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This May Patch Tuesday release is very much a “back-to-basics” update with just 78 patches for Microsoft Windows, Office, Visual Studio, and .NET. Notably, Microsoft has not released any patches for Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Due to the concerns of publicly reported exploits for five Windows vulnerabilities, the Application Readiness team has recommended a “Patch Now” schedule for Windows and a standard release cadence for the other platforms. To help navigate these changes, the team from Readiness has provided a helpful infographic detailing the risks of deploying updates to each platform. Known issues There are still reports [...]
Meta Platforms (Nasdaq:META) has decided to delay the public release of its most ambitious artificial intelligence model yet — Llama 4 Behemoth. Initially expected to debut at Meta’s first-ever AI developer conference in April, the model’s launch was pushed to June and is now delayed until fall or possibly even later. Engineers at Meta are grappling with whether Behemoth delivers enough of a leap in performance to justify a public rollout, The Wall Street Journal reported. Internally, the sentiment is split — some feel the improvements over earlier versions are incremental at best. The delay doesn’t just affect Meta’s timeline. [...]
The Trump administration is apparently now putting pressure on Apple to stop developing an iPhone manufacturing ecosystem in India and bring the iPhone factories to the US instead. With that in mind, let’s do a little thought experiment: What would happen if Apple decided to move iPhone manufacturing to the US today? Nothing much to start with The first thing, of course, is that nothing would happen. Nothing could possibly happen that isn’t happening already. It can’t. You can’t magic this kind of iPhone manufacturing capacity out of thin air overnight. The factories don’t exist, the production equipment they need hasn’t been built yet, the land [...]
The one thing that seems about as certain as death and taxes is that, over time, your Windows 10 PC will slow down. There are a variety of reasons this can happen, from accumulated apps and background processes that run amok to registry problems and outdated drivers. How to speed up your computer Want your Windows 10 PC to run faster? We’re here to help. By tweaking some of the operating settings, your machine will be zippier and less prone to performance and system issues. And if you’re already running Windows 11, we’ve got you covered. Check out our top [...]
Enterprise IT leaders are becoming uncomfortably aware that generative AI (genAI) technology is still a work in progress and buying into it is like spending several billion dollars to participate in an alpha test— not even a beta test, but an early alpha, where coders can barely keep up with bug reports. For people who remember the first three seasons of Saturday Night Live, genAI is the ultimate Not-Ready-for-Primetime algorithm. One of the latest pieces of evidence for this comes from OpenAI, which had to sheepishly pull back a recent version of ChatGPT (GPT-4o) when it — among other things — delivered [...]
Amazon recently unveiled a new warehouse robot that can “feel,” according to the company. Called the Vulcan robot, the two-armed beast is already working in Amazon fulfillment centers in Spokane, WA, and Hamburg, Germany, where it’s handled more than half a million orders. The Vulcan’s sense of touch comes from force-sensitive grippers and sensors on its joints, which provide data to its AI about the edges, contours, and resistance of the items it picks up, moves, and places in a new location. With this faculty, Vulcan can grip a soft bag of candy gently, but a heavy coffee table book more firmly [...]
AI agents will fundamentally change the value of content and the way people work with data and files, said Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, during a Wednesday webcast that was part of the company’s Content+AI Virtual Summit. The traditional approach to managing content is fundamentally changing with AI, Levie said. Over the last two decades, Box has changed its focus from file storage to extracting value from content in those files. The company provides collaborative tools and integrates popular apps for users to work with those files and data. Extracting value from the content in stored files will take on [...]
Saudi Arabia unveiled a series of blockbuster AI partnerships with US chip makers, cloud infrastructure providers, and software developers this week, signaling its ambition to become a global AI hub. Leveraging its $940 billion Public Investment Fund (PIF) and strategic location, Saudi Arabia is forming partnerships to create sovereign AI infrastructure including advanced data centers and Arabic large language models. Google, Oracle, and Salesforce are deepening AI and cloud commitments in Saudi Arabia that will support Vision 2030, a 15-year program to diversify the country’s economy. Within that, the $100 billion Project Transcendence aims to put the kingdom among the [...]
Chrome users are advised to update their browser immediately to fix a critical vulnerability that is being exploited to launch account takeover attacks. In some environments, this could even give attackers the ability to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). The recently-reported vulnerability, one of four fixed in a Wednesday update, is tracked as CVE-2025-4664 and affects all versions of Chrome prior to version 136.0.7103.113. Google’s advisory says very little about the flaw beyond stating, “Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2025-4664 exists in the wild.” That explains the urgency of the fix being issued outside the normal update [...]
It hasn’t been that long since Apple had no status at all in enterprise IT. Its products were used in some creative departments and at home, but that’s as far as things went. The iPod and iPhone changed all that, even while general exposure to powerful mobile tech transformed perceptions around what to expect from the tools you use at work. The Apple user experience is the company’s biggest not-so-secret weapon, and it is interesting that even decades since the first PCs appeared, Apple still delivers intuitive user experiences people enjoy using. Consumer simple, enterprise ready Those user experiences have generated expectations, and [...]
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