VMware is suing the US arm of industrial giant AG Siemens. The Broadcom company claims that Siemens outed itself by revealing to VMware that it downloaded and distributed multiple copies of VMware products without buying a license. VMware filed the lawsuit (PDF) on March 21 in the US District Court for the District of Delaware,…
When the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeff Goldberg, was accidentally added to a Signal conversation, things took a surprising turn. The journalist could not initially believe the authenticity of the invitation, but the chat apparently involving high-ranking US politicians and government officials discussed specific targets for attacking Huti forces in Yemen — and a few hours…
If you’re wondering how AI agents work, Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents provide real-time answers on how data is being analyzed and sourced to reach results. The Researcher and Analyst agents, announced on Tuesday, take a deeper look at data sources such as email, chat or databases within an organization to produce research reports, analyze strategies,…
Microsoft is on top of the world right now, riding its AI dominance to become the world’s second-most valuable company, worth somewhere in the vicinity of $3 trillion, depending on the day’s stock price. But that could easily change — and not because competitors have found a way to topple it as king of AI. A…
Do you think generative AI (genAI) sucks? I did. The hype around everything genAI has been over the top and ridiculous for a while now. Especially at the start, most of the tools were flashy, but quickly fell apart if you tried to use them for any serious work purposes. When ChatGPT started really growing…
Ahh — don’t you just love the feeling of a fresh ‘n’ zesty virtual upgrade? Here in the land o’ Android, that doesn’t mean only major new Android versions (and, alas, the woeful waiting that often accompanies ’em). Few mere mortals realize it, but Google’s quietly created a system of ongoing under-the-hood upgrades that affect…
Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed their Git repository service, repeatedly causing instability and downtime. Despite configuring standard defensive measures—adjusting robots.txt, blocking known crawler user-agents, and filtering suspicious traffic—Iaso found that AI crawlers continued evading all attempts to stop them, spoofing user-agents…
Infinite Reality, a media, ecommerce, and marketing company focused on 3D and AI-powered experiences, has entered an agreement to acquired Napster. That means that the brand originally launched in 1999 as a peer-to-peer (P2P) music file-sharing service is set to be reborn again. This time, new owners are reshaping the brand into one focused on…
Apple will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) online from June 9-13, with a small number of developers and students invited to attend in person for the keynote and state of the union announcements at Apple Park. As it has been since the Covid-19 pandemic, WWDC will be an online event. That’s great for developers,…
If you’ve been interested/enthusiastic about China’s DeepSeek AI, you’re not alone – Apple CEO Tim Cook also seems impressed with the tech, which he calls “excellent” – though he fell short of sharing any plans to integrate these models within his company’s own AI efforts. Cook was in China to woo government and suppliers as the company remains…