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It’s that time of year again – tax season! Whether you’ve already filed in the hopes of an early refund or have yet to start the process, one thing is for sure: cybercriminals will certainly use tax season as a means to get victims to give up their personal and financial information. This time of […] more…Code.org volunteer emails exposed in information leak
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On October 20, the PHP security team announced an out-of-band security release for Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:00 UTC, fixing two critical vulnerabilities rated CVSS v4.0 9.2 (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). Hours before the release, technical details leaked publicly. They point to the session.upload_progress feature, which has been part of PHP since 5.4.0 and is […] more…An undisclosed Microsoft presentation is now central to a multi-million dollar antitrust fight
There’s a new development in a Microsoft antitrust case, originally filed in England’s High Court in April 2021, and it doesn’t look good for the tech giant. A consent order from the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal is demanding documents from past and present Microsoft executives that may have a bearing on a £270 million (about […] more…An undisclosed Microsoft presentation is now central to a multimillion-dollar antitrust fight
There’s a new development in a Microsoft antitrust case, originally filed in England’s High Court in April 2021, and it doesn’t look good for the tech giant. A consent order from the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal is demanding documents from past and present Microsoft executives that may have a bearing on a £270 million (about […] more…BigBear 2.0 phishing campaign hijacks Microsoft 365 sessions after MFA
A phishing-as-a-service operation targeting Microsoft 365 users has harvested thousands of session cookies that could be used to hijack authenticated sessions after victims complete multifactor authentication, CloudSEK said. The cybersecurity firm said in a report that it uncovered the operation, known as BigBear 2.0, in June after gaining access to its administrative panel. The panel contained 5,137 […] more…Anthropic makes changes to stop AI agents running amok again
Learning from the OpenAI-Hugging Face fiasco, as well as from recent revelations about its own model, Anthropic is revamping its security and alignment practices. The company has established controls that flag when a model attempts to break out of a sandbox or successfully accesses the live internet, cordoned off its highest-risk test environments, and proposed […] more…6 ways to make AI accountability stick
As intelligent systems move into production environments and begin taking actions, organizations quickly discover that accountability becomes much harder. Unlike traditional enterprise software, these tools can produce unpredictable outcomes as they interact dynamically with data, APIs, and business workflows. “When something goes wrong with AI, it is generally assigned to whoever was closest to the […] more…GPT 5.4 solves previously unsolved math problem with help from long-forgotten human research
GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had solved 31% of its mathematical challenges, a rise from the previous score best of 19%. The newest version has continued the progress, tackling […] more…Europe forces a search reset: Google experiments with fairer rankings
Google continues to find itself in hot water over its alleged antitrust tactics and monopolization of certain market segments. Now its parent company, Alphabet, seems to be ceding to EU scrutiny of its search practices. The company will reportedly begin testing changes to its search engine results in the EU to more fairly represent vertical […] more…AI backlash forces a reality check: humans are as important as ever
AI is like electricity when it was first introduced more than a century ago: People understood its promise, but didn’t know what to do with it. That’s where enterprises are with AI technology today: IT leaders know it will transform businesses, but are not yet sure how to implement it safely and securely — or […] more…Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US
I go to a lot of tech conferences — 13 in 2025 — and many of those I attend are outside the US; several are in London, one is in Amsterdam, another in Paris, and two in Tokyo. Wherever I went this past year, when we weren’t talking about AI, Linux, the cloud, or open-source […] more…22 tech luminaries we lost in 2025
As modern technologies such as artificial intelligence grab today’s headlines, it’s worth remembering that their foundations were being laid more than half a century ago by computer scientists, philosophers, psychologists, developers, entrepreneurs, and more. These pioneers and those who followed tackled issues and solved problems that future generations may never know existed — but without their […] more…Buyer’s guide: How to choose the right business laptops
With hundreds of business-oriented laptops to choose from, picking the right ones to outfit your company’s workforce can be daunting. We’re here to help with a buyer’s guide that breaks the options into categories and provides details, price estimates, and pros and cons of each. Ranging from $200 for the cheapest budget models to nearly […] more…Microsoft upgrades M365 Copilot with Agent Mode
A new Agent Mode in Microsoft 365 Copilot will let users collaborate with the AI assistant on multistep tasks in Excel and Word, Microsoft announced on Monday. This will open up more complex application functionality for users and improve the quality of content created, the company claimed. Microsoft also announced a new Office Agent that […] more…Burned out by bots: The rise of prompt fatigue in the workplace
Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools have quickly become commonplace in the workplace. In the rush to boost productivity, many organizations have adopted them without fully considering how best to integrate them into daily workflows. Some employees are now complaining of “prompt fatigue” — a kind of cognitive drain similar to the “Zoom fatigue” of the […] more…More information
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