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Last week, the privacy-focused messaging service Signal was temporarily shut down when Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major outage. This led to criticism of Signal’s use of such a dominant provider as AWS. Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker has now commented that Signal basically has no other choice. “The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space, which means there is effectively no real alternative: the entire stack is effectively owned by 3-4 players,” writes Meredith Whittaker on Bluesky. She continues: “The question isn’t ‘why is Signal using AWS?’ It’s about looking at the infrastructural requirements of any [...]
Android updates have gotten tricky to keep track of these days — between the polar-opposite problems of unpredictably poky progress from most non-Google device-makers and perplexingly overlapping updates from Google with its self-controlled Pixel phones. (What’s this update I’m seeing now? Is it Android 16, the Android 16 “QPR1” or “QPR2” quarterly update, some manner of “Android feature drop” or “Pixel drop,” or some sort of beta update I opted into somewhere along the way? Trick question: All of those things are actually part of Android 16! Good luck sorting that out in your soggy cerebellum.) The good news, though, [...]
Computerworld and the larger tech journalism community lost an outstanding journalist and beloved colleague earlier this month with the unexpected passing of Senior Reporter Lucas Mearian. He passed away on Oct. 21 while recovering from heart surgery, leaving behind his wife Kim and their family. After a nearly 10-year stint in the US Marine Corps and an early career in newspaper journalism, first as daily newspaper reporter and briefly as editor-in-chief at a local weekly paper, Lucas came to Computerworld in June 2000. He immediately began digging into enterprise technology topics with a dedication and curiosity that would successfully carry him through the next 25 [...]
Apple unveiled its M5-based iPad Pro earlier this month, hard on the heels of the introduction in September of the much more Mac-like iPadOS 26. It’s a powerful hardware/software combination that makes the popular tablet a primary device for many users. For IT admins, it also raises a question: Is it finally time to consider replacing laptops with iPad Pro models? The newest iPad Pro looks just like last year’s model, but offers useful under-the-hood changes such as more RAM, faster SSD speeds, quicker charging, and Wi-Fi 7 capabilities — all of which deliver distinct advantages over previous models. And, [...]
When Microsoft and OpenAI announced their revised AI deal on Thursday, it reduced Microsoft’s ownership share of OpenAI, but seemed to give it everything that it wanted in exchange, analysts said. Well, everything other than AGI, which Microsoft doesn’t really care about. The announcement of the revised details indicated a change in the nature of the OpenAI business structure, but was murky on many of the underlying details. It said that Microsoft supports the formation of a public benefit corporation (PBC) and recapitalization by the OpenAI board. That restructuring will dilute Microsoft’s ownership from 32.5% to 27%. OpenAI, which reportedly [...]
Nvidia, a major force behind the rise of generative AI (genAI) in recent years, now sees physical AI as the next step in the technology’s evolution. “The next wave is physical AI,” Kari Briski, vice president for generative AI software for enterprises at Nvidia, said during a briefing ahead of the company’s GTC trade show in Washington, DC. Today, agentic AI can help computers take action. But that technology will manifest in the physical world through data from cameras, sensors, lidar, and other data-gathering instruments. “Physical AI perceives the world, reasons about its environment, and outputs actions,” Briski said. With physical AI, Nvidia envisions [...]
Microsoft 365 Copilot users can now direct the generative AI (genAI) assistant to build apps on their behalf that feature dashboards, charts, and other interactive elements. It’s one of three new ways to automate work tasks with M365 Copilot unveiled Tuesday by the company. The other functionalities include a workflow automation builder agent and Copilot Studio “lite” — a simple version of Microsoft’s low-code and no-code AI agent builder tool now accessible from M365 Copilot. “Leveraging these agents and Copilot Studio, Copilot now empowers employees to turn ideas into impact by creating apps, workflows, and agents — just as easily as having a conversation,” Charles Lamanna, Microsoft president of business [...]
Apple will announce that its services business achieved over $100 billion in annual revenues in the last year, according to the Financial Times. If true, this would be a major achievement. Many might recall that eight years ago Apple CEO Tim Cook declared Apple’s intention to double the size of its services business by 2020, when he was aiming to raise $50 billion a year in the segment. “We feel great about this momentum, and our goal is to double the size of the services business in the next four years,” he said at that time. Apple’s hugely successful services pivot It took [...]
Amazon will reduce its overall workforce by 14,000, cutting layers of management across the company and hiring in some areas to support its “biggest bets”. Staff will hear from their managers later today about the cuts, and affected employees will have 90 days to look for a new role internally, the company said. “Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,” wrote Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior VP of people experience and technology, in a blog post on the company’s website. The reason is AI, she said. “This generation of AI is the most transformative technology [...]
US President Donald J. Trump owns the tech industry. Many of the world’s largest and most influential tech firms and their leaders, including those at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Meta, have gone all-in on MAGA — praising Trump’s leadership and policies, and doing his bidding. There’s been one notable holdout: Microsoft. The company’s CEO, Satya Nadella, stayed away from Trump’s inauguration, refused to shutter Microsoft’s DEI efforts, and hasn’t given Trump the praise the president so desperately wants. Most recently, when Trump demanded that Microsoft fire the company’s recently appointed President of Global Affairs Lisa Monaco (a former Biden administration [...]