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Long before Taco Tuesday became part of the pop-culture vernacular, Tuesdays were synonymous with security — and for anyone in the tech world, they still are. Patch Tuesday, as you most likely know, refers to the day each month when Microsoft releases security updates and patches for its software products — everything from Windows to Office to SQL Server, developer tools to browsers. The practice, which happens on the second Tuesday of the month, was initiated to streamline the patch distribution process and make it easier for users and IT system administrators to manage updates. Like tacos, Patch Tuesday is [...]
With 133 patches in its Patch Tuesday update this month, Microsoft delivered a big, broad and important release that requires a Patch Now plan for Windows, Microsoft Office and SQL Server. A zero-day (CVE-2025-49719) in SQL Server requires urgent action, as do Git extensions to Microsoft Visual Studio. To help IT admins navigate these changes, the team from Readiness has provided this useful infographic detailing the risks of deploying the updates to each platform. (More information about recent Patch Tuesday releases is available here.) Known issues Microsoft is doing a pretty good job these days and there are a relatively small number of [...]
Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The Windows Insider program is divided into four channels: The Canary Channel is where platform changes (such as major updates to the Windows kernel and new APIs) are previewed. These changes are not tied to a particular Windows release and may never ship at all. Little [...]
Everytime anyone says there’s no innovation left at Apple, I think of the big innovation that made so much of the technology we take for granted possible back in 1895, when Guglielmo Marconi successfully transmitted a radio signal over two miles. After all, if you’re in the mood for lazy analysis, you could argue that everything that ever followed that invention is just the same rehashed idea, all the way from Bluetooth to Wi-Fi, TV, LiDAR, and 5G. It’s all just Marconi redux. Everything we’ll ever do already happened yesterday, it’s all over. Of course, I’m not in the mood for that kind of [...]
Experienced developers can take 19% longer to complete tasks when using popular AI assistants like Cursor Pro and Claude, challenging the tech industry’s prevailing narrative about AI coding tools, according to a comprehensive new study. The research, conducted by Model Evaluation & Threat Research (METR), tracked 16 seasoned open-source developers as they completed 246 real-world coding tasks on mature repositories averaging over one million lines of code. [...]
Over the next few years, agentic AI is expected to bring not only rapid technological breakthroughs, but a societal transformation, redefining how we live, work and interact with the world. And this shift is happening quickly. “By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling 15% of day-to-day work decisions to be made autonomously,” according to research firm Gartner. Unlike traditional AI, which typically follows preset rules or algorithms, agentic AI adapts to new situations, learns from experiences, and operates independently to pursue goals without human intervention. In short, agentic [...]
Microsoft’s Outlook service suffered a massive global disruption on Wednesday, leaving millions of users unable to access email through Outlook.com, Outlook for desktop, and Outlook mobile. In a series of updates posted on X through the official account of Microsoft 365 Status, Microsoft acknowledged the incident and confirmed that it was actively investigating the issue impacting Outlook services. The incident was tracked under the identifier EX1112414 in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Shortly after, the company acknowledged some users were experiencing issues with Microsoft Teams, which was tracked under the identifier TM1112332. The incident, which lasted for over 19 hours, [...]
Enterprise IT has been waging a difficult battle against generative AI (genAI) bots and crawlers, and banning some crawlers has simply not worked. That’s led to both data leakage and painful out-of-pocket bandwidth costs. Cloudflare is one of the few companies that has had some success in blocking these unwelcome visitors, although some have complained that by blocking most of the crawlers, Cloudflare is also filtering out some legitimate traffic. Now, Cloudflare is exploring a different tactic: If you can’t beat them, charge them. Cloudflare’s plan is to use different mechanisms to enable charging the visitors. “We’re excited to help dust off a [...]
We’re all so busy that it’s tempting to wish for a digital clone to share the workload. And now, thanks to AI, you can. Many people are embracing generative AI (genAI) tools to make a clone or digital twin of themselves that can speak and even interact on their behalf. We’re all familiar with the idea of creating fake people using AI. But a digital clone is an AI replica of a real person, with the same appearance, voice, mannerisms, and pertinent knowledge as that person. Of course, the first thing that comes to mind when we think about digital clones [...]
From time to time, certain key elements in the Windows 10 or 11 user interface can go dormant. You click on or touch the Start menu icon, or other icons in the taskbar, and nothing happens. Keep trying, but nothing keeps happening. This can be anywhere from frustrating to infuriating. Thankfully, there’s an extremely easy fix for this sort of behavior, as I will soon explain. No need to restart, though that works, too One ingrained response in many Windows users when the UI starts misbehaving is to restart their computers. And indeed, that does work to fix a nonresponsive [...]