to…
I’ve got a better way to scroll on Windows — especially on large monitors. This instantly boosted my productivity and fixed a major annoyance I had with Windows 11. And you can try it yourself in just a few seconds. This isn’t just a typical tech article about Windows. This is one that offers a…
Embedding models help transform complex data — text, images, audio, and video — into numerical representations that computers can understand. The embeddings capture the semantic meaning of the data, making them useful for tasks like search, recommendation systems, and natural language processing. Still, they can struggle with more complex materials, such as documents comprising a…
OpenAI has announced a new family of models, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, which it says outperforms GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini “across the board.” In conjunction with the launch of the GPT-4.1 family, OpenAI also announced that it is deprecating GPT-4.5 Preview in the API. GPT-4.5 Preview will be turned off completely on July…
Internet outages are bad news for small- to medium-sized businesses. Point-of-sale systems won’t work when connections fail, meaning transactions can’t go through and revenue is lost until service is restored. And, as we know from the news, the situation is only getting worse with the increasing frequency of intense storms that tear down lines. SMBs…
Every year, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks break records for frequency, size, and sophistication, making it imperative that enterprises adopt powerful mitigation measures. To be effective, those measures require network and processing capacity that can handle the flood of requests DDoS attacks generate in their quest to overwhelm corporate servers. Defense mechanisms need to…
Apple has a brand new plan to make Apple Intelligence smarter. That plan is you — more specifically, your data. A post on the company’s Machine Learning blog explains the plan to begin on-device analysis of your user data. Apple trains its own AI using synthetic data, but this is a limited approach because models trained this way can…