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Identity management is a critical concern for any enterprise, and it’s becoming ever more complex and convoluted with the advent of AI agents. World ID is taking a unique (and to some, controversial) approach to this challenge by building a ‘digital proof of human’ ecosystem for the internet. Today, at its “Lift Off” event, the Sam Altman co-founded initiative made a series of announcements, which included the launch of version 4.0 of its World ID protocol, a World ID app, World ID for Business, World ID for Agents, a new verification tool called Selfie Check, new monetization programs, and integrations [...]
Long before Taco Tuesday became part of the pop-culture vernacular, Tuesdays were synonymous with security — and for anyone in the tech world, they still are. Patch Tuesday, as you most likely know, refers to the day each month when Microsoft releases security updates and patches for its software products — everything from Windows to Office to SQL Server, developer tools to browsers. The practice, which happens on the second Tuesday of the month, was initiated to streamline the patch distribution process and make it easier for users and IT system administrators to manage updates. Like tacos, Patch Tuesday is [...]
Windows admins are going to be busy this month, dealing with the largest Patch Tuesday cycle we can recall. The April release involves 165 updates and roughly 340 unique CVEs from Microsoft — including two zero-days, one of which is already being actively exploited in the wild. The Readiness team is recommending “Patch Now” schedules for nearly every major product family this month: Windows, Office (with a zero-day), Microsoft Edge (Chromium), SQL Server, and Microsoft Developer Tools (.NET). April also brings Phase 2 of Microsoft’s Kerberos RC4 hardening with full enforcement set for July. There is a lot to cover, [...]
Has IPv6 finally reached its day of glory? It’s fair to say that IPv6 has not had the level of take-up expected when the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified it back in 1998. Take-up has been agonizingly slow, not reaching 5 percent of traffic until 2014. However, the use of IPv6 has been slowly climbing since, and according to Google statistics, briefly accounted for 50.1% of the internet traffic Google sees on March 28. However, technology publication The Register, which spotted the tiny but significant blip in Google’s traffic graphic, quoted two other sources: Cloudflare and APNIC Labs as [...]
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, is building an AI version of himself. The virtual CEO is being trained on Zuckerberg’s mannerisms and will be loaded with his views on corporate strategy, the Financial Times reported. The idea is that employees will find the virtual Zuckerberg more accessible than they would the flesh and blood manifestation. There are plenty of claims that AI will lead to jobs being eliminated but, until now, the CEO job has looked safe. If Zuckerberg’s experiment proves successful, though, even company leaders could be due for the chop. In February, OpenAI’s Sam Altman warned that [...]
The UK government has created a Sovereign AI investment fund with up to £500 million (US$675 million) to spend on turning UK startups into national AI champions. Its support could involve investments of up to £20 million per startup, or provision of up to 1 million GPU-hours of AI compute, and fast-tracking of visas to bring skilled workers to the UK. The multi-million-pound budget sounds impressive, but it’s just 0.08% of OpenAI’s recent $852 billion valuation. That company just received fresh investment of $122 billion, dwarfing the UK’s sovereign fund. Closer to home, that £500 million would buy about 5% [...]
Apple Business is aimed at small businesses coalesced around Macs, iPhones, and iPads. If that’s you, and all your systems are made by Apple, the service is likely to be all you need to run a small operation of up to a few dozen seats. But Apple Business isn’t really designed to handle the advanced needs of larger enterprises. And while it can provide a starting point for Mac deployments in mixed-platform environments, it probably shouldn’t be where you end up. It doesn’t handle cross-platform device deployments, for which you’ll need full-strength MDM solutions (such as those from up-and-coming vendor Fleet). Another thing Apple Business [...]
No matter what type of Android phone you carry or how you usually use it, one thing is a near-universal constant: You’re gonna spend a ton of time messing with messages. The messages may be from clients, colleagues, or your cousin Crissy from Cleveland (damn it, Crissy!). But regardless of who sends ’em or what they’re about, they’re all poppin’ up on your phone and cluttering your weary brainspace. My fellow Android adorer, I’m here to tell you there’s a better way. Google’s Android Messages app has gotten surprisingly good over the years. That’s no big secret. If you only [...]
The productivity gains from AI are so great, companies can lay off thousands of employees and still get the same amount of work done — right? Or maybe it’s the opposite: despite all the hype, any supposed AI productivity boom is a mirage, causing employees, even developers, to experience heavier workloads. At the moment, the jury’s still out on whether AI use boosts or busts productivity across the workforce, despite the prediction that American business spending on AI will exceed $200 billion by the end of the year, according to one analysis. There’s no doubt workers are turning to AI [...]
Anthropic has today released a new, improved Claude model, Opus 4.7, but has deliberately built it to be less capable than the highly-anticipated Claude Mythos. Anthropic calls Opus 4.7 a “notable improvement” over Opus 4.6, offering advanced software engineering capabilities and improved visioning, memory, instruction-following, and financial analysis. However, the yet-to-be-released (and inadvertently leaked) Mythos seems to overshadow the Opus 4.7 release. Interestingly, Anthropic itself is downplaying Opus 4.7 to an extent, calling it “not as advanced” and “less broadly capable” than the Claude Mythos Preview. The Opus upgrade also comes on the heels of the launch of Project Glasswing, [...]