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The Bitwarden CLI was briefly compromised after attackers uploaded a malicious @bitwarden/cli package to npm containing a credential-stealing payload capable of spreading to other projects. [...]

Recently observed Trigona ransomware attacks are using a custom, command-line tool to steal data from compromised environments faster and more efficiently. [...]

Global IT spending is expected to rise this year to $6.31 trillion, according to a new forecast from Gartner, a 13.5% increase compared to 2025.

According to the research firm, AI is the single most important driver behind the growth, with investments in AI infrastructure, in particular, driving the trend. The data center systems segment is expected to grow by a whopping 55.8% during the year, by far the fastest growing of all categories.

At the same time, IT services continue to account for the largest share of total spending and are expected to exceed $1.87 trillion this year. Software is also showing strong growth, particularly in generative AI.

Growth is also expected in the device market, though at a significantly slower pace. Overall, the market is expected to reach approximately $856 billion, though Gartner says this growth is being slowed by rising memory prices.

Chinese market research firm Sigmaintell expects Apple to be the only company to see growth in the laptop market this year.

Overall, Sigmaintel predicts global notebook shipments will reach 181.1 million units this year, a decline of 8%. That drop will, in part, be caused by memory and component shortages and also by slowing market demand. That’s going to damage all of the notebook vendors, bar Apple,. 

Apple laptop sales expected to rise more than 20%

Sigmaintell calculates Apple will ship 28 million laptop in the year, up 21.7% from 2025. This puts Apple in third place in laptop shipments, a demand the company will be able to meet despite component shortages because of the efficient use of memory inherent to its systems. That memory efficiency acts as a protection against the impact of climbing costs, even as competitors struggle with the affects on their business.

Apple’s incoming CEO, John Ternan, is being presented as a hardware man, so he will no doubt be pleased to experience the benefit of MacBook Neo’s massive attack on the lower echelons of the market. The Neo is already generating millions of additional sales, something Apple’s diversified revenue engine, including services, can further capitalize on.

PC makers face steep decline

There’s quite stark news for PC manufacturers. The report predicts Lenovo, Dell, HP, and ASUS will see sharp sales declines and warns that the entire industry will need to quickly transition from hardware-based sales toward full ecosystem plays. 

That’s going to be extraordinarily difficult for most PC makers. Not only do most of them use operating systems they don’t build themselves, but most lack a successful range of services customers will happily choose to use. 

For the most part, while Apple offers Apple Music, competitors only offer Spotify, a situation that generates far less revenue for them. That lack of successful monetization in terms of attached income across the customer base meant less when the PC market was growing, but in an environment buffeted by multiple business challenges it becomes a vulnerability that cannot be ignored. It exposes the inherent weakness of a strategy in which hardware manufacturers rely on third parties for operating systems and services, as the lion’s share of income doesn’t reach those hardware makers. 

You can go your own way

There’s little doubt that part of the reason Apple is in such a strong position is because of its highly strategic outgoing CEO, Tim Cook, who led efforts to build a strong services business, accompanied by a wide ecosystem of complementary accessories. You don’t just buy an iPhone, you buy a Mac, AirPods, and Apple Music. You don’t just get an iPad, but you likely also acquire Apple Arcade. 

To a great extent, Apple’s strength now owes a big debt to the many years in which the company was marginalized. Forced to follow its own path, Apple deliberately developed its own unique platform-based approach. That approach meant the company remained profitable even when it held just a few percentage points of the PC market; as its market share improves, we can also see its profitability climb. 

The way that you do it

This good news may not matter as much as you might think to Apple’s leadership team. To them, while becoming the industry’s fastest-growing notebook manufacturer is nice, what matters more is crafting a platform experience that means something to the people using it. That, after all, is how to generate the high user satisfaction Apple’s platform loyalty and word-of-mouth recommendations come from.

That 16% of everyone purchasing a notebook this year will choose a Mac suggests a watershed moment for all Apple’s platforms.

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A previously undocumented threat activity cluster known as UNC6692 has been observed leveraging social engineering tactics via Microsoft Teams to deploy a custom malware suite on compromised hosts. "As with many other intrusions in recent years, UNC6692 relied heavily on impersonating IT help desk employees, convincing their victim to accept a Microsoft Teams chat invitation from an account Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Huawei FreeBuds Pro 5 nehrají na efekt, ale na celek. Nepřekvapí designem ani jednou zásadní funkcí, zato se snaží být dobré ve všem. V době, kdy konkurence často tlačí na extrémy, je to možná rozumnější přístup, než se na první pohled zdá.

Před lety zaplavily trh první zdroje s polovodiči GaN, které usnadnily miniaturizaci a kapesní nabíječky pro mobil rázem utáhly i notebook. USB nabíječky začala nabízet i Alza pod vlastní značkou AlzaPower. Nejlevnější nabíječky se ale zahřívaly a trpěly nekvalitními komponentami. Při nákupu to ...

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Push to protect minors risks hitting everyone online

Proton's boss has waded into the age verification fight with a warning that sounds less like child safety and more like an identity checkpoint for the entire internet.…

Hackers have compromised Docker images, VSCode and Open VSX extensions for the Checkmarx KICS analysis tool to harvest sensitive data from developer environments. [...]

Poslední skutečně kapesní konzole od Nintenda letos oslavila velké narozeniny. Start měla krušný, ale hráči na ni vzpomínají převážně v dobrém. Zásluhu na tom má kopa výborných her, z nichž vám dnes alespoň pár připomenu.

If you spend enough time looking at a monitoring dashboard, you start to see a comforting pattern. Green lights mean the servers are up, the logs are flowing, and everything feels under control. But if you look closer, you realize that linux logging is often more of a formal archive than a security tool. There is a quiet gap between seeing that a system is running and actually knowing what it is doing.

TPU 8 už nejsou jen jeden čip jako u předchůdce, ale dva. • Google vytvořil optimalizované akcelerátory pro trénink a inferenci. • Využije je pro AI Gemini, ale poskytne je také svým partnerům.

Dutch cosmetics giant Rituals disclosed a data breach after attackers stole the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers from its "My Rituals" membership database. [...]

Password resets are one of the easiest ways for attackers to bypass security controls. Specops Software shows how helpdesk social engineering turns a seemingly legitimate reset request into full account compromise. [...]

Bitwarden CLI, the command-line interface for the password manager Bitwarden, has reportedly been compromised as part of a newly discovered and ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign, according to findings from JFrog and Socket. "The affected package version appears to be @bitwarden/[email protected], and the malicious code was published in 'bw1.js,' a file included in the package contents," the Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other things

Palantir has won a $300 million contract from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support the National Farm Security Action Plan (NFSAP) and modernize how USDA delivers services to America's farmers.…

Microsoft confirmed that a recent Microsoft Edge browser update introduced a bug that prevents Windows users from joining Teams meetings. [...]

You scroll past one incident and see another that feels familiar, like it should have been fixed years ago, but it still works with small changes. Same bugs. Same mistakes. The supply chain is messy. Packages you did not check are stealing data, adding backdoors, and spreading. Attacking the systems behind apps is easier than breaking the apps themselves. The exploits are simple but still workRavie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

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