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How Generali Malaysia Optimizes Operations with Amazon EKS
NewsMar 23, 2026

How Generali Malaysia Optimizes Operations with Amazon EKS

Generali Malaysia began migrating legacy insurance applications to AWS in 2019, selecting Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) as its container platform. By adopting EKS Auto Mode, the insurer automated node provisioning, scaling, and patch management, dramatically reducing operational overhead. Integrated...

By AWS Architecture Blog
OpenClaw on Kubernetes: Designing Always-On AI as a Platform Service Meta Description
NewsMar 23, 2026

OpenClaw on Kubernetes: Designing Always-On AI as a Platform Service Meta Description

OpenClaw is an open‑source, gateway‑centric runtime that turns generative AI into an always‑on service deployed on Kubernetes. It provides a unified onboarding flow for workspaces, channels and skills, and ships with a documented Kubernetes install path and operator. The platform...

By Rafay – Blog
Panther Lake Revives Intel on Laptops, Fulfilling G
SocialMar 23, 2026

Panther Lake Revives Intel on Laptops, Fulfilling G

Panther Lake is a real turning point for Intel. I've been on AMD since switching to Linux, but with 18A delivering Gelsinger's dream from 2021, it's a privilege to run blue again on the laptop side. And Intel working directly...

By David Heinemeier Hansson
Dell Technologies Integrates Quantum-Ready Security and AI Resilience Across Portfolio
NewsMar 23, 2026

Dell Technologies Integrates Quantum-Ready Security and AI Resilience Across Portfolio

Dell Technologies announced a portfolio‑wide security upgrade that embeds quantum‑resistant cryptography into firmware and BIOS across its commercial PCs and data‑center products. The company also introduced AI‑driven recovery tools in its PowerProtect line, delivering up to twice the backup speed...

By Quantum Computing Report
RapidFort Nutanix Collaboration Speeds Compliant Kubernetes for AI Workloads
NewsMar 23, 2026

RapidFort Nutanix Collaboration Speeds Compliant Kubernetes for AI Workloads

RapidFort and Nutanix announced a joint solution that embeds RapidFort’s near‑zero CVE container images into the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). The integration automates vulnerability remediation and provides hardened, compliance‑ready workloads across on‑prem, edge, and public‑cloud environments. Available to all NKP...

By Cloud Native Now
Splunk Introduces OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation and Kubernetes Operator at KubeCon EU 2026
NewsMar 23, 2026

Splunk Introduces OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation and Kubernetes Operator at KubeCon EU 2026

Splunk unveiled its OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) in beta and announced the general availability of the Splunk Operator for Kubernetes at KubeCon EU 2026. OBI captures traces and RED metrics directly from the Linux kernel, eliminating the need for code changes across...

By Cloud Native Now
Teleport Launches Beams to Provide Trusted Runtimes for AI Agents in Production Infrastructure
NewsMar 23, 2026

Teleport Launches Beams to Provide Trusted Runtimes for AI Agents in Production Infrastructure

Teleport unveiled Beams, a trusted runtime that isolates AI agents in lightweight Firecracker VMs and embeds delegated identity for secure, secret‑free access to production resources. The platform enforces policy‑controlled networking, logs every action, and integrates with Teleport’s existing audit and...

By Cloud Native Now
Meshery v1.0 Launches at KubeCon EU With Governance-First Cloud Native Management
NewsMar 23, 2026

Meshery v1.0 Launches at KubeCon EU With Governance-First Cloud Native Management

Meshery announced the general availability of Meshery v1.0 at KubeCon EU, delivering a governance‑first cloud‑native management platform. The release introduces an "Infrastructure as Design" paradigm, enabling teams to visualize, version, and diff infrastructure as living artifacts. New features include the Kanvas...

By Cloud Native Now
CNCF Announces General Availability of Dapr Agents v1.0 for Production AI Workloads
NewsMar 23, 2026

CNCF Announces General Availability of Dapr Agents v1.0 for Production AI Workloads

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced the general availability of Dapr Agents v1.0, a Python framework built on the Dapr runtime that enables reliable, secure AI agents in production. The release follows a year‑long partnership with NVIDIA and the open‑source community,...

By Cloud Native Now
Google DeepMind Names Jasjeet Sekhon CSO to Lead AGI Strategy
NewsMar 23, 2026

Google DeepMind Names Jasjeet Sekhon CSO to Lead AGI Strategy

Google DeepMind announced the appointment of Jasjeet Sekhon as Chief Strategy Officer, tasking him with unifying research, productization and policy around artificial general intelligence. The hire, confirmed by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, underscores a shift toward integrated AGI roadmaps that...

By Pulse
Palo Alto Networks Debuts Secure Browser For SMBs: 5 Key Features
NewsMar 23, 2026

Palo Alto Networks Debuts Secure Browser For SMBs: 5 Key Features

Cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks launched Prisma Browser for Business, a secure web browser tailored for small‑ and medium‑size businesses. The browser embeds built‑in protection against phishing, ransomware, fraud, and AI‑driven threats, while offering data‑leakage controls and enterprise‑grade policies. Designed...

By CRN (US)
Inside Gen 13: How We Built Our Most Powerful Server Yet
NewsMar 23, 2026

Inside Gen 13: How We Built Our Most Powerful Server Yet

Cloudflare unveiled its Gen 13 server, built around a 192‑core AMD EPYC Turin 9965 processor, 768 GB DDR5‑6400 memory, 24 TB PCIe 5.0 NVMe storage and dual 100 GbE NICs. The new platform promises up to twice the throughput of Gen 12 while delivering up to 50% better...

By Cloudflare Blog
Meet the CIO | HealthBridge CTO Anton Fatti on the Future of Digital Health
NewsMar 23, 2026

Meet the CIO | HealthBridge CTO Anton Fatti on the Future of Digital Health

HealthBridge CTO Anton Fatti says AI and cloud computing are reshaping healthcare administration while keeping the doctor‑patient relationship central. He notes that AI already automates paperwork, allowing clinicians more face‑time with patients. Fatti, who joined in February 2025, highlighted HealthBridge’s...

By TechCentral (South Africa)
Zoom Rejuvenates Its Platform and the Company with New Agentic AI Capabilities
NewsMar 23, 2026

Zoom Rejuvenates Its Platform and the Company with New Agentic AI Capabilities

Zoom unveiled a suite of agentic AI tools that embed workflow automation into meetings, calls, chat, and contact‑center interactions. The rollout adds no‑code AI agents that act across third‑party platforms such as Salesforce, Slack and ServiceNow, plus AI‑powered Docs, Sheets...

By TechMonitor
미스트랄, 기업 맞춤형 AI 모델 구축 플랫폼 ‘포지’ 공개…자체 데이터 학습 지원
NewsMar 23, 2026

미스트랄, 기업 맞춤형 AI 모델 구축 플랫폼 ‘포지’ 공개…자체 데이터 학습 지원

Mistral unveiled Forge, a platform that lets enterprises train and fine‑tune AI models using their own data. The service covers pre‑training, post‑training and reinforcement learning while guaranteeing data and model ownership. Companies such as ASML, Ericsson and the European Space...

By CIO.com
Huawei Sees AI Agent Boost To GPU, CPU Businesses
NewsMar 23, 2026

Huawei Sees AI Agent Boost To GPU, CPU Businesses

At its China Partner Conference, Huawei announced AgentArts, an AI‑agent development platform slated for beta on April 30 and open‑source release on May 30, claiming it can accelerate agent creation by over 60%. The company said autonomous agents like OpenClaw will drive...

By Silicon UK
Why Zalando Built Their Internal Developer Platform‍  | Humanitec
NewsMar 23, 2026

Why Zalando Built Their Internal Developer Platform‍ | Humanitec

Zalando’s rapid expansion in 2014‑15 exposed fragmented onboarding, disparate tooling, and compliance gaps across its developer teams. To address these pain points, the company launched an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that unified CI/CD, security, and multi‑language support on a cloud‑native...

By Humanitec – Blog
Beyond Batch: Volcano Evolves Into the AI-Native Unified Scheduling Platform
NewsMar 23, 2026

Beyond Batch: Volcano Evolves Into the AI-Native Unified Scheduling Platform

Volcano announced a major upgrade with Volcano v1.14, Kthena v0.3.0 and the new AgentCube, repositioning the project from a batch‑only scheduler to an AI‑native unified platform. The release adds a sharding controller that dynamically partitions resources for batch, inference and agent workloads,...

By CNCF Blog
From Projects to Value Streams: Gilbane’s CTO on Outcome-Driven IT
PodcastMar 23, 202619 min

From Projects to Value Streams: Gilbane’s CTO on Outcome-Driven IT

In this episode, Gilbane’s Chief Technology Officer Alex Gutman explains how the firm has shifted from managing isolated projects to organizing around client‑defined value streams, enabling outcome‑driven delivery. He details the CTO’s remit—cyber resilience, service enablement, and future‑focused data/AI foundations—and how...

By Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
HCLTech Expands Google Cloud Tie‑up to Push Agentic AI Across Enterprises
NewsMar 23, 2026

HCLTech Expands Google Cloud Tie‑up to Push Agentic AI Across Enterprises

HCLTech announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate enterprise adoption of Agentic AI, deploying Gemini Enterprise models in custom AI agents for more than 2,000 GenAI‑led engagements. The deal deepens integration with Google Workspace and places dozens of...

By Pulse
Vercel Appoints HashiCorp Co‑founder Mitchell Hashimoto to Its Board
NewsMar 22, 2026

Vercel Appoints HashiCorp Co‑founder Mitchell Hashimoto to Its Board

Vercel announced that Mitchell Hashimoto, co‑founder of HashiCorp and creator of Terraform, has joined its board of directors. The move comes as Vercel closes a $300 million Series F round that lifts its valuation to $9.3 billion and underscores a push to deepen its...

By Pulse
“We Wanted to Focus on Those Three Things… Not Always Done by Our Competitors when They Put Out Products” –...
NewsMar 22, 2026

“We Wanted to Focus on Those Three Things… Not Always Done by Our Competitors when They Put Out Products” –...

Intel launched the Core Ultra 3 “Panther Lake” CPUs at CES 2026, debuting a new X‑prefix SKU line paired with Arc B390 graphics and retiring the traditional ‑P and ‑U suffixes. The lineup spans 4‑ to 16‑core configurations, promising up to 27 hours of video‑streaming battery...

By TechRadar
Evolutionary Code Optimization: How Datadog Automates Low-Level Performance Tuning
BlogMar 22, 2026

Evolutionary Code Optimization: How Datadog Automates Low-Level Performance Tuning

Datadog engineers moved from hand‑tuning Go assembly to an automated system called BitsEvolve that leverages large language models and evolutionary algorithms to optimize low‑level code. Manual removal of redundant bounds checks alone delivered a 25% CPU reduction on targeted functions....

By Machine learning at scale
OpenAI Unifies ChatGPT, Codex Into Single AI Workspace
SocialMar 22, 2026

OpenAI Unifies ChatGPT, Codex Into Single AI Workspace

OpenAI is moving toward an all-in-one AI platform. The goal is to bring ChatGPT, Codex and other tools into a single environment and reduce fragmentation. Instead of switching between apps, AI becomes one continuous workspace. This is a shift from using AI...

By Spiros Margaris
AI Codegen Hype Ignores Deployment, Observability, and Reliability
SocialMar 22, 2026

AI Codegen Hype Ignores Deployment, Observability, and Reliability

The chatter about generating code with AI tools feels stuck at the "basic" level of... well, codegen, plus (perhaps) reviews and testing. I hear close to little talk about the things that come right after generating code: deploying, canarying, o11y, SLOs,...

By Gergely Orosz
Abilytics Names Ajish Cherian CTO to Accelerate AI, Cloud and Platform Engineering
NewsMar 21, 2026

Abilytics Names Ajish Cherian CTO to Accelerate AI, Cloud and Platform Engineering

Abilytics Inc announced the appointment of Ajish Cherian as Chief Technology Officer. Cherian will steer the firm’s global technology strategy across AI services, cloud platforms and data analytics, aiming to meet rising enterprise demand for secure, production‑grade AI solutions.

By Pulse
Waste-to-Biochar Process Could Reduce Cruise Ships' Costs and Emissions
NewsMar 21, 2026

Waste-to-Biochar Process Could Reduce Cruise Ships' Costs and Emissions

Evac Group’s HydroTreat system turns onboard wet waste—food scraps and sludge—into sterile biochar, a carbon‑rich solid that can be stored and disposed of without discharge. The technology lets cruise ships avoid costly port fees and route changes imposed by tightening...

By The Maritime Executive
ASML's New Boss Calls for Simpler, AI-Ready Reorg
SocialMar 21, 2026

ASML's New Boss Calls for Simpler, AI-Ready Reorg

ASML needs to become simpler. That, too, is innovation. Marco Pieters, ASML “We have become too sluggish,” says Marco Pieters, ASML’s new technical boss. He is leading a sweeping reorganization to prepare the Veldhoven-based high-tech giant for the AI era. https://t.co/0vG7jthH2I

By Paul Triolo
Google Reassigns AI Staff From Project Mariner to Text‑Based Agents Amid Nvidia’s OpenClaw Surge
NewsMar 21, 2026

Google Reassigns AI Staff From Project Mariner to Text‑Based Agents Amid Nvidia’s OpenClaw Surge

Google announced a reshuffle that pulls engineers off its browser‑based Project Mariner and redeploys them to text‑oriented AI agents such as the newly launched Gemini Agent. The move comes as Nvidia’s OpenClaw platform accelerates adoption, prompting Google to double down...

By Pulse
BlinkEx Investment Platform Infrastructure – Matching, Risk Controls, Reliability
NewsMar 21, 2026

BlinkEx Investment Platform Infrastructure – Matching, Risk Controls, Reliability

BlinkEx is launching an invite‑only early‑access crypto exchange in early 2026, concentrating on a streamlined spot‑trading experience. The platform’s core differentiator is a horizontally scalable, low‑latency matching engine that emphasizes predictable fills over sheer speed. Integrated risk layers, branded BlinkGuard,...

By CryptoSlate
Appspace Hires Dan Ward as CTO to Accelerate AI Workplace Platform
NewsMar 21, 2026

Appspace Hires Dan Ward as CTO to Accelerate AI Workplace Platform

Appspace announced the appointment of Dan Ward as chief technology officer and Eric Daggett as chief sales officer. The hires are intended to scale the company’s AI‑powered workplace experience platform as enterprises seek unified, data‑driven solutions.

By Pulse
Three Ways AI Is Learning to Understand the Physical World
NewsMar 20, 2026

Three Ways AI Is Learning to Understand the Physical World

Large language models struggle with physical causality, driving a surge in "world model" research and billion‑dollar funding rounds from AMI Labs and World Labs. Researchers are exploring three architectural families—JEPA’s latent, real‑time embeddings, Gaussian‑splat 3D scene generators, and end‑to‑end generative...

By VentureBeat
Bitly Names Matt Young CTO to Accelerate AI‑Powered Platform Scaling
NewsMar 20, 2026

Bitly Names Matt Young CTO to Accelerate AI‑Powered Platform Scaling

Bitly announced the appointment of Matt Young as chief technology officer, tasking him with leading engineering and data teams to scale the link and QR‑code platform. The move, highlighted by CEO Peter Krivkovich, signals a strategic bet on AI‑enabled development...

By Pulse
SEALSQ Deploys Post-Quantum Cryptography to Bolster Blockchain Security
BlogMar 20, 2026

SEALSQ Deploys Post-Quantum Cryptography to Bolster Blockchain Security

SEALSQ Corp is integrating NIST‑selected post‑quantum cryptographic algorithms, notably CRYSTALS‑Kyber and CRYSTALS‑Dilithium, into its secure elements and TPM‑class chips to create a hardware root‑of‑trust for blockchain keys. The company is partnering with Swiss platform WeCan to embed these algorithms in...

By Quantum Zeitgeist
Running Agents on Kubernetes with Agent Sandbox
NewsMar 20, 2026

Running Agents on Kubernetes with Agent Sandbox

The AI landscape is shifting from brief, stateless inference calls to long‑running, coordinated agents that require persistent state and secure execution. Traditional Kubernetes objects like StatefulSets struggle to manage thousands of singleton agents efficiently. The open‑source Agent Sandbox project introduces...

By Kubernetes Blog
New Company, Old Playbook?
BlogMar 20, 2026

New Company, Old Playbook?

A seasoned engineering leader shares a 90‑day playbook for transitioning into a new tech role, drawing on his recent CTO onboarding at Nordhealth after years at Shopify. The framework tackles the "expert beginner" paradox, emphasizing a listening‑first approach in the...

By The Engineering Manager
Intelligent Infrastructure: How AI Is Transforming OTNs
NewsMar 20, 2026

Intelligent Infrastructure: How AI Is Transforming OTNs

Huawei unveiled its AI‑powered fgOTN solution at MWC Barcelona 2026, positioning optical transport networks as intelligent infrastructure rather than passive pipelines. The platform embeds AI across transmission, sensing, and operations, enabling real‑time fibre‑based monitoring, native quantum key distribution, and autonomous...

By TechMonitor
How Dropzone AI Is Bringing A ‘Software-Only’ Approach To Agentic SOC: CEO
NewsMar 20, 2026

How Dropzone AI Is Bringing A ‘Software-Only’ Approach To Agentic SOC: CEO

Dropzone AI, founded in 2023 by former ExtraHop scientist Edward Wu, launched a fully software‑only AI SOC Analyst platform that resolves security alerts without any human analyst involvement. The solution promises greater consistency, scalability and transparency, addressing the chronic alert‑overload...

By CRN (US)
Uber CTO Says 95% of Engineers Now Rely on AI, Internal Agents Push 1,800 Weekly Code Changes
NewsMar 20, 2026

Uber CTO Says 95% of Engineers Now Rely on AI, Internal Agents Push 1,800 Weekly Code Changes

Uber's chief technology officer, Praveen Neppalli Naga, announced that 95% of the company's engineers now use AI tools monthly and that an internal coding agent is generating 1,800 code changes per week. The shift moves engineers from hand‑coding to system...

By Pulse
Crossplane and AI: The Case for API-First Infrastructure
NewsMar 20, 2026

Crossplane and AI: The Case for API-First Infrastructure

AI‑assisted development has moved the bottleneck from writing code to post‑push activities such as provisioning, compliance, and day‑two operations. Traditional platforms expose policies and state through fragmented UIs and pipelines, which hinders AI agents that require machine‑readable interfaces. Crossplane extends...

By CNCF Blog
Microsoft Reorgs AI Leadership, Promotes Mohit Garg and Elevates Copilot Under Jacob Andreou
NewsMar 20, 2026

Microsoft Reorgs AI Leadership, Promotes Mohit Garg and Elevates Copilot Under Jacob Andreou

Microsoft announced a sweeping AI leadership reorganization, promoting Mohit Garg to Vice President of Engineering for AI Network Infrastructure and naming Jacob Andreou as EVP of the unified Copilot experience. The changes free Mustafa Suleyman to focus on "superintelligence" and...

By Pulse
How a Spanish Brewing Company Uses Tech to Guide Its Business Strategy
NewsMar 20, 2026

How a Spanish Brewing Company Uses Tech to Guide Its Business Strategy

Hijos de Rivera, the Spanish brewer behind Estrella Galicia, is accelerating a digital transformation anchored by a four‑pillar strategy. Since 2017 the company has modernized production, logistics and partner ecosystems, creating an internal AI hub called EstreIA and developing proprietary...

By CIO.com
The ‘Toggle-Away’ Efficiencies: Cutting AI Costs Inside the Training Loop
NewsMar 20, 2026

The ‘Toggle-Away’ Efficiencies: Cutting AI Costs Inside the Training Loop

The article outlines practical, software‑level tactics that can halve AI training costs without new hardware. It highlights mixed‑precision math, gradient accumulation, and data‑pipeline caching as the highest‑ROI changes for most models. Operational tricks such as spot‑instance usage, frequent checkpointing, and...

By InfoWorld
6 Innovation Curves Are Rewriting Enterprise IT Strategy
NewsMar 20, 2026

6 Innovation Curves Are Rewriting Enterprise IT Strategy

Enterprises now face six overlapping S‑curves—autonomous agents, AI‑native applications, memory‑first data, reimagined human‑digital interaction, trust‑centric governance, and simulation—that must be managed concurrently. Traditional sequential transformation is insufficient; firms need operating models that accommodate simultaneous change. The article outlines four action...

By CIO.com
AI Optimization: How We Cut Energy Costs in Social Media Recommendation Systems
NewsMar 20, 2026

AI Optimization: How We Cut Energy Costs in Social Media Recommendation Systems

A former Meta engineer now at Google detailed how his team slashed energy consumption and operating costs in Instagram Reels recommendation pipelines. By redesigning the data‑flow—introducing lazy logging for the head‑load items, switching to a batched storage schema, and auditing...

By InfoWorld
Access Hospitality Appoints Aravinda Gollapudi as Chief Technology Officer
NewsMar 20, 2026

Access Hospitality Appoints Aravinda Gollapudi as Chief Technology Officer

Access Hospitality, the hospitality‑technology arm of The Access Group, has appointed Aravinda Gollapudi as Chief Technology Officer. Gollapudi, a veteran of Sage, Intuit, Ellie Mae and VeriSign, will steer the company’s global technology strategy, emphasizing agentic AI to create a...

By Breaking Travel News
AI Conundrum: Why MCP Security Can't Be Patched Away
NewsMar 19, 2026

AI Conundrum: Why MCP Security Can't Be Patched Away

Enterprises are rapidly wiring large language models to external services through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), unlocking powerful automation but also exposing a novel attack surface. Because MCP turns LLMs from passive responders into autonomous agents, they can execute actions...

By Dark Reading
Nile Adds Microsegmentation and Native NAC to Its Secure NaaS Platform
NewsMar 19, 2026

Nile Adds Microsegmentation and Native NAC to Its Secure NaaS Platform

Nile has upgraded its subscription‑based NaaS platform, Nile Access Service, with built‑in network access control (NAC) and identity‑driven microsegmentation. The new native NAC eliminates the need for separate appliances, while the microsegmentation feature can isolate each device individually, a capability...

By Network World
Powering the Agents: Workers AI Now Runs Large Models, Starting with Kimi K2.5
NewsMar 19, 2026

Powering the Agents: Workers AI Now Runs Large Models, Starting with Kimi K2.5

Cloudflare announced that Workers AI now supports the frontier open‑source model Kimi K2.5, offering a 256k token context window, multi‑turn tool calling, vision inputs and structured outputs. The company demonstrated a 77% cost reduction compared with mid‑tier proprietary models by running...

By Cloudflare Blog