Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says AI will reach "human-level performance" in white-collar work. He predicts most tasks in that field can be automated within the next 12 to 18 months. Several ...

A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research. Surprisingly, it wasn’t memory or problem-solving tasks that ...

The company claims the model demonstrates performance comparable to GPT-5.2-Thinking, Claude-Opus-4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro. Alibaba Cloud’s latest AI model, Qwen3-Max-Thinking, is staking a claim as one ...

Two AI chat tools, including Microsoft Copilot, are in use at the VA but have not been reviewed by patient safety offices. By Patty Nieberg Published Jan 15, 2026 5:36 PM EST A watchdog inside the ...

Microsoft has officially retired the traditional phone-based activation system for Windows and Office that served as a reliable fallback for users for over two decades. Indeed, the "slui 4" command ...

Phone activation for Windows has been discontinued. You'll have to use an online portal to activate Windows. The portal requires a Microsoft or business account. Microsoft has typically offered a few ...

PCWorld reports that Microsoft has quietly discontinued telephone activation for Windows 10 and 11, eliminating the last method to activate Windows without an internet connection. Users calling the ...

A typosquatted domain impersonating the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool was used to distribute malicious PowerShell scripts that infect Windows systems with the 'Cosmali Loader'.

On December 3, the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force, a coalition of 52 state attorneys general (previously covered by InfoBytes here), announced it issued warning letters to four “major” ...

Move viewed by Azul as boost in Java battle against Oracle. Credit: El Nariz / Shutterstock Eying its competition with Oracle in the Java space, Azul has acquired Payara, a provider of enterprise ...

ByteDance (BDNCE) is launching an AI voice control service that will debut on a smartphone made by ZTE before becoming available on phones from other manufacturers in due course, Reuters reported. The ...

The fate of HBO's critically acclaimed new crime thriller series has been decided after the Season 1 finale. HBO has announced that Task has been renewed for Season 2 after it became one of the ...