Apple sent mercenary spyware threat notifications to users in 110 countries, urging targeted individuals to enable Lockdown Mode, verify alerts only on account.apple.com, and seek help through resources such as Access Now's Digital Security Helpline.
OpenAI's new Computer History feature for ChatGPT on macOS logs clicks, keystrokes, and app switches via the accessibility API into unencrypted plain-text Markdown files accessible by any app under the same user account.
Most organizations now have AI agents running in production - handling support tickets, pulling financial reports, accessing enterprise systems. Most of them were stood up without IT's involvement. Most have no owner. Most have no off switch.
New research from JumpCloud surveyed 800 IT leaders on how they're governing their agentic workforce. The finding that stands out: organizations have implemented just 3.1 of 10 recommended AI governance controls on average - even as non-human identities now outnumber humans in 83% of environments.
The gap between AI adoption and AI governance is the defining IT challenge of the next decade.
A federal judge approved HPE's settlement with the Justice Department, clearing the final legal challenge to its $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. The ruling removes lingering uncertainty around the deal and lets HPE move ahead integrating Juniper's networking portfolio into the combined company.
Cisco reported record quarterly revenue of $17.3 billion as networking product orders jumped 40% year over year, with campus orders up 20% and data center networking orders rising 25% for the year. Cisco says only about 7% of its campus switching installed base has been refreshed so far, suggesting the broader enterprise upgrade cycle is still early.
Researchers identified a new campaign targeting data stored in Salesforce and ServiceNow environments through their UI/API layers rather than traditional infrastructure exploits. The attackers have also been probing a little-documented native ServiceNow Service Portal search endpoint, highlighting the growing risk around authenticated SaaS access and APIs.
The additional spectrum available at 6 GHz can effectively triple wireless capacity compared with legacy bands while moving modern devices away from congested 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channels. Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 upgrades should now be treated as infrastructure modernization rather than simply another wireless refresh.
Reducing the number of technology vendors can simplify operations and create short-term savings, but it can also destroy negotiating leverage once switching becomes expensive. IT teams should keep at least one credible alternative warm in major categories so vendors know the customer can realistically walk away at renewal.
Memory shortages are pushing hardware prices higher across Apple, Dell, Lenovo, HP and other manufacturers, creating a new challenge for IT procurement and device lifecycle planning. With DRAM supply expected to remain constrained, enterprises may need to revisit refresh schedules, purchasing commitments and hardware budgets.
Google is expanding Meet's “Take notes for me” beyond video calls so users can capture in-person conversations directly from the Meet home screen. Gemini records the discussion and creates a structured summary, action items, and transcript in a Google Doc stored in Drive.
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IBM will embed OpenAI models and products including ChatGPT and Codex into its consulting offerings while creating a dedicated OpenAI practice and certifying thousands of consultants and engineers. The partnership will focus on enterprise transformation, legacy application modernization and cybersecurity.
Amazon is redistributing parts of its e-commerce infrastructure across more AWS regions under an internal effort called Region Flex, partly because power and data center capacity have become increasingly constrained in major hubs. The project includes more than 100 software migrations and illustrates how electricity availability is beginning to influence application architecture and cloud-region strategy.
A new US program allows vetted private companies to conduct government-approved surveillance and disruptive cyber operations against foreign cybercrime organizations. Individual operations require federal approval, and participating companies can potentially disrupt infrastructure controlled by targeted criminal groups.
AWS reported increased error rates and latency affecting multiple services in US-EAST-1 early Saturday, making the incident worth reviewing for teams with concentrated workloads in Northern Virginia.
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Brands are bringing back mascots as a way to build recognizable identities in a crowded media landscape. Crocs is launching Niles, a 6-foot crocodile, joining Liberty Mutual's Liberty Biberty and Stanley Black & Decker's talking toolbox Stan. The appeal is consistency and emotional association. Unlike celebrities, mascots can become long-term brand assets that reinforce the same personality across campaigns and markets.
Clothing brands are turning repairs and sewing into customer experiences as Gen Z embraces secondhand shopping and saving money. Levi's is expanding its repair services and teaching sewing skills, while Uniqlo offers repairs and customization, and Zara offers alterations and resale. The programs give brands new ways to stay connected with customers after the initial purchase.
Email Love discovered a lifecycle bug when a subscriber replied that three different emails had arrived at once. Each automation looked fine in the dashboard, but the combined experience was broken. Treat subscriber replies as a QA channel, not just customer service noise. Replies can surface automation collisions and purchase objections that dashboards miss. Asking specific questions, like why someone has not purchased, can also turn replies into a source of customer insight.
This Claude Loop is a 7-step workflow for turning paid-search demand into landing pages at scale. Claude handles keyword analysis, intent clustering, gap identification, and briefing. Claude Design takes the brief into the build, followed by several rounds of cleanup and QA. The final step covers CMS setup, forms, tracking, integrations, and go-live. In this case, two people produced 20 landing pages in one week.
This guide shows how to turn scattered marketing experience into a reusable AI context layer using a Claude Code skill. The skill processes files from a source folder, extracts transferable learnings, organizes them by topic, removes confidential company information, and turns them into a portable HTML knowledge base. It also includes the HTML template, setup instructions, Google Drive integration, and guidance for continuously updating the layer with new experience.
This guide lays out 6 patterns for turning manual GTM work into dynamic workflows, from sorting and researching large lists to generating and verifying content. It also covers 4 rules for improving output quality and 7 mental models for designing better workflows.
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71% of people want at least half their time spent on IC work, while 66% cite lack of influence as the biggest downside. Former managers who moved into IC roles are particularly satisfied, with 75%+ saying they wouldn't trade roles with anyone else in their organization.
Companies often avoid the hard problems that could make their businesses more defensible. Difficult, uncertain problems tied directly to customer value are the best early indicator of a moat. However, that uncertainty pushes teams toward smaller tasks that provide faster feedback, even when they don't create a lasting competitive advantage. Traditional moats like scale and switching costs only emerge later.
Reddit is becoming an AI-search battleground as brands look to influence the conversations that AI models cite. However, Reddit users and moderators are pushing back against overt brand activity. Brilliant Earth's attempt to hire a Reddit strategy manager sparked a warning from r/jewelry moderators about potential promotional content. Brands can't treat Reddit like another distribution channel and expect to manufacture positive sentiment.
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OpenAI's UltraOpenAI's Ultrafast API service tier can run GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 output tokens per second, 14 times the speed of Standard. The service is designed for products and workflows in which delays can determine whether an answer remains useful. Access is initially restricted to a select group of customers. Powered by Cerebras, a wider rollout is planned as capacity grows.
X has open-sourced its 'For You' algorithm and its core ranking engine under the Apache v2 license. The company has also expanded its previous efforts to open source parts of its codebase to add more detail, making it roughly 10 to 15 times larger than it was before. X is providing tools that will let users see for themselves if and how its ranking systems have impacted their account or posts. The tool will be available to a test group of accounts for at least a year as a pilot before rolling out more broadly.
Andy Green set a record for the fastest land speed driving a JCB Hydromax on Tuesday at 406.320 miles per hour. The hydrogen-fueled internal-combustion vehicle took about 72 seconds to get from 50 miles per hour to 400. At 64, Green is the only person to break the sound barrier on land, driving a jet-powered car at an average speed of 763.035 miles per hour in 1997. The JCB Hydromax was not built to rival that record, but to set a new fastest speed for a hydrogen vehicle - the previous record for a hydrogen combustion vehicle was 185.5 miles per hour, set in 2004 by the BMW H2R.
China has a near-total dominance of the supply chain, so building a robot entirely free of Chinese parts is not practical. The Chinese robotics industry was built on billions of dollars in state funding. Fledgling robot makers in the US will need substantial financial and policy support to compete. The US humanoid robotics industry is still in its infancy, and makers of non-humanoid robots are struggling to compete with Chinese rivals.
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DeepSeek Harness is now in developer preview, with source code included. Every capability is a plugin that can be swapped or recomposed. Developers can select, swap, or extend any capability in the configuration without changing the DeepSeek Harness source code. Everything the model sees is recorded in an append-only session log.
Foreman is an eve software factory that puts AI agents on every stage of the development loop and keeps people on the judgment calls. It takes tasks from GitHub and Linear, moves each one through four stations - Classifier, Analyst, Implementer, and Reviewer - and delivers a reviewed draft pull request on the repository. The Classifier triages the task, the Analyst turns it into a plan with acceptance criteria, the Implementer executes the plan in its own sandbox, and the Reviewer independently judges everything against the real diff. Developers just review, mark ready, and merge.
Being called out for using AI is the new way of dunking on people and posts. However, this calling out is a social function that isn't just 'AI bad'. People want authorship because it has meaning. Several AI labs have recently made announcements about watermarking outputs for easy AI detection.
Liang Wenfeng, CEO of DeepSeek, is now richer than both Dario Amodei and Sam Altman. His little-known group of researchers has managed to consistently command the world's attention. Backed by the immense wealth of his hedge fund, they keep giving their work away for free. Liang believes that there is an inevitable causal relationship between automated learning and generalized intelligence, and that the pursuit of such advanced machine intelligence is the only problem worth solving right now.
Microsoft Azure autoscales when traffic spikes—adjusting capacity automatically so you can skip the scramble. With more global regions than any other cloud provider, you've always got room to grow. Scale
An overview of Foreman's runtime map that covers what runs where, how the filesystem defines the agent, and the three boundaries that shape the design.
OpenAI has roughly doubled its run rate from the end of 2025 due to the growth of its AI coding software, momentum from subscription sales and its nascent advertising business, and its core consumer business.