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Slack is turning its Slackbot helper into a more capable, personalized AI assistant that can perform actions such as drafting content and scheduling meetings. Users have long been able to interact with Slackbot from channels and direct messages, where it can be asked to send reminders or notifications, or provide a preset response to keyword prompts such as what the Wi-Fi password is, among other tasks. The revamped Slackbot, which is currently in pilot, will be accessible from a button at the top of the app. Once invoked, it will answer user queries based on information in conversations, files and [...]
An analyst recently offered an amusingly accurate observation about how Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics — from his classic 1950 science-fiction book “I, Robot” — would read today in a world of generative and agentic AI. The first law was: “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Valence Howden, an advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group, observed that if that book were updated for 2025, the first law might better be: “AI may not injure a hyperscaler’s profit margin.” Let me elaborate. This is how I think the OpenAI [...]
The Windows PC market appears to be in flux at the moment. With the end of support coming this month for Windows 10, companies are trying to decide whether to finally jump to Windows 11, move to another platform entirely, or maybe stick with Windows — but ditch Intel for Arm processors. What’s an IT buyer to do? When Microsoft first announced Copilot+ PCs last year, it focused largely on hardware based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors and its neural processing unit (NPU). (The move was seen partly as a response to Apple’s shift to its own Arm-based M-series [...]
The acceleration of hybrid and mobile work models has revealed critical shortcomings in organisational device strategies. IT departments are contending with slow procurement cycles, mismatched hardware across teams, and compatibility issues when integrating new equipment into existing systems. “The key thing is that these gaps are not only an administrative nuisance, it’s the impact on your workforce that organisations need to think about,” says Sarah Crawford, General Manager, PSG Digital Product, Datacom. “Poor provisioning can lead to reduced productivity, increased cybersecurity risks, and talent retention issues when employees lack the right tools and feel frustrated.” As physical office attendance becomes [...]
Intel unveiled its Core Ultra series 3 processors on Thursday, the first client chips built on its 18A process node and manufactured in Arizona, as enterprises gear up for a wave of PC refreshes driven by Microsoft’s October 2025 end-of-support deadline for Windows 10. The Panther Lake platform delivers up to 180 platform TOPS for AI workloads through a balanced design that distributes processing across CPU, GPU, and neural processing units. Systems are expected to reach broad availability in January 2026, Intel said in a statement. But while Intel is pitching AI acceleration as a key differentiator, analysts say most [...]
If you know your way around platform security, you don’t need to sell your discoveries to dodgy surveillance-as-a-service firms — Apple will make you a millionaire. During his speech at Offensive Security event Hexacon 2025, Ivan Krstić, Apple’s head of Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR), announced a big increase in the top award available under the Apple Security Bounty scheme. Make millions, do the right thing The bounty now maxes out at $2 million for exploit chains that can achieve similar goals as sophisticated mercenary spyware attacks. That bonus also stacks with other security bounties Apple provides, meaning researchers can make up to [...]
The latest AI imaging tools not only create a picture from a prompt (you type words, and the tool makes a picture seemingly ex nihilo). They also do another neat trick: You can upload a photograph, and they can convincingly modify it. At the moment (this category moves really fast), no product does it better than Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, more affectionately known as “Nano Banana.” But you can also modify photos with MyEdit AI Image Editor, Fotor AI Photo Editor, DeepAI Photo Editor, LogoAI Image Editing, Gooey.AI Photo Editor, and Adobe Photoshop. All these tools vary in the ways and degrees to which they edit [...]
The modern enterprise has more data than it can handle, and AI agents are increasingly stepping in to help. AWS aims to tackle that data overload with its new Amazon Quick Suite, an agentic AI system released Thursday that can conduct deep-dive research, answer questions, analyze and visualize data, and automate workflows. The company claims the AI-driven system has slashed the time required for research analysis from months to 20 minutes, and helped solve complex customer queries in 15 minutes rather than hours. “In a sea of AI-powered applications, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for customers to determine which tools to [...]
The UK government has announced plans to appoint a “digital markets champion” as part of its drive to modernize the way financial transactions are conducted by adopting blockchain-based shared ledgers. News of the new role was announced by Economic Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby, in a speech on Wednesday at the Digital Assets Week conference in London. It’s not yet clear who might be in line for the job, but the individual will need to be an industry figure with enough knowledge and connections to get competing agencies – the Bank of England, the UK Treasury, and the Financial [...]
The Discord user data breach offers yet another argument against the UK government’s authoritarian plans for Digital ID. A sensible government would consider the implications before forcing people to risk information with a stunt like this. So, what happened? The online speculation is that millions of government ID data items might have been stolen in an attack against an identity verification service used by Discord. Discord says it has “identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed, which our vendor used to review age-related appeals.” It also said it is communicating with users affected by the hack and is working with law [...]
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