In a recent episode of the First Person podcast we spoke to Ian Mountford, a  senior consultant in governance, risk, and compliance who made the decision to switch to cyber at the age of 49 after never previously working in IT.   Ian told us how hard the change was, principally because the lack of a clear

Download the September 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World. aria-label=”Embed of Spotlight report: IT careers in the AI era.”>Spotlight report: IT careers in the AI eraDownload Original Link:https://us.resources.computerworld.com/resources/form?placement_id=9ca36661-91ab-4c0e-ace4-5f8a2eb6b9ad&brand_id=128&locale_id=1Originally Posted: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Prognosticators have been prognosticating for 20 years about a future in which hackers use AI to breach networks, steal data, and socially engineer credulous employees. And like so many AI-related futurisms in the age of LLM-based generative AI, this prediction is coming true. Anthropic reported last week that a hacker used its technology for an

Meta has released an important update for WhatsApp that patches CVE-2025-55177, a serious vulnerability that is actively exploited. The vulnerability, along with another vulnerability (CVE-2025-43300), has been used to install spyware on iPhones and Macs. According to Meta’s spokesperson Margarita Franklin, nearly 200 people have been monitored using the installed spyware and have been informed

Ever wondered what it’s like to date someone who remembers your coffee order, your weird jokes, and sends you images—or even video—just because it wants to? That’s the wild, surprisingly emotional world of AI dating chatbots. You get companionship that’s always there, uncensored conversations that don’t judge your midnight rants, and more virtual personality than

The big three cloud providers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — all offer the essentials of modern infrastructure, including virtual machines, storage, serverless computing, and managed databases. But there are key differences in how their services are packaged, priced, and incorporated into an enterprise’s tech stack, whether standalone

As great as MongoDB’s recent quarter was (and it was great), what’s even better might be the very thing some people think could harm its future quarters: the new Linux Foundation–hosted DocumentDB. Billed as “a fully open source, MongoDB-compatible document database,” DocumentDB has the potential to move developers off MongoDB. But that’s not the whole

A single typo, formatting error, or slang word makes an AI more likely to tell a patient they’re not sick or don’t need to seek medical care. That’s what MIT researchers found in a June study currently awaiting peer review, which we covered previously. Even the presence of colorful or emotional language, they discovered, was

The American clothing brand J. Crew is under fire after it was revealed that the company used AI to guzzle up its own aesthetic and promote ads with seemingly fake models. The images, which were published to Instagram earlier this month, don’t raise immediate alarm bells. Presumed human men are pictured embodying J. Crew’s vintage

Ever craved a phone call that isn’t from a robot—or worse, an overheated supermarket—instead coming from someone you’ve crafted, who knows your deepest meme tastes and still laughs at your dad jokes? Yeah, me too. That’s the universe of AI companion chatbots with phone-call features: voice-driven connection when humans are MIA or just too busy.