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Market research firm Gartner yesterday published its 2024 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, and the study revealed that generative AI (genAI) has passed the “peak of inflated expectations” and is now sliding down into the “trough of disillusionment.” Along with genAI, AI-augmented software engineering is also heading down the slope, after passing its inflated expectations…
Agentic RAG is getting a lot of attention these days as a practical way to reduce — or, depending on the audacity of the vendor, eliminate — hallucinations from generative AI (genAI) tools. Sadly, it might not decrease hallucinations — but it could open the door to other problems. To be clear, there’s nothing bad about Agentic RAG…
Pixel phones are filled with efficiency-enhancing Google intelligence, and one area that’s all too easy to overlook is the way the devices can improve the act of actually talking on your cellular telephone. That’s true for any Pixel model, no matter how old it may be, and it’s especially true for the new Pixel 9…
As the excitement about the immense potential of large language models (LLMs) dies down, now comes the hard work of ironing out the things they don’t do well. The word “hallucination” is the most obvious example, but at least output that is crazily fictitious stands out as wrong. It’s the lesser mistakes – factual…
A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have opted to not just discuss all of the ways artificial intelligence (AI) can go wrong, but to create what they described in an abstract released Wednesday as “a living database” of 777 risks extracted from 43 taxonomies. According to an article in MIT Technology Review outlining the initiative, “adopting…
Jamf has removed yet another brick in the wall put up by Windows-centric IT staffers to fend off acceptance Macs in the enterprise, revealing a new partnership with Microsoft that simplifies management of both Windows and Apple devices using Microsoft Azure. The arrangement means Jamf device management solutions will be hosted on Microsoft Azure and made…
Microsoft plans to begin archiving unlicensed OneDrive user accounts after 90 days beginning Jan. 27, 2025 — with a fee required for account storage and re-activation. There are different reasons why businesses might have unlicensed OneDrive accounts, Microsoft said in a blog post on the SharePoint admin site; if a license has been removed when an employee…
The massive worldwide Windows outage caused by a disastrous update from the security company CrowdStrike made clear again just how reliant the world is on technologies few people understand — seemingly even the companies in charge of them. The incident is a case study in how vulnerable the world is, not just to technology, but to the…
Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscribers get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches, and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available. We’re doing…
A Windows launch isn’t the end a process — it’s really just the beginning. As with Windows 10, Microsoft continually works on improving Windows 11 by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new features. In this story we summarize what you need to know about each update released to the public for the…