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Security for Smart Devices – Time to Step Forward because There's Nowhere to Hide
NewsFeb 26, 2026

Security for Smart Devices – Time to Step Forward because There's Nowhere to Hide

From 4 March 2026 the Australian government will enforce minimum security standards for all smart devices sold in the market, shifting compliance from voluntary guidance to mandatory requirement. The IoT Alliance Australia (IoTAA) is spearheading a voluntary Security Labelling Scheme, slated to...

By iTnews (Australia) – Government
AMD Commits $250M To Nutanix To Accelerate Enterprise Agentic AI Infrastructure
NewsFeb 26, 2026

AMD Commits $250M To Nutanix To Accelerate Enterprise Agentic AI Infrastructure

AMD announced a $250 million strategic partnership with Nutanix, buying $150 million of Nutanix common stock and committing up to $100 million for joint R&D and go‑to‑market efforts. The collaboration will integrate Nutanix’s Cloud and Kubernetes platforms with AMD’s EPYC CPUs, Instinct GPUs,...

By CRN (US)
6,000 AWS Accounts, Three People, One Platform: Lessons Learned
NewsFeb 25, 2026

6,000 AWS Accounts, Three People, One Platform: Lessons Learned

ProGlove runs a SaaS platform on AWS using an account-per-tenant architecture, currently operating about 6,000 tenant accounts—half active—with over 120,000 service instances and a million Lambda functions. The approach gives each customer isolated compute, storage, and IAM boundaries, simplifying security,...

By AWS Architecture Blog
AI Tools Are Being Prepared for the Physical World
NewsFeb 25, 2026

AI Tools Are Being Prepared for the Physical World

Google unveiled Project Genie, an experimental AI model that converts text or image prompts into fully interactive, three‑dimensional simulations. The system can render realistic environments or reinterpret artistic styles, letting users explore a park rendered in pointillist technique or a...

By The Economist – Science & Technology
Is Perplexity's New Computer a Safer Version of OpenClaw? How It Works
NewsFeb 25, 2026

Is Perplexity's New Computer a Safer Version of OpenClaw? How It Works

Perplexity unveiled Computer, a multi‑agent orchestration platform that combines more than a dozen cutting‑edge AI models into a single digital worker. The system, currently limited to Perplexity Max users, uses Claude Opus 4.6 for core reasoning and delegates specialized tasks...

By ZDNet
Cagent: Dockers Newest Low Code Agentic Platform
NewsFeb 25, 2026

Cagent: Dockers Newest Low Code Agentic Platform

Docker unveiled Cagent, an open‑source, low‑code framework that lets developers launch AI agents using a single YAML file instead of extensive code. The platform integrates the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Docker Model Runner to support multiple LLM providers and...

By DZone – DevOps & CI/CD
Sauce Labs Launches Industry’s First Programmable Mobile Device Cloud for the AI Era
NewsFeb 25, 2026

Sauce Labs Launches Industry’s First Programmable Mobile Device Cloud for the AI Era

Sauce Labs announced the Real Device Access API, the first programmable mobile device cloud designed for the AI era. The API lets developers control real Android and iOS devices through HTTP, issuing ADB or xcrun commands, streaming video, and accessing...

By SD Times
Arctic Wolf Snaps up Sevco Security to Bolster Exposure Management
NewsFeb 25, 2026

Arctic Wolf Snaps up Sevco Security to Bolster Exposure Management

Arctic Wolf announced the acquisition of Texas‑based Sevco Security, a cloud‑native exposure assessment specialist, for an undisclosed amount. Sevco’s platform, recognized as a Gartner Visionary in 2025, will be folded into Arctic Wolf’s Aurora platform to unify asset intelligence, vulnerability...

By ITPro (UK)
What AX Can Do to Deliver Cohesion and Uniformity to AI Agents
NewsFeb 25, 2026

What AX Can Do to Deliver Cohesion and Uniformity to AI Agents

The article introduces the concept of Agent Experience (AX), a discipline for preparing enterprise systems so AI agents can discover, invoke, and manage tools reliably. It stresses that agents require precise, structured documentation, robust API specifications, and context‑engineering such as...

By CIO.com
Why ‘Buy vs Build’ Is the Wrong Question for AI Strategy
NewsFeb 25, 2026

Why ‘Buy vs Build’ Is the Wrong Question for AI Strategy

Artificial intelligence is now a strategic priority, yet many enterprises chase hype instead of defining clear use cases, driven by a 63% fear‑of‑missing‑out. The traditional buy‑vs‑build debate is less relevant than asking what problem AI should solve. A blended approach—combining...

By ITPro (UK)
AI-Driven Evolution: Reshaping India's Data Center Infrastructure for a High-Density Future
NewsFeb 25, 2026

AI-Driven Evolution: Reshaping India's Data Center Infrastructure for a High-Density Future

India is racing toward more than 2 GW of data‑center capacity by the end of 2026, spurred by AI‑intensive workloads and accelerated cloud adoption. Facilities in major metros are shifting from pure storage sites to high‑density compute hubs that require liquid‑cooling...

By ET CIO (India)
How to Integrate an AI Chatbot Into Your Application: A Practical Engineering Guide
NewsFeb 24, 2026

How to Integrate an AI Chatbot Into Your Application: A Practical Engineering Guide

The guide outlines a disciplined engineering approach to embedding AI chatbots within existing applications, treating the bot as an interaction adapter rather than a core decision engine. It details a four‑layer architecture—client, backend orchestration, language processing, and data sources—plus a...

By DZone – DevOps & CI/CD
Integration Reliability for AI Systems: A Framework for Detecting and Preventing Interface Mismatch at Scale
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Integration Reliability for AI Systems: A Framework for Detecting and Preventing Interface Mismatch at Scale

AI integrations increasingly drift as independent teams modify contracts, causing silent performance degradation despite healthy dashboards. The article highlights schema fingerprinting as a low‑cost early warning and proposes a four‑layer architecture—static contract validation, pre‑production synthetic testing, runtime drift detection, and...

By DZone – DevOps & CI/CD
Google Unveils Two New US Data Centers As $185 Billion Commitment Gets Underway
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Google Unveils Two New US Data Centers As $185 Billion Commitment Gets Underway

Google announced the construction of two new data centers—one in Wilbarger County, Texas, and another in Pine Island, Minnesota—as part of a $185 billion capital‑expenditure plan for 2026. The Texas site will employ advanced air‑cooling technology and partner with AES Corp....

By CRN (US)
Most Platform Teams Build Products, but They Don’t Know It
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Most Platform Teams Build Products, but They Don’t Know It

Platform teams often treat internal platforms as pure infrastructure, overlooking their product nature. By failing to define specific user personas, they ship technically complete features that see low adoption. The article stresses that rollout activities differ from genuine adoption, which...

By The New Stack
Terraform Enterprise 1.2 Upgrades Workflows, Visibility, and Brownfield Migration
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Terraform Enterprise 1.2 Upgrades Workflows, Visibility, and Brownfield Migration

Terraform Enterprise 1.2 is now generally available, adding a visual UI‑driven search and import tool that lets teams bring unmanaged, brownfield resources into Terraform without writing code. The release also graduates Explorer to GA, delivering a centralized dashboard that records...

By HashiCorp Blog
Wowza Appoints Jon Corley Chief Technology Officer
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Wowza Appoints Jon Corley Chief Technology Officer

Wowza announced Jon Corley as its new chief technology officer, tasked with steering the company’s AI‑driven streaming strategy. Corley will shape the technology vision, engineering roadmap, and product‑innovation agenda to embed artificial intelligence throughout Wowza’s platform. The move aligns with...

By TVNewsCheck
Building Event-Driven Data Pipelines in GCP
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Building Event-Driven Data Pipelines in GCP

Google Cloud Platform enables event‑driven pipelines that replace idle batch jobs with immediate reactions to data changes. The reference architecture uses Firestore as the event source, Cloud Functions or Eventarc to capture changes, Pub/Sub as the messaging backbone, and Dataflow...

By DZone – DevOps & CI/CD
StormHarvester: Using AI to Improve Wastewater Management
NewsFeb 24, 2026

StormHarvester: Using AI to Improve Wastewater Management

StormHarvester, a Belfast‑based startup, leverages machine learning and hyper‑local rainfall forecasting to give wastewater utilities real‑time insight into sewer levels, blockages and inflow. The company now works with 11 UK utilities, has deployed over 270,000 sensors worldwide and offers a...

By Silicon Republic
Kilo Launches KiloClaw, Allowing Anyone to Deploy Hosted OpenClaw Agents Into Production in 60 Seconds
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Kilo Launches KiloClaw, Allowing Anyone to Deploy Hosted OpenClaw Agents Into Production in 60 Seconds

Kilo has launched KiloClaw, a fully managed service that provisions a production‑ready OpenClaw agent in under 60 seconds, removing the need for SSH, Docker, or YAML setup. The platform runs on multi‑tenant VMs hosted by Fly.io, providing enterprise‑grade isolation, security...

By VentureBeat
Nvidia Plans a Windows PC SoC, Setting up Direct Competition with Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Nvidia Plans a Windows PC SoC, Setting up Direct Competition with Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD

Nvidia is engineering a Windows‑compatible system‑on‑chip based on its GB10 platform, a partnership with MediaTek that blends 20 Arm cores and a Blackwell GPU delivering up to one petaFLOP of AI performance. Dell and Lenovo have already signaled intent to...

By Computerworld – IT Leadership
Why Chief AI Officers Need to Become Change Agents
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Why Chief AI Officers Need to Become Change Agents

Chief AI Officers (CAIOs) are evolving from technical overseers to enterprise change agents, tasked with accelerating AI experiments while managing risk. Companies are shifting focus from low failure rates to high‑velocity learning, recognizing that each experiment adds strategic insight. The...

By CIO Dive
Intel Inks ‘Multiyear’ AI Inference Deal With SambaNova After Acquisition Talks End
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Intel Inks ‘Multiyear’ AI Inference Deal With SambaNova After Acquisition Talks End

Intel has forged a multiyear strategic partnership with AI‑chip startup SambaNova after acquisition talks stalled, coupling Intel Capital’s $350 million Series E investment with access to Intel’s global enterprise, cloud and partner channels. The deal coincides with the launch of SambaNova’s SN50...

By CRN (US)
Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Adds Governance, Productivity, and Support for Large AI Models Securely Running Even when Completely Disconnected
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Adds Governance, Productivity, and Support for Large AI Models Securely Running Even when Completely Disconnected

Microsoft announced that its Sovereign Cloud now includes Azure Local disconnected operations, Microsoft 365 Local, and Foundry Local with large‑model support. The new services let enterprises run core infrastructure, productivity suites, and multimodal AI models entirely offline while preserving Azure‑consistent...

By Azure Blog
Microsoft CEO Opens London AI Tour with Copilot Push
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Microsoft CEO Opens London AI Tour with Copilot Push

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opened the London AI Tour by showcasing the company’s push into agentic AI across its productivity suite. He highlighted how Excel and PowerPoint now feature an Agent Mode that can generate code and insights from a single...

By ComputerWeekly – DevOps
7 Ways to Tame Multicloud Chaos with Generative AI
NewsFeb 24, 2026

7 Ways to Tame Multicloud Chaos with Generative AI

Enterprises are increasingly adopting multicloud to avoid vendor lock‑in, yet the resulting operational complexity strains IT teams. The article outlines seven ways generative AI—through copilots, agents, and code‑translation tools—can streamline cloud‑service selection, infrastructure provisioning, observability, compliance, and finops. By automating...

By InfoWorld
Where MENA CIOs Draw the Line on AI Sovereignty
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Where MENA CIOs Draw the Line on AI Sovereignty

MENA CIOs are drawing firm lines around AI sovereignty, keeping regulated workloads—such as patient data, identity systems, and core financial transactions—on sovereign or on‑premise infrastructure while leveraging hyperscalers for development, testing, and non‑sensitive analytics. The hybrid approach reflects regional regulatory...

By ComputerWeekly – DevOps
What Is Claude Code Security? The New Anthropic AI Tool that Wiped Billions Off Cybersecurity Stocks
NewsFeb 24, 2026

What Is Claude Code Security? The New Anthropic AI Tool that Wiped Billions Off Cybersecurity Stocks

Anthropic unveiled Claude Code Security, an AI‑driven tool that scans codebases for vulnerabilities and proposes patches. The system leverages the Claude Opus 4.6 model to reason about data flows and business‑logic errors, reducing false positives through multi‑stage verification. Its launch triggered...

By Mint – Technology (India)
How Smarsh Built an AI Front Door for Regulated Industries — and Drove 59% Self-Service Adoption
NewsFeb 24, 2026

How Smarsh Built an AI Front Door for Regulated Industries — and Drove 59% Self-Service Adoption

Smarsh deployed an AI‑powered support agent, Archie, on Salesforce Agentforce 360 to create a unified front‑door for regulated‑industry customers. The system lets users describe needs in plain language, routing them to the right solution and reducing navigation friction. Early results...

By VentureBeat
Nvidia Lines up Partners to Boost Security for Industrial Operations
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Nvidia Lines up Partners to Boost Security for Industrial Operations

Nvidia announced expanded partnerships with Akamai, Forescout, Palo Alto Networks, Siemens and Xage to embed AI‑driven security into operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS). Using Nvidia BlueField DPUs, the collaborations offload security workloads from host CPUs, enabling hardware‑isolated,...

By Network World
Microsoft Brings C++ Smarts to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Microsoft Brings C++ Smarts to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Microsoft announced that GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code now leverages C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness. The new capabilities are delivered through the C/C++ DevTools extension, enabling the AI agent to retrieve definitions, references, and call hierarchies...

By InfoWorld
Microsoft’s AI Ambitions Could Bring Trouble
NewsFeb 24, 2026

Microsoft’s AI Ambitions Could Bring Trouble

Microsoft is embedding its AI assistant Copilot deeply into Windows 11 and Microsoft 365, positioning the feature as a core productivity tool. The FTC has opened an antitrust investigation, probing whether the bundling of AI with the operating system and...

By InfoWorld
More Than Dashboards: AI Decisions Must Be Provable
NewsFeb 23, 2026

More Than Dashboards: AI Decisions Must Be Provable

Enterprise leaders are demanding proof of what AI systems actually did, not just what they were designed to do or what dashboards report. As AI moves into regulated, high‑risk environments, boards and auditors expect decision‑level evidence for each action. The...

By Dark Reading
How CBA Unlocked 90 Percent of Its Customer and Transaction Data
NewsFeb 23, 2026

How CBA Unlocked 90 Percent of Its Customer and Transaction Data

Commonwealth Bank completed a migration from an on‑premises SAP R/3 mainframe to an SAP S/4 HANA core hosted on AWS in October 2023. The new in‑memory architecture cut infrastructure costs by 30% and boosted processing performance by the same margin,...

By iTnews (Australia) – Government
Vocus Taps Amazon Q Developer in AI Pilot
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Vocus Taps Amazon Q Developer in AI Pilot

Vocus has launched a pilot using Amazon Q Developer, the rebranded CodeWhisperer, to assist its software engineers. The telco reports productivity improvements of over 50% and faster idea validation, cutting proof‑of‑concept cycles from days to under a day. Engineer satisfaction...

By iTnews (Australia) – Government
5 Ways Google Cloud Partners Are Driving the Next Phase of Enterprise AI
NewsFeb 23, 2026

5 Ways Google Cloud Partners Are Driving the Next Phase of Enterprise AI

Google Cloud’s partner ecosystem is moving enterprise AI from isolated pilots to production‑grade, agent‑driven solutions. Partners such as CDW, Perficient, KPMG, Tredence and Datatonic are embedding generative AI and modular platforms into core business processes while maintaining governance. The shift...

By SiliconANGLE
Researchers Baked 3x Inference Speedups Directly Into LLM Weights — without Speculative Decoding
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Researchers Baked 3x Inference Speedups Directly Into LLM Weights — without Speculative Decoding

Researchers from Maryland, Livermore Lab, Columbia and TogetherAI introduced a multi‑token prediction (MTP) technique that embeds a special token into existing LLM weights, eliminating the need for separate drafting models. The method uses a self‑distillation student‑teacher training loop to...

By VentureBeat
Spotify Rolls Out AI-Powered  Prompted Playlists to the UK and Other Markets
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Spotify Rolls Out AI-Powered Prompted Playlists to the UK and Other Markets

Spotify is extending its AI‑powered Prompted Playlists to Premium users in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Sweden after earlier tests in New Zealand, the U.S. and Canada. The feature lets listeners generate custom playlists by typing natural‑language prompts that describe...

By TechCrunch (Main)
Liminal Expands To MSPs With Secure, Multi-Model AI Platform
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Liminal Expands To MSPs With Secure, Multi-Model AI Platform

Liminal, previously focused on enterprise customers, is extending its secure, multi‑model AI platform to managed service providers (MSPs) targeting small‑ and medium‑size businesses (SMBs). The platform consolidates access to leading large language models—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Perplexity—while sanitizing sensitive...

By CRN (US)
Kubernetes as AI’s Operating System: 1.35 Release Signals
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Kubernetes as AI’s Operating System: 1.35 Release Signals

Kubernetes 1.35, nicknamed “Timbernetes,” rolls out key features aimed at AI/ML workloads. It introduces workload‑aware scheduling (alpha) with gang‑scheduling primitives, graduates in‑place pod resizing to stable, and makes KYAML the default kubectl output format. Dynamic Resource Allocation remains enabled, improving...

By CNCF Blog
Umovity Strengthens Software and ITS Management Teams
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Umovity Strengthens Software and ITS Management Teams

Umovity has bolstered its leadership roster with three senior appointments, adding Hans M. Molin as CTO of the ITS division, Hilary Aylesworth as chief product and technology officer for the software arm, and Matthew May as senior vice president of...

By ITS International
Vodafone Turns Its Network Into a Europe-Wide “Virtual Weather Station”
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Vodafone Turns Its Network Into a Europe-Wide “Virtual Weather Station”

Vodafone’s Network‑as‑a‑Sensor (NWaaS) program is now operating pan‑European, using thousands of microwave backhaul links to turn the carrier’s infrastructure into a distributed weather‑monitoring platform. The service can infer rain, fog, humidity and, with added mast‑mounted sensors, air‑quality data, delivering near‑real‑time...

By TechMonitor
Incubeta Hires Ex-Wunderman Chief to ‘Join the Dots’
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Incubeta Hires Ex-Wunderman Chief to ‘Join the Dots’

Incubeta has appointed Adam Woods, former CTO of Wunderman Thompson Data, as its first global chief product officer. Woods will consolidate Incubeta’s fragmented product suite into a unified, AI‑driven platform that delivers integrated media, data and creative intelligence. The hire...

By DecisionMarketing
Pure Storage Rebrands to Everpure as Storage Maker’s Business Expands Focus to Data Management
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Pure Storage Rebrands to Everpure as Storage Maker’s Business Expands Focus to Data Management

Pure Storage announced it will rebrand as Everpure, signaling a strategic shift from pure flash storage hardware to broader data management services. The change aligns with the rollout of its Enterprise Data Cloud platform, which bundles storage, monitoring, and governance...

By ComputerWeekly – DevOps
Robotaxis Are Coming to London. The Citys Famed Black Cab Drivers Are Skeptical
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Robotaxis Are Coming to London. The Citys Famed Black Cab Drivers Are Skeptical

London will launch a national robotaxi pilot this spring, featuring British startup Wayve, US‑based Waymo and China’s Baidu. The trials aim to test autonomous vehicles on the city’s congested, historic streets and support the UK’s push to become a leader...

By Mint – Technology (India)
Dell Releases AI India Blueprint at India AI Impact Summit 2026
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Dell Releases AI India Blueprint at India AI Impact Summit 2026

Dell Technologies unveiled an AI India Blueprint at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, presenting a roadmap to move AI initiatives from pilot phases to production across the country. The document projects AI workloads to grow at roughly 30% CAGR...

By ET CIO (India)
Tennant Co (TNC) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Tennant Co (TNC) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Tenable Holdings reported Q4 2025 revenue of $260.5 million, a 10.5% YoY increase, and full‑year growth of 11%. The AI‑powered Tenable One platform drove 46% of new and expansion business, delivering a net dollar expansion rate of 106% and pushing...

By Motley Fool – Earnings Transcripts
QLD Building Commission Moves IT Under Operations
NewsFeb 22, 2026

QLD Building Commission Moves IT Under Operations

The Queensland Building and Construction Commission (QBCC) has reorganised its digital and information division under a newly appointed chief operating officer, Amanda Pafumi, replacing the former CDIO role with a general manager, digital and information. This shift integrates technology functions into...

By iTnews (Australia) – Government
Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents Automatically Make Websites Agent-Ready
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents Automatically Make Websites Agent-Ready

Cloudflare introduced “Markdown for Agents,” an edge service that converts HTML pages to Markdown when an AI agent requests them via an Accept: text/markdown header. The conversion can slash token consumption by up to 80%, turning a 16,180‑token HTML page...

By The New Stack