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5 days ago | 
computerworld.com | Paul Barker
A new survey by VPN provider Surfshark has found that Chrome collects the most information from users’ phones, while “TOR stands out as the most privacy-centric browser by collecting no data at all.” The two were among 10 that researchers analyzed, after using AppMagic, a market intelligence tool, to select the most popular browser apps on Apple phones in the US in 2025, they said in a post outlining their findings.
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6 days ago | 
cio.com | Paul Barker
Carbon Tracker may not fly in the US under Trump, but analyst calls it a ‘welcome step’ from a sustainability tracking perspective.
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1 week ago | 
computerworld.com | Paul Barker
An announcement from Intel boasting that it is the first semiconductor firm to achieve “full neural processing unit (NPU) support” in the MLPerf Client v0.6 benchmark released by ML Commons on April 25 generated very different reactions Tuesday from industry analysts.
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2 weeks ago | 
computerworld.com | Paul Barker
The massive power outage that is impacting much of Spain and Portugal, and that left parts of France without electricity, is remarkable both for its speed and also its reach, an industry analyst said Monday. The outage began around 12:30 p.m. central European time (8:30 a.m. eastern daylight saving time (EDT)), and as of 5:30 p.m. EDT, according to the BBC live feed, “some electricity supplies are being restored, both in Spain and Portugal.
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2 weeks ago | 
computerworld.com | Paul Barker
The Google antitrust trial is “a nonsensical move by the US government that is ridiculously short-sighted, because if compromising privacy for ad revenue is bad, compromising privacy to train AI models is dangerous,” an industry analyst said Thursday.
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3 weeks ago | 
computerworld.com | Paul Barker
Changes to Intel’s executive management team by its new CEO, after just over a month on the job, is proof of the sense of urgency in the company to act quickly to compete with rivals Nvidia, AMD, and TSMC, an industry analyst said Monday.
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1 month ago | 
computerworld.com | Paul Barker
Credit: rawf8 / Shutterstock A software hiccup has occurred with Windows Hello following this month’s security updates, one that could prevent users from logging in via facial recognition. Fortunately, instead of prompting an increase in password reset work for helpdesks, as people who usually just gaze at their computers to unlock them realize they’ve forgotten their passwords, Microsoft has provided a simple workaround. Will Townsend, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy who...
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2 months ago | 
computerworld.com | Paul Barker
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) spent a great deal of time deciding whether it should investigate Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI as a potential merger situation, but in the end, decided to open and close the investigation within 24 hours.
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2 months ago | 
computerworld.com | Paul Barker
The stark difference in the way tech giants in China and the US are approaching AI for internal operations was illustrated late this week by separate announcements from Salesforce and Alibaba. During an earnings call on Thursday, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff indicated that, as a result of AI, the company would not be hiring human engineers this year. “I think that the big message I have for a lot of CEOs that I meet with is, ‘hey, we’re the last generation of CEOs to only manage humans’,” he said.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
cio.com | Paul Barker
유럽 클라우드 서비스 공급자 협회(CISPE)가 소프트웨어 라이선스 공정성을 확보하려는 마이크로소프트의 노력이 아직 미흡하다고 경고했다. 유럽 클라우드 경쟁 관측소(European Cloud Competition Observatory, ECCO)는 최근 브로드컴의 불공정 관행을 강하게 비판했다. ECCO는 CISPE가 지난해 7월 마이크로소프트와의 반경쟁 합의 이후, 지역 내 클라우드 라이선스 관행의 공정성을 감시하기 위해 11월 설립한 기관이다.
