Is AI Causing Tech Worker Layoffs? It’s Complicated
Is AI Causing Tech Worker Layoffs? It’s Complicated The Associated Press explores whether AI is indeed behind the rising layoffs in the tech sector. The findings suggest that the situation…
How McKinsey Lost Its Edge
How McKinsey Lost Its Edge The management consulting industry is facing potential disruption as AI companies enter the advisory business, and traditional firms, including McKinsey, struggle to maintain growth. McKinsey…
Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says
Cloudflare has reported that Perplexity, an AI startup, is using undeclared web crawlers disguised as regular Chrome browsers to bypass websites that have denied access to their official bots. When…
Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China
Summary Microsoft revealed that their SharePoint product was recently exploited by state-sponsored hackers from China, compromising numerous organisations, including US government agencies. Notably, the support for SharePoint is handled by…
Delta’s Dynamic AI Pricing Plan Sounds Different Now
Summary Delta Air Lines has reversed its earlier claims about personalised pricing influenced by AI after concerns from lawmakers. Initially, Delta’s president had suggested that individual pricing for tickets would…
What Happens To Your Data If You Stop Paying for Cloud Storage?
What Happens To Your Data If You Stop Paying for Cloud Storage? Major cloud storage providers maintain unclear policies about deleting user data after subscription cancellations. Timelines for deletion can…
The Great Indian IT Squeeze
Summary The Indian IT sector, long dominated by major companies like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and HCLT, is now facing significant challenges. Traditionally, growth in these firms was closely linked to…
Why I co-developed a research career launchpad for first generation students
Why I co-developed a research career launchpad for first generation students In this episode of the Changemakers podcast, Deborah Daley interviews Arezoo Khodayari, an Iranian environmental scientist who created significant…
Python-powered malware snags hundreds of credit cards, 200K passwords, and 4M cookies
Python-powered malware snags hundreds of credit cards, 200K passwords, and 4M cookies PXA Stealer has compromised data from more than 4,000 victims across 62 countries, obtaining 200,000 passwords, hundreds of…
N6 (Hexanitrogen) Synthesized for the First Time – Twice As Energy Dense As TNT
Researchers from the University of Giessen, Germany, have achieved a significant breakthrough by synthesising hexanitrogen (N6) for the first time. This newly created nitrogen allotrope is reported to be twice…