Hello. Welcome to Computerworld’s 2-minute technical briefing. I’m your host Arnold Davick reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Here are the top IT stories you need to know on Tuesday, February 3rd. According to NetworkWorld, Amazon has confirmed approximately 16,000 job cuts.
Beth Galetti, Amazon’s SVP of People, Experience and Technology, wrote in an email to employees that affected staff will not be immediately laid off. US residents will have 90 days to search for a new role within the company. Timings vary in other countries.
Amazon says it will continue hiring in strategic areas and provide severance and outplacement assistance to those who do not move into new roles. From CSO Online, SolarWinds has issued an update to its web help desk IT software after discovering six critical flaws.
These flaws could allow an attacker to bypass authentication, remotely execute code, and access certain functionality that should be gated. Four are rated as critical. Reported by researchers from Watchtower and Horizon3AI. SolarWinds says administrators should upgrade to Web Help Desk 2026.1 and check their servers for unusual activity.
And from ComputerWorld, Epoch AI says OpenAI’s GPT 5.2 Pro is better at advanced math. GPT 5.2 Pro solved four problems that other AI models couldn’t solve.
It was also able to solve 11 of the 13 problems that other models had previously solved. According to Epoch AI, this improved the overall score from 19% to 31%. The two professors who posted the questions praised the model but warned that there were gaps in rigor due to missing details.
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