August 2024

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Google documents filed in antitrust case show efforts to push data collection limits – Computerworld

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“Once again, the privacy protections here are key. We would never allow audiences generated with Google data to leave the Google ecosystem, nor impression level reports based on those...

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9 hidden Google Pixel features for smarter calling – Computerworld

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The Pixel’s Live Captions settings hold a treasure trove of hidden helpers. JR Raphael, IDG Just be sure to hit your volume button again once the call is done...

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AI and AR can supercharge ‘ambient computing’

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“Sal awakens; she smells coffee. A few minutes ago her alarm clock, alerted by her restless rolling before waking, had quietly asked ‘coffee?’ and she mumbled ‘yes.’ ‘Yes’ and ‘no’ are the only words it knows.” Then, the alarm clock tells...

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For August, Patch Tuesday means patch now – Computerworld

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Microsoft pushed out 90 updates this week in its August Patch Tuesday release, including fixes for five Windows zero-days (CVE-2024-38178, CVE-2024-38193, CVE-2024-38213, CVE-2024-38106, CVE-2024-38107) and one zero-day affecting Office (CVE-2024-38189). Unfortunately, this means...

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Germany’s BSI guns for better tech security – Computerworld

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The argument is growing Apple’s success in creating platforms developers can use while eradicating kernel access shows that it’s possible to create a secure platform without leaving the very...

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Agentic RAG AI — more marketing hype than tech advance

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Agentic RAG is getting a lot of attention these days as a practical way to reduce — or, depending on the audacity of the vendor, eliminate — hallucinations from generative AI (genAI)...

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Researchers tackle AI fact-checking failures with new LLM training technique – Computerworld

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“They could give the model a genetics dataset and ask the model to generate a report on the gene variants and mutations it contains,” IBM explained. “With a small...

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MIT delivers database containing 700+ risks associated with AI

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However, researchers noted in the FAQ that the Repository does have several limitations, including being limited to risks from the 43 taxonomies, so it “may be missing emerging, domain-specific...

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For IT, Jamf’s Microsoft Azure partnership means a lot – Computerworld

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That’s because the move to make Jamf Pro available via Azure (cloud and marketplace) means those accustomed to using Azure to help manage and secure Windows devices can now...

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The irony of Google’s Pixel 9 AI gamble – Computerworld

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So it’s actually been AI that’s set Pixels apart and made them what they are all along. And it’s still AI that, in many ways, continues to make them...