As your company begins to assess which providers, platforms, and devices it intends to base its AI efforts on, don’t ignore the value of security, privacy, and resilience across whatever ecosystem you choose. While you weigh the options, it’s worth asking when, if ever, Apple’s Mac or any of its other platforms have caused a global…
Wall Street loves winners — winners of a specific kind, that is. Winners who beat short-term earnings and profit estimates, who can tout the best quarterly financial reports. As for the long term — especially the very long term — Wall Street seems to care little at all. Stock prices are much more likely to spike when…
Enlarge / AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X. Andrew Cunningham Among AMD’s explanations for the somewhat underwhelming Ryzen 9000 performance reports from reviewers earlier this month: that the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 update would bring some improvements to the CPU scheduler that would boost the performance of the new CPUs and their Zen 5-based architecture. But rather…
Enlarge (credit: Getty) Indian IT firm Infosys has been accused of being “exploitative” after allegedly sending job offers to thousands of engineering graduates but still not onboarding any of them after as long as two years. The recent graduates have reportedly been told they must do repeated unpaid training in order to remain eligible to…
Enlarge / A man peers over a glass partition, seeking transparency. (credit: Image Source via Getty Images) The Open Source Initiative (OSI) recently unveiled its latest draft definition for “open source AI,” aiming to clarify the ambiguous use of the term in the fast-moving field. The move comes as some companies like Meta release trained…
Enlarge / A building at Apple Park, the company’s Cupertino, California, HQ. Apple Apple has announced a major change on its leadership team: Longtime Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will step down from his role on January 1, 2025. Maestri has, by all appearances, had a resoundingly successful run since he took on the CFO…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Malicious hackers likely working on behalf of the Chinese government have been exploiting a high-severity zero-day vulnerability that allowed them to infect at least four US-based ISPs with malware that steals credentials used by downstream customers, researchers said Tuesday. The vulnerability resides in the Versa Director, a virtualization platform that allows…
Enlarge / An AI-generated example of the Cyberpunk 2077 LoRA, rendered with Flux dev. Last week, a hobbyist experimenting with the new Flux AI image synthesis model discovered that it’s unexpectedly good at rendering custom-trained reproductions of typefaces. While far more efficient methods of displaying computer fonts have existed for decades, the new technique is…
Enlarge / A Samsung representative demonstrating Tizen OS in February. Samsung Samsung will provide operating system updates for its newer TVs for at least seven years, the company announced last week. The updates will first apply to some TVs released in 2023 and TVs released in March 2024. According to Business Korea, Samsung made the…
Apple Apple’s next product announcement event is happening on September 9 at 1 pm ET, the company announced today. While most of Apple’s products are updated irregularly, Apple has reliably launched next-generation iPhones every September since the iPhone 5 was announced in 2012. This year, we expect new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models….