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Microsoft is finally blocking a long-since retired program that it said led to “abuse and credential theft,” yet remained widely trusted for years. Beginning in April, Redmond will remove trust for kernel drivers that haven’t been vetted through its Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP). The company is specifically targeting kernel drivers signed by the now defunct cross-signed root program. But while this closes a security hole, Microsoft acknowledges that it could impact some legacy applications and use cases. To balance security with compatibility, the company will initially roll out the policy in “evaluation mode” with its April 2026 Windows 11 [...]
There have been plenty of warnings about job losses due to AI, particularly in the world of IT and in the reduction of entry-level positions. Doom mongers’ claims that AI is going to eradicate all our jobs look to be exaggerated but there is little room for complacency as there are some roles most definitely at risk — and software engineers, in particular, should be looking over their shoulders. Economists Luis Garicano, Jin Li, and Yanhui Wu, report in a new research paper that jobs that can be unbundled — with tasks AI can perform easily separated from those requiring [...]
Nearly one-third of all help-desk tickets handled by large organizations are work-stoppers, according to a study from help-desk automation company Fixify, which also found Tuesday to be the busiest day of the week for help desks. “Monday gets the reputation, but Tuesday gets the tickets,” it the study said. Around one in eight of the tickets it studied cited Okta, putting it far ahead of Salesforce, Microsoft and Slack as the next most troublesome apps. In total, 83 distinct applications appeared in the study, representing nearly 500 different tools. Large organizations support, on average, 63 applications, demonstrating the greater complexity [...]
Most AI regulations passed in the last few years are already irrelevant, but enterprises should think ahead with rudimentary governance plans for quicker compliance, said legal experts in two panel discussions at Nvidia’s GTC developer show last week. Current AI regulations target frontier models, high-risk models, and transparency. They typically focus on LLMs and the prevention of voice and video deepfakes. But efforts to future-proof these laws when they were conceived have not always been successful, said William Dunning, managing associate for AI regulation at UK-based law firm Simmons & Simmons, in the AI in the Age of Regulation: Build [...]
The Pentagon’s attempt to brand Anthropic a supply chain risk was “likely both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious,” a US federal judge wrote in a ruling halting a ban on use of Anthropic’s products in defense contracts. In granting Anthropic a preliminary injunction against the ban, US District Judge Rita Lin of the US District Court for the Northern District of California delivered a legal setback for the Department of Defense and complicated plans by other agencies to remove Anthropic from federal systems. She also took aim at the scope of the Pentagon’s directive, which effectively sought to [...]
OpenAI just killed Sora. That’s an amazing development. When the company rolled out the video-creation site, and later the app, reviewers called it a trailblazer because it combined video creations with sound effects, spoken dialog, and the ability for users to generate a specific character using a reference image and reuse them in multiple videos (a Sora 2 feature called “Character”). Sora was seen as a threat to jobs in filmmaking and marketing. After watching an early demo of Sora, actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry canceled the construction on an expansion to his film studio in Atlanta, Georgia. Hollywood’s powerful [...]
When it comes to staying safe online, the teensiest shred of common sense goes an impressively long way. That’s absolutely true on Android, as I’ve been preaching for more years than I can even remember at this point — and it’s true on the web, too, especially when you’re working within the desktop browser you almost certainly use alongside your mobile device. With the web, the desktop domain adds in the extra wrinkle of browser extensions — which can add powerful new possibilities into your web-wide work space but can also open up windows into worrisome security scenarios, since many [...]
The European Parliament’s Thursday vote to delay parts of the EU AI Act adds more uncertainty to the already chaotic AI compliance universe. But analysts say that CIOs must proceed as though the compliance rules are in effect. Members of the European Parliament voted to delay application of rules on high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems to give European authorities time to prepare planned guidance and standards to help companies with implementation. Although the Parliament and the European Commission are now in agreement on the delay, they still need the approval of a third law-making institution, the Council of the European [...]
Google isn’t just responsible for the encryption of a big chunk of the communications on the internet. It is also building its own quantum computers, so it’s well placed to evaluate how close the technology is to fruition. Until now, the company has been aligned with the NIST timeline, which specifies 2030 for deprecating quantum-unsafe algorithms and their full disallowance by 2035. But on Wednesday, Google said that 2029 is now the deadline for the migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). It also said that it has adjusted its threat model to prioritize PQC migration for authentication services, and urged other [...]
Apple’s MacBook Neo (reviewed here) challenges what we expect from budget laptops. Accompanied by shrewd enterprise-focused moves, the new model gives Apple a chance to convert hitherto resistant IT purchasers to adopt its platforms. I spoke with Hexnode CEO Apu Pavithran to get some sense of this potential. Apple’s decision to introduce a $599 laptop is hugely significant, said Pavithran. “Apple is positioning itself on price and gunning for the volume markets it previously ceded to other players,” he said. The company is using its existing strengths with the product, exploiting its in-house processing power, repackaging its hardware for new customers, and “breaking the perception [...]