Advanced artificial intelligence models will “fundamentally change warfare as we know it,” a top cyber official at the Defense Department said Thursday, saying it represents “not evolutionary warfare, but revolutionary warfare.” Paul Lyons, principal deputy assistant secretary for cyber policy, said the development of frontier AI models like Mythos amounted to a “watershed moment,” speaking…
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AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Who’s the winner in the new Microsoft-OpenAI deal?
It feels like the world’s longest and most public divorce: In late April, Microsoft and OpenAI once again renegotiated the slow-motion breakup that has been playing out between the two over the last several years. At first glance, it looks like a win-win. In the broadest terms, OpenAI gets more freedom to set its own course — it can sell its…
AI, Global Security News
Apple reportedly abandons Vision Pro
It was only this month that incoming Apple CEO John Ternus said of the Vision Pro, “I think we’re still very much in the early innings of spatial computing. We’re super excited about it.” Now, we’re hearing Apple has stopped working on the headset following lackluster sales of the only slightly upgraded M5 chip-powered model introduced in October, which retained…
Global Security News
How Silicon Valley’s Brightest Parents Broke Their Own School
Tech executives built the ‘it’ school for their gifted kids. Lawsuits, internal feuding and a breakaway followed.
AI, Global Security News, privacy
OpenAI plans its own ‘iPhone killer’
It looks very much as if Apple’s former designer Jony Ive will compete against the company his friend Steve Jobs created as he works with OpenAI on a device that seems to be some form of competitor for the iPhone. In a post on X, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims OpenAI is working with Qualcomm and…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
The endless CISO reporting line debate — and what it says about cybersecurity leadership
It is difficult to understand why, in 2026, we are still debating the reporting line of the chief information security officer (CISO). It is one of the first topics I wrote about in 2015, and after more than two decades of high-profile cyber incidents, sustained regulatory pressure, massive technology investments and the steady elevation of…
AI, Data Breaches, Europe, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, Politics, privacy, Venture
Apple — 50 years in fifteen minutes
It felt churlish to let Apple’s 50th birthday pass without adding to the hagiographic choir, so what follows is an unapologetically selective tour through some of the moments that shaped one of the most influential companies of the modern era. These were the inflection points where Apple didn’t just ship products, it distorted reality in its direction. For…
Global Security News
Superloop just won Canstar’s Outstanding Value – High Speed NBN Plans 2026
Fast internet. Amazing value. A shiny new badge to prove it.
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
How to get an early taste of Android’s next-gen multitasking magic
It isn’t often that we see an interface addition so significant — so shape-shifting — that it has the potential to completely change the way you use your phone. It may sound like hyperbole, but that very sort of enhancement is absolutely on its way into Android. After a comical amount of hemming, hawing, flippin’,…
AI, Global Security News
Microsoft wants you to ‘hire’ its AI agents
It looks like Microsoft will soon be releasing a new SKU, Microsoft 365 E7, according to my friend — and Microsoft expert’s expert — Mary Jo Foley. As she described it last week, the release “will be key to Microsoft’s plan to license ‘agentic’ workers like human employees.” Oh boy. Suddenly, I can see millions…
AI, Apps, Global Security News
Apple to kill app support for Intel-based Macs next year
IT admins and decision-makers take note: Apple has confirmed it will terminate Rosetta support for Intel-based apps starting with macOS 28 in 2027. That means any remaining Intel apps your company relies on must be replaced to maintain business continuity and security. It’s also important to note that macOS 26 will be the last OS upgrade to support any…