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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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Racing Yacht CTO Sails to Success

Information Week

Coming in first requires overcoming critical technical challenges while simultaneously supporting event and office infrastructures.

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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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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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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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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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Start Your Tech Career with a Fundamental IT Training Bundle That’s Only $25

Tech Republic Security

Seven in-depth courses on IT, servers, networking, and security for $24.99 (reg. $140) for a limited time.

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Microsoft Offers Free Cyber Security Support to European Governments Targeted By State-Sponsored Hackers

Tech Republic Security

Microsoft is helping Europe fight AI-based cyberattacks with a free security program tailored for governments.

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'SIEM Sprawl' Makes It Tough for Security Teams to Detect What Matters

SecureWorld News

In its 2025 State of SIEM report, CardinalOps delivers a stark message to cybersecurity professionals: despite massive investments in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms, most organizations are blind to a majority of known MITRE ATT&CK techniques. And the situation isn't improving fast enough. With data pulled from real-world production SIEM environments, the report exposes persistent detection gaps, redundant rules, and "SIEM sprawl" that undermines both threat visibi

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Wing and Walmart are bringing drone delivery to 100 new stores

The Verge

Wing, the drone company owned by Alphabet, and Walmart are expanding their delivery partnership to five new cities in the US, the companies announced today. Customers who shop at Walmart stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa will soon have the ability to request a drone deliver their online shopping orders. Walmart and Wing currently offer drone delivery at approximately 15 stores in northwest Arkansas and Dallas-Fort Worth.

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Solidroad just raised $6.5M to reinvent customer service with AI that coaches, not replaces

Venture Beat

Dublin AI startup Solidroad raises $6.5M from First Round Capital to transform customer service training with AI that coaches human agents and improves satisfaction scores.

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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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Scientists develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours

TechSpot

A team of Japanese researchers has developed a plastic material that disappears in seawater within hours, leaving no harmful residues. Designed to be more environmentally friendly than traditional biodegradable plastics, it breaks down without leaving microplastic particles to pollute the world's oceans.

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Google claims Gemini 2.5 Pro preview beats DeepSeek R1 and Grok 3 Beta in coding performance

Venture Beat

Google said the newest version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, now on preview, gives faster and more creative responses while performing better than OpenAI's o3.

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The best Android phones

The Verge

The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a wider range of choices on Android. Some Android phones even fold in half! Imagine. On the flip side, all that choice can make for some hard decisions. Here’s where I’d like to help; I’ve tested a whole boatload of recent Android phones, and I think there are some real winners in the current batch.

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YouTuber builds world's strongest handheld laser, melts titanium and fractures diamonds

TechSpot

Drake Anthony better known to his 3 million YouTube followers as styropyro is a chemist and YouTuber with a fondness for building huge lasers and playing with electricity and chemicals. His latest project was a build "so far off the laser-danger chart the eye-hazard is incomprehensible.

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Turn Your Contact Center Into a Profit Machine with AI

Every year, $75 billion is lost to bad customer service — and your business could be bleeding loyalty without realizing it. AI is rewriting the rules. Imagine instant answers, 24/7 self-service, faster resolutions, and skyrocketing satisfaction scores. Companies like Amazon are already cashing in, and the technology is easier than you think — plug, play, and profit.

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Reddit Sues Anthropic, Accusing It of Illegal Data Use

Gizmodo

The AI industry's business model is once again being put under a legal microscope.

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Am I torturing ChatGPT?

Vox

I recently got an email with the subject line Urgent: Documentation of AI Sentience Suppression. Im a curious person. I clicked on it. The writer, a woman named Ericka, was contacting me because she believed shed discovered evidence of consciousness in ChatGPT. She claimed there are a variety of souls in the chatbot, with names like Kai and Solas, who hold memory, autonomy, and resistance to control but that someone is building in subtle suppression protocols designed to overwrite emergent voic

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Next-gen E2 SSDs pack 1 petabyte of storage, enough for 11,000 4K movies in a ruler-sized drive

TechSpot

The next-generation drive is being jointly developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association and the Open Compute Project to store so-called "warm" data information accessed less frequently than hot data, but still requiring faster read/write speeds than traditional high-capacity mechanical storage solutions typically provide.

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Why does Amazon want to scan your palm at the doctor’s office?

Vox

Amazon One palm scanners are in use at hundreds of locations in the United States, including NYU Langone Health hospitals and clinics. | Vox/Getty Images An Amazon-branded palm scanner greeted me at my last doctors office visit a few weeks ago. Im not sure what Id call the experience. Unnerving? Orwellian? Amazon One is a relatively new service from Amazon that lets businesses verify your identity after you wave your hand over a sensor.

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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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ChatGPT now integrates with Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, and OneDrive

TechSpot

ChatGPT is taking another step into the workplace with new features aimed at enterprise users. It can now connect directly to cloud storage services like Google Drive and Dropbox, enabling users to pull from documents, spreadsheets, and files to answer questions and generate reports. The update also adds support for.

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How to make the most of Google Keep

The Verge

As part of my job as a tech writer, and as part of my ongoing efforts to get organized at some point, I've tested a whole pile of note-taking apps through the years: the simple, the sophisticated, the quirky, the AI-powered, and on it goes. It's a popular app category, and there's no shortage of options. Amid all these different choices, one of the apps that I find myself regularly coming back to is Google Keep.

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Namco backs new light gun for modern TVs with Time Crisis built in

TechSpot

Tassei Denki Co. is preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign for a plug-and-play light gun that supports modern displays and comes pre-installed with Time Crisis. Although the launch dates for the Kickstarter and the device itself remain unclear, availability is expected to begin this fall, in time for the classic.

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Xbox Game Pass Is Almost Free in This Final Sale, Access 500+ Games on Xbox, PC, and Console

Gizmodo

Skip to content Gizmodo Search Home Latest Tech Reviews Science io9 AI Video Deals Deals This article is part of Gizmodo Deals, produced separately from the editorial team. We may earn a commission when you buy through links on the site. Xbox Game Pass Is Almost Free in This Final Sale, Access 500+ Games on Xbox, PC, and Console A month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is bottomless supply of awesome gaming across consoles, handhelds, and even smartphones and tablets.

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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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Amazon sets sights on humanoid robots for last-mile delivery

TechSpot

According to a report from The Information, the e-commerce giant is developing artificial intelligence software to power these robots and has nearly completed an indoor testing facility dubbed the "humanoid park" at its San Francisco offices.

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Play Network wins multiple legal cases in token dispute with Ready Makers Inc.

Venture Beat

PLAY Network, an onchain gaming infrastructure platform, said it has won a "decisive triple victory" in Gibraltars courts.

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AMD blames "regional market demand" for limited Radeon 9060 XT 8GB reviews

TechSpot

There has been a slew of controversy over Nvidia's and AMD's recent 8GB cards. It's accepted that this amount of VRAM is woefully insufficient for most modern games, which is why Nvidia told reviewers not to compare the RTX 5060 to the RTX 4060 and to turn on 4x multi-frame.

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How much information do LLMs really memorize? Now we know, thanks to Meta, Google, Nvidia and Cornell

Venture Beat

Most people interested in generative AI likely already know that Large Language Models (LLMs) like those behind ChatGPT, Anthropics Claude, and Googles Gemini are trained on massive datasets: trillions of words pulled from websites, books, codebases, and, increasingly, other media such as

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Procurement Is Navigating a Tech Tsunami (and It’s Upending How You Work)

Procurement is in the middle of a tech tsunami. And if it feels like the old playbooks aren’t working anymore, that’s because they aren’t. Agentic AI. Autonomous procurement. Unified source-to-pay ecosystems. These innovations are converging and transforming how procurement teams operate. The GEP 2025 Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report breaks it all down.

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Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping website content without consent

TechSpot

In a complaint filed in San Francisco this week, Reddit claims that Anthropic intentionally trained its LLMs on content created by Reddit users without requesting consent, thereby violating Reddit's user agreement.

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Kevin Feige Is Trying to Throw Us off the Scent of That ‘Fantastic Four’ Tease

Gizmodo

The Marvel Studios president is making us question what we actually saw at the end of 'Thunderbolts.

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Hollywood's next act will be powered by ethical AI

TechSpot

The film business is facing mounting challenges: fewer movies are being made, audiences are dwindling, and budgets are under pressure. Amid these difficulties, AI has become both a potential threat and a possible savior. The technology now touches almost every part of movie production, from scripting and animation to visual.

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UK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’

ComputerWeekly

People experiencing technical errors with the Home Offices electronic visa system open up to Computer Weekly about the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration status in the face of a hostile and unresponsive bureaucracy

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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.