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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.  To understand why this matters, it’s important to consider that the main source of cybersecurity breaches among all businesses is not hackers per se, but intentional

A US House of Representatives official has reportedly banned WhatsApp from staffers’ government-issued devices, citing cybersecurity concerns about the messaging platform’s data handling practices. The decision adds Meta’s flagship messaging service to a growing list of applications deemed too risky for congressional use. This ban signals heightened scrutiny of consumer messaging platforms in government environments and reinforces long-standing enterprise security concerns about using consumer-grade communication tools for sensitive business operations. House cybersecurity office raises m

DeepSeek has willingly provided and will likely continue to provide support to China’s military and intelligence operations, according to a senior US State Department official, raising serious questions about data security for the millions of Americans using the popular AI service. The Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is reportedly actively supporting China’s military and intelligence apparatus while employing sophisticated workarounds to access restricted US semiconductor technology, according t

The fight between Microsoft and OpenAI over what Microsoft should get for its $13 billion investment in the AI company has gone from nasty to downright toxic, with each of the companies considering strategies against the other that can only be described as their nuclear options.  The stakes couldn’t be higher.  Microsoft needs access to OpenAI technologies to keep its worldwide lead in AI and grow its valuation beyond its current more than $3.5 tri

College grads are being screened out by AI before humans ever see their resumes, even as overwhelmed recruiters list “entry-level” jobs requiring years of experience. At the same time, hiring slowed sharply in April and May across all industries — including cybersecurity. In April, employer hiring fell to its slowe

Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The Windows Insider program is divided into four channels: The Canary Channel is where platform changes (such as major updates to the Windows kernel and new APIs) are previewed. These changes are not tied to a particular Windows release and may never ship at all. Li

Microsoft is laying the groundwork for Windows 11 to morph into a genAI-driven OS. The company on Monday announced a critical AI technology that will make it possible to run generative AI (genAI) agents on Windows without Internet connectivity. Microsoft’s small language model, called Mu, is designed to respond to natural language queries within the Windows OS, the company said in a blog post Monday. Mu takes advantage of the neural processing units (NPUs) of Copilot PCs, Vivek Pradeep,

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

Artificial intelligence, quantum computing and cybersecurity are “frontier technologies” the UK government plans to prioritize as part of its blueprint to overhaul the nation’s economy and industries over the next decade. That’s according to its long-awaited industrial strategy policy paper and a separate plan going into more detail on digital and other technologies. It would perhaps have been bigger news if the government hadn’t put AI, cybersecurity and quantum computing at the heart of its plans, given that it has already trailed this heavily in a sequence of reports, including January’s

GitHub began enforcing monthly limits on its most powerful AI coding models this week, marking the latest example of AI companies transitioning users from free or unlimited services to paid subscription tiers once adoption takes hold. “Monthly premium request allowances for paid GitHub Copilot users are now in effect,” the company said in its update to the Copilot consumptive billing experience, confirming that billing for additional requests now starts at $0.04 each. The enforcement represents the activation of restrictions first