Hot on the heels of Starlink’s plan for a million data centers in space, Starcloud’s next launch will put hardware from AWS in orbit. “Starcloud will be the first to launch the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost hardware to space on our second satellite launching in October,” Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston wrote in a LinkedIn

The number of ways that Windows shortcut (.LNK) files can be abused just keeps growing: A cybersecurity researcher has documented four new techniques to trick Windows users into running malicious actions through innocent-looking shortcuts. Wietze Beukema demonstrated how to spoof the visible LNK destination, hide command-line arguments, and execute a different program than the one

Could language barriers be a thing of the past? Various companies are looking to bring AI to the party to solve this linguistic issue and maybe help bring voice once again to the fore. T-Mobile is preparing to offer network-based real-time translation services in more than 50 languages. The new service, currently in beta testing,

Apple’s latest machine learning research seems to confirm what most of us intuitively know already. It shows that while people are open to using AI, they also want to hang onto their own personal agency and want the decision-making processes used by this intelligent tech to be transparent. Those are some of the conclusions drawn

We’ve all seen the claims: AI makes our work easier and is going to boost productivity to unheard of levels. For example, according to PwC, AI could boost global output by 15% over the next decade. But maybe things are not quite as rosy as the AI cheerleaders would have us believe. Some new research

Each month, the team at Readiness analyzes the latest Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and provides detailed, actionable testing guidance. The company’s Patch Tuesday release for February addresses 59 CVEs across the company’s product family — roughly half the volume of January’s 159 patches. Six vulnerabilities, affecting Windows Shell, MSHTML, Desktop Window Manager, Remote Desktop, Remote

Long before Taco Tuesday became part of the pop-culture vernacular, Tuesdays were synonymous with security — and for anyone in the tech world, they still are.  Patch Tuesday, as you most likely know, refers to the day each month when Microsoft releases security updates and patches for its software products — everything from Windows to

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seems to be doubling down on its investigation of Microsoft and the tech giant’s potentially shady bundling and licensing practices. According to a Bloomberg report, the federal agency has been issuing civil investigative demands (CIDs) to companies that compete with Microsoft in the business software and cloud computing markets.

With a new Gartner report suggesting that AI problems will “shut down national critical infrastructure” in a major country by 2028, CIOs need to rethink industrial controls that are very quickly being turned over to autonomous agents. Gartner embraces the term Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) for these technologies, which it defines as “engineered systems that

AI deployment in financial services has crossed a critical threshold, with only 2% of institutions globally reporting no AI use whatsoever—a dramatic indicator that the technology has moved decisively from boardroom discussion to operational reality. New research from Finastra surveying 1,509 senior leaders across 11 markets reveals that Singapore financial institutions are leading this transition,