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3 days ago | computerworld.com | Matt Egan

Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World sees Smart Answers offering advice on help for hallucinations; automating website certifications; and software development using LLMs. Hey you: fancy a spot of Slopsquatting? Thought not. And yet when we reported this week that Slopsquatting is a new type of supply chain attack, the readers of CSO could not get enough of it.

6 days ago | computerworld.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Are you confused about what President Donald J. Trump is doing with tariffs? Join the crowd; we all are. But if you’re in charge of buying PCs for your company (because Windows 10 officially reaches end-of-life status on Oct. 14) all this confusion is quickly turning into worry. Before diving into what this all means, let’s clarify one thing: you will be paying more for your technology gear — period, end of statement.

6 days ago | computerworld.com | Howard Solomon

There’s a lot of finger-pointing going on between providers trying to explain this week’s two-hour outage of Zoom’s American service. On its website, Zoom says its zoom.us domain wasn’t available on Wednesday because of a “communications error” between Zoom’s domain registrar, Markmonitor, and GoDaddy Registry, “which resulted in GoDaddy Registry mistakenly shutting down zoom.us domain.” For its part, a spokesperson for GoDaddy said the problem was between Markmonitor and Zoom.

6 days ago | computerworld.com | Mikael Markander

OpenAI has released o3 and 04-mini, two reasoning AI models designed to be extra good at programming, math, and science and that can use images to “think,” according to Engadget, This means that users can upload sketches or diagrams, for example, and even if they are of low quality, o3 and 04-mini will understand what is meant. The new models are also capable of generating images and browsing on their own. A Chat GPT Plus, Pro or Team subscription is required to use the o3- and 04-mini models.

1 week ago | computerworld.com | Agam Shah

Enterprise users are receiving unprovoked offers to upgrade to Windows 11 due to an issue in Microsoft’s device management tools. The issue is with Microsoft’s Intune software, which typically allows system administrators to manage mobile devices. Intune governs the use of Windows, macOS, and Android devices attached to enterprise environments. The news was first reported by Bleeping Computer, which also noted that a code-fix was being deployed to systems.