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The Department of Homeland Security targets Microsoft in a new security review, Meta continues rows with regulators worldwide, IBM announces AI offering to modernize legacy COBOL software, and why is landing on the moon still such an ambitious feat?

Canadians are optimistic about AI and likely to ignore warnings of possible risks.  Meta/Facebook is emerging as a champion of open source in AI with a number of key papers published at the Interspeech conference this year. And the return of the X files – the Musk is out there.

Hacking your finger takes on a whole new meaning.  Meta/Facebook’s banning of Canadian news leaves victims of wildfires unable to share valuable and maybe even lifesaving information, QR Codes evade detection in phishing schemes and a legend has passed with the death of John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe.

Are scientists the next group to abandon Twitter? Crypto-currency miners build their own advocacy group to try to stave off criticism of their carbon footprint and Microsoft has egg on its face over a recommendation of a place to visit. 

Most Canadians will recognize the name and the logo but probably few of us really think much about Interac, which might be the ultimate tribute because it just works when we transfer money, and that “just works” doesn't just happen accidently. The number of things that have to go right every day would probably astonish us. This year Interac has processed over 1 billion transactions, a record for the organization.  Mark O’Connell has led this organization for many years, and he's here to talk to us at a perfect time because he is stepping down as the president and CEO.

Can’t focus? Maybe you have TikTok brain. It’s official – AI has reached the top of the hype curve according to Gartner. LinkedIn is providing a way to prove that we are who we say we are and if walks like a Platypus and talks like a Platypus, it may be a new open source AI model and one that is gaining attention for more than its unusual name.

Top physicist deems chatbots as mere media sensationalism, overshadowing quantum computing; tech giants offer six-figure salaries to snag top generative AI talent and the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI gets more complicated.

99 per cent of internet content could soon be generated by Artificial Intelligence. Forty million voters are affected by a UK data breach. The Internet Archives is being sued again.  And Reddit is in trouble once again, this time with the Russian government.

IBM announces a prototype of a brain-like analogue chip.  Most Americans want greater regulation of AI, Tech firms are cutting back on remote work job listings and is Threads unravelling as Musk and Zuckerberg pursue their feuding?

Microsoft says nyet to continued support for Russian users of its programs. Security agencies announce the top 12 most exploited vulnerabilities of the past year. The BBC says that tech companies are souring on the UK because of the amount of new regulation.