How to Successfully Evaluate IT Project Risk
Information Week
MAY 15, 2025
Every new project is a gamble. Here's how to improve your odds of success.
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6 trends that will shape the future of the cloud: Gartner
Network World
MAY 15, 2025
Cloud technologies have evolved from enablers to business disruptors, according to Gartner, which forecasted six key trends organizations will consider, including AI-driven demand, multicloud complexities, digital sovereignty and sustainability. These trends are accelerating the shift in the way the cloud is moving from being a technology enabler to a business disruptor and a necessity for most organizations.
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Microsoft Lays Off 6,000, Including Director of AI
Information Week
MAY 15, 2025
Gabriela de Queiroz, Microsofts former director of AI, took to social media to announce she was laid off along with several thousand employees.
Critical infrastructure CIOs chart a vital new course for IT
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 15, 2025
We are standing at a once-in-a-generation inflection point that will rival the most transformative infrastructure eras in US history. Fueled by the rise of AI, more than $7 trillion is being invested into the infrastructure needed to power the future, with companies projected to invest $5.2 trillion into data centers by 2030 to add 125 gigawatts of AI-related capacity.
How AI Is Transforming IT in 2025: A Playbook for Smarter IT Ops
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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.
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium to Showcase 10 Startups Focused on CIO Needs
Information Week
MAY 15, 2025
The annual CIO conference, which InformationWeek will be attending live, will highlight early-stage companies focused on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and data needs for enterprise IT.
Most CEOs think their CIOs lack AI savviness
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 15, 2025
More than half of all CEOs dont have faith that their CIOs have enough AI expertise to meet their organizations short-term needs, raising serious questions about CIO job security and enterprise ability to execute AI priorities. Just 44% of CEOs believe their CIOs are savvy enough to guide their organizations to meet their organizations AI needs through 2026, according to a survey conducted by Gartner in the second half of 2024.
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We have helped dozens of organizations make the leap from project to product. Most of the time, the new product teams launch with great fanfare. Theyre cross-functional. Agile. Empowered. Theyve got the right tools and a healthy backlog. It feels like all the ingredients are there for the best meal of their lives. But eventually, they run into the same old bottleneck: the funding model.
Check Point CISO: Network segregation can prevent blackouts, disruptions
Network World
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Parts of Spain, Portugal, and France on April 28 experienced a blackout that is believed to be related to events involving the loss of electricity generation potentially from solar power plants, which triggered instability in the grid. The grid blackout affected tens of millions of people, flights were grounded, cell networks went down, and businesses closed for the day.
Building Effective Security Programs Requires Strategy, Patience, and Clear Vision
Information Week
MAY 15, 2025
Capital One executives share insights on how organizations should design their security programs, implement passwordless technologies, and reduce their attack surface.
Which vendors are driving network strategy? The answer might surprise you
Network World
MAY 15, 2025
Weve all probably read predictions about how networking will go this year , and which vendors might be expected to win or lose in the competition for enterprise budgets. How about for the years beyond, though? Most enterprises try to look ahead three years, so they tell me. How might the future they see impact the competitive landscape in the future?
Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence
Advertiser: GEP
“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.
Five Ways To Engage The B2B Buying Network With Messaging
Forrester IT
MAY 15, 2025
Your B2B buyers network is driving organizations to reimagine their messaging. Gone are the days when targeting a single decision-maker with a one-size-fits-all message would suffice. Even the days of building messaging for the buying group alone are now numbered.
Hidden Threats are Derailing Cyber Resilience in 2025
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MAY 15, 2025
This session explores primary cyber resilience challenges and solutions.
Tariff uncertainty impacts IT services firms financial results
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MAY 15, 2025
IT services firms recently reported their Jan-Mar 2025 quarterly numbers. The results werent pretty. Most firms not only reported slower growth for the quarter but also lowered their forecast for the next financial year. I dug into the details of whats at play behind this mellow performance. Here is what I found.
Valve confirms Steam 2FA leak affecting 89 million users; no passwords compromised
TechSpot
MAY 15, 2025
A recent Steam security bulletin confirms that hackers have accessed phone numbers and SMS two-factor authentication records linked to most Steam accounts. Steam's internal systems weren't penetrated, and Valve hasn't recommended that users change their passwords. However, now is a good time to review security settings for accounts potentially containing.
Turn Your Contact Center Into a Profit Machine with AI
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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.
The State Of Application Security, 2025: Yes, AI Just Made It Harder To Do This Right
Forrester IT
MAY 15, 2025
Our annual report on the state of application security is one of our favorites. We love digging into the data to see how priorities and adoption have changed. This year, the explosion of AI in applications and in-application development exacerbated existing trends and introduced new concerns. Here are some areas that got our attention.
Why patchwork security solutions won’t combat AI cyber threats
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 15, 2025
Security teams face increasingly fast-acting, and dangerous, threats. And AI is increasing the pace of cyber attacks to the point where conventional responses are no longer enough. According to researchers at Palo Alto Networks, the median time it takes an attacker to penetrate a network and access confidential data has fallen from an average of nine days in 2022, to under 24 hours in almost 45% of cases in 2024. [1] In some cases, successful hacks are carried out in just minutes.
Master Tech Mayhem: Technology & Innovation Summit APAC
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For technology leaders in APAC, the pressing question is no longer if AI will transform your business, but how you will leverage AI to lead your organization through global volatility and escalating costs. Learn how Technology & Innovation Summit APAC will equip you with the skills, practices, and platforms you need to master todays tech mayhem and and navigate a volatile environment.
How close is quantum computing to commercial reality?
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At a recent event, experts explored the progress towards logical qubits and how these will be applied to empower business IT
How Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform
Advertiser: GEP
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.
Woman divorces husband after ChatGPT reads his coffee grounds and predicts affair
TechSpot
MAY 15, 2025
Rather than using ChatGPT's image skills to create Studio Ghibli-style pictures, a Greek woman decided to experiment with the trend of AI tasseography a form of divination that interprets shapes left by tea leaves (or sometimes coffee grounds or wine sediment) after a cup is drunk.
Steelmaker Nucor Faces Breach, Temporarily Halts Production
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MAY 15, 2025
On May 14, 2025, Nucor Corporation, the largest steel producer in the United States, disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to certain IT systems. In response, the Charlotte-based company proactively took affected systems offline and temporarily halted production at various locations as a precautionary measure. In its 8-K filing with the U.S.
RTX 5090 laptop GPU shows no real-world performance gains over the RTX 4090
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According to early comparison tests carried out by Australian tech reviewer and YouTuber Jarrod Farncomb, the RTX 5090 mobile offers only a minor performance uplift over the RTX 4090 in most games.
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Teens have a surprising complaint about their phones. This story originally appeared in Kids Today , Voxs newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. A few days ago, a group of teenagers taught me the term dry texting. Its anything that indicates a change in the vibe of the conversation, Tanisha, 18, told me. Someone who usually texts in all caps could revert to lowercase.
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.
Google faces $13 billion in European lawsuits over price comparison abuses
TechSpot
MAY 15, 2025
Google faces civil lawsuits totaling at least 12 billion (over $13 billion) in Europe following a European Commission ruling that it violated antitrust rules through its price comparison service. Brussels fined the company $2.72 billion in 2017, but online shopping firms are now pursuing additional damages through separate legal actions.
Tech Moves: Typeface hires CMO; Microsoft adds CVP; WellSaid names new CEO; Expedia’s new CISO
GeekWire
MAY 15, 2025
Benjamin Door, CEO at WellSaid Labs. (WellSaid Photo) Benjamin Dorr is the new CEO at Seattle-area AI voice technology startup WellSaid Labs. Dorr, who joined the company last year as CFO, replaces Brian Cook , who was CEO since January 2024. “We’re going to continue to work toward AI voice technology that empowers people and protects intellectual property,” Dorr said on LinkedIn. “There’s so much growth ahead.” Dorr previously was COO at enterprise marketing
EA tells workers to return to the office at least 3 days per week
TechSpot
MAY 15, 2025
In an email sent to employees seen by IGN, CEO Andrew Wilson justifies the return to in-person work by claiming it results in "a kinetic energy that fuels creativity, innovation, and connection, often resulting in unexpected breakthroughs that lead to incredible experiences for our players.
Box tightens Microsoft ties with new Copilot integration, builds out its own suite of AI agents
GeekWire
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Box CEO Aaron Levie grew up in the Seattle region, and co-founded Box in 2005. (Box Photo) Box is deepening its connection to Microsofts productivity platform through a new AI agent that works with Microsoft 365 Copilot, while introducing new AI agents of its own to analyze documents, automate tasks, and dig up insights from enterprise data. The new technologies, announced Thursday morning , build on the Redwood City, Calif., companys longtime role as a hub for secure file storage and collaborat
Procurement Is Navigating a Tech Tsunami (and It’s Upending How You Work)
Advertiser: GEP
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.
Apple's China smartphone shipments plunge 50% as local rivals surge
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MAY 15, 2025
Apple has long been one of the few western companies to enjoy success in China, but the popularity of its iPhones in the Asian nation is waning as local brands experience growth.
How to Configure Generative AI Local Foundational Model Settings in MS Edge Browser using M365 Admin Center
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The Best 4K Gaming Monitors: No Longer a Luxury
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Seattle-area company VerAvanti lands $31.5M to develop scopes to prevent strokes, heart attacks
GeekWire
MAY 15, 2025
VerAvanti team members from the left: Jason Capodanno, chief operating officer; CEO and co-founder Gerald McMorrow; and Juan Vegarra, chief marketing officer. (VerAvanti Photo) Medical technology company VerAvanti announced $31.5 million in funding to advance its work on ultra-thin imaging scopes that can be used in the prevention of strokes and heart attacks.
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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