"As hype about AI agents reaches new heights, an emerging theory suggests that the groundbreaking AI tools will kill the long-running SaaS business model. The claim isn’t particularly new, but it keeps resurfacing, with people like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella voicing this position."
Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.
Support for Windows 10 ends October 14. Still, “many organizations are balancing multiple initiatives and waiting for the right moment in their device lifecycle or broader IT strategy,” says Stefan Kinnestrand, VP Product Marketing at Microsoft, who oversees Windows commercial marketing.
Eyeing the upcoming end of support for Windows 10 in October, many IT buyers are snapping up Windows 11 AI PCs despite having no clear understanding of how to use them in their infrastructures. Story by @agamsh.bsky.social
“It is shocking that a corporation the size of Clorox had such an inept internal cybersecurity system to mitigate this attack,” said a Cognizant spokesperson.
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Enrolling 5,000 Windows 10 PCs in ESU for the full three years would cost a business more than $2.1 million. A large organization that wants to keep 30,000 PCs on extended Windows 10 support for three years would have to pay more than $12.8 million to do so. (Story by @evanschuman.bsky.social)
Forescout’s tests of over 50 LLMs found that these tools are not yet ready to turn run-of-the-mill cybercriminals into exploit developers. But some of them are getting closer quickly.
While all executives face high-pressure choices, CISOs in particular contend with trade-offs that could have monumental consequences for their businesses and their careers. (Story by Mary K. Pratt)
If an AI agent misinterprets intent or gets manipulated by malicious input, it could access or reveal data it shouldn’t. Mitigating these risks requires rethinking how we enforce security and authorization in AI-driven applications. Read more in @mjasay.bsky.social's latest column.
Plenty of ink has been spilled over VMware licensing and support since its acquisition by Broadcom. The VMware-Siemens spat, though, is different and worrisome. Story by @mariakorolov.bsky.social
The Code of Practice was originally scheduled for publication in May, and some European enterprises had called for application of the EU AI Act as a whole to be delayed. Story by Peter Sayer for CIO.com
My piano teacher used to tell me, "If you can't play it right play it loud." Pretty sure that's what Google's doing here:
AI market observers don’t all agree about the timeframe or the methods of how AI vendors will recoup their investments, but many warn CIOs that a reckoning is coming. Story by @grantgross.bsky.social
AMD has disclosed four new processor vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to steal sensitive data from enterprise systems through timing-based side-channel attacks. Story by Gyana Swain.
Security researchers have released a technical analysis and PoC exploit code for a critical vulnerability fixed last month in Citrix NetScaler appliances that is suspected to have been exploited in the wild, though in a limited capacity. Story by @lconstantin.bsky.social
A vulnerability in the way ServiceNow manages user access control lists can easily allow a threat actor to steal sensitive data, warns security vendor Varonis. Admins are urged to review their custom and standard data configuration tables to beef up security.
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on two individuals and four companies involved in schemes to provide US companies with illegal remote IT workers whose income would, it said, generate revenue for the North Korea.
"Apple is on track to source all the iPhones it sells in the US from India by the end of next year as politically driven tensions drive a wedge between the US and China." Story by @jonnyevanssays.bsky.social
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In a new directive signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Defense Department has ordered the cancellation of several contracts with firms including Accenture, Deloitte, and Booz Allen Hamilton, citing them as “wasteful spending.”
www.computerworld.com/article/3960...
94% ... that's how many of the CEOs surveyed for this report said AI can do it better. I wonder if that isn't more of a statement on the sorry state of business plans than it is about AI's capabilities.
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"The firing of these top intel leaders took place at the instigation of Laura Loomer, a controversial right-wing influencer." Article by @metacurity.com for @csoonline.bsky.social
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Why a culture of fear has no place in IT: “When a critical IT issue can disable an entire company, it’s an occupational hazard to avoid admitting mistakes.” — Jack Allen, ITequality as told to CIO’s Grant Gross
www.cio.com/article/3856...
Oracle finally fesses up to suffering a significant data breach, quietly notifying select customers about the security incident just days after being hit with a class action lawsuit that accused the tech giant of attempting to conceal the breach from affected users
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"Women remain underrepresented in technology roles and have, in fact, lost ground in recent decades." This article offers an open-eyed view of the forces at work and what organizations can do to retain women technologists.
www.cio.com/article/3846...
"Recent shifts in strategy suggest that AWS may be faltering in its ability to pioneer meaningful innovations in enterprise technology," writes David Linthicum for @infoworld.bsky.social.
www.infoworld.com/article/3842...
The most important decision in global tech is being made by a single UK judge in a small room, in near-total privacy with no transparency at all. The decision is part of what seems to be a plan to turn the UK into a surveillance society. It must be opposed.
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