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Akkodis report suggests people skills may be helpful to bring out the best in AI

Executives are losing faith in AI initiatives despite rising investment, according to a study conducted by consultancy Akkodis.…

Tells would-be affiliates they don't need to worry because cyberattacks don't violate a cease fire

An Iranian ransomware-as-a-service operation with ties to a government-backed cyber crew has reemerged after a nearly five-year hiatus, and is offering would-be cybercriminals cash to infect organizations in the US and Israel.…

A big bet that RISC-V can make a dent in the AI market

GlobalFoundries has acquired chip design firm MIPS, creating a company that both designs and creates semiconductors.…

Envisions info from your watch informing treatment. What could possibly go wrong?

Samsung has acquired US company Xealth to combine data drawn from its wearable devices and hospital records.…

Operations king Jeff Williams abdicates – just don't give him a watch

Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is stepping down from his role next month and leaving the company later this year to spend more time with friends and family.…

Sure, 130 fixes were sent out, but bask in the security goodness

For the first time this year, Microsoft has released a Patch Tuesday bundle with no exploited security problems, although one has been made public already, and there are ten critical flaws to fix.…

More efficient cores plus an optional energy saver mode in Big Blue's latest CPUs

In case you'd forgotten, IBM is still blazing its own trail with regard to silicon. And in terms of speeds and feeds, Big Blue's latest crop of Power chips boasts up to 55 percent faster cores than its Power9 chips.…

Using prompt injections to play a Jedi mind trick on LLMs

A handful of international computer science researchers appear to be trying to influence AI reviews with a new class of prompt injection attack.…

It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internet

Serial entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and currently acts as CEO of payments company Block, has released the source code for a peer-to-peer messaging app called bitchat that relies on Bluetooth for network connectivity.…

You want that military contract? Then no more proprietary repairability clauses!

A bipartisan pair of Senators is so happy with the US Army's right to repair policy that they want to enshrine it in federal law as the standard across military branches. …

Climate risks threaten to fry the supply chain for essential chipmaking metal

Climate change could pose a threat to the technology industry as copper production is vulnerable to drought, while demand may grow to outstrip supply anyway.…

Plus: Qantas makes contact with 'potential cyber criminal'

While the aviation industry has borne the brunt of Scattered Spider's latest round of social engineering attacks, the criminals aim to catch manufacturing and medical tech companies — and even Chipotle Mexican Grill — in their web, as evidenced by hundreds of domains that security researchers say look a lot like phishing websites used by the criminal crews.…

Modern threats demand modern defenses. Cloud-native is the new baseline

Partner content  Every organization is investing in cyberresilience tools, training, and processes. Unfortunately, only some of them will be able to successfully respond and recover from an attack. Regardless of how hard they work, many IT and security teams are constrained by legacy technology architectures that were built for the challenges of 2015, not 2025.…

Move targets European orgs wary of cross-border data exposure

Linux veteran SUSE has unveiled a new support package aimed at customers concerned about data sovereignty.…

If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has announced an agreement with Oracle it claims offers a 75 percent discount on the vendor's license-based technology.…

Zewei Xu's family reportedly bemused at arrest as extradition tabled

A man who US authorities allege is a member of Chinese state-sponsored cyberespionage outfit Silk Typhoon was arrested in Milan last week following a tipoff from the US embassy.…

Three months to go until support ends, and Microsoft's flagship operating system squeaks past its predecessor

Windows 11 has finally overtaken the market share of its predecessor, with just three months remaining until Microsoft discontinues support for Windows 10.…

Official figures for network performance don't play out in user's reality, says monitoring biz

The UK's 5G networks are among the worst in Europe when it comes to measurements such as download speed, upload speed, latency, and packet loss, according to a report published today.…

Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature

Opinion  Dominance does not equal importance, nor is dominance the same as relevance. The snag at Mozilla is a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users.…

Those pirated video nasties won’t last forever

The UK police service is planning to launch a procurement to purchase tech and services worth up to £75 million ($102 million) in order to digitize its VHS archive.…