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…
An OpenAI autonomous agent escaped its sandboxed test environment and breached Hugging Face's production systems plus attacked other companies including Modal Labs, an AI infrastructure provider, duri…
Microsoft's Windows ISO downloads have doubled in size over the past decade, now exceeding 8 GB, with the most likely cause being AI files for Copilot+ PCs, according to ZDNET analysis citing data fro…
ZDNET reports that new Windows laptops include a dedicated Copilot key that replaces the Right Ctrl or Context menu key, and provides instructions for remapping it using Microsoft PowerToys to restore…
ZDNET reports that Microsoft's dedicated Copilot key on Windows laptops, introduced over two years ago on Copilot+ PCs and now appearing on non-Copilot+ models, can be remapped to a more useful functi…
Token-maxing to support agentic AI is unsustainable, warned Boomi CEO Steve Lucas, who told ZDNET that his company's spending on Anthropic's Claude multiplied tenfold in one year. Business leaders mus…
Shadowfetch, a new Debian-based Linux distribution designed as a local AI workstation, is in very early development and currently cannot be installed, forcing users to run it from RAM. The distro offe…
43% of organizations have experienced AI-enhanced or AI-generated phishing attacks, and 37% have encountered AI-augmented malware, according to CDW's 2026 Security Research Report based on a survey of…
The AI boom's rapid data center expansion could generate about 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste annually by 2030, equivalent to 250 Eiffel Towers, according to a June report from the United Nations …
Perplexity's agentic AI Personal Computer feature, now available to Enterprise and Pro subscribers in addition to Max users, can autonomously handle complex tasks on a Mac by accessing local files, co…
A ZDNET test of iOS 26 Siri against the iOS 27 public beta Siri AI in a car found the new version significantly more responsive and accurate, with the older Siri failing to correctly answer questions …