I’ve said from the beginning that the biggest risk with AI isn’t that it writes bad code. It’s that people are starting to trust it to make decisions it has no business making.
New research drives that point home.
Researchers have uncovered a new attack called HalluSquatting, and it exploits one of AI’s most well-known weaknesses: it would rather make something up than admit it doesn’t know the answer.
That behavior, which we’ve all come to know as hallucination, is no longer just an annoyance. It can now be turned into a weapon.
Here’s how it works. [Read more…]
Back in the fall, I said Microsoft was going to have to extend Windows 10 support again. The numbers made it obvious. There were simply too many machines still running it, and not enough realistic paths to Windows 11 for a huge chunk of users. Now here we are.
The AI subsidy era is ending, and the bills are finally showing up.
For years, companies drilled one thing into employees’ heads: don’t trust weird emails. Problem is, attackers adapted. Instead of fighting against people’s skepticism around email, they moved to platforms employees already trust without thinking twice about it. One of the biggest targets right now is Microsoft Teams
There’s a growing argument that AI is increasing the intensity of work instead of reducing it, and honestly, that tracks.