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Tech Burnout: CIOs Might Be Making It Worse

Information Week

Tech burnout throughout IT isn’t new, but it is getting worse thanks to the new AI overlords, er, overloads. Here’s what’s fanning the flames and how to put them out.

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When You Can’t Change The Technology, Change Your Security Policies

Forrester IT

When you can’t change the security of external technologies like IoT, OT, or power infrastructure, you must adapt your internal cybersecurity policies and controls to mitigate the risks they introduce.

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Cyber Bill at risk of becoming a missed opportunity, say MPs

ComputerWeekly

An APPG report warns that the government’s flagship cyber security legislation is too narrow in its scope and risks missing opportunities to embed resilience at the heart of the British economy

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Cisco Live: Security focus yields new firewalls, Hypershield integrations, and agentic AI defenses

Network World

SAN DIEGO – Cisco unwrapped a variety of advanced firewall and AI software enhancements aimed at further combining and simplifying its network and security technology across enterprise infrastructures. At its Cisco Live event , the vendor rolled out a new Hybrid Mesh Firewall portfolio, bolstered security support with partner Nvidia, and further tightened its own technology integration with its Splunk platform.

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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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Why Companies Need to Reimagine Their AI Approach

Information Week

Many companies rush into artificial intelligence expecting transformation, but leaders should focus on using AI to accelerate solutions to specific friction points.

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How emerging technologies are redefining enterprise architecture

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprise architecture has long been the backbone of digital transformation initiatives. Traditionally, enterprise architects have focused on enabling business growth by aligning business architecture, data, applications and technology. Their work often involves supporting new business models, re-engineering business processes and transitioning from legacy platforms to modern systems, always underpinned by adherence to standards and frameworks.

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Ultra Ethernet Consortium publishes 1.0 specification, readies Ethernet for HPC, AI

Network World

In mid-2023, a host of big name networking vendors including Cisco, Arista, HPE and Intel got together to form the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC ). The goal is to make Ethernet better for the needs of AI and high-performance computing (HPC). Now, nearly two years later, the UEC is delivering on its initial promise with the release of the first UEC 1.0 specification.

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The Role of the 3-2-1 Backup Rule in Cybersecurity

Information Week

By blending the time-tested 3-2-1 rule with modern advances, organizations can build a highly resilient backup architecture that strengthens their overall cybersecurity posture.

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How Booking.com measures the impact of AI on developer productivity

CIO Business Intelligence

As an established name in online travel, Booking.com has long maintained its position as a global leader—today, they attract over 500 million monthly visitors and more than a billion annual bookings. But sustaining their market position going forward, in the increasingly fast-evolving travel industry, has required Booking.com’s leadership to shift its attention toward accelerating their pace of software delivery and innovation.

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Data virtualization

Dataconomy

Data virtualization is transforming the way organizations access and manage their data. By allowing seamless integration of information from various sources without physical data movement, businesses can gain better insights and streamline their operations. This innovative approach to data management makes it easier for companies to leverage their data assets effectively.

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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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The FPGA turns 40. Where does it go from here?

Network World

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first commercially available field-programmable gate array processor, otherwise known as the FPGA. The FPGA is a type of semiconductor that can be reconfigured by a customer or designer after manufacturing – something processors typically cannot do. It was invented by Ross Freeman, co-founder of Xilinx, along with Bernard Vonderschmitt and James Barnett.

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As data center demand soars, Amazon expands use of wastewater to cool its cloud

GeekWire

Amazon data center in the Portland, Ore., area in 2022. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Amazon Web Services is more than halfway to its 2030 goal of being “water positive” — meaning it replenishes more clean water than it uses. And supporting that effort is a newly announced initiative to expand its use of recycled waste water instead of drinking water to cool 120 of its U.S. data centers by the end of this decade.

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Custom AI models help MWAA deliver better airport experiences

CIO Business Intelligence

Anyone who has waited in line for security at an airport can appreciate what the IT organization at Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority ( MWAA ) has accomplished with AI in the cloud. MWAA’s IT team overseeing pedestrian, vehicle, and gate traffic at Washington, D.C.’s two major airports has developed a real-time intelligence platform dubbed Queue Hub that harnesses analytics, AI, IoT, and cloud to make terminal operations more efficient and profitable.

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Data engineer

Dataconomy

Data engineers are the unsung heroes of the data-driven world, laying the essential groundwork that allows organizations to leverage their data for enhanced decision-making and strategic insights. Unlike data scientists, who interpret data and build models, data engineers focus on the architecture and pipelines that make data accessible and usable. Their role has grown increasingly critical as businesses rely on large volumes of data to inform their operations and strategies.

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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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AMD steps up AI competition with Instinct MI350 chips, rack-scale platform

Network World

AMD ( Nasdaq:AMD ) has launched its latest accelerator chips and offered a glimpse into its AI infrastructure strategy, aiming to expand its role in the enterprise market, which Nvidia currently dominates. At its 2025 Advancing AI event, the chipmaker unveiled the AMD Instinct MI350 series accelerators and previewed a rack-scale AI infrastructure platform built on open industry standards.

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Takeaways from the AI Engineer World’s Fair: The startup playbook is being rewritten in real-time

GeekWire

Inside the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco. (Photos courtesy of Patrick Ellis) Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Patrick Ellis , CTO and co-founder of Seattle startup Snapbar. I just spent four days at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco with 3,000 other founders/engineers building on the frontier of AI.

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IBM updates path to fault-tolerant quantum computing

ComputerWeekly

Two academic papers show how the company plans to provide quantum error correction using a technique that can run in real time.

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Google releases Android 16 with AI edits, RCS group chat, and Pixel upgrades

Dataconomy

Google launched Android 16 for Pixel phones on Tuesday, introducing RCS group chat, AI-powered edit suggestions for Google Photos, and corporate badge support in Google Wallet. The release emphasizes accessibility and customization for messaging and contacts. Android 16 incorporates iOS-style live notifications on the lock screen, Google’s Material 3 Expressive design language, and enhanced security features against theft and scams, including an updated advanced protection mode for public figure

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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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Cisco reinvigorates data center, campus, branch networking with AI demands in mind

Network World

SAN DIEGO – Cisco ( Nasdaq:CSCO ) has upgraded critical components of its network family – including switches, routers and software for data center, campus, branch and IoT – in a major effort to deliver the growing capacity and management capabilities its enterprise customers will need for AI environments. At the Cisco Live event going on this week, the vendor launched new Nexus data center management software, campus Smart Switches and branch routers, all of which offer AI-driven support or tar

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Cyber security beyond compliance: Why resilience is the new boardroom imperative

Computer Weekly

Cyber security has been everything from a tick-box exercise to a compliance headache for organisations - but the pressing threats we face mean cyber resilience must become a boardroom issue

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Apple makes major AI advance with image generation technology rivaling DALL-E and Midjourney

Venture Beat

Apple researchers develop STARFlow, a breakthrough AI image generation system that challenges diffusion models used by DALL-E and Midjourney with competitive performance.

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Data governance policy

Dataconomy

The importance of a data governance policy cannot be overstated in today’s data-driven landscape. As organizations generate more data, the need for clear guidelines on managing that data becomes essential. A well-defined policy ensures that data is treated as a valuable asset, promoting effective decision-making and compliance with regulations. This article delves into the core aspects of a data governance policy, its significance, and how to develop one tailored to your organization.

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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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AWS cuts prices of some EC2 Nvidia GPU-accelerated instances

Network World

AWS has reduced the prices of some of its EC2 Nvidia GPU-accelerated instances to attract more AI workloads while competing with rivals, such as Microsoft and Google, as demand for GPUs and the cost of securing them continues to grow. The instances that are seeing price cuts up to 45% include the P4 (P4d and P4de) and P5 (P5 and P5en) instance types on both On-Demand and Savings Plan options.

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Google’s Gemini AI will summarize PDFs for you when you open them

The Verge

Google is rolling out new Gemini AI features for Workspace users that make it easier to find information in PDFs and form responses. The Gemini-powered file summarization capabilities in Google Drive have now expanded to PDFs and Google Forms, allowing key details and insights to be condensed into a more convenient format that saves users from manually digging through the files.

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AI as Alien Intelligence: A Relational Ethics Framework for Human-AI Co-Evolution

SecureWorld News

The brittleness of static ethics As AI systems become more sophisticated, we're facing something unprecedented: AI is advancing into domains of human superiority, and we're uncertain how to ensure AI's continued goodwill toward humanity. Here's the fundamental problem: static and rigid moral systems are bound to break when confronted with the dynamic complexity of advanced AI.

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Hashing

Dataconomy

Hashing plays a pivotal role in the realm of data security and management, acting as a cornerstone for safeguarding sensitive information. Its applications transcend mere data organization, impacting how we store passwords, verify data integrity, and authenticate digital signatures across various platforms. Understanding hashing not only provides insight into cryptography but also helps grasp the fundamental principles of modern cybersecurity.

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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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Meter secures $170 million to scale NaaS stack from the ground up

Network World

A decade ago, Anil Varanasi had an idea to create a new type of networking vendor, where there was a unified stack and the whole offering was provided as a service. That was the founding vision for networking-as-a-service ( NaaS ) pioneer Meter. It took five years of research to get the first products out the door. The next five years were spent on iterating and growing the technology.

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How to Successfully Catch Generative AI Errors

Information Week

Mistakes happen. Even GenAI isn't infallible. Here's how your teams can catch and quickly eliminate errors.

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The New Frontier: How AI Is Reshaping Security and Technology Delivery

SecureWorld News

Throughout the past year, artificial intelligence has gone from being a promising tool to a foundational force reshaping how we design, build, and secure technology. The velocity of this transformation is staggering—and so are the implications to productivity, as well as security. Security in a machine-accelerated world The state of cybersecurity is as complex as it has ever been, maybe more.

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Data destruction

Dataconomy

Data destruction is more than just a technical process—it’s a fundamental aspect of data lifecycle management that safeguards an organization’s critical assets. As digital threats evolve, effective data destruction becomes essential for protecting personally identifiable information (PII) and complying with data protection regulations. Let’s explore the definition, types, best practices, and standards related to data destruction.

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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.