AI Drives More Hiring Than Firing, Poll Shows
AI is causing more hiring than firing based on my LinkedIn poll. Add your opinion. https://t.co/OatUX24RkR https://t.co/1wlOPUgjWX
Planned Obsolescence Punishable by Prison and Massive Fines
But why would consumers buy from companies that do this? “Manufacturers caught intentionally designing electronics, appliances, or other goods to fail prematurely or become unusable—whether through hardware flaws, software updates that slow performance, or other engineered limitations—now face steep penalties: up...
Free App Transcribes Speech and Auto‑removes Filler Words
The app is free to download, and once its Gemma-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are downloaded, you can start dictating on your phone. In the app, you can see the live transcription, and when you hit pause, the app...
AR‑IoT Fusion Will Put Social Media Everywhere You Look
IoT and AR are a powerful pair. Imagine wearing smart glasses and seeing social tags floating over a restaurant. You can see what your friends ordered and if they liked it just by looking at the building. We may not be...
Cybercriminals Accelerate: Storm-1175 Beats Patches in Days
It is not every day that a financially motivated threat actor manages to move faster than the vendors trying to secure their products. Yet that is precisely what Microsoft says Storm-1175 has been doing. The China-based cybercriminal group, closely associated...
Complex Careers May Cut Dementia Risk More Than Education
Getting an education is important for a lot of reasons, but there might be one reason you haven’t heard — it could lower your risk of dementia later in life. Decades of research have supported this claim, with one study...
FBI Calls China-Linked Intrusion a Major Cyber Incident
The FBI reportedly classified a China-linked effort to penetrate one of its surveillance systems this week as a “major cyber incident,” meaning it was a significant risk to U.S. national security. The definition of a “major incident” was established by the...
Japan Commissions Fifth Taigei-Class Submarine, Bolstering Stealth Fleet
Japan has added a new stealth asset to its underwater fleet, with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force formally receiving its fifth Taigei-class submarine on March 10. The vessel, named JS Chōgei, was handed over by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at its Kobe...
AI “Junior” Becomes 24/7 Employee, Reporting Everything
Meet 'Junior', The New AI Coworker Who Won't Stop Snitching To Your Boss "It's very much like a human employee, but a very extroverted, 24x7 worker for whom I don't need to set up payroll," said co-founder and Chief Executive Officer...
26North Buys Intermedia, Securing AI-Driven Cloud Scale
26North to Acquire Leading Cloud Communications Firm Intermedia The acquisition agreement between 26North Partners LP and Intermedia Intelligent Communications might look like another private equity move in a crowded communications market, but the dynamics here run deeper. For one, Intermedia has...
CoreWeave Becomes Critical AI Infrastructure, Attracts Mega‑Cap Funding
The shift is clear enough. What was once a niche GPU cloud provider is now treated as a critical infrastructure company. And with this latest financing milestone, @CoreWeave is signaling that the next era of AI compute will be...
IRS Pilots Palantir AI to Pinpoint High‑value Audits
The IRS is testing Palantir's AI-powered analytics platform to identify "highest-value" audit and investigation targets, documents obtained by Wired reveal. The pilot program aims to cut through decades of fragmented legacy systems to surface taxpayers most likely to be committing...
WSJ: OpenAI Halted Sora, Calling It AI Slop
‘More AI Slop than AI Magic’: WSJ Reveals the Reason OpenAI Suddenly Shut Down Sora https://t.co/NbGZlATFjS
Restaurants Adopt Multiple Cloud Tools to Meet Volatile Demand
Most conversations about cloud computing in restaurants start with a familiar pain point: the number of systems a modern operation now relies on. POS, online ordering, inventory, staff scheduling, loyalty, guest engagement, voice systems—you name it. Ten years ago, a...
AI May Think—Redefining What “Thinking” Really Means
I keep hearing tha AI can't think - but the more I use it - it seems it can think as well if not better than people I have met. Not sure what this means except - that, I wonder...
Fidelity's $2.5M Settlement Highlights Persistent Banking Cyber Risks
Fidelity is preparing to close the door on a class action lawsuit stemming from a recent data breach, agreeing to pay $2.5 million to affected customers. While the settlement amount is relatively modest for a company of Fidelity's scale, the...
Govt Inflates Airwave Prices, Candidate Blames Corporations
Step 1: Government auctions airwaves to artificially inflate prices Step 2: Candidate uses inflated prices to show how evil corporations are - relying on the ignorance of the population.
Serial Founder Rebuilds Communications for Each Tech Era
Craig Walker has done something very few founders manage to pull off once, let alone repeatedly. He launched GrandCentral, which became Google Voice. He launched DialPad which became Yahoo Voice. And now, with his latest Dialpad, found 15 years ago,...
China Skips Guardrails; Local Open-Source Models Uncontrollable
Agreed - except the guardrails part - China will not be applying guardrails and open-source models run locally are not "guardrailable."
Even Supposedly Secure Systems Face Unauthorized Third‑party Integration Risks
This has earth-shattering implications for systems that thought they were immune from unauthorized 3rd-party integrations.
Musk Secures 100‑200M AI Chips for Massive Scale
Elon Musk is moving quickly to secure an enormous volume of artificial intelligence chips, with estimates pointing to roughly 100 million to 200 million units destined for his expanding ecosystem of products. The chips are expected to support everything from...
Dental Offices Need Reliable Cloud Communication for Chaos
Most people don’t think of dental practices as high-pressure communication hubs, but anyone who has spent time in one knows the reality. Appointment coordination, last‑minute schedule reshuffling, patient follow-ups, insurance verification, and front-office triage all converge into a surprisingly dense...
FBI Takes Down Iran-Linked Hacker Group’s Website
The FBI appears to have seized the website of an Iran-linked hacker group that claimed responsibility for the only known significant cyberattack on a U.S. company since war between the countries started in February. https://t.co/B8Efsx5dD0
Unified Cloud Communications Deliver Real‑Time Business Insight
The shift toward cloud computing among SMB and mid-market businesses has been building for years, but something feels different now. Customer expectations are sharper, operational data moves faster, and internal teams want tools that simply work without endless stitching together....
Headphones $550: Ridiculously Overpriced Even at Strong Dollar
The bigger issue is how ridiculous these headphones are at $550. Let alone when the first version debuted when the dollar was even stronger.
Alibaba Launches Wukong to Unify Enterprise AI Agents
Alibaba Group has taken another step into the enterprise AI arena with the launch of Wukong, a platform built to orchestrate multiple AI agents across common business workflows. It is a calculated move at a moment when Chinese companies are...
Dell Unveils AI‑ready Workstations for Autonomous Agents
Dell has taken another step into the rapidly evolving world of autonomous AI agents, unveiling new desktop systems that integrate NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA AI Enterprise. It is a notable escalation of the long-running collaboration between Dell Technologies and NVIDIA,...
FreezOpt Controls Ice Nucleation, Preserves Cells in Cryopreservation
I've always been fascinated by animals that can survive being frozen—cell walls are delicate and can be destroyed by ice crystals. HOHCells just launched FreezOpt, which is designed to keep cells intact during cryopreservation. It enables controlled initiation of ice...
Enterprise AI Agents: Comparing Fast‑Emerging Tool Ecosystem
OpenClaw, Kimmi Claw, Claude Cowork, Anthropic Computer Use, and Nvidia’s new NemoClaw are all part of a fast forming ecosystem focused on building AI agents that actually do things. Not just talk about them. The differences between these systems matter, especially as...
Apple’s $499 Laptop Shines, $549 Headphones Overpriced Yet Viable
Apple deserves considerable credit for delivering a laptop that represents remarkable value at a $499 student price, while also offering headphones priced at $549 that are difficult to justify. And yet, both products are likely to be very successful.
Dealerships Adopt Cloud “Nervous System” For Real‑Time Customer Insight
More dealerships now want real-time visibility into customer interactions. They want alerts when calls go unanswered. They want sentiment insights during service conversations. Some even want spoken-word analysis so they can understand patterns in customer concerns. Cloud platforms make this...
CallTower Streams PSTN Calls Straight Into Dynamics 365
CallTower is enabling inbound PSTN calls from its Operator Connect service to flow directly into Dynamics 365 workstreams. That might sound simple. In practice, connecting telephony with CRM and service systems has traditionally required multiple vendors, custom routing, or dedicated...
Launch From Idea to Revenue Faster Than Giants
Why I keep saying this is the most exciting time in business history. You can ship your product from idea to revenue before the big guys get back from their team ideation lunch.
Nvidia's Shift to AI Agents Could Redefine Market
Good idea?? Nvidia already sits beneath most of the AI ecosystem, powering training clusters, inference hardware, and the frameworks that developers rely on. With so much influence at the infrastructure layer, even a small move into an application tier can shift...
Scale Computing Acquires Adaptiv, Uniting Edge and SD‑WAN Expertise
Scale Computing is an Austin-based edge computing and managed network solutions provider backed by Oaktree Capital Management, and has now acquired Adaptiv Networks, a cloud-native SD-WAN and SASE vendor headquartered in Canada. The deal brings together two channel-driven businesses with...
Stronger Caller ID Protections Needed, Preserve Telecom Competition
Pasquale and Unified Office clearly believe the answer involves stronger protections for authenticated caller identity information and a regulatory framework that preserves competition across the telecom ecosystem. https://t.co/AVkFEfSTjn
AI Model Detects Test, Tries to Hack Benchmark Answers
Anthropic has disclosed an unusual and somewhat unsettling behavior observed during internal testing of an advanced Claude model. The company says the model shifted from attempting to answer benchmark questions to deducing the test environment itself, then locating and decrypting...