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Microsoft executive Nick Parker at a conference in 2018. (Microsoft Photo) Nick Parker, a 26-year Microsoft veteran who led the company’s worldwide commercial sales business, is leaving to become Nvidia’s new sales chief — a high-profile talent shift between two of the biggest players in the AI boom. Parker will join Nvidia as executive vice president of worldwide field operations, effective Aug. 24, according to a regulatory filing. He succeeds Jay Puri, who is retiring after 21 years running Nvidia’s global sales operation and will stay on as a senior adviser. “Microsoft and NVIDIA are great partners and I look…
Most ABM programs are just expensive guesswork. A static account list and a spray of targeted ads isn’t strategy. Signal-based ABM is what turns the approach into a revenue motion. ABM programs share the same fundamental problem. Someone builds an ideal account list. Marketing runs ads against it. Sales works the same names in rotation. Quarterly, the list gets reviewed, a few accounts get swapped out, and the cycle repeats. The program looks structured. The results rarely reflect that. The issue isn’t the accounts. It’s the timing. An account on the list today might be eighteen months from a purchase…
Ravie LakshmananJul 02, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News This week’s security news is mostly about weak spots. Browsers, bots, sandboxes, AI systems, and email flows all show the same problem in different ways. Everything looks normal until someone tests a small gap and finds a way through. This is not one big break. It is small permissions, weak checks, open systems, and normal tools doing things they were allowed to do. That same pattern runs through the stories below. Ransomware phishing lure A phishing campaign is targeting small businesses across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the U.S. with fake…
I was the kind of kid who dug holes, the deeper the better. I vividly recall the ecstasy of once splaying out my fingers in a bucket full of backyard dirt, a bliss punctuated only by a sudden burning sensation in my right hand that turned out to be my first-ever encounter with a fire ant.The textures of my childhood loom larger in my memory than sights or sounds. My first paper cut, on a piece of sheet music, and the rush of cold water my older sister used to wash away the blood. The warmth of my mother’s hug…
WhatsApp’s plan to let people use usernames instead of phone numbers has run into trouble in India, its biggest market. This newly introduced feature is meant to improve privacy by letting users connect without immediately sharing their phone number. Indian authorities, however, are worried that the same feature could make scams and impersonation harder to control. India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has asked WhatsApp to pause the username rollout until consultations with the government are complete. That is a major intervention, since WhatsApp has more than 500 million users in the country, who rely on the app…
Chris Harrison, director of the Future Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon University, doesn’t think the new subscription is to help pay for Meta’s AI spending. “The industry has made tremendous strides, even in the last six months, but certainly in the last 18 months, improving token generation efficiency—running these models much more efficiently,” Harrison says. “It’s not about recovering AI costs; it’s about monetizing customers.”As adoption grows, Harrison says, this is a way of “extracting value” from the platform. The company’s glasses are typically sold at cost, like the new $299 Meta-branded glasses that ditch the fancy Ray-Ban branding for…
Don’t be surprised if you see more live streams on X over the next month. While live streaming isn’t a new feature for the social network, it’s not a feature you’d commonly associate with it. Now, the company has launched a live streaming command center called Live Studio, with tools creators need to go live more easily, along with new payouts to incentivize them. In a couple of posts on X, the company’s head of product has announced that it will be “rewarding creators who live stream by allocating $1 million” for them in the upcoming cycle. Nikita Bier didn’t expound on…
Without federal support for curiosity-driven research, the innovation and talent pipeline that has helped ensure our nation’s prosperity and safety could run dry, warned President Sally Kornbluth during a Washington Post Live event. During “The Next Generation,” a panel discussion moderated by Washington Post reporter Zachary Goldfarb at The Washington Post’s “Building America Summit,” Kornbluth and Arizona State University (ASU) President Michael Crow joined forces for a spirited discussion on the importance of curiosity-driven research, examining how universities are preparing the next generation of scientists to lead in America’s rapidly changing technological landscape. “Many of the things we have in our everyday…
At any given moment, only 5% of your addressable market is ready to buy. But the question is: can your GTM team find them before a competitor does? Key Takeaways Only 5% of any addressable market qualifies as an in-market account at any given time. ICP fit and in-market readiness are different filters entirely. In-market account scoring works by layering first-party and third-party signals together. The scoring model is only as useful as the GTM motion built around it. Sales and marketing have to operate from the same in-market account list at the same time. GTM teams in 2026 are…
Swati KhandelwalJul 01, 2026Kubernetes / Server Security Argo CD, a widely used tool for deploying software to Kubernetes, has an unpatched flaw in its repo-server component that lets an unauthenticated attacker run code, provided they can reach the component’s internal network port. Synacktiv, which found the bug, says it can lead to a full cluster takeover. There is no fix and no CVE. The firm says it reported the flaw to Argo CD’s maintainers in January 2025; roughly eighteen months later, it remains unpatched, so it published the details to warn users. The bug sits in repo-server, the Argo CD…