A senior US official chided the UK government on Tuesday for pressuring Apple to create a backdoor in its encryption — although the US law enforcers would like a backdoor of their own. US national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard responded […]
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The CEO of Signal said Tuesday that the service will leave Sweden rather than comply with a rule that will require vendors to capture all secure messages and save a plain text copy, in case authorities later want to subpoena
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“Amazon is really good at creating narratives, but Chime never had a good go-to-market strategy,” Kurtzman said. “It fell short in creating mindshare in a market that was growing incredibly rapidly.” One year warning for users, migration help promised In
“At this point, I have real concerns about the impact of Matt Mullenweg’s words and actions on the overall image of open source software,” she added. “Even if he feels that WP Engine’s actions are unethical and the court is
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The LLM did pretty much the opposite. Why? Well, we know the answer because the Anthropic team had a great idea. “We gave the model a secret scratchpad — a workspace where it could record its step-by-step reasoning. We told
The Macy’s accounting nightmare is only getting worse, with the $24 billion retailer telling the SEC on Wednesday that both its annual report from last year and its auditor report “should no longer be relied on.” Although the amount “hidden” was only
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One open source executive read the judge’s decision and said he was concerned that the ruling might have come too late to halt the damage done to the open source community. “WP Engine wins a battle, but everyone continues to
How closely was this intern — and most interns need more supervision than a traditional employee — monitored? If I wanted to keep financial backers happy, especially when ByeDance is under US pressure to sell the highly-lucrative TikTok, I would
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Desktop vs. mobile. Some enterprises might need to consider standardizing on one browser for desktop and possibly a different browser for mobile. IT political issues. Some of the browsers with major market share are deeply integrated with one vendor’s environments,
The biggest IT threat? That seemingly innocuous web browser – Computerworld Read More »
“Copilot+ PCs equipped with Snapdragon X series chips enjoyed their first full quarter of availability, while AMD brought Ryzen AI 300 products to the market, and Intel officially launched its Lunar Lake series,” said Ishan Dutt, principal analyst at Canalys.
