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Enterprise AI organizations are rapidly consolidating agent orchestration onto model-provider platforms, but a significant gap persists between ambition and reality, with most deployed 'agents' remaining simple chatbot wrappers rather than true multi-step workflows, according to new research from VentureBeat Pulse.

The discovery stems from 11 firmware images, known as shims, that were signed by Microsoft despite being known as defective since at least 2013.

Google and Epic Games have jointly withdrawn their attempt to settle a landmark lawsuit retroactively, clearing the way for Google to begin carrying rival third-party app stores inside its own Google Play Store starting next week.

Google has released a new extension for Visual Studio Code called the Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks extension, enabling developers to connect their local IDE directly to managed Jupyter notebook environments on Google Cloud.

In a joint advisory with Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) highlighted ongoing operations by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16, which exploits poorly configured networking devices worldwide.