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Buyer's Guides " Computerworld
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (714+ words) Computerworld's Enterprise Buyer's Guides are essential assets to help buyers choose the right technology solution for their business. Crafted by our award-winning editorial team, these guides provide enterprise IT buyers with everything they need to know to successfully evaluate products…...
How to check the Microsoft Update Catalog with any browser
1+ hour, 59+ min ago (409+ words) Many patches don't go through the usual Windows Update channels. As I explained earlier today, even the patch that fixes Microsoft's botched security update KB 3177725 is only available in the Windows Update Catalog. That fix, KB 3187022, has been available for…...
How AI is reshaping cybersecurity
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1702+ words) Keith Shaw: Are defenders already losing the AI cyber war? From AI-powered attacks and the changing economics of cybercrime to whether Zero Trust is already showing some cracks, we're going to talk about why security teams might be fighting yesterday's…...
Microsoft broke some OLE automations with latest Windows update
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (187+ words) Microsoft Office users may find that some of their applications are failing to open when called on by third-party applications. It's an issue that has emerged after the latest round of Microsoft updates. The problem affects Word, Excel, and other…...
Q&A: Temporal aims to be the reliability backbone for an agentic AI economy
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (721+ words) As AI shifts from output-generating large language models (LLMs) to armies of agents taking actions on their own, there is a growing threat that failures could affect system reliability. The company was solving these kinds of distributed-systems problems long before…...
Why AI agents could create a new control and security crisis
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1639+ words) Keith Shaw: AI agents are quickly moving from assistants to decision-makers, but they're gaining access to our data, applications, and business processes. What happens when an agent does something nobody expected? Are we building systems we can control, or are…...
Estonia plans government IDs giving AI agents rights and responsibilities
1+ week, 2+ day ago (341+ words) There's no shortage of agentic AI tools out there that offer to perform online tasks on your behalf, if only you'll give them all your passwords and credit card details. The trouble starts when those agents don't know when to…...
For June, Patch Tuesday means an IT scramble
1+ week, 5+ day ago (926+ words) Even without an exploited zero-day, the June 2026 Patch Tuesday release requires Patch Now recommendations for Windows, Office, and Exchange. The latter is back in the patch picture with a consolidated security update that Microsoft recommends installing "as soon as possible....
Trump's new AI order " hallucinations aren't just for LLMs
2+ week, 1+ day ago (414+ words) Years ago, right-wingers coined the phrase "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS) to describe people who hate US President Donald J. Trump. (I think it better describes the president's outlandish, truth-challenged statements and the followers who think he can do no wrong.) What's…...
Compliance chaos: NY regulators see a data breach " then focus on IT errors
2+ week, 5+ day ago (596+ words) The age-old IT defense when compliance violations are investigated by regulators is to try and keep a low profile " and hope no one looks too closely. But with enhanced SEC interest in all data breaches encouraging regulators around the globe…...