OpenAI seeks to automate ‘computer use’ for Macs in the enterprise
While AI bots have begun mastering tasks in browsers and on Windows, Mac-using enterprises have largely been overlooked, until now. OpenAI aims to change that with its acquisition of generative AI interface maker Software Applications Incorporated. The base of this integration is Sky, a generative AI-based, natural language-input compatible assistant for macOS that the San […]
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Using the SkiaSharp graphics library in .NET
With the canvas in place, you’re able to use SkiaSharp’s drawing primitives to add common shapes, like circles or rectangles. Other options support features like anti-aliasing, smoothing curves as needed. SkiaSharp has its own coordinate system, which may differ from that used by your choice of framework. It uses pixel-based measurements, so you will need […]
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The best new features in Java 25
class Shape { final int area; public Shape(int area) { if (area <= 0) throw new IllegalArgumentException(“Area must be positive.”); this.area = area; } } Now say you want to have a Rectangle class. In Java before JDK 25, you’d have to somehow extract the calculation to use it in the super() call, usually using […]
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Google kills its cookie killer
The technologies Google is discontinuing are: Attribution Reporting API for both Chrome and Android, IP Protection, Protected Audience API for Chrome and Android, Protected App Signals, On Device Personalization, Related Website Sets, Private Aggregation (including Shared Storage), Select URL, SDK Runtime and Topics for both Chrome and Android. It is unlikely that the Privacy Sandbox […]
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AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers
Real-time monitoring service Downdetector noted that outages at Venmo, Roku, Lyft, Zoom, and the McDonald’s app were “possibly related to issues at Amazon Web Service.” Increased error rates AWS itself first reported the incident on its service health status page at 12:11 a.m. Pacific time, saying, “We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for […]
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An EU breakup with US cloud providers
Moreover, many organizations already operate in multicloud or hybrid cloud environments, which makes achieving complete independence logistically and operationally complex. Even if a company transitions some workloads to sovereign clouds, it’s likely that a multicloud strategy will still retain specific dependencies on US platforms. Such a strategy can reduce geopolitical and regulatory risks, but it […]
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Threat actors are spreading malicious extensions via VS marketplaces
The discovery, only now being revealed by Wiz after remediation work by Microsoft and OpenVSX, is another example of why developers need to take more care in sanitizing their code before dropping it into open marketplaces, and why CSOs need to ensure extensions used by their developers are scrutinized closely. Developers are prime targets Developers […]
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A mini-CrowdStrike moment? Windows 11 update cripples dev environments
Just as Windows 10 has reached its end of life (EOL), issues with Windows 11 abound, the most recent an update that broke localhost for some developers, preventing them from accessing web apps running locally on their machines. The October 2025 cumulative update, (KB5066835), addressed security issues in Windows operating systems (OSes), but also appears […]
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Using Valkey on Azure and in .NET Aspire
Using RESP to link Valkey to code .NET Aspire’s existing Redis client will work with Valkey; all you need to do is ensure that you’re using the correct connectionName. Microsoft provides Aspire implementation details for three different Valkey scenarios: standard cache, distributed cache, and output cache. The documentation isn’t quite complete, as it often refers […]
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Selective retraining helps AI learn new skills without forgetting, study finds
To test whether this problem holds for today’s large multimodal models, the team conducted a controlled evaluation. They trained the selected models on five target tasks, including fine-grained bird classification, counting, medical visual question answering, OCR reading, and time reading. They then measured how much performance dropped across eight standard benchmarks that were not part […]
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