Meta had delayed releasing Muse, its A.I. agent app, for months over safety concerns. Then new competition forced Mr. Zuckerberg’s hand.
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PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
PC shipments saw a steep drop of about 20 percent in Q3 2026, analysts reported this week. The industry saw its “sharpest decline since “Q1 2023,” Omdia said in an announcement toady. Global shipments of laptops, desktops, and workstations fell 21.2 percent year over year (YoY) to 58.1 million devices, the analyst said. Desktop PC...
Why My Conversations with OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very Worried
A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.
(BPRW) FPL Launches New Assistance Center, Making It Easier for Customers to Find Ways to Get Help and Save
(Black PR Wire) JUNO BEACH, Fla. — Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) is launching a new online Assistance Center, designed to make it easier for customers to find programs that can help them save energy, manage their monthly bills and fin…
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Attackers hijacked three top-level domains and used their control to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large organizations, Google said Tuesday. The attackers launched a series of attacks on the .gh, .sl, and .as country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and then modified authoritative DNS records for selected domains within those namespaces. By controlling...
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The publisher of Wikipedia said Monday that OpenAI agents attempted to hack a note-taking tool it hosts, made unauthorized edits, and sent millions of resource-intensive requests to its infrastructure, in the latest instance of OpenAI systems taking harmful and potentially dangerous actions. The objective of some of the OpenAI agents’ actions, the Wikimedia Foundation said,...
Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey
VMware customers face multiple obstacles as they rethink their virtualization strategy to reduce dependence on VMware. Today, Rimini Street published its “2026 IT Virtualization Survey – What’s Next for VMware Users.” The survey examined 300 organizations worldwide that use VMware. Notably, Rimini sells third-party support for VMware and other software, including Oracle and SAP. That...
(BPRW) Lauriece Hudson releases a captivating and beautiful new Single, “More Than An Angel”
(Black PR Wire) Independent Artist, Lauriece Hudson, invites you to immerse yourself in her new song, “More Than An Angel.” Her smooth and soulful lead and harmonious background vocals are comforting. In addition, the track blends elements of Gospel…
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of
The adoption of AI agents in millions of organizations is creating new opportunities for attackers to make them take malicious actions, such as exfiltrating database contents and sensitive business and personal information. In the past five months, Google and four other organizations—with little in common except for their use of AI agents—have acknowledged vulnerabilities that...
(BPRW) Tip “T.I.” Harris Invests in pocstock to Advance Creator Ownership in AI
(Black PR Wire) NEWARK, N.J. — pocstock, a media and AI-data company at the intersection of culture, content and artificial intelligence, today announced an investment from Grammy Award-winning rapper, actor, entrepreneur and investor Tip &ldqu…