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Agentic AI has given rise to autonomous systems that learn, adapt, and even communicate with each other. Follow this page for coverage of its impact on work and ethics.

Dec 19, 2025 27 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Generative AI

WhatsApp accounts targeted in ‘GhostPairing’ attack

A new attack abusing a legitimate device pairing feature of the app could be used to penetrate employee WhatsApp Groups.

Dec 18, 2025 4 mins

Communications Security Messaging Security Mobile Security

Apple changes App Store in Japan

Company execs say regulators there are much more collaborative than in Europe.

Dec 18, 2025 6 mins

Apple App Store Government Laws and Regulations

The $2.5B Coursera-Udemy merger is being driven by AI speed

The two tech education giants hope to be able to offer AI skills training in what one analyst called ‘bite-sized learning cycles.’

Dec 18, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI IT Skills and Training

Microsoft warns MSMQ may fail after update, breaking apps

A security update issued on December Patch Tuesday changes the MSMQ security model, causing failures in programs ranging from POS to fire alarms.

Dec 17, 2025 5 mins

Microsoft Operating Systems Windows

Memory efficiency: Apple’s new competitive advantage

The company's traditional approach to memory optimization should now be seen as yet another advantage over rival platforms.

Dec 17, 2025 5 mins

Apple Smartphones iPhone

Tech sector continues downward slide amid modest US job growth in November

Although the overall US economy added 64,000 jobs last month, the tech sector is softening when it comes to hiring.

Dec 17, 2025 3 mins

Hiring IT Skills and Training Technology Industry

Google tests an AI productivity agent that lives in your inbox

Experimental tool “CC” delivers daily briefs, drafts emails, and suggests next actions by tapping Gmail, Calendar, and Drive.

Dec 17, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Email Clients Gmail

Mozilla appoints new CEO, unveils new AI focus

Strategy evolving around trust ‘keeps AI optional, bounded, and subordinate to user and enterprise consent.’

Dec 16, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Mozilla Vendors and Providers

Nvidia bets on open infrastructure for the agentic AI era with Nemotron 3

The company is positioning its new offerings as a business-ready way for enterprises to build domain-specific agents without first needing to create foundation models.

Dec 15, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Nvidia

OpenAI launches GPT-5.2 as it battles Google’s Gemini 3 for AI model supremacy

The new version performs ‘at or above a human expert level,’ the AI giant claims.

Dec 12, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Trump directs Justice Department to challenge state AI laws

White House establishes litigation task force as part of push for single federal framework for artificial intelligence.

Dec 12, 2025 5 mins

Government Laws and Regulations Markets

Ho ho ho! December’s Patch Tuesday delivers three zero-days

It’s a holiday miracle with no critical Windows patches and an unusually low number of updates overall — but with three zero-days in the wild, patching can’t wait.

Dec 12, 2025 8 mins

Endpoint Protection Microsoft Windows Security

OpenAI: Latest news and insights

Everything you need to know about the artificial intelligence organization’s latest product and company news

Dec 12, 2025 23 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

It’s everyone but Meta in a new AI standards group

Report indicates that Mark Zuckerberg has other plans: to pull an open source U-turn and make Meta’s best AI models proprietary.

Dec 10, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Linux Foundation Technology Industry

Gemini for Chrome gets a second AI agent to watch over it

Google acknowledged the prompt injection risks in its browsing assistant, deploying a ‘user alignment critic’ to vet its actions

Dec 9, 2025 5 mins

Browser Security Endpoint Protection Google

European Commission investigates Google’s AI training processes

The antitrust investigation will focus on the way Google used content from web publishers and video from YouTube to train its models, and whether it sought permission from rights holders.

Dec 9, 2025 3 mins

Google Government Laws and Regulations

Now you can use Claude Code directly in Slack chat

Anthropic has released a beta version of Claude Code for Slack, bringing coding task delegation directly into chat threads.

Dec 9, 2025 1 min

Collaboration Software Generative AI Slack

Apple and Google prepare a gift for Android/iPhone switchers

But you may not get it this year.

Dec 9, 2025 4 mins

Android Apple iOS

Keep AI browsers out of your enterprise, warns Gartner

They’re already in use but may lead to “irreversible and untraceable” data loss, analysts said.

Dec 8, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Browser Security Endpoint Protection

Insecure use of Signal app part of wider Department of Defense problem, suggests Senate report

Committee calls for a more comprehensive review of ‘shadow communication’ app use in DoD.

Dec 5, 2025 4 mins

Government Government IT Security Practices

M365 customers should explore alternatives, plan to dicker as prices hikes loom — analysts

Microsoft’s announcement this week of higher subscription costs follows the company’s decision last month to end volume discounts on products such as Microsoft 365.

Dec 5, 2025 3 mins

Microsoft Microsoft 365 Office Suites

OpenAI prompts AI models to ‘confess’ when they cheat

The idea is to make LLMs turn themselves in when they don’t follow instructions, potentially reducing errors in enterprise deployments.

Dec 5, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence

With Workspace Studio, Google wants workers to build their own AI agents

The no-code application lets users create and customize up to 100 agents using natural language and muti-step actions.

Dec 5, 2025 4 mins

Generative AI Google Workspace Office Suites

US federal software reform bill aims to strengthen software management controls

The biggest take-away for enterprises may be that negotiating software contracts is a skill that requires training.

Dec 4, 2025 8 mins

Application Management Cloud Computing SaaS

India withdraws demand for forced installation of government app

Installation is now voluntary.

Dec 4, 2025 1 min

Mobile Security

Proton adds encrypted spreadsheets to its expanding productivity suite

Proton Sheets offers an alternative to businesses worried that data held in Excel and Google Docs will be used to train AI models, the company said.

Dec 4, 2025 2 mins

Enterprise Applications Privacy Productivity Software

Microsoft retires Mesh app, launches ‘immersive spaces’ for Teams

Microsoft has retired its Mesh 3D collaboration platform as it continues to scale back its metaverse ambitions in the workplace.

Dec 3, 2025 3 mins

Augmented Reality Collaboration Software Microsoft

MIT creates an AI labor index as agents invade human economies

The organization’s ‘Iceberg Index’ is designed to track the different types of AI agents now doing work once conducted by people.

Dec 3, 2025 4 mins

Generative AI IT Skills and Training Technology Industry

Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC hype needs to end, analysts say

In pushing ‘AI PCs,’ the company has done little more than leave Windows users and PC buyers confused.

Dec 3, 2025 6 mins

Computers Generative AI Windows

Get poetic in prompts and AI will break its guardrails

25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models yielded high attack success rates when prompted in verse, indicating a deeper, underlying problems in their ability to process ambiguity veiled in poetry.

Dec 2, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Vulnerabilities

Police consider corporate manslaughter charges over UK Post Office software linked to 13 suicides

Horizon users were originally blamed for accounting errors. Now company executives could be prosecuted in connection with bug-prone IT accounting system.

Dec 2, 2025 5 mins

Accounting Software Markets Transportation and Logistics Industry

Newly discovered malicious extensions could be lurking in enterprise browsers

Once-trusted Chrome and Edge add-ons have quietly turned into tools for data harvesting, search manipulation, and a remote-execution backdoor affecting more than 4.3 million users.

Dec 2, 2025 4 mins

Browser Security Cybercrime Malware

Apple faces a new privacy fight in India

Government officials are demanding the installation of a state-mandated app on all smartphones in India.

Dec 1, 2025 4 mins

Apple Smartphones iPhone

End-to-end encryption is next frontline in governments’ data sovereignty war with hyperscalers

Swiss public-sector data protection officers say controlling the geographic location of cloud data isn’t enough: governments must hold the encryption keys too.

Dec 1, 2025 6 mins

Encryption Government Government IT

Microsoft gives Windows admins a legacy migration headache with WINS sunset

Although organizations have until 2034 to remove the name server technology, that’s not long for OT platforms that still depend on it.

Nov 28, 2025 6 mins

Network Administrator Network Security Roles

EU ‘Chat Control’ proposals should be red flag to businesses everywhere

Voluntary monitoring of communications by providers remains a threat, say privacy advocates.

Nov 27, 2025 3 mins

Data Privacy Privacy Security

Apple’s iPhone has regained the smartphone sales crown

And with a more diversified range coming next year, the iPhone's success won't stop there.

Nov 26, 2025 5 mins

Apple Smartphones iPhone

Microsoft loses two senior AI infrastructure leaders as data center pressures mount

Their exits may strain Microsoft’s push to expand AI capacity as energy constraints and infrastructure bottlenecks increasingly dictate the pace of cloud growth.

Nov 26, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Vendors and Providers

HP to slash up to 6,000 jobs as component costs and AI reshape operations

The company’s restructuring and memory cost warnings signal challenges ahead for enterprise buyers on pricing and service delivery.

Nov 26, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Jobs Technology Industry

OpenAI expands data residency for enterprise customers

Enterprises can now store data-at-rest in regions including India, the UAE, and Australia, though inference will still run on US infrastructure.

Nov 26, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

CISA warns against unencrypted messaging

Specifically, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is urging high-value targets to take steps to protect themselves.

Nov 25, 2025 5 mins

Android Smartphones iPhone

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 pricing cut signals a shift in the enterprise AI market

Two-thirds price reduction and enhanced capabilities target software development and compliance teams as competition intensifies.

Nov 25, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Microsoft’s Fara-7B brings AI agents to the PC with on-device automation

The model can interpret on-screen visuals, automate tasks directly on the device, and give enterprises a more affordable alternative to cloud-dependent AI agents.

Nov 25, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Desktop PCs Windows PCs