Historic price hikes for PCs are likely to linger for a long time, prompting many  enterprises to put hardware upgrades on hold, analysts said. PC prices — for both enterprise and consumer buyers — are expected to jump by about 17% this year, Gartner analyst Ranjit Atwal told Computerworld. And the era of the $500

Does AI make you nervous? Worried? Fearful? Delusional?  The rise of AI appears to be triggering the rise of new conditions that never existed before. So, what’s going on?  We’ve all heard of AI psychosis, of course. The media loves this one. The phrase “AI psychosis” started as “chatbot psychosis.” Coined by Danish psychiatrist Søren

In 1774, British physician-scientist Charles Blagden received an unusual invitation from a fellow physician: to spend time in a small room that was hotter, he wrote, “than it was formerly thought any living creature could bear.” Many people may have been appalled by this offer, but Blagden was delighted by the opportunity for self-experimentation. He

In recent weeks, AI giant Anthropic has been locked in a high‑stakes confrontation with the Trump administration’s Department of Defense (DoD) over new standard terms the Pentagon wants to impose on AI vendors. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had demanded contract language that would give the military “any lawful use” of Anthropic’s models, effectively stripping out

DENVER—The US Air Force’s new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile is on track for its first test flight next year, military officials reaffirmed this week. But no one is ready to say when hundreds of new missile silos, dug from the windswept Great Plains, will be finished, how much they cost, or, for that matter, how

Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks without breaking the Internet. The objective is a tall order. The quantum-resistant cryptographic data needed to transparently publish TLS certificates is roughly 40 times bigger than the classical cryptographic material used today. A typical X.509 certificate chain

Health officials in Illinois turned to an AI chatbot to try to solve a puzzling outbreak linked to a county fair. But whether it was actually helpful or not remains unclear. According to a report this week in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, officials in Brown County got the first hint of an outbreak

US President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was instructing every federal agency to “immediately cease” use of Anthropic’s AI tools. The move comes after Anthropic and top officials clashed for weeks over military applications of artificial intelligence. “The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of

Most banking executives thinking about AI asked the same question: which vendor should we partner with? Booshan Rengachari asked something different: where in the payment stack does AI actually belong? Rengachari founded Finzly in 2018. The company builds payment infrastructure for banks still running on systems from the 1980s. By 2023, he kept seeing the

This strategic integration empowers AWS customers to move beyond visibility and take control, providing a unified platform to discover, purchase, and govern every identity at the heart of their cloud security strategy SailPoint, Inc. (Nasdaq: SAIL), a leader in enterprise security today announced that SailPoint Identity Security Accelerator is now integrated with the Extended plan in AWS Security