Geoffrey Hinton, often dubbed the Godfather of AI, isn’t sounding alarms about killer robots these days. Instead, he’s leaning closer to the mic and saying: the real risk is AI out‑smarting us emotionally. His concern? That machine-generated persuasion may soon achieve more influence over our hearts and minds than we’d ever suspect. Something about that

Web browsing just got a major makeover. Microsoft and Cloudflare are teaming up to flip the script on how we find information online. The old-school “type and click a link” way is being challenged by something that feels straight out of a sci-fi flick—where websites talk back, and not in a boring way. Here’s the

An update of the HTTP Client API, supporting the HTTP/3 protocol, has been added to Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, due in March 2026. Officially announced on September 3, the HTTP/3 for the HTTP Client API feature is being targeted for JDK 26. This short-term release of Java will follow next month’s long-term support (LTS)

Graph database provider Neo4j has launched a new distributed graph architecture, Infinigraph, that will combine both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads across its databases to help enterprises adopt agent-based automation for analytics.     The new architecture, which is currently available as part of Neo4j’s Enterprise Edition and will soon be available in AuraDB, uses

Google has introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, an image generation and editing model enabling capabilities including the blending of multiple images into a single image. Developers can use the model for multimodal creativity for visual apps. Introduced August 26 and also identified as “Nano Banana,” Gemini 2.5 Flash Image enables developers to maintain character for

JavaScript is the most egalitarian of languages. It is the common tongue of the Internet, with the lowest bar to entry. Just hit F12 in the browser, and there you go—you’re programming in JavaScript! Despite (or maybe because of) its ease of use, JavaScript also has one of the most sprawling and complex ecosystems in

In January, assumptions around AI were shaken up by DeepSeek, a small Chinese company that nobody had heard of. This week it was Switzerland’s turn to stir things up. Apertus (Latin for ‘open’) is a brand new large language model (LLM) that its creators, a group of Swiss universities in collaboration with the Swiss National

Shortly after Reuters broke the news that Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, had signed a $10 billion, multiyear cloud deal with Google, a CIO friend called me with some questions: “David, should we be doing something like this? Are these mega prepurchase cloud agreements the new table stakes for enterprises?” The question is

Microsoft 365 (and Office 365) subscribers get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches, and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available. We’re doing

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central component of many early home computers, The Register reports. As far back as 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed Microsoft’s first product: BASIC for the Altair 8800 with the Intel 8080 processor. The