Collaborate Disseminate
New submitter sziring writes: Harvard Business Review’s IdeaCast podcast interviewed McKinsey CEO Bob Sternfels, where he classified AI agents as people. “I often get asked, ‘How big is McKinsey? How many people do you employ?’ I now update this almost… Continue reading Should AI Agents Be Classified As People?
Meta plans to cut roughly 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division, with layoffs hitting metaverse-focused teams hardest. Reuters reports: The cuts to Reality Labs, which has roughly 15,000 employees, could be announced as soon as Tuesday and are set … Continue reading Meta Plans To Cut Around 10% of Employees In Reality Labs Division
New research from Recorded Future reveals how Russian state hackers (BlueDelta) are using fake Microsoft and Google login portals to steal credentials. The campaign involves using legitimate PDF lures from GRC and EcoClimate to trick victims. Continue reading Russian BlueDelta (Fancy Bear) Uses PDFs to Steal Logins in Just 2 Seconds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court will hear a case that could invalidate the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to issue fines against companies regulated by the FCC. AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile cha… Continue reading Supreme Court Takes Case That Could Strip FCC of Authority To Issue Fines
22 years ago, developer and columnist John Gruber released Markdown, a simple plain-text formatting system designed to spare writers the headache of memorizing arcane HTML tags. As technologist Anil Dash writes in a long piece, Markdown has since embed… Continue reading How Markdown Took Over the World
Over the decades the number of Linux distributions has effectively exploded, from a handful in the late ’90s to quite literally hundreds today, not counting minor variations. There lately seems …read more Continue reading The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming
A new deal between Apple and Google makes Gemini the cloud-based technology driving Apple Intelligence and Siri. Here’s what that could look like. Continue reading Can Google save Apple AI? Gemini to power a new, personalized Siri
Microsoft has abruptly retired the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, a free platform that IT administrators have relied on to deploy Windows operating systems and applications for more than two decades. The retirement, reports the Register, came with “imme… Continue reading Microsoft Pulls the Plug On Its Free, Two-Decade-Old Windows Deployment Toolkit
Smartphones are powerful tools for demonstrators, but bringing yours along does come with risks. Here are our top tips for staying safe. Continue reading Heading out to protest? Disable your phone’s biometrics, and 6 more ways to protect your privacy
Google has quietly tweaked its AI Overviews in search results to remove some AI-generated summaries that provided inaccurate medical information.
The post Google Turns Off Some AI Overviews Following Reports of “Dangerous” Medical Information appeared … Continue reading Google Turns Off Some AI Overviews Following Reports of “Dangerous” Medical Information