The Internet has become the most prevalent communications technology the world has ever seen. Though there are more fixed and mobile telephone connections, even they use Internet technology in their core. For all the many uses the Internet allows for today, its origins lie in the cold war and the need for a defence communications…
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…
AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses generative artificial intelligence (genAI) and natural language processing to help organizations find and analyze insights from sources like financial reports, news, earnings calls, and proprietary documents. The purpose behind the platform is to allow business professionals to access relevant insights and make data-driven decisions. Sarah Hoffman, director…
A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that a privacy lawsuit against Google, alleging the company improperly collected personal data from mobile devices, can proceed. Chief Judge Richard Seeborg dismissed Google’s argument that it had sufficiently informed users about its Web & App Activity settings and obtained their consent for tracking, paving the way…
The people overseeing the security of Google’s Chrome browser explicitly forbid third-party extension developers from trying to manipulate how the browser extensions they submit are presented in the Chrome Web Store. The policy specifically calls out search-manipulating techniques such as listing multiple extensions that provide the same experience or plastering extension descriptions with loosely related…
If you can’t wake up in the morning without a steaming mug of boomer shooters, a new one is comin’ in hot. GRAVELORD is set to kick off its Early Access period of “unfiltered, hardcore carnage” on January 22. Developer Fatbot Games has a nice little chunk of content lined up for Early Access. A…
A central figure in the Rinascita storyline, Lorelei is seen by many as one of the most beautifully crafted bosses in Wuthering Waves, as well as one that feels like it came straight out of the Lands Between. But did you know she also stars in one of the game’s most beautifully crafted Echo Challenges,…
The second issue is we can do better. I am happy we now live in a time when programmers write their own tests, but we do not hold ourselves to the same standards with tests as we do with production code. That is a reasonable tradeoff; there are only so many hours in the day….
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…