Opinions
The economics of job cuts; why layoffs continue
It’s important for tech workers to realize that, despite a booming economy in the US, they should still prepare for the possibility of being laid off.
What to do with your Vision Pro
If you’ve got one of Apple’s Vision Pro headsets, you should be exploring what feeds the emerging ecosystem rather than sitting back watching wall-sized TV.
Microsoft, OpenAI move to fend off genAI-aided hackers — for now
But the fast-evolving technology is already being used to supercharge more tried-and-true attack methods like spear phishing and social engineering.
Killing VMware
Ever since Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware last November, customers have been navigating the fallout — and they're not happy.
Apple’s Vision Pro isn’t a full-fledged Mac replacement — yet
Though Apple is touting its high-tech headset as the world’s first 'spatial computing' platform, for most people it’s more like a technologically advanced proof of concept.
The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates
If you force employees to commute and work in an office every day, you can expect to lose your best employees.
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Microsoft fixes two zero-days with Patch Tuesday release
Microsoft pushed out 73 updates in February's Patch Tuesday release, including fixes for two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange.
Microsoft and the Taylor Swift genAI deepfake problem
The faked images of singer Taylor Swift that showed up online are likely just the beginning of a coming swarm of deepfakes. Don’t look to Microsoft to do much about the problem.
Will employees bow down to stricter RTO policies?
Or is the trend to remote work here to stay — and perhaps even expand over time?
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The AI data-poisoning cat-and-mouse game — this time, IT will win
The IT community is freaking out about AI data poisoning. For some, it’s a sneaky backdoor into enterprise systems as it surreptitiously infects the data LLM systems train on — which then get sucked into enterprise systems.
Meetings are about to get weird
One by one, the co-workers and clients you meet with will be replaced by cartoon characters.
The do-it-yourself approach to MDM
For mobile management, open-source tools can serve as a real option to commercial and managed service provider alternatives.
When a customer gets defrauded, should the enterprise reimburse?
The New York Attorney General’s office sued Citibank for failing to reimburse customers victimized by fraud, raising serious issues all enterprises must figure out. When should a customer be reimbursed for fraud? And at what point do...
Apple's Vision Pro faces an uphill battle
It's pricey, clunky, offers just two hours of battery life, and lacks key app support. But it's also the best mixed-reality headset to date.
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Russia hacks Microsoft: It’s worse than you think
This time, hackers attacked corporate execs, not customers. That might finally push the US government to focus on long-ignored security concerns.
OpenAI: Copy, steal, paste
By OpenAI's logic, any work you put online is fair game to be swiped and incorporated into the company's large language models.
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7 ways to leverage genAI for a better career
Not only is it important to learn new IT skills, but understanding generative AI can help protect your job security in a rapidly changing world.
