A data breach at Conduent Inc., one of the largest government services contractors in the United States, has compromised the personal information of more than 25 million individuals, making it potentially the largest theft of personal data from a single company in American history.
The way consumers discover brands is changing faster than most marketing teams realize. A growing share of purchase research now starts with a question to an AI assistant rather than a Google search. “What CRM should I use for a 10-person sales team?” “Which protein powder has the best taste reviews?” “Recommend an accounting tool for freelancers.”
The company building the artificial intelligence that many fear will eliminate white-collar jobs is, paradoxically, on one of the most aggressive hiring sprees in Silicon Valley. Anthropic, the San Francisco–based maker of the Claude AI assistant, is planning to roughly double its headcount to about 2,000 employees by the end of 2025, according to a report from Business Insider.
For decades, IBM has occupied an enviable position in enterprise computing: the indispensable steward of aging COBOL systems that power the world’s banks, insurers, and government agencies. That position came under sudden and dramatic pressure on February 23, 2025, when shares of IBM cratered as much as 13% in early trading after Anthropic announced that its Claude Code AI tool could now handle COBOL-to-modern-language migration — a task that has long been one of IBM’s most lucrative consulting and software businesses.
A grassroots campaign that began as a frustrated gamer’s YouTube video has now reached the halls of European governance, and the video game industry may never be the same. The “Stop Killing Games” initiative, a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) that seeks to compel publishers to keep their games functional even after official support ends, has cleared a critical procedural hurdle and is advancing toward a formal European Commission review. The implications for an industry that increasingly relies on live-service models and digital-only distribution are profound.
For years, BitLocker — Microsoft’s built-in disk encryption tool — was a feature most Windows users never thought about. It sat quietly in the background, reserved primarily for enterprise environments and power users who manually activated it. But a quiet policy change that began with Windows 11 version 24H2 has fundamentally altered that calculus, and millions of users may not realize they’re sitting on a ticking time bomb that could lock them out of their own computers.
For most users of mainstream operating systems, connecting to a Wi-Fi network is a trivial affair—click a button, enter a password, and move on. But for those running FreeBSD, one of the oldest and most respected open-source operating systems, wireless networking has long been a source of frustration, particularly when it comes to Broadcom chipsets found in millions of laptops and embedded devices.
A recently disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant allowed users to access confidential emails they were never meant to see — a stark reminder that the rapid deployment of artificial intelligence tools across corporate environments carries risks that many organizations have yet to fully reckon with. The bug, which Microsoft has since patched, raises pointed questions about how AI systems handle permissions, data boundaries, and the trust enterprises place in them.
The semiconductor industry’s most critical bottleneck may be on the verge of a dramatic expansion. ASML Holding NV, the Dutch company that holds an effective monopoly on the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines essential to manufacturing the world’s most advanced chips, has unveiled a significant advance in its light source technology that could boost chip production by as much as 50 percent before the end of the decade.
For years, the green bubble versus blue bubble divide has been more than a cosmetic annoyance — it has represented a genuine security gap between iPhone and Android users. That gap is now closing, but the road to full end-to-end encryption across platforms is proving to be neither quick nor simple.
