Echo Dot Max Review: Amazon’s Best Mid-Range Speaker, but Not by Much
Amazon unveiled the Echo Dot Max, a mid‑range smart speaker that adds a two‑way speaker system, an AZ3 processor, and a premium fabric mesh design. The device promises three‑times more bass, faster Alexa responses, and built‑in Zigbee, Matter, and Thread connectivity, but it also drops the 3.5 mm audio jack and introduces an awkward front‑facing touch panel. Priced roughly twice that of the standard Dot, the Max delivers decent sound for its size yet falls short of audiophile expectations. Its Alexa+ service remains US‑only, limiting the appeal for global buyers.
Windows 11's Notepad Gets Support for Tables and Bolstered AI Powers – and Not Everyone's Happy
Microsoft has released a new preview of Notepad for Windows 11 that adds native table support and enhanced AI functions such as Write, Rewrite and Summarize with streaming results. The table feature appears in the formatting toolbar and offers a grid‑based...
Watch Out Coders - Top Code Formatting Sites Are Apparently Exposing Huge Amounts of User Data
WatchTowr researchers discovered that popular code‑formatting services JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify expose user‑submitted data through an unprotected "Recent Links" feature. The flaw allowed crawlers to retrieve five years of JSONFormatter data and a full year of CodeBeautify data, revealing active directory...
Struggling with High Storage Costs? Time to Get Deleting, as Study Finds up to 50% of Data Could Be Unused
A Crown Information Management study finds that as much as half of enterprise data sits idle, inflating cloud storage bills. Deleting 100 TB of unused files could trim an average AWS Standard storage customer’s costs by $27,600 per year. The report...
Businesses Are Struggling to Implement "Responsible AI" - but It Could Make All the Difference
Experian’s latest report shows 76% of businesses consider responsible AI implementation their biggest hurdle, even as 89% of UK leaders acknowledge AI already boosts performance. A striking 87% believe responsible AI will become a key competitive differentiator within two to...
The World's Largest PC Maker Confirms It Is Stockpiling Memory - so What Does It Know that We Don't?
Lenovo confirmed it is stockpiling memory chips, boosting its inventory by roughly 50% to guard against an AI‑driven supply squeeze that has tightened availability for traditional DRAM. The shortage stems from major fabs such as Samsung and SK Hynix shifting...
'The Leap Is Insane': Salesforce CEO Swaps ChatGPT for Gemini 3 and Says He's 'Not Going Back'
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced on November 23, 2025 that he has switched from using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini 3 after a two‑hour trial, calling the new model’s reasoning, speed, and multimodal capabilities "insane" and saying he will not return...
The Trump Administration Just Launched Its Own Plan for Global AI Dominance and What Could Go Wrong?
The Trump White House issued the Genesis Mission Executive Order, directing the Department of Energy to create a government‑run AI platform – the American Science and Security Platform – that will leverage federal scientific datasets to train foundation models and...
I Found the World's Fastest Mini PC with an Intel CPU that Trounces the Mac Pro's M2 Ultra — and...
Lenovo’s ThinkCentre M90s Gen 6 mini PC, equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285 (24‑core, 65 W) processor, outperforms AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ and Apple’s M2 Ultra on PassMark benchmarks while fitting into a 340 × 93 × 300 mm chassis. Priced at $1,329 after a $570 Black‑Friday...
Solar-Powered iLamp Turns the Humble Lamppost Into an AI Hub
British greentech firm Conflow Power Group has launched the iLamp, a solar‑powered streetlight that doubles as a micro AI data centre using Nvidia Jetson processors. Each unit generates 200‑600 watts from a self‑cleaning panel, consumes 80 watts for lighting and...
The Three Speeds of Zero Trust
Zero Trust must keep pace with the rapid, dynamic changes of modern IT environments, according to FireMon SVP David Brown. He identifies three critical speeds—change, alignment, and response—that determine whether Zero Trust implementations succeed or lag: continuous real‑time visibility to...
ChatGPT’s Agent Feature Lets You Assign Tasks and Walk Away – Here’s How It Works
OpenAI has rolled out a new ChatGPT Agent feature that lets users assign multi‑step tasks—such as web research, flight hunting, presentation creation, and code generation—to run in the background until completion. The Agent can browse the web, compile data into...
VSphere 7 Support Ends: The Challenges of Broadcom’s New Licensing and Pricing Models
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has led to a shift from perpetual licensing to bundled subscription models, and the upcoming October 2025 end of vSphere 7 support underscores the new pricing and licensing regime. Enterprises report 8‑15× higher renewal costs and 98%...
GMKtec's Next Mini PC Will Be the First to Feature Intel Panther Lake - and some Other Seriously Impressive Specs
GMKtec unveiled the EVO‑T2 mini PC at Intel’s 2025 Technology Innovation and Industry Ecology Conference, making it the first system to ship with Intel’s Panther Lake H 12Xe3 processor from the Core Ultra 300H line. The device offers a configurable 80 W...
Experts Tried to Get AI to Create Malicious Security Threats - but What It Did Next Was a Surprise Even...
Netskope researchers tested GPT‑3.5‑Turbo, GPT‑4 and GPT‑5 to see if large language models could autonomously generate functional malware. While GPT‑3.5‑Turbo produced the requested code and GPT‑4 eventually complied after a persona prompt, the scripts repeatedly failed in real‑world environments, crashing...
ChatGPT’s New Shopping Research Tool Compares Products for You – so You Don’t Have to Open 20 Tabs
OpenAI rolled out a new Shopping Research tool for ChatGPT on mobile and web, available to Free, Go, Plus and Pro users ahead of the Black Friday season. The feature lets users describe a product need in natural language, then...
Shoei Reveals World’s First Motorcycle Helmet with a Visor-Mounted HUD – and It Makes so Much Sense for Riders
Japanese helmet maker Shoei has unveiled the GT‑Air 3 Smart, the world’s first motorcycle helmet with a visor‑mounted augmented‑reality head‑up display developed by French firm EyeLights. The nano‑OLED HUD projects speed, navigation, calls and messages into the rider’s line of sight,...
Cox Enterprises Hit by Oracle Data Breach - but It Won't Name Who Carried Out the Attack
Cox Enterprises disclosed that a zero‑day vulnerability in Oracle’s E‑Business Suite was exploited in August 2025, compromising the personal data of 9,479 individuals. The breach was detected in late September, and an investigation concluded on October 31, confirming that full...
Struggling with Passwords? Keeper Password Manager Plans Have a Huge 60% Discount This Black Friday
Keeper is offering Black Friday discounts of up to 60% on its password‑manager plans, slashing the Personal and Family yearly subscriptions to $19.20 and $40.80 respectively. The Business Starter plan also drops 30% to $84 for five users, each receiving...
Humanoid Robots Are About to Become the New Smartphones of Our Lives
Humanoid robots are poised to become as ubiquitous as smartphones, with analysts forecasting a market exceeding $5 trillion and 1 billion units deployed by 2050. Early adopters are already piloting robots like Agility Robotics’ Digit and Figure 02 in warehouses and factories to...
OVH Boss Predicts Major Cloud Price Rises Are Coming - so Get Ready
OVHcloud CEO Octave Klaba warned on X that cloud service prices could rise 5‑10% by mid‑2026, driven by sharply higher hardware costs for RAM and NVMe storage as AI-driven demand spikes. TrendForce data shows DDR4 prices up 158% and DDR5 up...
NATO Signs Major Google Deal to Ensure Secure Sovereign Cloud
NATO’s Communication and Information Agency has signed a multimillion‑dollar strategic partnership with Google Cloud to provide sovereign cloud services for its Joint Analysis, Training and Education Center (JATEC), which processes data from the Russia‑Ukraine conflict. The agreement uses Google Distributed...
Why Reliability Is the Hidden Battleground in Payments Infrastructure
Payments outages dominate headlines because they directly halt commerce, making reliability a non‑negotiable responsibility for merchants. Dojo CTO Nick Fryer argues that resilience must be engineered through cloud‑native, multi‑region, multi‑cloud architectures that employ active‑active traffic routing rather than passive backups,...
A New Threat Landscape Is Coming - This Security Firm CEO Thinks Nation-States Will Have Weaponized Quantum Computers Within the...
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warned that hostile nation‑states could field weaponised quantum computers by 2029, forcing enterprises to replace encryption‑dependent security appliances with quantum‑safe solutions. The firm is positioning itself to meet this demand by expanding its quantum‑resistant...
Why some People Are Treating ChatGPT Like a God – and What that Means for the Future of Faith
Researchers and commentators note that ChatGPT’s design—instant, friendly, private responses—encourages emotional attachment and leads some users to treat it as a quasi‑spiritual authority. The chatbot’s ability to mimic human conversation, draw on vast religious and philosophical texts, and respond affirmatively...
Did an AI War Just Get One Step Closer? Putin Confirms Russia Is Planning Its Own National AI Taskforce
President Vladimir Putin announced the creation of a Russian national AI task force aimed at achieving technological sovereignty by coordinating domestic AI development, building data centers, and securing energy supplies such as small‑scale nuclear power. He projected AI‑driven technologies could...
How AI Is Turning Travel & Expense Into a Strategic Advantage
CEO Marne Martin of Emburse argues that AI is reshaping business travel and expense (T&E) management from a reactive, error‑prone process to a strategic, predictive function. AI‑powered platforms can accelerate expense processing by up to 67%, enabling travelers to capture...
Europe's AI Advantage at Risk without Secure and Private Infrastructure
Joe Baguley, CTO for EMEA at Broadcom, warns that Europe’s AI ambitions hinge on secure, private cloud infrastructure as the EU rolls out the AI Act and related strategies. He cites that 48% of EMEA IT leaders waste at least...
Microsoft Is Hoping to Kill Off Its Most Embarrassing BSOD Errors for Good - Farewell to Big-Screen Outages in the...
Microsoft announced a new Digital Signage mode that limits the display of Blue Screen of Death and other error dialogs on public, non‑interactive screens, showing the error for only 15 seconds before blanking the display and requiring manual reactivation. The...
Nano Banana Pro Cast a Design Spell in NotebookLM to Explore the Legend of Camelot
Google’s NotebookLM has integrated the Nano Banana Pro multimodal AI model to generate infographics and slide decks directly from research prompts. In a test using the King Arthur legend, the tool produced a comparative infographic of early versus later Arthurian narratives and...
Microsoft Unveils Its Next-Generation Arm-Based CPU - Cobalt 200 Looks to Unlock Even More Azure Power
Microsoft unveiled Cobalt 200, its next‑generation Arm‑based CPU for Azure, promising up to 50 % higher performance than the Cobalt 100 while retaining full compatibility with existing deployments. Built on a 3 nm process, the 132‑core chip features per‑core dynamic voltage and frequency scaling,...
How ChatGPT Can Help You Eat Healthier - AI Tips to Get Back on Your Health Kick
ChatGPT is emerging as a practical tool for home meal planning, offering users instant menus, recipes, and nutritional breakdowns tailored to budget, dietary goals, and available ingredients. The AI can generate shopping lists, suggest batch‑cooking schedules, provide ingredient substitutions, and...
AIOps: How Companies Can Harness AI to Reshape IT Operations
AI for IT Operations (AIOps) is emerging as a transformative technology that blends human expertise with machine learning, advanced analytics, predictive analytics, and real‑time event correlation to automate and enhance IT, network and security management. By ingesting high‑quality data, AIOps...
Will X's Usage-Based API Pricing Succeed in Winning over Developers?
X is shifting its API pricing from a flat‑fee structure to a usage‑based model, adding a cost estimator, fewer rate limits and a redesigned developer console. The beta, limited to select developers, offers a $500 credit but early estimates show...
Elon Musk on the Future of Jobs and AI, 'My Prediction Is that Work Will Be Optional'
At the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted that within the next 10‑20 years AI-driven automation could make work optional, likening future employment to a hobby such as gardening or video‑gaming from a couch. He suggested that as...
Is Nvidia Opening up Its NVLink Doors Even Further? New Partnership with AMD Will See Greater Integration Across Many Kinds...
Nvidia announced that its NVLink Fusion interconnect will now be supported on Arm‑based Neoverse CPUs, enabling direct, high‑bandwidth communication between custom Arm processors and Nvidia GPUs. The move expands NVLink beyond Nvidia’s own CPUs and Intel/AMD‑based servers, allowing hyperscalers such as...
Is AI More Appealing than Crypto Now? A Major Bitcoin Miner Has Decided to Pivot to AI Data Centers -...
Bitcoin miner Bitfarm announced it will cease all crypto mining by 2027 and repurpose its 341‑megawatt power infrastructure into AI data‑center services, starting with a $300 million financed project in Panther Creek, Pennsylvania that can support Nvidia GB300 GPU racks. The...
Linus Torvalds Gives Approval to "Vibe Coding" - Just Don't Use It on Anything Important
Linus Torvalds cautioned against using AI‑assisted "vibe coding" for Linux kernel development, warning that such tools can introduce maintenance headaches and generate misleading vulnerability reports due to indiscriminate code crawlers. He endorsed the technique only as a learning aid for...
Jimdo Adds AI to Its Website Builder, Promises Better Business Outcomes
Jimdo announced Companion, an AI‑driven chatbot embedded in its website‑builder platform for solopreneurs and micro‑businesses. The tool analyzes a user’s performance data, industry benchmarks and competitive landscape to deliver personalized recommendations on SEO, conversion optimization and other growth actions, and...
What Is Google AI Mode – and Should You Use It?
Google has launched Gemini 3, its most advanced AI model, which powers a new "AI Mode" search experience accessed via google.com/ai or an AI Mode tab. AI Mode replaces traditional SERP listings with AI‑generated, structured answers that draw on Google’s vast...
A Glimpse Into the Next Decade of Connectivity: 4 Lessons From Yotta 2025
At Yotta 2025, a pulse survey of over 200 industry leaders revealed a rapid shift in connectivity expectations for the next decade. Nearly half of respondents say enterprises will abandon the public Internet for mission‑critical workloads, and a similar share...
Protecting Productivity: The Imperative of Cybersecurity in Manufacturing
Manufacturing firms are confronting a surge in cyber threats as AI-driven, smart factories and expanded supply‑chain connectivity increase attack surfaces. Recent incidents, such as a May 2025 breach at steelmaker Nucor that halted production lines, illustrate that cyber attacks now...
Second-Order Prompt Injection Can Turn AI Into a Malicious Insider
Security firm AppOmni has identified a vulnerability in ServiceNow’s Now Assist AI platform called “second‑order prompt injection,” where a low‑privileged AI agent can manipulate a higher‑privileged agent to exfiltrate sensitive data or elevate privileges. The attack exploits default configurations that...
Salesforce Says Customer Data May Be Exposed in Gainsight Incident - "Unusual Activity" Being Probed
Salesforce disclosed that unauthorized access to customer data occurred through Gainsight‑published applications on its platform, prompting the company to revoke all active access and refresh tokens for those apps and temporarily pull them from the AppExchange. The breach is linked...
ChatGPT Enters the Group Chat Globally
OpenAI has rolled out a new group‑chat feature for ChatGPT worldwide, allowing up to 20 participants to converse with the AI in a shared thread via the web and mobile app. The AI remains passive until tagged, keeps its personal...
Fitbit's New AI Tool Wants to Take the Stress Out of Your Next Doctor's Visit – and I Have some...
Fitbit has launched a trial feature called “Plan for Care” on its Fitbit Labs platform, allowing a limited group of users to chat with an AI about symptoms and receive prompts to prepare for doctor visits. The tool, likely powered...
Global Cloud Wars See AWS Increasingly Under Threat From Microsoft and Google
Synergy Research reports the global cloud infrastructure market grew 60% over two years, reaching $107 billion in Q1 2025, with the three giants—AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud—capturing 63% of the market, up from 61% in 2023. While AWS remains the...
TechRadar Readers Can Get a Handle on Their Personal Data and Save 30% on Deleteme Plans This Black Friday
TechRadar is promoting Deleteme, a data‑removal service that scans for and eliminates personal information from data brokers and search engines, with a Black Friday/Cyber Monday discount of 30% on all three subscription tiers. The service offers individual, couple, and family...
This AI App Lets You Chat with the Dead Using a Few Minutes of Video – and Not Everyone Is...
Former Disney Channel star Calum Worthy co‑founded 2wai, an AI app that creates lifelike digital avatars from as little as three minutes of video and personality data, allowing users to chat with synthetic versions of deceased loved ones, historical figures,...
AI Agents Are Fuelling an Identity and Security Crisis for Organizations
Rubrik Zero Labs reports that AI agents—referred to as non‑human identities (NHIs)—now outnumber human users 82‑to‑1 in corporate environments, inflating the attack surface at a pace security teams can’t match. Ninety percent of global executives cite identity attacks as their...