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Google Finally Scraps Its Cookie Deprecation Plans

Forrester IT

Google announced today it’s finally doing what everyone suspected and reversing its decision to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome. After repeated delays in a four-year-long saga, marketers and advertisers grew increasingly skeptical. In Forrester’s Marketing Survey 2024, 61% of B2C marketers said they do not believe that Google will deprecate the third-party cookie.

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9 Ways CISOs Can Stay Ahead of Bad Actors

Information Week

Security leaders are expected to defend their organizations against existing and emerging threats. Here are some tactics they can use to crack down on the enemy.

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Summer Olympics: What IT Teams Need to Do Before & During the Event for Their Businesses

Tech Republic Security

Remind employees to be wary of fake apps and too-good-to-be-true streaming options on the eve of the Games.

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Data center liquid cooling market heats up

Network World

The heat-management capabilities enabled by liquid cooling are in demand as deployments of advanced processors and high-performance servers continue to grow. Looking ahead, Dell’Oro Group says liquid cooling will start to become a mainstream technology in the second half of 2024, and the market will grow to more than $15 billion over the next five years.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook For Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.

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RAG Is All The Rage — Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Demystified

Forrester IT

Enterprises experimenting with generative AI (genAI) are prioritizing use cases that enable internal and external users to better retrieve information they need, be it data, how-to pages, corporate policies, or return policies. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is now the most common underlying approach for building this type of large language model (LLM)-based enterprise knowledge-retrieval application.

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How to Identify Innovation Opportunities In-House and Externally

Information Week

Innovative technologies are everywhere, but you have to know how to find them. Here's a roadmap to guide you on your quest.

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Gauging system activity on Linux with dstat

Network World

Linux provides a number of commands that provide information about disk and system activity along with system and resource stats. One of the most useful commands is dstat. It provides an extensive number of detailed statistics on system activity. If dstat is not yet installed on your Linux system, you can use a command like one of these given root access: For Redhat etc, use: # yum install dstat For Ubuntu, Debian and related distributions, use: # apt install dstat Disk activity Disk activity in

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Revolut Secures Its Banking License – Crowning A Decade Of Digital Banks

Forrester IT

Digital banks are gaining traction among consumers, globally. Learn what incumbent banks should do to compete.

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Scattered Spider Suspect Nabbed for MGM Ransomware Attack

Information Week

UK law enforcement arrested a 17-year-old boy in connection with the 2023 ransomware attack on MGM Resorts International.

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Private Internet Access (PIA) vs NordVPN: Which VPN Is Better?

Tech Republic Security

Discover whether NordVPN’s better speeds and extra features are worth the cost, or if you’ll be satisfied with PIA VPN’s more affordable pricing.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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AI workloads: There’s room for Nvidia competition in the AI market

Network World

AI is a multifaceted discipline, and there’s room for many different chips beyond Nvidia GPUs, although consolidation is inevitable. That’s the conclusion of a research report from the consultancy J.Gold Associates. The processor market for AI-enabled systems is vast and highly varied given the many uses and work conditions for AI, including the data center, cloud, and edge.

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GitLab Customers Hope To Stay Out Of The Doghouse If Acquired By Datadog

Forrester IT

GitLab is a leading platform for version control, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and collaboration. With its robust features and security focus, GitLab has gained a loyal user base and has become a go-to solution for enterprise developers worldwide.

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What’s Real About AI in Cybersecurity?

Information Week

Business leaders must separate facts from fiction to understand how cybercriminals realistically use AI and what legitimate AI-powered defenses can protect against these threats.

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Surfshark vs CyberGhost (2024): Which VPN Is Better?

Tech Republic Security

Which VPN is better, Surfshark or CyberGhost? Compare these VPNs with our guide and find out which one is best for you.

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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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Oak Ridge seeks next-level supercomputer to blow away Frontier

Network World

The US Frontier supercomputer may be the most powerful computer on the planet, but at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which operates it, isn’t resting on its laurels. This month ORNL issued a massive request for proposal for OLCF-6 , a new machine, now dubbed Discovery, to be delivered by late 2027 or early 2028. The Technical Requirements document alone is 69 pages.

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NPS Q&A Part 1: Controversy, Fit And Alternatives

Forrester IT

Net Promoter Score (NPS) reminds me of the apricot tree on the side of our house. It sometimes disappoints us – like this year when it carried exactly one (!) fruit.

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How Much Data Is Too Much for Organizations to Derive Value?

Information Week

Data may be the new oil, but too much of a good thing can make a valuable resource an expensive risk.

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F5: AI Applications Will Complicate ‘Unsustainable’ Hybrid Multicloud Sprawl in Australia

Tech Republic Security

The hybrid multicloud strategies that many Australian enterprises have adopted over the last decade could be made more complex by new AI applications. The only solutions could be rationalisation or an abstraction layer.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyers Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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Broadcom tosses VMware users a bone, extends vSphere 7 support six months

Network World

Broadcom has announced that VMware vSphere 7.x users will get six additional months of support for the product. VMware vSphere 7, which was launched in 2020, was scheduled to go out of support in April 2025 but will now be maintained until October 2025. Broadcom confirmed the news (which The Register reported Tuesday) in a statement issued today: “To enhance our commitment to customer satisfaction, we are extending the general support period for VMware vSphere and vSAN 7.x.

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite digital transformation being a highly effective way to further develop the long-term business model, it can be a very drawn-out and arduous process. But the majority of companies in Germany, in particular, rely on the cloud in its various facets, and have now achieved a certain level of maturity when it comes to migrating workloads. Maturity means, on one hand, that users have not only gained experience with individual dedicated cloud services, but in many cases are now also modernizing

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How to Build an Effective IT Mentoring Program

Information Week

In a rapidly evolving IT world, mentoring is an efficient way to help team members keep pace with the latest tech and practices. Here's how to get started.

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Master Cybersecurity With The Complete CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Certification Kit by IDUNOVA

Tech Republic Security

Prepare for your cybersecurity certification with comprehensive study materials (including 30 hours of videos and hands-on labs) and expert guidance.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Buyer’s guide: How to shop for network observability tools

Network World

Network observability tools explained Network observability tools emerged as an evolution of performance management products that aggregate data such as queue statistics, error counters, and log metrics from myriad sources on-premises and in the cloud to convey in near real-time the health of services, applications, infrastructure, and other components in today’s hybrid environments.

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5 IT risks CIOs should be paranoid about

CIO Business Intelligence

As a digital transformation leader and former CIO, I carry a healthy dose of paranoia. Call it survival instincts: Risks that can disrupt an organization from staying true to its mission and accomplishing its goals must constantly be surfaced, assessed, and either mitigated or managed. Is the organization transforming fast enough? Are stakeholders struggling or unhappy?

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CrowdStrike Aftermath: Lessons Learned for Future Recovery

Information Week

Plenty of finger pointing is underway in the wake of the outage that brought down 8.5 million Windows machines worldwide, but the recovery process is far more complex than a reboot.

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Bitwarden vs Dashlane (2024): Which Password Manager Is Best?

Tech Republic Security

Bitwarden’s affordability and extensive MFA options give it the slight edge over Dashlane’s uber-polished password management experience. Read more below.

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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.

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The CrowdStrike Moment Calls For A Redefinition Of Business Resilience

Forrester IT

Crises such as the one triggered by CrowdStrike's global outage shine a bright light on many aspects of business and technology. Our new report provides a thorough overview of recommended actions for tech leaders as they face the unfolding long-term repercussions.

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Early IT takeaways from the CrowdStrike outage

CIO Business Intelligence

Whether you’ve survived the CrowdStrike incident or didn’t use CrowdStrike and are merely seeing the impact to others, taking time to learn lessons from this event is vital. After all, if you couldn’t recover easily from this, then you may be lost trying to recover from a ransomware attack. At issue are potential shifts you might want to consider making to your staffing strategies, technical processes, and communication channels and culture, as well as your approach to ensuring hardened assets o

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AI in Aviation: Reaching New Heights and Efficiencies

Information Week

Prepare for takeoff. Experts anticipate unlimited horizons as AI transforms aviation both in the air and on the ground.

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10 Ways AI Can Help Organizations Tackle Cyberattacks

Tech Republic Security

Legacy security measures, while offering a baseline level of protection, heavily rely on predefined signatures and a narrow definition of the “abnormal.” They often follow a reactive approach, can be siloed, limiting information sharing, and lack the scalability to handle the terabytes of data generated by today’s complex IT systems. This is where artificial intelligence.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!