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2023 saw a 72% increase in data breaches since 2021, which held the previous all-time record. IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 With the rise of data breaches and hacking attempts, a strong cybersecurity posture is the most significant need today. Given the scale of cybercrime growth, you need to carefully consider several key factors that will ultimately impact the cybersecurity solution you pick. Businesses have realized the value of their data; now they must invest in tools to easily detect and respond to security issues. That is where Extended Detection and Response (XDR) enters the fray as a tool that empowers organizations to better protect their assets from complex cyber…
A significant reorganization is currently taking place within the enterprise infrastructure market, which means that Dell Technologies Inc. will play a prominent role in the outcome. To be successful, however, Dell must continue to expand its “big tent” of collaborators. Dell has made strategic partnerships a central part of its enterprise AI approach, forming key alliances with chipmakers, virtualization leaders, cloud providers, and a host of leading software platforms. As theCUBE Research analysts have recently documented, AI has fostered the need for a platform that makes compute, storage, networking, and workloads work cohesively across hybrid and multicloud worlds. Dell’s partnership…
It’s a hot topic, the old “pay or don’t pay” for hackers not to leak your data. Since recording this a few days ago, we’ve had Grafana go with the “no pay” approach, and I’ve seen a raft of commentary around other companies reaching “agreements”, which is a much politer way of saying “we paid extortionists a ransom”. I’m concerned about the normalisation of ransom payments, and using language that deflects from the criminal nature of it is a big part of that. Instructure’s exact words were that they “reached an agreement with the unauthorised actor involved”, which really waters…
United Nations’ Under-Secretary and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies, Amandeep Singh Gill, appears via Zoom to deliver the opening keynote at Seattle University’s 2026 Ethics and Tech conference on May 15, 2026. (Photo: Ken Yeung) Big tech companies are deploying compute clusters with millions of GPUs to train and run AI models. But across the entire continent of Africa — encompassing 54 countries and more than 1.5 billion people — fewer than 1,000 GPUs are available for researchers and developers to train models on local-language datasets. That disparity illustrates what the United Nations’ top digital envoy calls an…
Apple is reportedly preparing one of the biggest Siri redesigns in years with iOS 27, but even after multiple delays, the company may still label the upgraded assistant as a beta product. According to reports from Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, internal test versions of iOS 27 already refer to the revamped Siri as a beta experience and include an option allowing users to leave the Siri beta entirely. The move would be unusually familiar for longtime Apple users. When Apple originally introduced Siri in 2011, the assistant itself launched under a beta label before Apple quietly removed the branding in…
Ravie LakshmananMay 17, 2026Server Security / Vulnerability A newly disclosed security flaw impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open has come under active exploitation in the wild, days after its public disclosure, according to VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score: 9.2), is a heap buffer overflow in ngx_http_rewrite_module affecting NGINX versions 0.6.27 through 1.30.0. According to AI-native security company depthfirst, the vulnerability was introduced in 2008. Successful exploitation of the flaw can permit an unauthenticated attacker to crash worker processes or execute remote code with crafted HTTP requests. However, it bears noting that code execution is possible only on…
A lot of humans are feeling very down on humanity these days. Maybe you’ve met them. Or maybe you’re one of them.I’m talking about those who look around and say: Humans are destroying the planet — causing climate change, making other species go extinct. Soon enough we’ll be mucking up the cosmos, too — polluting it with still more space junk, colonizing the moon, even exporting data centers into the heavens. The world would be better off if we ourselves just go extinct!One reader recently exemplified this rising anti-humanism by writing in to my philosophical advice column, Your Mileage May…
Once configured, setup proceeds much like the Aiper and pricier Irrigreen apps: You create a zone, then use the app to define its boundaries. Similar to the aforementioned systems, Oto’s sprinkler is designed for precision watering, firing water in a beam in a single direction instead of a wide spray. That said, Oto’s spray is comparably narrow, only hitting a single, designated patch instead of producing a two-dimensional curtain of water like Irrigreen’s “water printing” system. You get a nice preview of this as you set the boundaries of your yard.Like its competitors, Oto lets you set each zone as…
Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend Cecile Pin’s Celestial Lights and the new Image Comics series, If Destruction Be Our Lot. Celestial Lights Henry Holt and Co. Another melancholic narrative about love, loss and the consequences of human ambition, with space as the backdrop? Oops, I might have a type. Cecile Pin’s Celestial Lights is a short and contemplative novel about Oliver Ines, or Ollie, a man who has always been drawn to the stars and is one day chosen to lead a 10-year mission to…
Contact center AI transformation is accelerating in financial services as new innovations close the gap between surface-level metrics and genuine customer understanding in high-stakes interactions. For companies handling deeply personal products — health savings accounts, retirement rollovers, flexible spending plans — the stakes of a poor customer experience go beyond satisfaction scores. These are lifecycle moments for individuals, demanding empathy as much as efficiency, and data-driven AI is now offering the tools to deliver both at scale, according to Dana Kantor (pictured, right), senior director of vendor and technology optimization at Inspira Financial Trust LLC, a benefits and retirement account administrator serving…