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CEO assures investors he'll plough headcount savings into risk-management enterprise product

Workday has confirmed that AI did indeed cost the job of colleagues that are leaving the organization following a restructuring plan cooked up by executive head chef Carl Eschenbach. How so? The money the org expects to save will be ploughed into its Agent System of Record platform.…

Chromebook-area pricing for latest designs

Framework, maker of modular and repairable laptops, is aiming at a wider audience with an upcoming 12-inch touchscreen convertible that will target the entry-level market.…

How hard can it be to add colors and percentages?

Microsoft has halted the rollout of a revamped battery indicator to Windows 11 Insiders in the Release Preview Channel.…

All fixed for Flight Test Eight, OK?

As SpaceX prepares for a Friday launch of its next Starship flight test, Elon Musk's biz has explained that the failure of the previous test was due to a harmonic response.…

Privacy-centric Android makes more sense on this form factor than a phone

We had a play with Murena's first tablet, a Google Pixel running /e/OS, its in-house de-Googled Android 13 with additional privacy features.…

That's down on last year in terms of financial compensation and – given ink price hike – the number of supplies he is valued at

HP CEO Enrique Lores saw his total compensation shrink by a little more than $98,000 in the corporation's fiscal 2024. To mere mortals that would induce tears, but as for the executive himself, it likely just meant he had to opt for a slightly less shiny new suit.…

Microsoft CEO is more interested in neural nets boosting GDP than delivering superhuman intelligence

While the likes of OpenAI and Alibaba are talking up artificial general intelligence (AGI) capable of replacing humans, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues AI's success should be measured by its benefit to the global economy – which may come once the technology finds a killer app to match the impact of email or Excel.…

Plus: DOGE staff quit; LastPass PC, Mac gasp; and CISA warns Oracle and Adobe flaws under attack

Infosec bytes  Kaspersky says it has found more than 200 GitHub repos hosting fairly convincing-looking fake projects laced with malicious software.…

Plus: SEC launches new crypto crime unit; Phishing toolkit upgraded; and more

Infosec in brief  Apple has responded to the UK government's demand for access to its customers’ data stored in iCloud by deciding to turn off its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) end-to-end encryption service for UK users.…

Plus: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota’s smart city nears opening; and more

Asia in Brief  Chinese president Xi Jinping last week staged an event at which he urged private sector leaders, including China’s Big Tech companies, to help the nation speed its technological development.…

If there's something nasty on your employment record, extortion scum could come calling

DISA Global Solutions, a company that provides drug and alcohol testing, background checks, and other employee screening services, this week notified over 3.3 million people that their sensitive information may have been stolen by miscreants.…

Of course, Microsoft is in the mix, isn't it

Chinese spies reportedly broke into the US Republication National Committee's Microsoft-powered email and snooped around for months before being caught.…

Only a test at the moment, but a sign of things to come?

Microsoft is quietly testing the waters with an ad-supported version of its Office suite.…

At least they're not having to 'justify' recent work or resign

Exclusive  IBM Consulting wants employees to know they're not all created equally, a point it intends to reflect in a "closer alignment between pay and performance."…

Is a trivial remote-code execution hole in every version part of the training, or?

The smart cookie who discovered a perfect 10-out-of-10-severity remote code execution (RCE) bug in MITRE's Caldera security training platform has urged users to "immediately pull down the latest version." As in, download it and install it.…

Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances

Council officers heading up a disastrous Oracle implementation that left Europe's largest local authority unable to manage its finances lacked an understanding of the cloud-based solution they had chosen to buy.…

Plus: Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet

A federal magistrate judge has recommended $15,000 in sanctions be imposed on an attorney who cited non-existent court cases concocted by an AI chatbot.…

Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio

IBM plans to buy DataStax, the AI and data biz that supports and contributes to the open source Cassandra wide column database.…

Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory

Scientists reckon the red hue of Mars might have originated in an earlier period in the planet's past when liquid water was widespread on the surface.…

Sly like a PRC cyberattack

A Chinese government-backed group is spoofing legitimate medical software to hijack hospital patients' computers, infecting them with backdoors, credential-swiping keyloggers, and cryptominers.…