Microsoft revealed last week that it will lay off 10,000 people throughout 2023. But don’t think that means the company is having money problems. On Monday, the company announced that it’s investing billions of dollars into the hot artificial intelligence platform OpenAI. This is Microsoft’s third investment in the... Read more

Enlarge / Holding up corporations, utilities, and hospitals for malware-encrypted data used to be quite profitable. But it’s a tough gig lately, you know? ifanfoto/Getty Images Two new studies suggest that ransomware isn’t the lucrative, enterprise-scale gotcha it used to be. Profits to attackers’ wallets, and the percentage of... Read more

Love and lust are in the air in Gotham City.  HBO Max dropped the trailer for Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special on Monday, centering on the raunchy and romantic exploits of Gotham’s criminal underbelly. Darkseid is in love. Catwoman is delivering chocolates. Bane, well… Bane is... Read more

Meta has cut ties with a subcontractor that provided moderators for its African markets, just weeks before the tech giant is due to appear in a Kenyan court to face allegations of human trafficking and union busting. The company has ended a contract with outsourcing company Sama, which former employee... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Many of us have given it a go in the last couple of weeks: Asking ChatGPT to concoct an abstract poem about dancing cows at Christmas, or to suggest a joke about some unsavory politicians (some things... Read more

Enlarge / The OpenAI logo superimposed over the Microsoft logo. Ars Technica On Monday, AI tech darling OpenAI announced that it received a “multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment” from Microsoft, following previous investments in 2019 and 2021. While the two companies have not officially announced a dollar amount on the... Read more

Microsoft will stop selling Windows 10 Home and Pro to customers next week, the company wrote on the product’s page. “January 31, 2023 will be the last day this Windows 10 download is offered for sale,” Microsoft wrote online. “Windows 10 will remain supported with security updates that help... Read more

As writers and testers in WIRED’s Gadget Lab, we spend all day immersed in personal technology of all kinds. It’s probably no surprise that if we work on a computer during the day and enjoy gaming in our downtime, our kids do, too. I (Adrienne) have a 5-year-old and... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Right now there is no “killer” use case for using ChatGPT in the enterprise — that is, one that will have an enormous impact on the top and the bottom line — according to EY’s global chief... Read more

If you’re looking for the best gaming TV, you typically don’t need to look further than the best TVs, period. Gaming has become so widespread that many of the greatest features on today’s televisions are perfectly suited for video games. A great gaming TV will really excel at the essentials... Read more