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Network and security vulnerabilities linked to 60% of zero-day cyberattacks

Network World

Network and security vulnerabilities were linked to more than 60% of zero-day exploits targeting enterprise technologies in 2024, according to a recent report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). GTIG tracked 75 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2024, a decrease from the number identified in 2023 (98 vulnerabilities), but an increase from 2022 (63 vulnerabilities).

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Quantum’s Double-Edged Sword: Balancing Risk and Readiness

Information Week

Preparing for quantum now unlocks future innovation and ensures resilience against emerging cybersecurity threats.

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4 recs for CIOs as they implement agentic AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Last year, in 5 ways CIOs can help gen AI achieve its lightbulb moment , I wrote about how we were in more of a gaslamp moment, with widespread experiments and accidents, as opposed to a true lightbulb moment. I noted then that despite the current level of hype and mainstream adoption, gen AI still needed to experience an expectation reset before embarking on a path to peak productivity.

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How Kraft Heinz Is Using GenAI to Re-Imagine the Future of Creative Content

Forrester IT

If you havent seen it yet and have 55 seconds to spare, I highly recommend you take a look at the Heinz AI Ketchup campaign. By asking Dall-E 2 to generate an image of a Ketchup-Bottle, the firm provided creative and entertaining proof that Heinz is not just another Ketchup brand.

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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Practical IT & Cybersecurity Training for Just $29.99

Tech Republic Security

Learn by doing build job-ready skills and train for CompTIA exams through real-world IT and coding exercises.

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Cisco unveils prototype quantum networking chip

Network World

Cisco is developing a quantum entanglement chip that could ultimately become part of the gear that will populate future quantum data centers. The research prototype, developed in cooperation with University of California, Santa Barbara, generates pairs of entangled photons that instantly transmit quantum state between each other, regardless of the distance between them, through whats known as quantum teleportation, or what Albert Einstein described as spooky action at a distance, according to Vi

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12 reasons to ignore computer science degrees

CIO Business Intelligence

Does the tech world need computer science? Not the computers or the chips, but the abstract collection of theories taught in universities with departments sporting that name. Not science in general, but the idea of thinking about programming with a theoretical lens. The question becomes trickier now that AI will be quickly putting us all out of business.

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The Evolution from Continuous Automation Testing Platforms to Autonomous Testing Platforms: A New Era in Software Testing

Forrester IT

The software testing landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. For years, Continuous Automation Testing (CAT) platforms have been the gold standard for reducing manual testing and ensuring comprehensive coverage across diverse environments.

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Security and verification concerns dog debate over Data (Use & Access) Bill

Computer Weekly

With the long-awaited Data (Use & Access) Bill returning to the House of Commons on 7 May, there remain pros and cons in the bill in relation to financial crime and cyber security

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Networking errors pose threat to data center reliability

Network World

Power-related outages remain the leading cause of major data center downtime, accounting for more than half (54%) of all cases tracked in Uptime Institutes 7 th annual outage analysis. Network-related and IT systems issues accounted for 12% and 11% of impactful data center outages, respectively, with networking/connectivity accounting for 30% of end-to-end IT service outages, the report found.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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A Primer for CTOs: Taming Technical Debt

Information Week

Is your organization drowning in technical debt? Here's how to drive debt down, safely and permanently.

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Rethinking digital transformation for the agentic AI era

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital transformation enables growth, creates efficiencies, improves experiences, and develops competitive advantages. A primary objective is evolving business models as technology, data, and AI rapidly change customer expectations and market opportunities. Technological paradigm shifts and disruptive global forces require CIOs to rethink their digital strategies every two years.

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Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2025: Automation Evolves, Robots Rise, And Synthetic Data Steps Forward

Forrester IT

Emerging technology isnt just speeding up its splintering into newer, riskier, and more powerful directions. Learn three noteworthy changes to this years top 10 emerging technologies listand one foundational truth that hasnt changed in this preview of our upcoming webinar and new report.

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Is there really such a thing as work-life balance in IT?

IT Toolbox

If you believe the grindbro orthodoxy, the only way to get ahead at work is to put in 120 hours a week. Now, I’m a workaholic’s workaholic who has been working 50-plus-hour weeks for decad.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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More math on the Linux command line

Network World

Linux provides quite a few commands that let you do math on the command line. Which is best depends on the kind of math that youre doing and the precision that youre expecting. This post covers five different commands with examples of how to use them and expands upon my earlier post. Using expr The expr command is one of the most frequently used commands for doing integer arithmetic.

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The CIO Role Is Expanding -- And So Are the Risks of Getting It Wrong

Information Week

As digital operations drive growth, CIOs are taking on more strategic roles and leading complex transformations with high accountability and little precedent.

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“Existe el riesgo de sobrevalorar la inteligencia artificial, especialmente la generativa en entornos de negocio”

CIO Business Intelligence

ngela Salmern, actual directora de investigacin del rea de Estrategias de transicin energtica global en la firma de investigacin IDC y experta en innovacin tecnolgica, estrategias empresariales y cumplimiento normativo, responde por correo electrnico a unas preguntas planteadas por CIO ESPAA antes de su participacin, el prximo 27 de mayo en Madrid, en Data & AI Summit 2025.

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Geopolitics Accelerates Emerging Technology Investment In Europe

Forrester IT

Contrary to popular misconception European firms aren't lagging behind in emerging technology adoption or a lack of innovative start-ups. Get a look at a few of this year's Top 10 Emerging Technologies through a European lens.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Europe leads shift from cyber security ‘headcount gap’ to skills-based hiring

Computer Weekly

Research from Sans Institute reveals European organisations are leading a global shift in hiring priorities, driven by regional regulatory frameworks.

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Quantum computing gets an error-correction boost from AI innovation

Network World

Theoretical physicists at RIKEN have made a key advance in quantum computing, using AI to improve the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code, a vital error-correction method. This breakthrough, detailed in a recent release , slashes the resources required to maintain stable quantum information, particularly in photonic systems, bringing fault-tolerant quantum computers closer to reality.

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DataBank CISO Looks at Tech Leadership in the C-Suite

Information Week

Mark Houpt started in the Navy and now serves as CISO for DataBank, a major data center provider. Here, he describes his career trajectory and shares his insights on how tech execs function in the modern C-suite.

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IT leaders on DOGE’s bold COBOL ambitions: Pure folly

CIO Business Intelligence

Many IT leaders scoffed when they heard that Elon Musks US Department of Government Efficiency wants to rip out millions of lines COBOL code at the Social Security Administration and replace it within a matter of months. COBOL is more than 60 years old, and concerns about maintaining the ancient programming language are on the rise, as many longtime COBOL coders head toward retirement and enterprises across nearly every industry remain beholden to it for mission-critical systems.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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How Emerging Tech Will Transform Digital Banking Experiences Over The Next Decade

Forrester IT

Over the next decade, banks, fintechs, and big tech firms will use a combination of maturing and emerging technologies to introduce innovative interfaces, making digital experiences more intuitive and human-centered. These technologies will amplify consumer understanding, enhance automation, and accelerate the orchestration and delivery of digital banking experiences.

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Is there really such a thing as work-life balance in IT?

IT Toolbox

If you believe the grindbro orthodoxy, the only way to get ahead at work is to put in 120 hours a week. Now, I’m a workaholic’s workaholic who has been working 50-plus-hour weeks for decad.

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Nutanix expands beyond HCI

Network World

Nutanix is often associated with the concept of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), but thats not the direction for whats coming next from Nutanix. At the Nutanix.NEXT conference this week, the vendor is extending its reach beyond traditional HCI into external storage, containerized architectures and AI-focused solutions. Its promoting a vision of run anything, run anywhere that now includes support for more storage options, hypervisor-free deployments and AI model management.

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How to Turn Your IT Team Into an Idea Generator

Information Week

Your IT team has many great ideas. To hear them, all you have to do is ask and then form a plan to work with them.

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How Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform

Tariffs are no longer just policy noise. They’re driving real, bottom-line impact. One policy shift and your sourcing strategy is upside down. This bulletin cuts straight to the point. How Market-Leading Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform breaks down how procurement teams are staying ahead of the chaos with real-time insights, smarter sourcing moves and AI-powered agility.

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Start small, think big: Scaling AI with confidence

CIO Business Intelligence

AI is having its moment. Theres no shortage of headlines, hype, or hesitation. The conversation often swings between awe and anxiety and I get it. Its hard to know where to start without overcomplicating things. But thats the point. You dont need to start big. You just need to start smart. Keep it simple. Then keep going. The biggest myth I hear? That everyone else already has this figured out.

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Racing Ahead: Emerging Technology Adoption In The APAC Region

Forrester IT

The Asia Pacific region is no longer following global tech trends it is setting them. Once seen as a fast adopter, APAC is now a bold innovator, building new technologies from the ground up. Get some examples and use cases in this preview of our upcoming webinar.

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Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model

TechSpot

It's been known for some time that the web is changing into the Zero-Click Internet, the name for when users no longer need to click on links to find whatever content they want.

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Liquid cooling technologies: reducing data center environmental impact

Network World

Large data centers are necessary for driving next-gen technologies including large language models (LLMs) and generative and agentic AI. However, their environmental challenges are increasingly concerning. Strong action is necessary, Microsoft researchers wrote in a new paper published in Nature. However, without understanding the overall environmental implications of new technologies, organizations find it difficult to chart a path to their reduction goals.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.