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Your freedom and privacy are at risk as the UK government continues its dangerous attempt to drive a great hole into data security, despite the vast weight of warnings that doing so will make all of us far less safe. In almost complete secrecy and without any mandate to do so, the UK has been demanding that Apple install a back door into encrypted data. We recently heard from the US that it had backed off in this attempt. This may not be true, warns the Financial Times, citing recent court filings from the top-secret Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) court in which Apple is opposing the [...]
Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The Windows Insider program is divided into four channels: The Canary Channel is where platform changes (such as major updates to the Windows kernel and new APIs) are previewed. These changes are not tied to a particular Windows release and may never ship at all. Little [...]
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 24H2. 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 [...]
Ah, the cloud. It sounds so light, so fluffy, so worry-free — doesn’t it? Here in the real world, though, cloud services aren’t always so simple. With Google Drive, specifically, whether you’re storing and managing multimedia assets or dealing with documents and spreadsheets, there’s a decent chance you’ll run into some manner of murkiness along the way. Drive does lots of things well, but it certainly has its share of, shall we say, quirks. I’ve heard it all over the years — and now, I’ve put together a collection of some of the most common Drive challenges I’ve encountered along [...]
French President Emmanuel Macron has told his ministers that the EU should consider targeting the US digital sector. The statement comes after Donald Trump threatened new tariffs in response to European technology regulation and digital taxes, Politico reports. Trump has long criticized the EU’s digital regulations, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, and recently claimed that they discriminate against US companies. Macron said the EU should not rule out retaliation and pointed to its trade deficit with the US in services, even though the EU has surpluses in goods trade — for example in cars and pharmaceuticals. [...]
Figures published by Google last week minimizing the energy and water consumption of individual queries answered by its AI services are still not giving us the full picture of AI energy use, according to an article in MIT Technology Review on Thursday. The writer went on to raise further questions about AI’s resource consumption that enterprise IT leaders will need to consider in their budget and ROI calculations. The article in Technology Review highlighted the elements missing from Google’s report of its AI resource consumption, a report that has already raised questions elsewhere. Those missing details make it all but impossible [...]
A new version of LibreOffice, a popular open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, won’t run on 32-bit PCs, or support the Windows 7 or 8 operating systems. The Document Foundation earlier this month released version 25.8 of the free productivity suite, which was downloaded 642,564 times in its first week, according to a blog entry on the organization’s website. Most Windows software comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and most software vendors offer support for both for backward compatibility. LibreOffice, which includes apps for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, vector graphics creation, and more, is popular among Linux users and is included [...]
Microsoft releases Windows Backup for Organizations to ease migration of user settings to Windows 11
With stressful migrations from Windows 10 to Windows 11 still ongoing in many organizations, Microsoft has thrown system administrators a small but helpful lifeline. Although it announced the new service last November at Ignite 2024, Microsoft only released Windows Backup for Organizations this week. The somewhat misleading name masks its real purpose: making it easier to migrate or restore system settings between machines joined to Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) as part of Microsoft 365. In short, this is not a utility for backing up data files, folders, installed applications or for executing disaster recovery. Instead, what’s being backed [...]
Virtually every aspect of technology has been affected, and potentially improved, by artificial intelligence (AI). PCs are no exception. While the meaning of “AI PC” is still evolving, it generally refers to a computer specifically designed to excel at AI-powered tasks. These beefed-up computers typically feature: High-end CPUs and GPUs to handle the demanding computational requirements of AI applications such as AI assistants that automate tasks, schedule meetings, answer emails, and provide personalized recommendations and data analysis and visualization. Dedicated AI accelerators like Neural Processing Units (NPUs). These specialized chips are optimized for AI tasks such as machine learning, deep learning, [...]
A research team from Zhejiang University and Alibaba Group has introduced Memp, a framework that gives large language model (LLM) agents a form of procedural memory designed to make them more efficient at complex, multi-step tasks. Instead of relearning workflows from scratch, Memp enables agents to store, retrieve, and update past experiences in real time. For developers and architects, this means fewer wasted tokens, faster task completion, and the possibility of running smaller, cheaper models without sacrificing performance. This advance could influence how AI pipelines and agent architectures are built. “Large Language Models (LLMs) based agents excel at diverse tasks, [...]