News•Dec 22, 2025
NordProtect Rolls Out Expanded Monitoring Features for Identity Theft Detection
NordProtect, Nord Security’s identity‑theft protection service, has added expanded monitoring capabilities to detect fraud earlier. The upgrade includes credit monitoring across all three major bureaus, short‑term loan tracking, and comprehensive financial‑account alerts. Users also receive a TransUnion credit‑lock feature and can now lock or unlock their file instantly. The service, currently limited to the US, is offered at a promotional $4.49 per month, down from $15.49.
By BetaNews
News•Dec 22, 2025
Why Flaky Tests Are Increasing, and What You Can Do About It
Flaky tests in mobile development have surged, with Bitrise Mobile Insights reporting a jump from 10 % in 2022 to 26 % in 2025. The rise coincides with a 20 % increase in pipeline complexity and faster release cadences, turning occasional glitches into...
By SD Times
News•Dec 22, 2025
Welcome To America's New Surveillance High Schools
Beverly Hills High School has installed a $4.8 million AI‑driven surveillance suite that combines facial‑recognition cameras, behavioral analytics, bathroom listening devices, drones and license‑plate readers. The district argues the system is essential for a high‑profile Los Angeles campus amid a wave of...
By Slashdot
News•Dec 22, 2025
EU Offers UK Early Gift: Data Adequacy Until 2031
The European Commission has renewed its GDPR adequacy decision for the United Kingdom, extending frictionless data transfers until 27 December 2031. The six‑year extension, subject to a review after four years, follows a brief technical extension that prevented a lapse at the...
By The Register
News•Dec 22, 2025
Is Xbox Betting on Cross-Platform Gaming?
Microsoft reported a 2% decline in overall gaming revenue and a 29% plunge in Xbox hardware sales for FY2026, with the Series X/S experiencing a 70% sales drop in November. CEO Satya Nadella signaled a strategic pivot toward an "everywhere"...
By Slashdot
News•Dec 22, 2025
NHS England Tech Provider Reveals Data Breach - DXS International Hit by Ransomware
DXS International, a key NHS England technology supplier, disclosed a ransomware attack discovered on December 14 that was quickly contained and remedied. The unknown threat actor, identified as the DevMan group, claims to have stolen 300 GB of company data, though clinical...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 22, 2025
ChatGPT’s New Personality Settings Let You Pick the Vibe — and It Ranges From Corporate Calm to Chaotic Bestie
OpenAI has introduced a new suite of personality controls called Characteristics for ChatGPT, allowing users to tweak warmth, friendliness, enthusiasm and other traits via three‑level presets. These settings sit alongside the existing Base style and tone options—Professional, Friendly, Quirky, etc.—so...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 22, 2025
AWS Leans on Partners to Spin up Mainframe Modernization Agents
Amazon Web Services introduced AWS Transform Composability, a platform enabling partners to create AI-driven agents that automate mainframe‑to‑cloud migrations. The solution lets service providers encode industry‑specific knowledge—such as COBOL insurance claims or government records—into reusable, containerized agents hosted in Elastic...
By CIO Dive
News•Dec 22, 2025
Microsoft Brings Ask Copilot and Agents to the Windows 11 Taskbar for Business Users
Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7523, adding Ask Copilot and AI Agents directly to the taskbar for commercial users. The opt‑in feature integrates Microsoft 365 Copilot, contextual Work IQ data, and voice or text interaction in a single click. Agents can be invoked via...
By BetaNews
News•Dec 22, 2025
What the AWS Outage Taught CIOs About Preparedness
The October outage of AWS US‑East‑1 rippled through SaaS tools, home monitoring, and even school sites, highlighting hidden third‑party dependencies. Deluxe’s CIO, Yogs Jayaprakasam, traced over a dozen major cloud failures in the past year and concluded that preparedness, not...
By CIO.com
News•Dec 22, 2025
"It Doesn’t Matter Which Industry You Belong to, Data Is Your Lifeblood" - Veeam CEO Tells Us Why Getting Security...
Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran says data security and resilience are prerequisites for any AI initiative. The company’s $1.725 billion acquisition of Securiti AI is meant to create a unified platform that protects data across its entire lifecycle, from creation to backup to...
By TechRadar
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News•Dec 22, 2025
[Podcast] Unifying Intelligence
Enterprises are still wrestling with fragmented data definitions and hidden logic that lock them into costly vendor ecosystems, according to a new survey of 100 senior IT leaders. Strategy Software’s three‑part podcast series, "Unifying Intelligence," breaks down why data consistency...
By CIO Dive
News•Dec 21, 2025
No Wonder There's a Bubble - Study Claims Nearly All of the World’s Data Centers Are Built in the Wrong...
A new study finds that nearly 7,000 of the world’s 8,808 operational data centers operate outside the ASHRAE‑recommended 18 °C‑27 °C temperature range, with about 600 facilities in climates exceeding 27 °C year‑round. Singapore alone hosts over 1.4 GW of capacity despite average temperatures...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 21, 2025
This App Promises to End Your Subscription Overload — and I'm Glad I Found It
Subee, a subscription‑management app, helps users track and cancel recurring services. It boasts a 4.6‑star rating, claims $150 million in user savings and a 98 % cancellation success rate. The app imports subscriptions via Gmail or manual entry, displays them in a...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 21, 2025
How AI Is Preventing Collisions, Driving Productivity, and Transforming Physical Operations
Artificial intelligence is reshaping physical operations by preventing collisions, scaling driver coaching, and automating manual workflows. With 70% of firms flagging worker safety as a top priority, AI’s real‑time alerts and billions‑of‑miles‑trained models are becoming essential. In the UK, driver...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 21, 2025
Workers Should Control the Means of Agentic Production, Suggests WorkBeaver Boss
WorkBeaver CEO Bars Juhasz argues AI agents should be adopted from the worker’s perspective, not top‑down mandates, to prevent premature layoffs. The no‑code platform lets non‑technical staff automate tasks through a menu‑driven interface and an upcoming version that learns by...
By The Register
News•Dec 20, 2025
Five Post-Incident Improvements that Actually Strengthen Resilience
David Brown argues that true resilience is forged after an outage, not during the rush to restore services. He outlines five post‑incident actions—visibility audits, controlled change, data‑driven cleanup, explicit ownership, and automated lessons—that turn reactive fixes into lasting strength. By...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 20, 2025
From Shadow IT to Data Sprawl: Managing the Explosion of Ungoverned Information
Organizations are grappling with a surge of shadow IT and data sprawl as employees increasingly adopt unsanctioned SaaS and AI tools. Gartner predicts 75% of workers will use technology outside IT visibility by 2027, creating fragmented, unstructured data across cloud,...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 20, 2025
I Tried the New Claude in Chrome Extension, and It Delivered Convenience with a Side of Digital Paranoia
Anthropic has launched the Claude AI Chrome extension for Pro, Team and Enterprise subscribers, extending the assistant’s reach beyond static text to live web pages. The extension can read browsing history, interact with tabs, schedule meetings, organize Drive files, and...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
How Google Cloud Is Shaping the Enterprise AI Inference Moment
Google Cloud is positioning its container‑first platforms to solve the enterprise AI inference bottleneck, moving focus from model training to reliable, low‑latency serving. GKE now treats accelerators as first‑class resources and introduces the Inference Gateway, which routes requests by model...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Dec 19, 2025
Palo Alto Networks Inks Multibillion-Dollar AI Deal with Google Cloud
Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks announced a multibillion‑dollar partnership with Google Cloud, valued at nearly $10 billion through 2025. The agreement moves key internal workloads to Google’s platform and embeds the Gemini family of large language models via Vertex AI into...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Dec 19, 2025
Watch Out - Hackers Are Coming After Your Christmas Bonus, as Paychecks Come Under Threat
Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting corporate help desks to hijack payroll systems, especially during bonus season. By posing as employees, attackers obtain password resets and then modify banking details on platforms like Workday, ADP, and Dayforce to divert individual paychecks. This...
By TechRadar
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News•Dec 19, 2025
How to Scale B2B Digital Ad Spend to $100K+ Monthly Profitably
Scaling B2B digital ad spend to $100K+ monthly requires a systematic, data‑driven approach rather than isolated hacks. Companies must first lock in unit economics, defining target CAC and LTV, before allocating additional budget. Selective scaling of only the campaigns, audiences,...
By SaasRise
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News•Dec 19, 2025
B2B Digital Ads Strategy: Meta, Bing, Google, and LinkedIn
B2B digital advertising must be treated as a systematic awareness engine rather than a single‑channel conversion tool. Google captures intent‑driven demand, Bing adds low‑cost incremental reach, LinkedIn delivers precise ABM targeting, and Meta provides scalable awareness and retargeting. Success hinges...
By SaasRise
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News•Dec 19, 2025
How to Set up First Touch, Last Touch, and U-Shaped Ad Attribution on Cometly
Cometly now supports first‑touch, last‑touch, and U‑shaped attribution models, letting B2B marketers view the full customer journey from discovery to conversion. The platform uses a persistent identifier to stitch together email clicks, ad views, site visits, and conversions, avoiding cookie‑based...
By SaasRise
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News•Dec 19, 2025
How to Set up Third Party Ad Tracking with Cometly
Cometly tackles the chronic problem of duplicate and fragmented conversion data in B2B advertising by providing a server‑side, cross‑channel attribution layer. The platform replaces native pixels with a single identity that tracks visits, clicks, and revenue events across Meta, Google,...
By SaasRise
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News•Dec 19, 2025
How to Set up Ad Conversion Tracking on Meta, Bing, Google, and LinkedIn
Accurate conversion tracking is now essential for B2B marketers as privacy changes and multi‑device journeys complicate attribution. The article explains how to install Meta, Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft pixels and then choose among three tracking methods: native pixel‑based, server‑side APIs,...
By SaasRise
News•Dec 19, 2025
Google Releases FunctionGemma: A Tiny Edge Model that Can Control Mobile Devices with Natural Language
Google AI unveiled FunctionGemma, a 270‑million‑parameter model that converts natural‑language commands into executable code on edge devices. Trained on a dedicated Mobile Actions dataset, its function‑calling accuracy climbs to 85%, far surpassing generic small models. The model runs locally on...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 19, 2025
Cloudflare's Impact Report for 2025 Reveals How Elections, Journalism, and Nonprofits Faced Rising Online Threats
Cloudflare’s 2025 Impact Report highlights how its security suite shielded more than 3,000 public‑interest sites, including journalists, NGOs, and election infrastructure, from a staggering 9.9 billion cyber‑attacks each month. The Athenian Project protected 441 election‑related properties, blocking 200 million DDoS attacks across...
By BetaNews
News•Dec 19, 2025
No Storefront Needed — Get Paid via DMs and QR Codes with Squarespace’s New Tool
Squarespace unveiled Pay Links, a free tool that lets freelancers, solopreneurs, and small businesses collect payments without a traditional storefront. Users generate branded URLs, QR codes or direct‑message links that can be shared on any channel. The feature integrates with...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
New Research Reveals AI Is Fueling an 'Unprecedented Surge in Cloud Security Risks'
Palo Alto Networks’ State of Cloud Security Report warns that rapid AI adoption is inflating cloud attack surfaces, creating an unprecedented surge in risk. More than 70% of enterprises now run AI‑powered cloud services, often granting overly permissive access. Identity‑related...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
New Managed Web Hosting Service Brings Flat-Rate node.js Pricing
Hostinger has introduced managed Node.js support on its shared‑hosting plans, offering flat‑rate pricing that covers up to ten web apps on the Cloud Startup tier and five on the Business tier. The service includes one‑click GitHub deployment and eliminates the...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
Investors Can’t Get Enough of OpenAI and Databricks — Oracle, Not so Much
Investors are flooding AI leaders OpenAI and Databricks with massive capital, as OpenAI eyes a $10 billion infusion from Amazon that could push its valuation toward $750 billion, while Databricks secured a $4 billion Series L round at a $134 billion valuation. In contrast, Oracle...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Dec 19, 2025
Master PDFs Like a Pro with 30% Off LightPDF
LightPDF, an AI‑powered all‑in‑one PDF editor, is offering a 30% discount on both its Annual and Perpetual licenses via the promo code techradar30. The Annual plan drops from $89.99 to $34.99, granting 12,000 AI credits per year, while the Perpetual...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
1Password Integrates with Cursor to Secure AI-Driven Development Workflows
1Password announced a partnership with AI‑code editor Cursor to embed just‑in‑time secret management into the development workflow. A new Hooks Script delivers credentials from 1Password Environments only when the Cursor AI agent requests them, eliminating hard‑coded tokens and plaintext keys....
By SiliconANGLE
News•Dec 19, 2025
Cyata Flags Agentic AI Supply-Chain Risk in Cursor Remote Code Execution Bug
Cyata Security disclosed a critical remote code execution flaw in Cursor’s integrated development environment, catalogued as CVE‑2025‑64106 with an 8.8 severity rating. The bug stemmed from the Model Context Protocol’s installation workflow, where a malicious deep‑link could masquerade as the...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Dec 19, 2025
How Do You Make Joint CEO Leadership Models Work in Practice? Here's How
Joint‑CEO structures are gaining traction as companies seek diverse leadership perspectives, but they often stumble without clear governance. The article outlines practical steps to avoid common pitfalls, such as ambiguous authority and cultural clashes, by establishing defined roles, shared metrics,...
By Diginomica
News•Dec 19, 2025
Building Systems of Trust in the Age of AI While Staying Human at Heart
HubSpot overhauled its customer reference program, collapsing an 18‑step manual process into a five‑phase workflow powered by HubSpot automation, Slack, and AI copilots. The rebuild introduced a Trust Readiness Model that scores relationship maturity, product adoption, and growth signals, turning...
By HubSpot Marketing Blog
News•Dec 19, 2025
Two Heads Better than One? Will the Co-CEO Leadership Model Become a Permanent Fixture or a Fleeting Trend?
The co‑CEO leadership model is re‑emerging, especially among technology firms, after a mixed track record in the past. Companies like Netflix and Oracle have leveraged dual CEOs to balance content, technology, and operational expertise, while others such as SAP and...
By Diginomica
News•Dec 19, 2025
NIST Adds to AI Security Guidance with Cybersecurity Framework Profile
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a draft Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Profile for Artificial Intelligence, linking AI‑specific risks to the widely adopted CSF. The profile organizes guidance into three focus areas—secure, defend and thwart—to help firms protect...
By CIO Dive
News•Dec 19, 2025
Pinned Chats in ChatGPT Are Here – and so Is a Mildly Annoying Restriction
OpenAI has added a pinned‑chats feature to ChatGPT, allowing users to keep up to three conversation threads at the top of the sidebar on both web and mobile apps. The option is accessible across Free, Plus, and Pro tiers, making...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
You’re Doing Agents All Wrong – Why You Should Focus on Human Attention
Duncan Anderson of Barnacle Labs argues that enterprises are misapplying AI agents by treating them as mere automation tools. He suggests agents should be deployed to capture scarce human attention and address organizational whitespace where judgment‑heavy work is currently uneconomical....
By Diginomica
News•Dec 19, 2025
SharpSpring CRM Review
SharpSpring delivers an all‑in‑one marketing automation platform with a built‑in CRM aimed at solopreneurs, agencies and SMBs. It offers a visual campaign builder, lead scoring, email and social tools, and unlimited users under a flat‑rate pricing model tied to contact...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 19, 2025
Reinventing the Dial-Up Modem (2019)
Simple, a healthcare app, replaced paper registers and landline calls with an offline‑first solution that uses DTMF tones to transmit patient numbers through a toll‑free line. Nurses initiate a call, the app plays the patient’s number as DTMF, and Twilio...
By Hacker News
News•Dec 19, 2025
Microsoft AI CEO Admits Gemini 'Can Do Things that Copilot Can’t Do'
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman publicly acknowledged that Google’s Gemini 3 can perform tasks that Microsoft’s Copilot cannot, a rare admission in the AI arms race. He highlighted Gemini’s multimodal strengths while emphasizing Copilot’s real‑time visual assistance and integration across Windows,...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
Oracle Has One Last Ampere Hurrah - New Cloud Platforms Offer up to 192 Custom Arm Cores, and Aren't OCI...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launched A4 Standard instances powered by Ampere Computing’s AmpereOne M silicon, offering up to 192 custom Arm cores per chip in both virtualized and bare‑metal forms. The configurations deliver up to 48 OCPUs (96 cores) with up to...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
I Tried the Apple Music App for ChatGPT, and It Felt Like Talking to a Music‑obsessed Friend
Apple Music has launched a ChatGPT app that lets users generate playlists, discover songs, and play short music clips via conversational prompts. Subscribers can link their Apple Music accounts to save the AI‑crafted playlists directly to their library. The integration...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
New InstallAware X18 Launching With Solana Payment System
InstallAware Software has unveiled InstallAware X18, its latest installer platform that embeds a Solana cryptocurrency payment system directly into the setup wizard. The solution converts fiat to SOL in real time, records each transaction on the Solana blockchain, and charges...
By SD Times
News•Dec 18, 2025
Snowflake Update Caused a Blizzard of Failures Worldwide
Snowflake’s latest release introduced a backwards‑incompatible schema change, causing a major outage that affected 10 of its 23 global regions for about 13 hours. The failure prevented users from executing queries and ingesting data across Azure and AWS data centres...
By The Register