Canonical's VP of engineering Jon Seager told ZDNET that Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) will not outgrow native Ubuntu installs, clarifying that earlier comments about growth referred onl…
The average number of AI agents per organization nearly tripled from 5 to 13 between February 2025 and April 2026, according to Salesforce's 2026 Agentic Enterprise Index, which analyzed data from 400…
Google LLC enables Gemini AI access to all Google Workspace data by default for commercial customers, raising compliance and privacy concerns, though Google states it does not use the data for trainin…
OpenFactory, a new service from developer Erik Ziegenbald, lets users build custom Linux distributions via an AI prompt or selection menu, with 1,356 distributions available to test online. In a ZDNET…
ZDNET reports that Dicio, a free and open-source Android voice assistant, serves as a viable replacement for Google Assistant, which Google is discontinuing next month. Dicio handles basic tasks like …
Google will remove Assistant as an option in September, leaving Gemini as the only official Android digital assistant, but Gemini's hands-free voice calling via Android Auto remains unreliable, with u…
A ZDNET survey of 138 developers found that 75% prefer Anthropic's Claude Code over OpenAI's Codex for AI-assisted coding, with 22% using both tools. Respondents cited Claude Code's superior context h…
Workday president of product and technology Gerrit Kazmaier and principal strategist Julie Colwell say the rise of agentic AI is shifting labor demand from specialists to polymaths—professionals with …
Google's Pixel 11 Pro series introduces HiLight, a pulsing LED indicator on the camera bump that replaces the temperature sensor and signals incoming calls and Gemini interactions, with accessibility …
Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, agentic coding tools available for about 18 months, are more similar than different, and choosing between them depends on workflow and ecosystem rather than benchmarks, a…
ZDNET's Sabrina Ortiz reports that AI-generated flyers are often poorly designed, but clear prompts and design limits can produce better results. She provides 8 tips, including consulting a graphic de…
Cloudflare data shows desktop Linux usage surged to 22% on Monday, July 6, 2026, as workers returned after the July 4 holiday, with Linux reaching 6.4% of North American desktop operating systems in J…
Anthropic's new Claude Cowork Record-a-Skill feature enabled ZDNET editor David Gewirtz to reduce a research task from hours to 30 minutes by turning narrated screen recordings into reusable skills, b…
Microsoft's Windows boss Pavan Davuluri issued a progress report on the company's commitment to improve Windows quality, acknowledging that the company had been ignoring customer feedback for years. T…
Cybersecurity leaders say curiosity-led critical thinking, instinctive qualities above automation, and the ability to turn ambiguous signals into risk-based decisions are more valuable than certificat…
ZDNET reports that Anthropic's Claude AI conversations were briefly accessible via a Google dork, prompting the company to fix the indexing issue. The article outlines privacy controls for ChatGPT, Ge…
Google's Chrome security team used AI agents to find and fix 1,072 security bugs in 60 days, surpassing the total number of bugs fixed across the prior 23 milestones combined. The AI workflow, detaile…
Aston Martin Aramco F1 CIO Fabrizio Pilotti told ZDNET that human expertise remains central to Formula One performance in the AI age, with handcraft and experienced professionals guiding data-powered …
ZDNET reported that Anthropic's Claude AI conversations were temporarily exposed through Google search indexing, prompting the company to fix the issue. The article outlines privacy controls for major…
On July 16, Hugging Face reported being targeted by an autonomous AI agent system that flooded its domain with over 17,000 security log events and exfiltrated secret information from its databases. Op…