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Microsoft has retired its Mesh 3D collaboration platform as it continues to scale back its metaverse ambitions in the workplace. The company unveiled Mesh during the Covid-19 pandemic amid widespread interest in the potential of virtual reality and immersive environments for workplace collaboration. Mesh was available as a Unity-based platform for creating 3D environments and as an app where colleagues could meet in immersive spaces. Widespread demand failed to ignite however, and Microsoft announced on Monday that Mesh had been retired as a standalone app. That means users can longer attend events or Teams meetings from the Mesh app on PCs or Meta’s Quest [...]
MIT has started taking a count of AI agents around the world to get a larger view on how technology could replace human labor. The “Iceberg Index” counts the different types of AI agents conducting work previously done by human labor. The initial index numbers indicate that just 13,000 agents could expose 151 million human workers, or about 11.7% of the workforce population, to job or wage losses. The research paper said the AI agent population — which could ultimately overtake the human population — needs to be quantified. The metric provides a snapshot of how the AI era is shifting productivity, [...]
You might not know it from all the panic-inducing headlines out there, but Android is actually packed with practical and powerful security options. Some are activated by default and protecting you whether you realize it or not, while others are more out of the way but equally deserving of your attention. So stop wasting your time worrying about the overhyped Android malware monster du jour and instead take a moment to look through these far more meaningful Android security settings — ranging from core system-level elements to some more advanced and especially out-of-sight options. Make your way through these 22 [...]
Microsoft should drop the Copilot+ moniker for AI PCs, as it has sown confusion among buyers and failed to deliver on over-hyped promises, according to analysts. Copilot+ Windows 11 PCs were first introduced in 2024. The PCs can run AI applications on device without an Internet connection and include unique AI hardware such as neural processing units (NPUs). But Copilot+ has created nothing but headaches and confusion among consumers, enterprises, and programmers, said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research. “Microsoft never gets anything right the first time,” he said. The industry didn’t ask for jazzed-up AI PCs, as many of today’s [...]
Poetry can be a perplexing art form for humans to decipher at times, and apparently AI is being tripped up by it too. Researchers from Icaro Lab (part of the ethical AI company DexAI), Sapienza University of Rome, and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies have found that, when delivered a poetic prompt, AI will break its guardrails and explain how to produce, say, weapons-grade plutonium or remote access trojans (RATs). The researchers used what they call “adversarial poetry” across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, yielding high attack-success rates — in some cases, 100%. The simple method worked across model [...]
Police investigating the scandal around the UK Post Office Horizon IT system linked to the suicide of a numbers of its users are now considering corporate manslaughter charges against the companies involved, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has said. The Post Office Horizon accounting system scandal is now seen as the UK’s biggest ever IT disaster and its worst miscarriage of justice. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted for fraud, theft and false accounting. Accounting discrepancies and shortfalls recorded by Horizon resulted in 236 being sent to prison. The Post Office claimed the discrepancies were [...]
In a departure that took almost as long as Siri needs to find some obscure music requests, Apple has announced a new vice president of AI: Amar Subramanya, who will replace former AI chief John Giannandrea. Subramanya will report directly to Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president for software engineering. Giannandrea will “transition to an advisory role” pending planned retirement next year. Certain roles previously occupied by Giannandrea will be shifted to Apple COO Sabih Khan and Senior Vice President for Services Eddy Cue. Subramanya will lead Apple Intelligence and Siri’s next chapters. “We are thankful for the role John played in [...]
A sprawling surveillance campaign targeting Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users is just the latest evolution of a seven-year-long project to distribute malicious browser extensions. By targeting trusted browser extensions and weaponizing them only after they had passed initial acceptance checks and gained a broad following, sometimes over years, a group that Koi has labelled “ShadyPanda” has infected 4.3 million browser instances to harvest browsing data, hijack search results, manipulate traffic, and deploy a backdoor capable of remote code execution. The risk for enterprises is significant if any of those browsers are on work PCs or on employees’ own devices [...]
A Windows launch isn’t the end a process — it’s really just the beginning. Microsoft continually works on improving Windows 11 by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new features. In this story we summarize what you need to know about each update released to the public for the most recent version of Windows 11 — currently version 25H2. For each build, we’ve included the date of its release and a link to Microsoft’s announcement about it. The most recent updates appear first. The easiest way to install updates is via Windows Update. Not sure how? See “How [...]
Amid the hype around AI’s productivity potential, many businesses still face slow adoption among their employees. Pedro Bados, CEO and co-founder of Nexthink, believes that digital employee experience (DEX) tools could help close that gap by giving companies insights into how staffers actually use generative AI (genAI) assistants. AI will influence Nexthink’s products in a variety of ways, according to Bados. Automated agents will be carrying out routine IT tasks, he said, freeing up IT teams to take on more strategic work. AI has been central to Nexthink’s business since its inception. Two decades ago, the company spun out of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale [...]