A coordinated token farming campaign continues to flood the open source npm registry, with tens of thousands of infected packages created almost daily to steal tokens from unsuspecting developers using the Tea Protocol to reward coding work. On Thursday, researchers at Amazon said there were over 150,000 packages in the campaign. But in an interview

Mass layoffs at top tech firms and grim jobs reports in October appear to confirm that AI is taking away jobs — a trend likely to continue, experts said. At the same time, AI-assisted human roles will grow, perhaps partially offsetting workforce cuts. For now, AI is apparently being used to reduce corporate bloat, replace

Microsoft Ignite 2025  runs November 18–21, 2025, in San Francisco and (with an optional pre-day on November 17). Can’t make it to the Moscone Center in San Francisco? No problem.  II’s a hybrid event, and you can register to attend Ignite (for free) virtually here. You can expect to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI)

This November Patch Tuesday update offers a much reduced set of updates, with only 63 Microsoft patches and (only) one zero-day (CVE-2025-62215) affecting the Windows desktop platform. Microsoft SQL Server has returned with a single update, so the Readiness team suggests a standard patch release schedule for Microsoft Office, Developer tools and Microsoft browsers. (Windows

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 gist: Salesforce will add Doti’s technology to Slack, where it can answer workers’ questions using enterprise data. The deal will help Salesforce catch up with rivals already developing their own AI-based enterprise search tools. Salesforce has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Israeli startup, Doti, aiming to enhance AI-based enterprise search capabilities offered

The laptop you use tomorrow will be like a Mac: Beautifully-designed, easy-to-use, highly secure, and packed with enough power to run artificial intelligence (AI) on device.  It will possess advanced memory handling to optimize the use of that precious component, rather than squandering cash, heat sinks, and internal real estate on RAM that doesn’t usually

AI shopping assistants, rather than elves, may be the ones bustling behind the scenes this holiday season. At least, Google seems to be pushing in that direction: The tech giant has released a “major AI shopping update” in Gemini that can trigger AI agents to call stores, actively track pricing, and even purchase items on

When Visa unveiled its Intelligent Commerce platform for Asia Pacific on November 12, it wasn’t just launching another payment feature—it was building AI commerce infrastructure to solve a crisis most merchants haven’t noticed yet: their websites are being flooded by AI agents, and there’s no reliable way to tell which ones are legitimate shoppers and which are malicious bots. 

Security leaders face a new class of autonomous threat as Anthropic details the first cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by AI. In a report released this week, the company’s Threat Intelligence team outlined its disruption of a sophisticated operation by a Chinese state-sponsored group – an assessment made with high confidence – dubbed GTG-1002 and detected