Enterprises are facing a disturbing new question in the age of AI: What happens when agentic assistants go dark? This became a very real scenario on Thursday, as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and SpaceXAI’s Grok near-simultaneously, and somewhat mysteriously, experienced significant, prolonged outages. Beginning in the morning, Eastern time, severalContinue Reading
I’ve been writing about Apple and how it benefits the enterprise for so long it’s easy to forget that the company doesn’t make enough noise about its accomplishments. Sure, it has pursued and won the argument about Total Cost of Ownership, proving that while initial costs might be higher, dollar for dollar MacsContinue Reading
Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe sat down with more than a dozen auto reporters for a lengthy Q&A session during the R2 launch drive event. What follows are his comments on a few topics, each of which bears on the R2’s prospects. They have been edited for clarity andContinue Reading
Commercial vehicle electrification is moving faster than the low-voltage architectures underneath it. As power demand on the LV side rises and 400 V / 800 V HV networks become the norm, OEMs increasingly find that a stand-alone HV/LV DC/DC converter is no longer sufficient. Fragmented LV architectures drive up cost,Continue Reading
“Basically what ended up happening with this is that a company is actually preying upon young people to make some bad decisions.”, “Basically what ended up happening with this is that a company is actually preying upon young people to make some bad decisions.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
One hour into the descent, they called the sheriff’s dispatch for directions and eventually got lost., One hour into the descent, they called the sheriff’s dispatch for directions and eventually got lost., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Audacity 4.0 has been released with a new Qt user interface, a new clip editing model and project file format – as well as a swathe of smaller improvements. The Qt port of Audacity is more than a superficial – some would say much-needed – facelift, as the toolkit switchContinue Reading
Microsoft’s text suggestion feature will now be turned off by default in both Word and Outlook, reports The Register. The text suggestions attempt to predict which words or phrases the user intends to type in advance. According to Microsoft, some users appreciate the feature, while others find the suggestions distracting.Continue Reading
A serious vulnerability was recently discovered in Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2016, and Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE). The vulnerability is designated CVE-2026-62911 and can be exploited by hackers to gain full access to affected systems, according to Bleeping Computer. Microsoft has released security patches to address the vulnerabilityContinue Reading
BepiColombo’s Mercury arrival begins (Official ESA broadcast) – YouTube Watch On The BepiColombo mission is finally getting ready to arrive at its exotic destination. BepiColombo launched in October 2018 and took a long, looping and highly circuitous route toward Mercury our solar system’s innermost planet. That journey is now nearly over, and the mission isContinue Reading
Still from a Blue Origin animation showing its Mars Telecommunications Network orbiter at the Red Planet. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin will build NASA’s next Mars orbiter. The agency announced on Tuesday (Sept. 1) that it has selected Jeff Bezos ‘ spaceflight company to develop the $700 million Mars Telecommunications Network (MTN), which isContinue Reading
Firefox 155 has arrived quietly, speeding up page loads with Happy Eyeballs v3 and QUIC v2. And the timing is perfect for you to switch. Google just removed uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store, leaving Firefox one of the last non-Chromium browsers still supporting it. EndeavourOS ‘Triton’ is runningContinue Reading
Omarchy has been on something of a roll now. Funding for its foundation has been climbing fast, from an $8 million launch to $10 million a few weeks later, and now crossing $13 million with the most recent pledge. What’s drawn my attention are the first two Corporate Patrons, 1PasswordContinue Reading