A survey by programming training company Coddy Tech of 305 developers found that 80% say their AI use has felt more like dependence than an advantage, with 43% continuing to code with AI after hours a…
Sonos is preparing a major AI-powered upgrade to its Voice Control assistant and new hardware, including the Sonos Ace Ultra headphones and a successor to the Sonos Beam (Gen 2), according to FCC fili…
AWS Marketplace has seen AI agent offerings grow from about 1,000 to more than 4,000 in the past year, with 'AI agents' rising from the 64th to the third most popular keyword search, according to Matt…
A January 2024 deepfake video call scam at professional services firm Arup resulted in 15 wire transfers totaling about $25 million, prompting security experts like Deepak Gupta, technical CEO at Grac…
A ZDNET report finds that AI-enabled layoffs are backfiring, with jobloss.ai tracking 126,000 US employees losing jobs between January 2025 and June 2026 due to AI-related factors. Research from Caree…
Incogni's new study of 13 AI platforms ranks them by privacy risk, finding that the largest platforms are the most privacy-invasive, with the exception of OpenAI's ChatGPT. Gemini and Meta AI received…
Google's AI Professional Certificate, an eight-course bundle on Coursera, is available for free and highly recommended by ZDNET after completing it. The program builds practical AI skills from fundame…
Mozilla has released Smart Window beta, a free AI tool for Firefox on macOS and Windows that lets users switch between three models (Fast, Flexible, Personal) and includes Memories for saved context. …
ZDNET's Jack Wallen recommends six Linux distributions that are unlikely to include AI, including Debian, which has explicitly stated that AI models without original training data are not DFSG-complia…
ZDNET's Jack Wallen tested Omarchy Quattro, a Linux distribution that integrates AI coding agents as first-class citizens, and reported that while it is powerful, it is not for beginners. The distro, …
Google LLC enables Gemini AI access to all Google Workspace data by default, including Gmail, Docs, Calendar, and Chat, unless administrators disable it, according to a ZDNET report. The company state…
Anthropic began watermarking text output from its Claude LLMs to comply with Article 50 of the EU AI Act, prompting public backlash and the emergence of watermark-removal tools on GitHub. John Gruber,…
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…
Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 7.2, which includes cache-aware scheduling to improve data access efficiency by aggregating tasks sharing data to the same LLC cache domain, reduci…
Google's VP Rick Osterloh used the Made by Google event to promote the Pixel 11 Pro, claiming the company wants users to spend less time on their phones and more time being present, while introducing …
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 …
OpenAI has released a preview of its ChatGPT desktop application for Linux, an Electron-based proprietary program that supports Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43 and 44 on x86-6…