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CISO Stature Rises, but Security Budgets Remain Tight

Information Week

The rate of compensation gains has slowed from the COVID years, and budgets remain largely static due to economic fears, but CISOs are increasingly gaining executive status and responsibilities.

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The 7 hottest jobs in IT

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2025, demand for IT talent remains strong across core roles and experts predict that the need for essential IT positions will continue to grow. Businesses face stiff competition for top talent in areas such as software engineering, cybersecurity, and data management. And while AI dominates news coverage, a recent Deloitte report cites MIT economist Daron Acemoglu, who suggests only 5% of jobs are at risk from AI automation in the next decade because of reliability challenges and the need fo

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Enterprises face data center power design challenges

Network World

Whether it is a hyperscaler or enterprise endeavor, powering a data center is proving to be much more challenging than building one. For hyperscalers like AWS and Google, the primary challenge is to simply to get enough power to the data center. Its gotten so bad some organizations are looking to build small nuclear power plants right next to the data center so as to not be dependent on the local power grid.

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Meta, Yandex Covertly Tracked Billions of Android Users, According to Researcher

Tech Republic Security

A report highlights how Meta and Yandex bypassed privacy and security controls to implement web-to-app tracking on Android users.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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AI Cost As A First Class Metric — Our Conversation With David Tepper, CEO and Founder of Pay-I

Forrester IT

As AI scales, cost management shifts from a technical detail to a strategic priority. Leaders must balance innovation, ROI, and volatility to drive sustainable value.

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INE Security Alert: $16.6 Billion in Cyber Losses Underscore Critical Need for Advanced Security Training

CIO Business Intelligence

New FBI Data Reveals Organizations Need Deeper Technical Expertise to Detect, Contain, and Remediate Advanced Attacks INE Security , a global leader in cybersecurity training and certification, is emphasizing the urgent need for technical cybersecurity professionals who can detect, analyze, and neutralize threats once theyve bypassed initial defenses.

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Honeywell Report OT Under Siege

SecureWorld News

The Honeywell 2025 Cyber Threat Report delivers a sobering snapshot of today's industrial cybersecurity landscape: cyberattacks targeting operational technology (OT) environments are no longer rare or speculative—they're persistent, highly targeted, and increasingly sophisticated. This year's report is a must-read for practitioners defending OT-heavy sectors like manufacturing, energy, logistics, and critical infrastructure.

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Inside the LLM system that reads emails like a cybersecurity analyst

Dataconomy

Phishing emails, those deceptive messages designed to steal sensitive information, remain a significant cybersecurity threat. As attackers devise increasingly sophisticated tactics, traditional detection methods often fall short. Researchers from the University of Auckland, have introduced a novel approach to combat this issue. Their paper, titled “ MultiPhishGuard: An LLM-based Multi-Agent System for Phishing Email Detection ,” authored by Yinuo Xue, Eric Spero, Yun Sing Koh, and Gi

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Bridging the vision-performance gap: when demos dazzle but projects fizzle

CIO Business Intelligence

The hype cycle begins innocently enough. A Board member attends a conference where a vendor showcases a dazzling AI demo. The potential for multiplying workforce productivity at next to no cost seems almost too good to be true. Back at the office, excitement turns to confusion as the IT team struggles to get the chosen technology working predictably with real data.

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Broadcom grows revenues by 20% following VMware purchase, as customers fume about subscription costs

Network World

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware continues to prove itself a worthy purchase, even as the semiconductor giant has faced harsh criticism, and lost some customers, due to significant price increases. The company this week announced its Q2 2025 results, revealing revenue growth of 20% year- over-year (YoY), to $15 billion. Net income, meanwhile, ramped up 124% YoY to $4.95 billion.

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AI Isnt the Future — Its the Fight Youre Already In: Are You Ready?

The AI era isn’t coming—it’s here. But over 70% of AI projects fail before they scale. Why? No strategy. No alignment. No ROI. We worked with a $50M company that wasted a year and half their budget chasing AI pilots with no payoff. Sound familiar? That’s where our four-step transformation system comes in: Assess, Strategize, Execute, Scale. We help you cut through the hype, find what actually moves the needle, and build a roadmap that delivers results.

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OpenAI Report: 10 AI Threat Campaigns Revealed Including Windows-Based Malware, Fake Resumes

Tech Republic Security

OpenAI’s June 2025 report, which details 10 threats from six countries, warns that AI is accelerating cyber threats, lowering barriers for attackers, and calling for collective detection efforts.

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What Greece’s AI strategy teaches us about global innovation

Dataconomy

The global innovation map has long been dominated by a few familiar pins: Silicon Valley , Boston , perhaps London or Tel Aviv. But as the tectonic plates of technology and capital shift, the contours of this map are being redrawn. Emerging from a decade of profound economic crisis, Greece is making a compelling, and perhaps unexpected, bid to etch its own mark.

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Build once. Build right. The enduring power of Azure Landing Zones.

CIO Business Intelligence

Now that the rush to adopt the cloud has passed, many organisations are facing the consequences of that pace. Fragmented environments, inconsistent governance, and platforms that werent designed to scale are common. Technical debt is slowing teams down and driving up operational costs. Every new workload introduces risk and friction. The root cause?

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IBM’s cloud crisis deepens: 54 services disrupted in latest outage

Network World

IBM Cloud suffered its second major outage this week on Wednesday, once again disrupting essential services and leaving customers worldwide unable to log in or manage their resources. The incident, which lasted for over four hours, began at 8:55 AM UTC and was resolved by 1:20 PM UTC on Wednesday. This time, it disrupted 54 services , including critical components like IBM Cloud itself, AI Assistant, Account Management, Activity Tracker Event Routing, Cloud Monitoring, Security and Compliance Ce

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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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Startup radar: Seattle companies apply AI to space imagery, security cameras, marketing automation

GeekWire

From top left, clockwise: Vinay Ahuja; Chris Jones; Vikash Kodati; and Ian McAllister. We’re back with another quick spotlight on some up-and-coming Seattle-area tech startups. Our latest cohort spans space, security, marketing, and productivity. Read on to learn more about the startups and their founders, and check out past startup radar spotlights here.

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Can AI learn to play fair?

Dataconomy

Researchers Neemesh Yadav, Palakorn Achananuparp, Jing Jiang, and Ee-Peng Lim from Singapore Management University and the Australian National University have conducted a large-scale study on how large language models (LLMs) simulate human-like decision-making in social negotiations. Their work explores how theory of mind (ToM) reasoning and different prosocial belief systems affect the behavior of AI agents in a classic economic simulation known as the ultimatum game.

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CrowdStrike and Microsoft Join Forces on Naming Threat Actors

SecureWorld News

In a rare and potentially industry-shaping move, CrowdStrike and Microsoft have announced a formal collaboration to deconflict cyber threat attribution. The two cybe rsecurity giants are aligning their threat intelligence efforts to reduce confusion and enhance consistency in naming and describing threat actors across the ecosystem. Their joint blog post frames this as a win for the broader community, aiming to eliminate the friction caused by different vendors assigning different names and moti

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Netgear’s enterprise ambitions grow with SASE acquisition

Network World

Netgear today took the next step in its plans to grow share among enterprises with the acquisition of privately-held security vendor Exium. Founded in 2019, Exium provides SASE capabilities that go beyond the secure web gateway (SWG) type of functionality that describes most retail and SMB networking gear. Financial terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed.

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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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CIO Chaos Mastery: Lessons from Vertiv's Bhavik Rao

Information Week

TechTarget and Informa Tech’s Digital Business Combine. TechTarget and Informa TechTarget and Informa Tech’s Digital Business Combine. Together, we power an unparalleled network of 220+ online properties covering 10,000+ granular topics, serving an audience of 50+ million professionals with original, objective content from trusted sources. We help you gain critical insights and make more informed decisions across your business priorities.

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How Anthropic managed to triple its revenue in 5 months

Dataconomy

The Claude chatbot family is driving explosive growth as Anthropic races to define the future of enterprise AI. Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives, has reached $3 billion in annualized revenue, according to a recent report from Reuters. This figure represents a 200 percent increase since December, underscoring the rising demand for generative AI tools in the business sector.

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Asus urges factory resets and strong passwords following botnet breach

TechSpot

The company's guidance follows the discovery of a widespread botnet attack that has compromised over 9,000 Asus routers globally. Known as the "AyySSHush" botnet, the campaign exploits a previously disclosed vulnerability to install a persistent backdoor, allowing attackers to retain remote access even after firmware updates or device reboots.

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AMD acquires Brium to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI software

Network World

AMD has acquired AI software startup Brium, in a move potentially aimed at challenging Nvidias dominance in AI software and strengthening support for machine learning workloads on AMD hardware. Brium brings advanced software capabilities that strengthen our ability to deliver highly optimized AI solutions across the entire stack, AMD said in a statement.

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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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How AI Is Rewriting the CIO’s Workforce Strategy

Information Week

TechTarget and Informa Tech’s Digital Business Combine. TechTarget and Informa TechTarget and Informa Tech’s Digital Business Combine. Together, we power an unparalleled network of 220+ online properties covering 10,000+ granular topics, serving an audience of 50+ million professionals with original, objective content from trusted sources. We help you gain critical insights and make more informed decisions across your business priorities.

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What if your voice could become a lion’s roar or a goblin’s snarl with AI?

Dataconomy

A team of researchers from NC AI Co., Ltd and Sogang University in South KoreaMinsu Kang, Seolhee Lee, Choonghyeon Lee, and Namhyun Chohave developed a machine learning model that can convert human speech into a wide range of non-human sounds. Their work, titled addresses a growing need in gaming, film, and interactive media: how to automatically generate expressive animal sounds and fantasy voices from human input, with high audio fidelity and realistic style.

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Hacker arrested after exploiting 5,000 accounts in $4.5 million cryptojacking scheme

TechSpot

Authorities traced the breach to a 35-year-old who systematically exploited the company's security vulnerabilities. Using data gathered from public sources since 2018, the hacker compromised over 5,000 customer accounts. Once inside, he deployed virtual machines to mine cryptocurrency, diverting substantial computing power and causing an estimated $4.5 million in losses.

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Microsoft issues out-of-band patches for Windows 11 startup failure

Network World

Windows administrators stung by a faulty Microsoft update in the May Patch Tuesday releases now have fixes for the problem. Over the weekend, Microsoft released out-of-band update s to correct the failure of Windows 11 computers running versions 22H2/23H2of the operating system, mainly in virtual environments, to start. The problem: While installing the May Windows security update ( KB5058405 ) on some of these computers, the OS thinks a crucial file ACPI.sys is missing.

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How AI Is Transforming IT in 2025: A Playbook for Smarter IT Ops

IT teams are under pressure to do more with less. AI isn’t just hype—it’s already helping lean IT teams cut support volume by up to 60%, reduce cloud waste, and eliminate risk from their stack. In this executive playbook, you'll learn how mid-sized companies are deploying AI to automate tier-1 tickets, predict outages, optimize SaaS spend, and secure infrastructure without hiring a bigger team.

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Massive InfoStealer Malware Breach Exposes 184 Million Credentials

SecureWorld News

In a significant cybersecurity incident, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler has uncovered an unprotected database containing more than 184 million login credentials. The 47.42 GB trove included plaintext usernames and passwords linked to major platforms such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Roblox. Alarmingly, the database also held sensitive data from banking institutions, healthcare providers, and government portals.

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How to Convince Management Colleagues That AI Isn't a Passing Fad

Information Week

Is AI just today's pet rock? Some senior executives actually believe that AI is little more than a momentary craze. Here's how to (politely) set them right.

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UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy

ComputerWeekly

The UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition

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3 ways to streamline cloud adoption and cloud security

Network World

In todays cloud-first world, speed and agility are the currency of innovation. Organizations are under pressure to deliver applications faster, more securely, and across increasingly distributed cloud environments. As a result, your developers are being asked to ship code at a rapid pace, often on a weekly or even daily basis. At the same time, your infrastructure and cloud security teams struggle to keep up with the sprawling resources deployed across your multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environme

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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.