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Cisco is adding AI agents to Webex group chats so colleagues can assign them work and share the results, part of a wider revamp of the Webex app. Announced at the WebexOne conference Wednesday, users will soon be able to @mention agents in Webex “spaces” to help schedule meetings, take notes, and track tasks. “You work with AI, but your teammates may never see that work — they can’t build on it, contribute to it, or reuse it,” said Amit Barave, Cisco vice president and general manager for Webex Suite and AI, in a blog post. “With Webex, agents become [...]
Are you a Windows fan? Do you like getting sneak peeks at features before they’re released to the public? Microsoft created its Windows Insider Program for you. The program made its debut in October 2014 with the release of the Windows 10 technical preview. It provided a way for enthusiastic users, developers, and IT admins to test out — and, notably, give feedback on — the upcoming OS. After Windows 10 shipped, Microsoft kept the program going, and Insiders have had early access to new features being developed for all subsequent Windows 10 and Windows 11 versions, via releases known [...]
A newly-disclosed critical flaw in Atlassian’s data center software has a remarkably wide reach, affecting eight core products across the company’s enterprise portfolio. CVE-2026-21589, rated 9.3 (critical) in severity, is an arbitrary file access vulnerability that could allow an attacker with no login access to read files in web app root directories that they should not otherwise see, and potentially use them for nefarious purposes. The impacted products require “immediate attention,” Atlassian said in a security advisory. Customers should patch to the latest fixed versions. The company said it has not yet found evidence of exploitation in its cloud offerings, [...]
A number of studies reported a decline in tech jobs in September as the US continues to get squeezed by geopolitical and economic instability. Tech consortium CompTIA said 10,350 positions in the technology sector were lost in September, lower than the 14,700 positions cut in August. But economy-wide, tech jobs — which include IT roles not associated with tech sector — took a bigger hit. Tech jobs across all industries fell by about 6,000, a sharp reversal from the 86,000 added in August. CompTIA’s report is based on an analysis of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ September jobs report, [...]
When it comes to consumer protections, Europe is following its own path. That may be visible in its quixotic-seeming decisions that allegedly prevent Apple from introducing Siri AI in the European Union. It’s time to begin to grapple with what those decisions mean. I think the EU has got it wrong in how it has chosen to enforce its Digital Markets Act against Apple. The refusal to figure out a mutually satisfactory way to apply the intent of the DMA on Apple’s business practices while protecting its stated values around privacy is a failure of imagination and diplomacy. Apple and Japan previously reached an agreement that [...]
According to new figures from Statcounter, Windows 11 continues to gain users at the expense of Windows 10. The newer operating system is now estimated to account for 71.5% of all Windows computers globally, while Windows 10 has dropped to 27.8%, reports The Register. Microsoft itself does not publish any user figures. Statcounter’s estimates are based on tracking code installed on websites globally. These figures are not broken out by consumer and business use. A major shift to Windows 11 occurred when mainstream support for Windows 10 ended on October 14, 2025. Just a month before that transition, about half [...]
OpenAI has announced that within a few weeks it will introduce a digital watermark for text generated using the company’s AI tools, ChatGPT and Codex. This move comes in response to the EU’s new AI regulations, introduced two months ago, which stipulate that AI-generated content must be identifiable. Competitor Anthropic introduced a similar feature for its AI tools in August. OpenAI’s new watermark will be available worldwide, but it is enabled by default only within the EU. In other words, users in other parts of the world can ignore it. According to TechCrunch, it appears possible to edit out the [...]
Companies continue to invest in AI, automation, developer tools, and other new technologies. But they may not get the results they expect if IT workers don’t have the time, resources, or freedom to learn how to use them. IT workers may be afraid to try new tools if they think a failed experiment could hurt their performance reviews. They may also be unsure which tools and data they can use or how to test new technology without creating security problems or disrupting the business. A safe-to-fail culture can help remove those barriers. It gives IT workers room to try new [...]
Most organizations have been largely unable to measure financial returns from AI, but analysts say new ways to calculate return on investment are emerging. “There’s a delay between the development of technology, even the investment in the technology, and the value that an organization can capture from it,” said Michael Chui, a senior fellow at McKinsey. But more executives are asking questions. “The CFOs are asking CIOs, investors are asking CEOs: ‘Where’s the ROI from this stuff, already?’” he said. In McKinsey’s “State of AI” survey released in August, about 80% of respondents said AI improved their productivity. But only [...]
Apple has been forced to make macOS even more locked down, to the dismay of some developers. It has announced plans to introduce more user-facing control over the process of giving apps Full Disk Access. Some developers are upset, believing this will put more barriers in place to those creating apps outside the App Store. Endpoint security vendors voiced some concern but understand the cause: “poorly written/insecure/greedy AI agents/assistants insisting on Full Disk Access, and then once granted/obtained, abusing that, to access ,” as Objective-See co-founder Patrick Wardle wrote on X. Explaining its plans, Apple says it will still make it possible for [...]