Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more >>See all our Transform 2025 coverage here<< When people started to talk about AI agents and assistants, the number one use case revolved around travel. Could... Read more

Like Pudding Pops and Benetton sweaters, another 1980s icon is gone. After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, Microsoft’s infamous “blue screen of death” is going away. A black screen of death will be replacing it, albeit without the sad face.... Read more

For years, the North Korean government has found a burgeoning source of sanctions-evading revenue by tasking its citizens with secretly applying for remote tech jobs in the West. A newly revealed takedown operation by American law enforcement makes clear just how much of the infrastructure used to pull off... Read more

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Scott White still marvels at how quickly artificial intelligence has transformed from a novelty into a true work partner. Just over a year ago, the product... Read more

The Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico hacked the phone of an FBI official investigating kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán as part of a surveillance campaign “to intimidate and/or kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses,” according to a recently published report by the Justice Department. The report, which cited an... Read more

CNET/Getty Images You can use “Buy Now, Pay Later” for just about everything now, from Costco purchases to DoorDash (although that doesn’t mean you should). About 86.5 million people used BNPL in 2024, according to Capital One’s research. But the one thing BNPL couldn’t do was improve your credit.... Read more

Vittoria Elliott: And you mentioned that everything’s over Signal. Obviously, there’s rules around maintaining records around government work if you’re a government worker. Did anyone ever talk to you about, “Hey, you have to archive these messages. Hey, you have to save these emails. Hey, you can’t delete that.”... Read more

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. The advent of large language models (LLMs) has made it easier for enterprises to envision the kinds of projects they can undertake, leading to... Read more

Mortgage rates have typically fallen during recessionary periods.  Douglas Rissing/Getty Images In today’s news cycle, recession headlines come and go. Amid trade war anxieties, stock market roller-coaster rides and global conflict, no one is hoping for a major economic setback — except recessions have often created more favorable conditions for mortgage... Read more

We all have that one friend who’s tech-savvy that everyone turns to for advice, especially ahead of big sale events like Amazon Prime Day. Well, that’s me. I’m that guy. When people find out what I do for a living, everything gets turned up to 11. I review laptops... Read more