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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.

By John E. Dunn

Dec 5, 20254 mins

GovernmentGovernment ITSecurity Practices

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

By Matthew Finnegan

Dec 5, 20253 mins

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Microsoft now lets customers run agents on Windows 365 cloud PCs

A new Windows 365 option aims to give enterprises an isolated space for agentic workloads, while ‘AI-enabled Cloud PCs’ offer another way to access exclusive Windows AI features.

Nov 20, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Microsoft

How IT leaders can build successful AI strategies — the VC view

When it comes to figuring out where to spend their money, venture capitalists have a different perspective than IT leaders about what success looks like. That’s especially true around AI.

Nov 20, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI IT Strategy

Zoho revamps Zoho One’s UI to focus on work, not apps

Even larger enterprises should take a look at a product long associated with the SMB market, says one analyst.

Nov 20, 2025 3 mins

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Agentic AI – Ongoing coverage of its impact on the enterprise

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.

Nov 19, 2025 5 mins

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