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Today is Microsoft's March 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 57 flaws, including six actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]

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Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5053598 and KB5053602  cumulative updates for versions 24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and issues. [...]

Non-password-protected, unencrypted 108GB database … what could possibly go wrong

Exclusive  More than 86,000 records containing nurses' medical records, facial images, ID documents and more sensitive info linked to health tech company ESHYFT was left sitting in a wide-open misconfigured AWS S3 bucket for months — or possibly even longer — before it was closed it last week.…

Oh wow, just look at all the scary stuff in your Windows Event Viewer

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is distributing over $25.5 million in refunds to consumers deceived by tech support scammers, averaging about $34 per person.…

Microsoft announced that it will drop support for the Remote Desktop app (available via the Microsoft Store) on May 27 and replace it with its new Windows App. [...]

Soon after the non-appearance of the most important Apple Intelligence feature, Apple now finds itself in danger of digging an even deeper hole by promising iOS 19 will be the most significant upgrade in years. The problem: it again runs the risk of promising too much and not delivering enough. It’s a dangerous approach.

If the world’s most prolific source of spookily accurate speculation is correct, Apple plans “one of the most dramatic” upgrades to its operating systems yet. The report is short on detail, but it does reveal changes that appear to be focused on the user interface. Apple apparently wants to “simplify the way users navigate and control their devices,” among other things:

• The report also says to expect updates to icons, menus, apps, windows, system buttons and a new design across all systems that loosely reflects the UI of visionOS. 
• And we are promised wider support for existing Apple Intelligence features across apps.

Is this really more dramatic than iOS 18? Around this time last year, Mark Gurman declared that iOS 18 would be the “biggest software update yet.” As we all know, Apple hasn’t completed that rollout yet — and already, it seems, plans another “dramatic” upgrade. I’m a little skeptical, particularly as the claim follows iOS 18, which with its bundled AI really was a dramatic upgrade, albeit it a botched one.

The problem is that at its core, Apple is a software company. It is the software that drives its story. Would the iPhone Apple introduced in 2007 have gotten anywhere without the software it ram? I don’t think so. 

Apple is a software company

At its best, Apple turns tech into something that is deeply useful, and with Apple Intelligence hopes to turn AI into something that supports you in your life, rather than dominating how you live. An applied, private, and personalized agentic AI system that helps you with your daily tasks is a really big deal. So how does Apple beat it? 

To some extent, the company has become a slave to its own change cycle.

At some point, it pivoted toward software as the main driver to its product strategy. Sure, Apple makes hardware that generally works really well, but it is the software that makes the hardware invaluable. Apple’s decision to make big news with operating system upgrades each year isn’t just a developer-focused benefit, it’s also the anvil upon which the success of its hardware releases is honed. 

The software story feeds the hardware story; annual free software updates usually improve the experience Apple customers have with the hardware they already own, which keeps them interested, loyal, and likely to invest in new Apple hardware next time they need to do so. The improvements usually get announced at WWDC in June, tested during the summer, and introduced in fall. 

Surprise, delight – and hype…

The thing is, the software does matter. So, is Apple now under pressure to build up expectations for the software updates it plans to introduce this year? If so, I think it is ill-advised to make big promises now. Having already broken its stated release schedule for what is arguably the most interesting piece of Apple Intelligence, the company would be better advised to lower expectations in order to exceed them, rather than struggle to meet them.

Surprise and delight is usually better than inflated hype.

It is worth noting that the kind of contextually personalized intelligence Apple promised to put inside Apple Intelligence is not currently available anywhere else, because it is so hard to build. That means when (or if) Apple can introduce it, it will still be ahead of most. But it still has to maintain credibility – and calling a few tweaked user interface elements the most dramatic upgrade ever doesn’t do that.

People lose faith one broken promise at a time. So, stop with the drama and promises, Apple, and focus on the art. 

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A newly discovered clipboard hijacking operation dubbed 'MassJacker' uses at least 778,531 cryptocurrency wallet addresses to steal digital assets from compromised computers. [...]

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Společnost AMD posílá na trh další procesory pro socket AM5, dnes se podíváme na šestnáctijádro s extra L3 cache.

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Rodina jednodeskových počítačů OrangePi se rozrostla (𝕏) o OrangePi RV2 s 8jádrovým RISC-V AI CPU.

Factorio Learning Environment (FLE) je open source framework umožňující používat a testovat LLM (Large Language Models) v počítačové hře Factorio.

The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been linked to a series of ongoing campaigns targeting Colombian institutions and government entities since November 2024. "The monitored campaigns targeted Colombian judicial institutions and other government or private organizations, with high infection rates," Check Point said in a new analysis. "More than 1,600 victims were affected during one of

The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been linked to a series of ongoing campaigns targeting Colombian institutions and government entities since November 2024. "The monitored campaigns targeted Colombian judicial institutions and other government or private organizations, with high infection rates," Check Point said in a new analysis. "More than 1,600 victims were affected during one of Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Threat intelligence company GreyNoise warns that a critical PHP remote code execution vulnerability that impacts Windows systems is now under mass exploitation. [...]

Cybercriminals are using AI for help in planning and conducting cyberattacks—but cybersecurity vendors are fighting back. Learn from Acronis Threat Research Unit about how AI-powered security solutions are closing the gap in the battle against AI-driven cyber threats. [...]

S jarní aktualizací produktů Apple představil také nový MacBook Air s čipem M4 . Ještě před startem prodeje počítač dorazil do redakce. Novinku můžete mít ve 13" a 15" variantě, já mám v ruce tu menší. Vzhledem k tomu, že ve stejné velikosti používám i svůj osobní Air s čipem M2, mám přímé ...