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Your ABM programs fail due to contact-first thinking. But your contact list isn’t your ABM database. Here’s database-building 101 for ABM precision. ABM programs fail before a single campaign goes live. And that’s because the database underneath the program was built for a different job. An existing contact list, filtered by company size and industry, loaded into a platform is not an ABM database- but that’s what most organizations rely on. Then they wonder why engagement was thin, and pipeline isn’t moving. A contact list and an ABM database are not the same thing. One organizes people. The other organizes…

The PSX was one of Sony’s flops that tried to do too much. Junko Kimura/Getty Images When looking back at the history of video games, the odd console curio is always fun to examine. Long before the Meta Quest cracked the VR market, Nintendo dipped its toes into virtual reality waters with the Virtual Boy. Then there was Sega, who tried to cash in on the success of the Genesis with its bizarre 32X add-on. And who could forget the Nintendo 64DD? Oh, that’s right: everyone. Speaking of weird machines that were never released outside of…

Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. The first campaign, per the tech giant, involved sending over a million scam emails between August 3 and 5, 2026, by masquerading as chief executive officers (CEOs) of various target companies, aiming to persuade accounts payable departments at those firms to initiate Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfers for a supposed ServiceNow annual subscription. Evidence indicates that the operators behind the campaign have leveraged generative artificial intelligence (AI) to…

This feeder also comes with extra plastic flowers and a little brush for scrubbing them, and the app sends reminders when it’s time to clean. You’ll find fun, seasonal touches in the app, like the ability to send digital bird holiday cards with the photos your feeder captures, and a tool that superimposes hats, clothes, and various accessories on the birds, which is actually funnier than it sounds. However, as with the Birdbuddy Pro seed feeder, below, the big downside is that the feeder’s sensor doesn’t always pick up every bird that visits, which can definitely be a bummer when…

Looking for the most recent NYT Strands puzzle answers? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Strands is like a word find game, but without the list of words to find. Sometimes I see the theme and begin recognizing the answers right away. But for those times when I can’t seem to manage this, there’s a loophole: Strands lets you make as many words of four or more letters as you want. For every three of those words you find, the puzzle will highlight one of the…

Europe can finally put Anthropic’s advanced cyber AI through tests of its own. The EU cybersecurity agency ENISA has gained access to Mythos 5 after months of negotiations with Anthropic, the European Commission said Thursday. The access gives European officials a chance to independently examine a model designed to find and exploit software vulnerabilities rather than relying solely on assessments from its developer. “Following our constructive engagement with Anthropic, we can confirm that the EU’s cybersecurity agency ENISA has been granted access to Mythos 5 and is testing it now,” European Commission technology sovereignty spokesperson Thomas Regnier said, according to…

Enterprise observability is entering a new phase as artificial intelligence changes both the applications companies need to monitor and the way operations teams respond when something goes wrong. Traditional observability platforms were built around deterministic software and telemetry, such as logs, metrics and traces. But AI applications and agents behave differently, producing outputs that can vary even when given similar inputs. At the same time, enterprises increasingly expect observability platforms to move beyond identifying problems and provide enough context for humans and AI agents to diagnose, remediate and potentially act on those problems. That transition provides the backdrop for Dynatrace’s…

The two companies operate 10 fitness and yoga outlets across Singapore True Fitness and True Yoga are set to shut their Singapore operations, as parent company Kontafarma China Holdings moves to liquidate the businesses amid mounting financial losses. The Hong Kong-listed company said in a bourse filing on Thursday (Sep 10) that the directors of True Fitness and True Yoga had resolved that the companies could no longer continue operating due to their liabilities, CNA reported. Insolvency practitioners Goh Wee Teck and Lin Yueh Hung of RSM SG Corporate Advisory have since been provisionally appointed. Extraordinary general meetings for both…

IDScan confirmed a massive data breach involving over 150 million driver’s licenses. Every time you rent a car, enter a club, or buy age-restricted goods, someone scans your driver’s license. Identity verification titan IDScan just confirmed a massive cloud data breach that exposed over 150 million of those state-issued records. Dark web sellers recently listed a searchable database containing digital scans of North American IDs. The file set includes front-and-back photos, addresses, dates of birth, and infrared security layer images. Security researchers rapidly linked transaction timestamps back to IDScan’s enterprise software. News like this causes immediate concern among consumers. Nobody…

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A study commissioned by the City of Seattle says the city is not in decline but is in danger — finding that 10 companies, nine of them in tech, pay three-quarters of the payroll tax on large employers, and that the tax structure uniquely penalizes the hiring of senior, high-compensation workers. The report says Seattle should be most concerned about AI but most active in cleantech, the one industry the city can actually shape, since it owns the electric utility and controls permitting, building codes and land use. Meanwhile, the Seattle Times and Newsday…