Microsoft will end support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 apps and servers on October 14, 2025. Anyone who continues to work with these versions of Office after this date risks security breaches, compliance issues and, as Microsoft states in a blog post, even reduced productivity. However, the ... Read more
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Both Intel and AMD have recently released chips that accelerate AI workloads. With the latest Ryzen Pro 8000 CPUs for laptops and desktops, AMD claims it has gained a significant lead. In addition, business users benefit from better management features and higher efficiency. According to AMD, th... Read more
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Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google's AI subsidiary Deepmind, estimates that the company will spend more than $100 billion on AI, given enough time. He was responding to questions from the audience at a TED conference in Vancouver, Canada. Someone asked about Google Deepmind's response to the announce... Read more
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VMware customers with perpetual licenses will still be supported. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says the changed policy is in response to feedback from customers. Shortly after Broadcom acquired VMware in November 2023, it quickly became apparent that the move to subscription-only licenses was imminent.... Read more
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The backdoor in the Linux compression tool xz may not have been an isolated incident, say the Open Source Security Foundation and the OpenJS Foundation in a joint statement. They or their members recently intercepted multiple attempts to infiltrate open-source software projects. The organization... Read more
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Adobe will expand its video editor Premiere Pro with plugins that allow users to deploy AI video generators such as Sora, Pika and Runway directly from within the program. This integration will make it possible to blend 'traditionally' shot footage with AI-generated content. Adobe has not yet annou... Read more
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Microsoft Exchange Online will support a maximum of 2,000 recipients per 24 hours starting in 2025. This limit should significantly reduce the number of spam messages. Until now, Exchange Online has not had a similar limitation. The upper limit consists of 10,000 recipients; this will remain unc... Read more
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Bots appear to be flooding the Internet. According to Thales subsidiary Imperva's brand new Bad Bot Report, nearly half of all internet traffic comes from bots, 32 percent of which are malicious. Total bot traffic is up two percent from last year and the highest percentage ever measured since Imper... Read more
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In this blog, Techzine reports on the latest developments surrounding VMware's acquisition of Broadcom. April 16 - The European Commission has inquired about Broadcom's heavily modified VMware licences. This shows that Brussels is heeding the call by CIO organisations (see 29 March). A spokesper... Read more
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Combination of Appian's services and technologies with Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker from AWS should make Private AI more widely available. Last year at Appian World, Appian unfolded its vision for AI. CEO Matt Calkins made no bones about it and wanted nothing to do with Public AI. That kind of A... Read more
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