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A new report from enterprise AI platform Workday shows that almost 40 percent of AI time savings are lost to rework, including correcting errors, rewriting content, and verifying outputs from one-size-fits-all AI tools. Only 14 percent of employees say they consistently get clear, positive net outcomes from AI.

Despite this employees who use AI every day are overwhelmingly optimistic -- more than 90 percent believe it will help them succeed. But they also carry the biggest burden, 77 percent review AI-generated work just as carefully as work done by humans, if not more.

Despite record AI spending, 87 percent of enterprises still miss their revenue targets according to new research from Clari Labs, the research arm of Clari + Salesloft.

The findings suggest that AI acceleration has outpaced enterprise data governance and control. More than half (55 percent) report conflicting pipeline signals from disconnected data sources, and nearly half (48 percent) admit their revenue data isn’t AI-ready. As a result, 57 percent say AI agents still haven’t been fully deployed across revenue operations.

New research from LevelBlue SpiderLabs shows a 15 percent increase in business email compromise (BEC) activity last year alongside a continued shift toward more sophisticated social engineering.

The research highlights emerging tactics such as contact details swapping, increased use of dual-channel attacks that move victims from email to SMS or messaging apps, and multi-persona impersonation, including the use of fake email threads designed to make requests appear more legitimate.

As enterprises race to boost developer productivity, the era of building internal platforms entirely in-house is fading. Instead organizations are turning to purpose-built platform solutions that provide scalability, governance, and developer experience out of the box.

We talked to Lakmal Warusawithana, VP and distinguished engineer at WSO2, to find out why this change is taking place and how the role of platform engineers is evolving to suit.

Just over a month ago, Instagram decided to let users in the US tweak the algorithm used to display Reels. Now the Meta-owned social media platform is expanding this control far more widely.

While the expansion is a global one, it does not mean that all Instagram users around the world have been given greater control over the Reels algorithm. For now, this option is limited to the English language, and it is not quite clear when it will include other languages.

Microsoft has released the first Windows 10 update of 2026 in the form of the KB5073724 update. The update is available for Windows 10 21H2 and 22H2 users signed up to the ESU (Extended Security Update) program.

With Windows 10 no longer receiving mainstream support, this update is nothing more than a security update – although it is no less important because of that. The list of fixes is not huge, but Windows 10 hangers on should install it nonetheless.

Linux Mint 22.3, codenamed Zena, has been released as part of the project’s long term support desktop Linux line. The release is available to users upgrading from recent Mint versions or installing fresh systems.

Linux Mint 22.3 is an LTS release and as such will continue receiving updates until 2029. As with previous point releases in the series, it focuses on software updates, usability tweaks, and incremental feature improvements rather than major changes.

Wine, short for Wine Is Not an Emulator, is a long-running compatibility layer that lets Windows software run on POSIX systems by translating Windows API calls directly into native ones. The latest stable release, Wine 11.0, completes another year of development with thousands of changes aimed at performance, graphics handling, and long-term compatibility.

Wine 11.0 rounds off a full development cycle with roughly 6,300 individual changes and more than 600 bug fixes. This release includes two key changes. One is support for the ntsync kernel module on Linux, and the other is the completion of the newer WoW64 architecture, which changes how 32-bit Windows applications run on 64-bit systems.

Apple has introduced Apple Creator Studio, a new subscription service available beginning Wednesday, January 28, that brings together its professional creative apps under one plan. It combines tools for video, music, image editing, and productivity, and is aimed at creators who already rely on Mac, iPad, and iPhone and want a single place to access Apple’s core creative software.

The subscription bundles Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage, alongside added features and premium content in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.

New data reveals that 11.6 percent of C-Suite members admit to interacting with a phishing message in the last week alone, compared to just 8.8 percent of entry-level employees.

This is one of the findings of Yubico’s 2025 Global State of Authentication Report which also finds a gap in perception at the top, while 44 percent of C-Suite members believe their company has ‘very good’ cybersecurity in place, only 25 percent of entry-level employees agree, suggesting a discrepancy in cyber awareness

Six months ago Proton launched its privacy-focused AI assistant, Lumo, which doesn’t store or train its models on your prompts or chats.

Today it introduces Lumo 1.3 which adds Projects, a dedicated, encrypted space within Lumo for ongoing conversations about a specific topic. Rather than having to restart conversations or re-type the same instructions, Projects lets users bundle together chats, files, etc for any task (whether its a report for work, managing household finances or planning a holiday) and have them remain in sync across every device and session.

Data analytics is perhaps one of the areas that’s seen most benefit from AI, allowing information to be processed faster and in larger volumes.

With its new announcement today Sisense aims to deliver a new generation of analytics that not only interprets data but can act on it.

Ashampoo has released WinOptimizer 2026 for managing Windows performance, privacy, and system maintenance. It promises to help boost  slow performance, remove leftover junk, and provide easy access to advanced settings.

WinOptimizer 2026 lets users clean, tune, and customize Windows 10/11 without the need for deep technical know-how.

If you use Google Home to help with automation, there are new options coming your way. Google has announced the addition of new starters, conditions, and actions which it says help to give more granular control.

The various combinations allow for a huge degree of flexibility and personalization. With the Google Home ecosystem continuing to expand to include more products, users are becoming more demanding of what the system can do – and Google seems to be responding.

Google has started the process of rolling out the first update of 2026 for its range of Pixel devices. There are a large number of bug fixes within this update as well as the usual raft of monthly security patches.

The rollout is taking place on a global scale over the course of the coming weeks. Among the problems this update addresses is an issue that causes battery drain, and another related to flickering AOD.