We’ve spent the last decade telling ourselves that cloud computing is mostly a tool problem. Pick a provider, standardize a landing zone, automate deployments, and you’re “modern.” Agentic AI makes that comforting narrative fall apart because it behaves less like a traditional application and more like a continuously operating software workforce that can plan, decide,

Faster Python is now within reach, thanks to its shiny new JIT. But we also have fast dataframes thanks to Pandas, and three slick new GUI interfaces for SQLite. And then there’s Zed, the new Rust-powered contender to VS Code’s throne. It’s a busy time in the world of Python, and we’ve got all the

Forgive me, but I’m starting to get a teensy bit weary of The Future™. Surely you can relate — right? Every week lately, it seems, we’re being bombarded with some new form of AI razzle-dazzle and being told how it’s a zillion times better than the last game-changing innovation and, like, totally gonna revolutionize the

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants Europe to rethink its stance on data sovereignty just as AI systems become more deeply embedded across global business. His message: Europe may be obsessing over “where” data lives, while missing the more consequential question of “who ultimately benefits” from the intelligence derived from it. “I think sovereignty requires real

Work-from-office mandates are accelerating as the world moves further away from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the push toward in-person work environments will make it more difficult for IT leaders to retain and recruit staff, some experts say. Over the past year, many companies, including IT giants Amazon and Microsoft, have required employees to work from

Cisco has released patches for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its unified communications products that attackers are actively exploiting. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirming the exploitation. Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20045 along with patches for Unified Communications Manager, Unity Connection, and Webex

More details about the expected cadence of Apple’s plans to turn Siri into an AI-driven chatbot are emerging, and Mark Gurman tells us Apple has a two-tier approach in mind.  The current thinking is that Apple’s Gemini-powered chatbot will arrive in June with iOS 26.4, which will be a significant improvement in itself. “Other than the chatbot interface,

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that the AI boom could become a speculative bubble if the technology does not gain wider acceptance outside of large technology companies and wealthy economies. “For this not to be a bubble by definition, the benefits need to be spread much more evenly,” Nadella said at the World Economic Forum

Anthropic has completely overhauled the “Claude constitution”, a document that sets out the ethical parameters governing its AI model’s reasoning and behavior. Launched at the World Economic Forum’s Davos Summit, the new constitution’s principles are that Claude should be “broadly safe” (not undermining human oversight), “Broadly ethical” (honest, avoiding inappropriate, dangerous, or harmful actions), “genuinely

A lawsuit filed by Spotify and several major record labels was behind the shutdown of several of Anna’s Archive’s domains earlier this year. This is according to recently published documents from a federal court in the US, reports Torrentfreak. The background to this is that in December 2025, Anna’s Archive stated that the site had