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Apple’s Eddy Cue testifies in Google’s confusing, secretive antitrust trial
On the same day that the US Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon for using anticompetitive and unfair strategies to maintain monopoly power in the online retail sector, Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of services, spent hours a few blocks away at the E....
US may extend China waiver for South Korean chipmakers
At a time when the US and China are embroiled in a chip war, the former has assured South Korean chipmakers, including Samsung and SK Hynix, that it is planning to extend a waiver that enables these firms to manufacture chips in China.”We understand the concerns that...
10 out-of-sight Google Pixel shortcuts worth surfacing
The funny thing about owning a Google Pixel phone is that you never know what interesting new treasures might be making their way into your world at any given moment.Most mere mortals never notice, but Google's constantly sending out software updates to its Pixel...
Don’t expect much from Copilot for Windows (yet)
“It just works.” That’s the mantra Steve Jobs applied to the Mac every chance he got. But it’s a sentence that could never be applied to Windows, a 38-year-old operating system long bedeviled by bugs, Blue Screens of Death, unexplained crashes and slowdowns, and...
Jamf exec details how the Apple ecosystem will win the business market
Every business is a digital business, and it's widely known that to truly realize the efficiencies of digital transformation, traditional departmental siloes must be broken down. As above, so below, and IT admins aren't immune to change as different fiefdoms...
Atlassian adds new collaboration and integration features to Jira platforms
Atlassian has announced a host of new capabilities across its Jira Software and Jira Work Management platform to help reduce silos between technical and non-technical teams.Two years ago, Atlassian launched Jira Work Management, bringing Jira capabilities to all...
How to fix Windows 10 and 11 printing problems
Thinking back to the era of Windows 3.0, 3.1, and Windows for Workgroups, I dimly recall that printer drivers could be especially troublesome. Happily, with Windows 95 through Windows 7, printer problems didn’t register much on my radar. But in the wake of upgrading...
Microsoft’s data centers are going nuclear
A job posting from Microsoft, for a qualified nuclear technology program manager, indicates that the company is planning to integrate small nuclear reactors into its power systems for data centers.The software giant is already working with at least one third-party...
UK regulator provisionally clears Microsoft’s $69B Activision acquisition
The UK’s Competition and Market’s Authority (CMA) has declared that Microsoft has addressed the concerns it had about the software giant's $68.7 billion acquisition of gaming studio Activision Blizzard, clearing the way for the deal to go ahead.In April, the CMA...
Forrester asks a forbidden question: Are vendors lying or do they believe their own hype?
Forrester Research, in a recent pull-no-punches blog post, called out cybersecurity vendors for not merely telling IT executives things that are not true, but for being so clueless about enterprise IT that they actually believe their own bogus hype.This raises a...
Amazon set to invest $4B in constitutional AI advocate Anthropic
Amazon has agreed to invest up to $4 billion in AI firm Anthropic, giving the e-commerce and public cloud giant a minor ownership stake in the vendor.Founded by former senior members of Microsoft-backed OpenAI in 2021, Anthropic is the company behind Claude, an AI...
Q&A: How one CSO secured his environment from generative AI risks
In February, travel and expense management company Navan (formerly TripActions) chose to go all-in on generative AI technology for a myriad of business and customer assistance uses.The Palo Alto, CA company turned to ChatGPT from OpenAI and coding assistance tools...