Microservices architecture, while offering exceptional agility and scalability, introduces a new layer of complexity in terms of tracking. Gone are the times of monolithic applications where a single set of logs ought to tell you the whole tale. In a distributed environment, knowing the health and performance of your machine requires a sophisticated method. Efficient

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

When it comes to AI, it’s not easy being green.  The technology requires massive amounts of computing power, which means consuming massive amounts of electricity. Giant new AI-focused data centers powered by carbon-intensive electricity plants are being built and planned across the US — and those plants are, as a group, far dirtier than plants

Over the past two years with my Windows Intelligence column, I’ve delivered some of the best boots-on-the-ground reporting of my career, from Microsoft’s big Copilot event to tracking the evolution of AI tools from 2023 to 2025 to countless useful Windows tips and detailed analyses. I’m incredibly proud of the information I’ve been able to

Apple’s continued success in the enterprise isn’t just the happy consequence of a series of lucky accidents; it’s happening because — while masked by its consumer-focused marketing machine — the company pays close attention to what business customers need.  Along with its customary business and focus on specific verticals, Apple has teams across the company who spend much of

Microsoft is betting hard on recruiting AI talent from Meta, Business Insider reports, with an internal list of the developers and researchers at the rival firm who are at the top of Microsoft’s wish list. To succeed, Microsoft has put in place a new process and set aside a dedicated budget to make competitive offers

GPT-Whiff It has only been five days since OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 model was released — and in those five days, we’ve been given countless reasons to conclude that it’s a bit of a dud. From Axios‘ review announcing that the new large language model (LLM) has “landed with a thud” to Ars Technica making the argument that the

The long-awaited release of OpenAI’s GPT-5 has gone over with a wet thud. Though the private sector continues to dump billions into artificial intelligence development, hoping for exponential gains, the research community isn’t convinced. Speaking to The New Yorker, Gary Marcus, a neural scientist and longtime critic of OpenAI, said what many have been coming to suspect:

As OpenAI continues to try to tamp down on the chaos of GPT-5’s disastrous release, CEO Sam Altman is throwing digs at the company’s now-deprecated and controversial model. Late last week, OpenAI finally rolled out GPT-5, the latest version of its flagship large language model. Without warning, the company replaced all previous versions with the

A week after Huawei announced its decision to open-source the CANN (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks) software toolkit, the tech industry is still processing what this move means for the future of AI development. By making its Huawei CANN open source alternative to CUDA freely available to developers worldwide, the Chinese tech giant has fired