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Apple should Sherlock SAP’s open-source energy management app

3 days ago | computerworld.com | Jonny Evans

SAP’s open-source energy management app, Power Monitor, shows how you could manage energy costs for your devices — and your Mac could help you do so. Designed for business users managing large fleets, the app should also benefit consumers concerned about energy use. It’s a great example of a tool that does one useful thing well, which is track Mac energy use and calculate cost. Who doesn’t worry about energy costs? They’ve risen steeply since 2020.
This is (probably) the unreleased Google Pixel Tablet Pen

3 days ago | computerworld.com | JR Raphael

Google’s Android tablet saga is a seemingly endless series of almosts, what ifs, and coulda-beens — and now, we’ve got one more chapter to add into that book. First, a quick and very pertinent three-part power-round of context catch-up. Part one:• Way back in 2010, Google bought a company called BumpTop and seemed set to bring its wild three-dimensional interface concepts into the Android tablet arena — as I pieced together and recounted some years back.
Mosyle’s AccessMule makes employee access a little easier for SMBs

4 days ago | computerworld.com | Jonny Evans

Apple device management vendor Mosyle has introduced AccessMule, an easy-to-use workflow platform designed to address a specific set of small business needs related to granting, managing, auditing, sharing, storing, and removing employee access from company systems. These protections are particularly important when on-boarding and off-boarding employees.
Has Apple become addicted to 'No'?

5 days ago | computerworld.com | Jonny Evans

In a world loaded with existential challenge, it should not surprise anyone that Apple faces its own crisis. It should do what any cornered animal will always do and fight hard and dirty to regain freedom. That’s why it’s of concern to once again learn this weekend that Apple is “considering” acquisitions in the generative AI (genAI) space, because by this time in the fight, I want that chatter to be about acquisitions that have been made.
How to spot AI washing in vendor marketing

5 days ago | computerworld.com | Matt Egan

Agentic AI and AI agents are hotter than lava-fried chicken right now, and this week CIO defined how AI agents and agentic AI differ from each other. We said that the two related technologies can work together, but CIOs should understand the difference to protect against vendor hype and obfuscation. And it is vendor hype that is exercising the readers of CIO, who wanted to know from Smart Answers how to spot vendor AI washing.
Apple Pay is going to get faster and more reliable

1 week ago | computerworld.com | Jonny Evans

Contactless payments such as Apple Pay and sustainability in inventory control are going to get much easier with an upcoming update to the Near Field Communications (NFC) standard that will make devices connect more swiftly and support the Digital Product Passport (NDPP) specification. The first problems the new standard solves are range and reliability. At present, standard NFC supports a range of up to 0.2 inches and the connections aren’t always robust.
21 ways Gemini can actually be useful on Android

1 week ago | computerworld.com | JR Raphael

Right now, Gemini’s getting a bit of a bad rap — at least, among certain circles of savvy users who are closely tuned into the technology. It’s easy to see why: Google rushed Gemini out of the gates way before it was ready. It increasingly crippled the perfectly fine Google Assistant experience in the meantime, and still today, Gemini can’t do everything Assistant did in terms of day-to-day device basics (while Assistant no longer handles those same tasks consistently anymore, either).
OpenAI walks away from Scale AI — triggering industry-wide rethink of data partnerships

1 week ago | computerworld.com | Mastufa Ahmed

OpenAI has ended its long-standing partnership with Scale AI, the company that powered some of the most complex data-labeling tasks behind frontier models such as GPT-4. The split, confirmed by an OpenAI spokesperson to Bloomberg, comes on the heels of Meta’s $14.3 billion investment for a 49% stake in Scale, a move that industry analysts warn could redraw battle lines in the AI arms race.
Copilot finally has a feature that beats ChatGPT on Windows PCs

1 week ago | computerworld.com | Chris Hoffman

There’s no denying it: When it comes to Windows and AI chatbots, ChatGPT leads the pack. Microsoft invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI, after all. And while the company has pinned Copilot to the taskbar on Windows PCs and placed a Copilot key on new laptops, its Copilot system is still built atop the same large language model (LLM) technology at ChatGPT’s core. That means the system will always be similar to ChatGPT until Microsoft releases its own AI models.
Hackers lean into social engineering to attack Apple security - Jamf

1 week ago | computerworld.com | Jonny Evans

Every Mac, iPhone, or iPad user should do everything they can to protect themselves against social engineering-based phishing attacks, a new report from Jamf warns. In a time of deep international tension, the digital threat environment reflects the zeitgeist, with hackers and attackers seeking out security weaknesses on a scale that continues to grow.