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ServiceNow boasts its AI bot is resolving 90% of its own help desk tickets
ServiceNow claims it has created an AI agent that is currently solving 90 percent of the inbound IT tickets to the company's own employee help desk.…
Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough
The bot’s nagging will continue until morale improves. Burger King is rolling out a new employee-facing AI that, among other things, will listen to employees’ customer interactions to ensure they’re being friendly enough - as if working in fast food weren’t hard enough already.…
AI models still suck at math
exclusive Current-day LLMs are prediction engines and, as such, they can only find the most likely solution to problems, which is not necessarily the correct one. Though popular models have mostly become better at math, even top performer Gemini 3 Flash would receive a C if assessed with a letter grade.…
Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM
As with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the plug has downsides. After “retirement” interviews, Claude Opus 3 said it wanted to keep sharing its “musings,” so Anthropic suggested a blog.…
Rapid AI-driven development makes security unattainable, warns Veracode
Veracode has posted its annual State of Software Security report, based on data from 1.6 million applications tested on its cloud platform, finding that more vulnerabilities are being created than are being fixed, and that high-velocity development with AI is making comprehensive security unattainable.…
Top cloud providers to outspend Ireland's GDP on AI in 2026
The big cloud operators are ramping up investment in AI servers and infrastructure to meet demand for AI development and deployment, exacerbating the memory shortage caused by their insatiable growth.…
Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook
Microsoft has announced that its Edge browser will automatically open the Copilot side pane when users open links from Outlook.…
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters auditioning female voices to sharpen social engineering
Prolific cybercrime crew Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) is reportedly recruiting women in the hope of improving its social engineering success.…
NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing
The latest report from NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) raises questions about the mission objectives for Artemis III.…
Five Eyes warn: Patch your Cisco SD-WAN or risk root takeover
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance is urgently warning defenders to patch two Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities used in attacks.…
Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now
Ballooning memory prices are forecast to kill off entry-level PCs, leading to a decline in global shipments this year - and a similar effect is going to hit smartphones.…
Debian 14 will drop Gtk2 – unless Ardour rides to the rescue
Version 2 of the widely used Gtk toolkit will be dropped from the next Debian release. The problem is that many things still need it, including FreePascal and its Lazarus IDE.…
Moon's mighty magnetic field was a 5,000-year titanium blip
Scientists at the University of Oxford say they may have cracked the puzzle of the Moon's magnetic field and settled a debate that has raged since the Apollo missions returned with rock samples.…
GCHQ dangles up to £130K for a CISO to fight the world's most capable adversaries
GCHQ is looking to recruit a chief information security officer (CISO), a job it describes as "one of the most influential cybersecurity leadership roles in the UK," at a salary of £96,981 to £130,000.…
Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions
The British government will expand the use of AI in courts in England and Wales as part of plans to make them work faster, justice minister David Lammy has told a Microsoft AI event.…
AMD puts $250 million into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs
AMD has struck another chips’n’stock deal, this time with software-defined datacenter player Nutanix.…
Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe
Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe Looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play Microsoft is “fully cooperating” with a probe by Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, which wants to know if the software giant has violated the nation’s anti-monopoly laws.…
Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse
Even by the somewhat offbeat standards of the Salesforce Ohana, the CRM giant just delivered a strange earnings announcement.…
Nvidia hasn't made a cent in China lately - and might not need to given $120 billion profit
Nearly three months after the Trump administration allowed Nvidia to sell its H200 accelerator in China, the GPU giant is still waiting for Beijing to allow them in and for any revenue to materialize.…
Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution
Security vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API keys by injecting malicious configurations into repositories, and then waiting for a developer to clone and open an untrustworthy project.…

