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[This is a sponsored article with Synology.] The cloud was supposed to eliminate infrastructure headaches. Instead, some businesses are discovering a new one: invoices they no longer understand. Storage fees, data retrieval charges, and backup costs are quietly pushing cloud spending higher than many organisations anticipated—and artificial intelligence (AI) is about to make it significantly worse. It’s a challenge Taiwanese storage company Synology has been watching closely. At Computex 2026 in Taipei last week, the company argued that the economics of cloud-first infrastructure are beginning to shift. The cloud bill that keeps growing Businesses that moved enthusiastically to cloud-first infrastructure…
Generative artificial intelligence has a data problem. For years, the typical approach to building gen AI models has been to gather as much data as possible by scraping vast swaths of the internet, training at an enormous scale and dealing with the consequences later. The result has been increasingly powerful technology, but also growing concerns about bias, consent, ownership and the uneven distribution of value created from the world’s information. Mozilla Data Collective was created to fill the gaps in this model. The organization, which launched last November, is attempting to create a different kind of marketplace for AI data…
Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and a UW alum, addresses Allen School graduates Friday at Alaska Airlines Arena. (UW Photo / Matt Hagen) Jeff Dean was a University of Washington graduate student in the 1990s, optimizing software compilers for object-oriented programming languages in a trailer wedged next to the old computer science building. On Friday evening, Dean returned to the UW’s Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering as Google’s chief scientist and a co-leader of its Gemini AI models, with a message for graduates about the technology he and his colleagues have shaped — and to which many of…
Your dashboards promise a 4x ROAS, but why is revenue flat? Discover the marketing intelligence tools elite CMOs use to turn messy data into solid growth. Smaug, the great dragon of Erebor, slept on a literal mountain of gold. He knew every single coin, cup, and gem in his pile down to the exact ounce. If a thief stole just one single two-handled cup, Smaug knew it instantly. He was the ultimate data collector. But despite sitting on the largest dataset in Middle-earth, Smaug had zero understanding of why that cup mattered. He didn’t understand the logic of the people…
Key Takeaways Double extortion ransomware combines data encryption with data theft, increasing pressure on organizations by threatening both operational disruption and public data exposure. Attackers gain access through phishing, weak credentials, or unpatched vulnerabilities, then move laterally to exfiltrate sensitive data before encrypting systems. A Zero Trust approach, strong IAM practices, and data classification are critical to limiting attacker movement and protecting high-value assets. Advanced security measures like EDR/XDR, DLP, immutable backups, and continuous monitoring help detect, prevent, and respond to attacks effectively. Proactive security, employee awareness, and a well-tested incident response plan are essential to minimize damage, recover quickly,…
AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how fast the technology should develop, the best way to regulate it, and how to prepare society for smarter-than-human AI, among other things.That makes it all the more remarkable that they — along with 85 other experts in tech, biology, and national security policy — recently signed on to an open letter calling for more robust regulations around gene synthesis. They’re all concerned that AI systems might be used to help develop and even deploy dangerous biological weapons designed through gene…
Every time Apple released a new iOS update, people swore their iPhones suddenly felt slower. This rumor has followed Apple for years and while the company always denied it, the suspicion never really went away. With its latest iOS 27 update, I believe Apple has finally put this rumor to rest. I installed the beta on my iPhone Air, but the bigger story is what’s happening on the older models. Reports from people running iOS 27 on even older iPhones say their phones feel faster, not slower. That’s the opposite of what the planned obsolescence crowd has been claiming all…
Ravie LakshmananJun 13, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Software Splunk has released security updates to address a critical security flaw in Splunk Enterprise that could be exploited to conduct unauthenticated file operations and even remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20253, is rated 9.8 on the CVSS scoring system. “In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.4 and 10.0.7, an unauthenticated user could create or truncate arbitrary files through a PostgreSQL sidecar service endpoint,” Splunk said in an alert this week. “The vulnerability exists because the PostgreSQL sidecar service endpoint lacks authentication controls, allowing any network-reachable user to invoke file operations without credentials.”…
OpenAI is under investigation by a coalition of state attorneys general, according to the Wall Street Journal. On Friday, June 12, the company received a subpoena seeking information and documents related to its activities and impact on users. The Journal said it viewed the subpoena sent by New York’s attorney general. Based on what the publication saw, the AGs are asking for documentation about the company’s advertising, user engagement and retention, as well as its handling of its users’ data and health information. They also want to know about the company’s activities related to minor and senior users, its deep…
RJ Scaringe got his PhD from MIT studying internal combustion engines. Then he founded a company to make them obsolete. In 2009, fresh out of grad school, he launched what would become Rivian. The company spent nearly a decade in stealth mode before arriving at the 2018 LA Auto Show with two electric rides nobody had seen coming.The road, however, hasn’t been easy. Rivian lost $3.6 billion in 2025, and has burned through nearly $25 billion in the past eight years. It has spent more money over the same period than almost every other pure EV maker. Rivian’s IPO was…