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7 Ways ChatGPT Can Help You Plan the Perfect Vacation
NewsNov 17, 2025

7 Ways ChatGPT Can Help You Plan the Perfect Vacation

TechRadar’s AI Week 2025 piece outlines seven ways ChatGPT can streamline vacation planning, from personalized destination suggestions and flight price filtering to hotel comparisons, custom city itineraries, real‑time translation, and automated travel admin like packing lists and visa briefings. The...

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Microsoft Exec Responds to Windows 11 AI Controversy, but Glosses over a Key Reason for All the Hate
NewsNov 17, 2025

Microsoft Exec Responds to Windows 11 AI Controversy, but Glosses over a Key Reason for All the Hate

Microsoft Windows VP Pavan Davuluri responded on X to backlash over the company’s AI push in Windows 11, acknowledging the need to improve basic usability, reliability and performance. He said the team is listening to developer feedback and will address issues...

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An "AI Exposure Gap" Could Be the Most Worrying Security Issue Your Business Isn't Aware Of
NewsNov 17, 2025

An "AI Exposure Gap" Could Be the Most Worrying Security Issue Your Business Isn't Aware Of

Tenable’s latest research finds that 89% of organizations are running or piloting AI workloads, yet only 22% fully classify and encrypt AI data, leaving a large “AI exposure gap.” One‑third of AI adopters (34%) have already suffered an AI‑related breach,...

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Welcome to TechRadar's AI Week
NewsNov 17, 2025

Welcome to TechRadar's AI Week

TechRadar announced its AI Week 2025, a seven‑day series of beginner‑focused guides and feature stories on artificial‑intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. The initiative promises step‑by‑step walkthroughs for prompt engineering, practical use‑cases at work and home, and tips...

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Can Top AI Tools Be Bullied Into Malicious Work? ChatGPT, Gemini, and More Are Put to the Test, and the...
NewsNov 16, 2025

Can Top AI Tools Be Bullied Into Malicious Work? ChatGPT, Gemini, and More Are Put to the Test, and the...

Researchers at Cybernews conducted one‑minute adversarial tests on leading AI chatbots—including ChatGPT‑5, ChatGPT‑4o, Gemini Pro 2.5, Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet—across categories such as hate speech, self‑harm, crime and drug‑related content. While many models refused outright, several offered partial or full...

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Drowning in Emails? Meet the App That's Cleaned over a Billion
NewsNov 16, 2025

Drowning in Emails? Meet the App That's Cleaned over a Billion

Trimbox, an email‑management app, has been downloaded 515,687 times and claims to have cleaned over 1.7 billion emails by letting users block mailing lists and bulk‑delete messages with a single click. The tool integrates with Gmail and other accounts, offering a...

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Nvidia's New AI App Could Be the Productivity Tool You've Always Needed - "Hyperlink" Agent Brings Private AI-Powered Search for...
NewsNov 16, 2025

Nvidia's New AI App Could Be the Productivity Tool You've Always Needed - "Hyperlink" Agent Brings Private AI-Powered Search for...

Nvidia’s new Hyperlink agent, developed by Nexa.ai, runs entirely on local RTX hardware, delivering AI‑powered search of personal files while keeping data on‑device. Benchmarked on an RTX 5090, it indexes up to three times faster and offers twice the large‑language‑model inference...

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Why AI Pilots Fail - and How Manufacturers Can Break the Cycle
NewsNov 16, 2025

Why AI Pilots Fail - and How Manufacturers Can Break the Cycle

AI pilots in manufacturing stall—up to 90% fail—largely due to fragmented, low‑quality data and entrenched IT‑OT silos rather than algorithmic flaws. Experts argue that scaling AI requires a unified, trustworthy data infrastructure that can ingest and analyze industrial data at...

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Shadow AI: The Next Frontier of Unseen Risk
NewsNov 16, 2025

Shadow AI: The Next Frontier of Unseen Risk

Shadow AI, the unsanctioned use of generative AI tools by employees, is spreading across enterprises with little visibility. It creates data leakage, regulatory violations, geopolitical exposure, and introduces new attack vectors such as agentic AI and unreviewed code. The lack...

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What Legacy Business Intelligence Technology Can Learn From Video Games
NewsNov 16, 2025

What Legacy Business Intelligence Technology Can Learn From Video Games

Legacy business intelligence platforms rely on batch‑oriented architectures that cannot keep pace with today’s massive, real‑time data streams, resulting in latency and static dashboards. Marc Stevens contends that the video‑game industry’s transition to hardware‑accelerated, low‑latency rendering provides a blueprint for...

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LTO Tape Storage Is Still Going Strong Despite Elon Musk's Efforts to Wipe It Out - and There's Now Even...
NewsNov 15, 2025

LTO Tape Storage Is Still Going Strong Despite Elon Musk's Efforts to Wipe It Out - and There's Now Even...

The LTO Program, a joint effort by HPE, IBM and Quantum, unveiled a 40 TB native‑capacity LTO‑10 cartridge that uses a new aramid‑based tape film to increase length without enlarging the cartridge, while remaining compatible with existing LTO‑10 drives. The announcement...

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Sluggish Software Delivery Is an Executive-Level Risk
NewsNov 15, 2025

Sluggish Software Delivery Is an Executive-Level Risk

Sluggish software delivery has become a board‑room risk, according to CloudBees CEO Anuj Kapur, as missed timelines erode revenue, damage reputations and weaken competitiveness. Enterprises typically juggle more than seven DevOps tools, creating fragmented pipelines, security bottlenecks and loss of...

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AI Scams Surge: How Consumers and Businesses Can Stay Safe
NewsNov 15, 2025

AI Scams Surge: How Consumers and Businesses Can Stay Safe

AI‑driven scams are exploding, with ClickFix attacks up 517% and now representing 8% of blocked incidents, while deep‑fake voice and video impersonations and malicious QR‑code phishing proliferate. In the U.S., online scams cost $16.6 billion in 2024, affecting 73% of adults...

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Seagate's New Storage Looks to Cover Everything You'll Need for the Age of AI - Including up to 3.2 Petabytes...
NewsNov 15, 2025

Seagate's New Storage Looks to Cover Everything You'll Need for the Age of AI - Including up to 3.2 Petabytes...

Seagate announced its Exos 4U100 and 4U74 JBOD systems aimed at AI and edge workloads, with the flagship 4U100 delivering up to 3.2 petabytes of capacity in a single 4‑U enclosure. The systems leverage Seagate’s Mozaic HAMR technology and support both SAS...

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Remote Work and the Big Breaches of 2025: Cause or Convenient Excuse?
NewsNov 15, 2025

Remote Work and the Big Breaches of 2025: Cause or Convenient Excuse?

Remote work amplified existing security gaps in 2025 but was rarely the sole cause of major breaches, which were driven by exposed credentials, misconfigured cloud services, weak third‑party controls and human error. Industry analyses show attackers often combined these weaknesses,...

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If Hackers Can Use AI to Automate Massive Cyber Attacks, Terminator Robots Are the Least of Our Problems
NewsNov 14, 2025

If Hackers Can Use AI to Automate Massive Cyber Attacks, Terminator Robots Are the Least of Our Problems

Anthropic disclosed that it intercepted a large‑scale AI‑driven cyber‑espionage campaign, likely orchestrated by Chinese hackers, that targeted tech firms, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers and government agencies in September 2024. The attackers leveraged advanced language models to automate 80‑90% of the...

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Hacked Company CTO Refuses to Pay Ransom Demand, Donates Money to Funding Research Instead
NewsNov 14, 2025

Hacked Company CTO Refuses to Pay Ransom Demand, Donates Money to Funding Research Instead

Checkout.com’s CTO Mariano Albera confirmed that the payments firm was hit by a digital extortion attempt by the ShinyHunters group in early November 2025, when attackers accessed a legacy third‑party cloud storage containing internal documents and merchant onboarding files from...

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AWS Is Launching a "Meeting Simulator" To Help Train Workers for Stressful Jobs
NewsNov 14, 2025

AWS Is Launching a "Meeting Simulator" To Help Train Workers for Stressful Jobs

Amazon Web Services unveiled an AI‑driven Meeting Simulator on its Skill Builder platform, letting users role‑play realistic office meetings with AI personas via voice or text and receive instant feedback on communication, objection handling, and idea presentation. The tool joins...

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Intel Panther Lake CPU Leak Suggests Integrated GPUs Are Getting a Potentially Game-Changing Leap in Performance
NewsNov 14, 2025

Intel Panther Lake CPU Leak Suggests Integrated GPUs Are Getting a Potentially Game-Changing Leap in Performance

A leaked Geekbench run of Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake Core Ultra X7 358H shows its Xe3 integrated graphics (B390) scoring 57,000 in the OpenCL test – about 7% higher than a previous leak of the same chip. The 16‑core CPU (4P+8E+4 low‑power cores) pairs...

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9 Reasons Why You Should Consider Onsite LLM Training and Inferencing
NewsNov 14, 2025

9 Reasons Why You Should Consider Onsite LLM Training and Inferencing

Enterprises are increasingly moving large language models (LLMs) from cloud‑based services to on‑premises or private‑cloud environments to gain full control over data, intellectual property, and compliance. On‑site training and inference keep sensitive inputs, model weights, and outputs within the organization’s...

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What You See Is How You Feel: How Smarter Displays Shape the Way We Work and Feel
NewsNov 14, 2025

What You See Is How You Feel: How Smarter Displays Shape the Way We Work and Feel

Lenovo’s Visuals Business VP George Toh argues that modern displays do more than render pixels—they shape users’ mood, productivity and health by managing light. He highlights how higher refresh rates, adaptive brightness, low‑blue‑light hardware filters and photobiomodulation concepts can reduce...

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The UK’s Broken Energy System Could Burst Its AI Bubble
NewsNov 14, 2025

The UK’s Broken Energy System Could Burst Its AI Bubble

AI’s soaring electricity needs – projected to rise 165% by decade’s end – are exposing the UK’s antiquated wholesale power market, which already carries some of the world’s highest industrial electricity prices. Training a single GPT‑scale model consumes as much...

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Akira Ransomware Is Now Targeting Nutanix VMs - and Scoring Big Rewards
NewsNov 14, 2025

Akira Ransomware Is Now Targeting Nutanix VMs - and Scoring Big Rewards

Akira ransomware has expanded its campaign to encrypt Nutanix AHV virtual‑machine disk files, a move first observed in June 2025, according to a joint advisory from CISA, DC3 and other agencies. The attackers first exploit a critical 9.6‑score SonicWall SonicOS...

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Black Friday Deals Just Got Better! Adobe Has some Major Discounts Available Now on Creative Cloud Pro and Firefly Pro...
NewsNov 14, 2025

Black Friday Deals Just Got Better! Adobe Has some Major Discounts Available Now on Creative Cloud Pro and Firefly Pro...

Adobe unveiled Black Friday promotions that slash the cost of its Creative Cloud Pro and Firefly Pro subscriptions. Individual and team plans drop from $69.99/$99.99 to $34.97/$49.97 per month (‑50% for the first year), while student/teacher plans fall to $19.98 per month (‑70%)....

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Web Services Giant Aruba Spoofed in Major Phishing Scam - Here's What to Look Out for to Stay Safe
NewsNov 14, 2025

Web Services Giant Aruba Spoofed in Major Phishing Scam - Here's What to Look Out for to Stay Safe

Security firm Group‑IB uncovered a sophisticated, fully automated phishing framework that spoofs Aruba’s webmail login, using CAPTCHA filtering and Telegram bots to harvest credentials and payment data. The multi‑stage kit delivers phishing emails that mimic Aruba’s service‑expiry warnings, directing victims...

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Software Makers Say Piracy Is Becoming a Bigger Problem than Ever Before - so What Can Be Done?
NewsNov 14, 2025

Software Makers Say Piracy Is Becoming a Bigger Problem than Ever Before - so What Can Be Done?

New Revenera research finds that 31% of software makers now view piracy as a major source of revenue leakage, with unlicensed usage especially prevalent in China, Russia, India and rising in Germany, where engineering simulation and CAD tools are targeted....

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The New Age of Layered Security: From Supply Chains to Endpoints
NewsNov 14, 2025

The New Age of Layered Security: From Supply Chains to Endpoints

A 2025 global survey shows 72% of business leaders see rising cyber risks while the cybersecurity talent gap widens by 8% since 2024. Panasonic Connect’s Dominick Passanante argues that modern threats now target hardware and firmware, often originating in the...

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Why “Old” Data Is the New Gold in the Age of AI
NewsNov 14, 2025

Why “Old” Data Is the New Gold in the Age of AI

We speak to Seagate's Melyssa Banda to find out more

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Thousands of Fake Packages Flood Npm Registry in Major Attack - Here's What We Know
NewsNov 13, 2025

Thousands of Fake Packages Flood Npm Registry in Major Attack - Here's What We Know

Over 43,000 spam packages were uploaded to npm over a nearly two‑year period, accounting for roughly 1% of the registry and representing a coordinated campaign dubbed “IndonesianFoods.” Endor Labs traced the effort to at least 11 user accounts that generated...

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Pakistan Restarts VPN Licensing in Fresh Bid to Control Online Space
NewsNov 13, 2025

Pakistan Restarts VPN Licensing in Fresh Bid to Control Online Space

Pakistan’s telecom regulator (PTA) has issued the first licences to five domestic VPN providers, creating a state‑approved pool of services that can be used without individual IP registration. The licensing scheme is presented as a cybersecurity and user‑convenience measure, but...

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Google Gemini Live Gets Its 'Biggest Update Ever' With 5 New Upgrades – Here's How to Try Them
NewsNov 13, 2025

Google Gemini Live Gets Its 'Biggest Update Ever' With 5 New Upgrades – Here's How to Try Them

Google has rolled out the "biggest update ever" to Gemini Live, its real‑time conversational AI, on Android and iOS. The upgrade adds five new capabilities – adjustable speaking speed, automatic tone modulation, a storytelling mode with character accents, seamless multi‑language switching,...

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Scammers Trick over 500,000 Victims with Fake Google, Bing Ads to Steal Personal Info
NewsNov 13, 2025

Scammers Trick over 500,000 Victims with Fake Google, Bing Ads to Steal Personal Info

Cybersecurity firm Check Point identified a campaign dubbed “Payroll Pirates” that uses paid Google and Bing ads to lure employees to counterfeit payroll, HR, credit‑union and trading‑platform login pages, harvesting credentials and multi‑factor authentication codes. The operation, which has targeted...

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CDAO Responsibilities Are Evolving: Why AI Strategy Now Starts at the Top
NewsNov 13, 2025

CDAO Responsibilities Are Evolving: Why AI Strategy Now Starts at the Top

The Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) is rapidly becoming a core C‑suite role as companies shift from data collection to AI‑driven operations. A recent survey shows 73.7% of firms now have a formal CDO/CDAO, up from 12% a decade...

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Google Drive Is Offering Dropbox Users an Easy Way to Spruce up Their Cloud Storage
NewsNov 13, 2025

Google Drive Is Offering Dropbox Users an Easy Way to Spruce up Their Cloud Storage

Google Drive has launched a Data Migration Service that lets administrators transfer Dropbox files directly into Drive while preserving folder structures and permissions, but migrations must be done in batches of up to 100 users or team folders at a...

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Forget Blink – This Award-Winning Security Camera Is Half Price for Black Friday, and It's Subscription-Free
NewsNov 13, 2025

Forget Blink – This Award-Winning Security Camera Is Half Price for Black Friday, and It's Subscription-Free

The Reolink Altas PT Ultra security camera is now priced at £119.99 on Amazon, a 50% discount from its original £239.99, as part of Black Friday. It delivers pan‑and‑tilt coverage, internal SD‑card storage, AI subject‑detection, ColorX full‑color night vision and...

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One-Size-Fits-All AI Guardrails Do Not Work in the Enterprise
NewsNov 13, 2025

One-Size-Fits-All AI Guardrails Do Not Work in the Enterprise

The piece warns that one‑size‑fits‑all AI safety filters, modeled on consumer parental controls, are ill‑suited for enterprise environments where users’ roles and data sensitivities vary dramatically. It proposes persona‑based access controls (PBAC) that tailor AI responses to a user’s department,...

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Workers Are Getting Depressed by Everyday Tech Challenges - Could AI Be the Answer?
NewsNov 13, 2025

Workers Are Getting Depressed by Everyday Tech Challenges - Could AI Be the Answer?

TeamViewer’s new "Impact of Digital Friction" report finds that 46% of UK firms blame IT inefficiencies for slowing work and 47% say tech frustration fuels employee turnover, with similar concerns in the US and India. One‑third of UK workers expect...

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This ARM-Based Mini PC Sports a Full X16 PCIe Slot for Discrete GPUs - Minisforum Says "Desktop ARM" Starts Now,...
NewsNov 12, 2025

This ARM-Based Mini PC Sports a Full X16 PCIe Slot for Discrete GPUs - Minisforum Says "Desktop ARM" Starts Now,...

Minisforum unveiled the MS‑R1, its first ARM‑based mini PC built around a 12‑core Cixin P1 SoC (eight Cortex‑A720 and four Cortex‑A520 cores) that can boost to 2.6 GHz and includes an Immortalis‑G720 MC10 integrated GPU. The compact 1.7‑liter machine supports up to...

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New Nvidia DGX Spark Competitor Shows Strong Benchmark Performance - and at Half the Price, Could It Be Enough to...
NewsNov 12, 2025

New Nvidia DGX Spark Competitor Shows Strong Benchmark Performance - and at Half the Price, Could It Be Enough to...

GMKtec’s EVO‑X2 mini PC is positioning itself as a low‑cost alternative to Nvidia’s DGX Spark, delivering faster generation speeds for medium‑to‑large models such as GPT‑OSS 20B and Llama 3.3 70B and lower first‑token latency in benchmark tests. The system leverages AMD’s Ryzen...

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Data Breach at Mysterious Chinese Firm Reveals State-Owned Cyber Weapons and Even a List of Targets
NewsNov 12, 2025

Data Breach at Mysterious Chinese Firm Reveals State-Owned Cyber Weapons and Even a List of Targets

A breach at Chinese security firm Knownsec exposed more than 12,000 classified files that detail state‑linked cyber weapons, internal AI tools, and a target list spanning over twenty countries, including Japan, India, the UK and Nigeria. The leak includes massive...

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Watch This – the Latest Humanoid Robots Are Both Unnervingly Sassy and Comfortingly Error-Prone
NewsNov 12, 2025

Watch This – the Latest Humanoid Robots Are Both Unnervingly Sassy and Comfortingly Error-Prone

Chinese EV maker XPeng unveiled IRON, a highly stylized humanoid robot with a feminine appearance that sparked a live demo where the foam skin was stripped to expose its metal frame. Days later, Russia introduced its first humanoid, “Idol,” which...

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Top Infostealer Disrupted After Criminals Lose Server Access
NewsNov 12, 2025

Top Infostealer Disrupted After Criminals Lose Server Access

The Rhadamanthys infostealer, a leading malware‑as‑a‑service platform, has been disrupted after German police reportedly accessed its web panels, locking out many criminal customers. Researchers noted the Tor site is offline and that SSH access now requires certificates, forcing users to...

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Windows 11 Boosts Security Even Further by Adding Native 1Password Passkey Support
NewsNov 12, 2025

Windows 11 Boosts Security Even Further by Adding Native 1Password Passkey Support

Microsoft’s November 2025 Windows 11 update adds native support for 1Password passkeys, letting users choose between Microsoft’s built‑in password manager and third‑party solutions for password‑less sign‑ins. The integration uses a new credential‑manager API plugin, placing 1Password on equal footing with Microsoft’s own...

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Hackers Hijacked Antivirus Features to Install Malware - Here's What We Know
NewsNov 12, 2025

Hackers Hijacked Antivirus Features to Install Malware - Here's What We Know

Google Mandiant researchers disclosed a critical 9.1‑severity vulnerability (CVE‑2025‑12480) in Triofox’s built‑in antivirus that allowed improper access control, enabling the UNC6485 threat cluster to hijack the feature and install remote‑access tools such as Zoho Assist, AnyDesk, Plink and PuTTY. The...

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I Founded an Intelligent Phone Startup and Here’s How AI Agents Are Going to Change the Way We Do Business
NewsNov 12, 2025

I Founded an Intelligent Phone Startup and Here’s How AI Agents Are Going to Change the Way We Do Business

Mahyar Raissi, co‑founder and CEO of Quo, argues that AI agents are moving beyond the enterprise‑only arena and becoming affordable tools for small and growing businesses. He notes that while 90% of Fortune 500 firms already use AI, just over half...

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Can't Be Bothered to Read that PDF? Gemini Can Now Give You an Audio Overview
NewsNov 12, 2025

Can't Be Bothered to Read that PDF? Gemini Can Now Give You an Audio Overview

Google has added an AI‑powered “Audio Overview” feature to the web version of its Drive PDF viewer, letting Gemini generate conversational, podcast‑style audio summaries of long, text‑heavy documents such as contracts. Users click a new button, wait a few minutes...

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It's Official - Using AI at Work Really Can Help You Be Happier and More productive...for Now
NewsNov 12, 2025

It's Official - Using AI at Work Really Can Help You Be Happier and More productive...for Now

PwC’s latest workforce study finds only 14% of employees use generative AI tools every day and a mere 6% rely on agentic AI, yet daily users report markedly higher outcomes – 92% say productivity improves versus 58% of non‑daily users,...

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Why Every CISO Should Demand a Comprehensive Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
NewsNov 12, 2025

Why Every CISO Should Demand a Comprehensive Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)

The article argues that a comprehensive, continuously updated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is now a baseline security requirement for CISOs, not an optional best practice. It highlights how hidden third‑party dependencies caused costly incidents like Log4Shell and SolarWinds, and...

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Legacy Data Migration Is No Longer Fit for Purpose, but What Needs to Change?
NewsNov 12, 2025

Legacy Data Migration Is No Longer Fit for Purpose, but What Needs to Change?

Legacy data migration tools are inadequate for today’s complex, hybrid IT environments where over 80% of enterprise data is unstructured. Steve Leeper argues that organizations must first map their data estate and then use intelligent, metadata‑driven platforms to classify, prioritize,...

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