InformationWeek, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
The Hidden Costs And Risks Of AI
Technologist and educator Daryle Serrant discusses the sometimes forgotten risks that come with AI investments, and how enterprises can avoid these costly mistakes. more →
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InfoWorld, Monday, July 21st, 2025
9 AI Development Skills Tech Companies Want
Developers seeking jobs in AI-driven organizations want to know what tech leaders and hiring managers are looking for. Here's our list. more →
OpenSource For U.com, Friday, July 25th, 2025
The Importance Of Explainable AI In The Era Of Agentic Systems
Explainable AI (XAI) makes AI systems transparent, explainable, and credible. It ensures users understand why a given model arrived at a specific decision so that it is easier to verify, debug, and trust the system. Let's look at all that XAI entails followed by a real-world example of how it works. more →
ZDNET, Monday, July 21st, 2025
5 Tips For Building Foundation Models For AI
While some business leaders buy large language models, others build their own. Here are five things you need to know. more →
Professional Security Magazine, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Navigating Enterprise Password Management
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued updated guidance on password best practices - recommending the use of password managers and passkeys to enhance organisational cybersecurity, writes Darren Guccione, CEO and co-founder of the vendor Keeper Security. more →
theCUBE research, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Security's Great Disconnect: Why Vendors Are Losing The Trust Of The Practitioners They Serve
I spend my days talking to CISOs, analysts, and engineers. I sit in on vendor briefings, read the latest industry reports, and, like many of you, I scroll through the forums where real practitioners share their uncensored frustrations. And a clear, frankly alarming, theme is emerging: a deep and widening disconnect between the cybersecurity solutions being sold and the realities of the teams on the ground. more →
The Hacker News, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Assessing The Role Of AI In Zero Trust
By 2025, Zero Trust has evolved from a conceptual framework into an essential pillar of modern security. No longer merely theoretical, it's now a requirement that organizations must adopt. more →
CIODIVE, Monday, July 21st, 2025
AI-Powered Attacks Rise As Cisos Gauge Security Risks
Security chiefs are concerned about flaws in agents but also eager to see them replace humans in some roles, according to a report. more →
DARKReading, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
What Makes Great Threat Intelligence?
Anyone can buy or collect data, but the goal must be to realize actionable insight relevant to the organization in question. more →
DARKReading, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Containment As A Core Security Strategy
We cannot keep reacting to vulnerabilities as they emerge. We must assume the presence of unknown threats and reduce the blast radius that they can affect. more →
Blocks & Files, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Kioxia Unveils Highest Capacity SSD At 245.76 TB
Online storage capacity constraints are melting away with Kioxia announcing the largest capacity SSD at 245.76 TB, opening the door to a 200-plus petabyte rack and a five-rack exabyte configuration. more →
CIO, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Storage Best Practices: How To Address The Challenge Of Scaling AI Workloads
Read what tech experts and influencers have to say about getting the most value from your storage architecture so it can scale and adapt to evolving workloads. more →
RCRWirelessNews, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Three Trends In Enterprise Networks
Enterprise networks are being shaken up with the convergence of NetOps/SecOps and adoption of AI - but some things remain the same, according to a new report from Viavi Solutions more →
Couchbase CATALYST - The Agent Era Is Here. Is Your Data Ready? (Oct. 20-22)
Couchbase Catalyst 2026 is the first Couchbase customer conference: three days where technology leaders, architects, and the engineers building on Couchbase meet to advance next-generation data solutions for the Agent Era. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
AI Hype Check: Why Traditional ML Still Powers Real Business In 2025
In this article by Keith Townsend following Tech Field Day at Qlik Connect, the author critically assesses the ongoing buzz around advanced AI technologies and emphasizes the significant, enduring value that traditional machine learning (ML) continues to bring to business operations as of 2025. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Exploring AI Talent Acquisition And Networking Innovations
In this episode of Techstrong TV, Stephen Foskett dives into the critical topic of AI talent acquisition and examines groundbreaking innovations in networking. more →
Tech Field Day, Friday, July 25th, 2025
From Packets To Protection: How Network Observability Powers Security And Forensics
In this detailed exploration, Tom Hollingsworth discusses the critical role of network observability in enhancing security protocols and facilitating effective forensic analysis. more →
Tech Field Day, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Hedgehog At Networking Field Day: Operationalizing Open Networking For AI And Cloud Builders
At the recent Networking Field Day 38, Hedgehog presented its innovative strategies for operationalizing open networking, particularly focusing on the needs of AI and cloud infrastructure developers. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Navigating the Rise of LLM-Powered Point Tools: What Every CTO Needs to Know
In the rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise IT, CTOs must stay abreast of the developments surrounding Large Language Models (LLMs) and their integration into point tools. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Re-Imagining The Mainframe For The AI Era At Share
As Tech Field Day heads to SHARE in Cleveland, we are considering the many ways the mainframe has been re-imagined and re-built for the AI era. more →
InfoQ, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Java News Roundup: JDK 25 in RDP2, Spring Framework, Payara Platform, Open Liberty, Eclipse DataGrid
This week's Java roundup for July 14th, 2025, features news highlighting: JDK 25 in rampdown phase 2; the seventh milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0; the July 2025 editions of the Payara Platform, Open Liberty and Oracle Critical Patch Update; and Eclipse DataGrid is open-sourced. more →
Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt: Why the AI Era Demands an Agentic Data Cloud
Enterprise data leaders face an aggressive mandate: deploy generative AI and autonomous agents that drive real operational efficiency. Yet, as teams move past isolated pilots into production, they run into a hard architectural barrier. That barrier? Data gravity. more →
Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Coyote In The Wild: First-Ever Malware That Abuses UI Automation
Akamai researchers have analyzed a new variant of the Coyote malware that is the first confirmed case of maliciously using Microsoft's UI Automation (UIA) framework in the wild. more →
Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Understand The Sharepoint RCE: Exploitations, Detections, And Mitigations
On July 19, 2025, Microsoft disclosed CVE-2025-53770, a critical vulnerability in the ToolPane.aspx component of on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Servers. This vulnerability can allow an unauthenticated attacker to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) through improper filtering of HTTP request headers. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
CISA Recommends Segmentation & Zero Trust To Combat Interlock Ransomware
On July 22, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), issued a cybersecurity advisory that warns organizations about a new ransomware variant known as Interlock. more →
Akamai Technologies, Monday, July 21st, 2025
How Search Engines, LLMs, and Third-Party Scrapers Affect Bot Management
Maybe you've been having conversations with your business and security teams regarding artificial intelligence (AI) scraper bots. After a period when blocking AI scrapers seemed futile - in fact, even harmful - there has recently been a renewed interest in the question of whether to block AI bots. more →
Akamai Technologies, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Why Customer Experience Is The New Battleground In Zero Trust
The cybersecurity industry loves to talk about features, feeds, and speeds. Zero Trust vendors especially seem caught in an endless arms race of technical capabilities - who has the most integrations, the fastest deployment, the shiniest dashboard. more →
How to Leverage Threat Intelligence Without Drowning: The Zero Noise Approach
This session introduces the Zero Noise Approach - a methodology for ingesting and operationalizing Cloud TI through attacker-based baselines, continuous feedback loops, and a 'no alert left behind' mindset. more →
Broadcom, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Broadcom's Big Bet: Why VMware Cloud Foundation Is Gaining Ground
The Techstrong Gang episode discusses Broadcom's acquisition of VMware and its impact on IT modernization. more →
Broadcom, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Broadcom's Acquisition Of VMware Might Be The Biggest Catalyst For IT Modernization There Is
When Broadcom announced its $69 billion acquisition of VMware, it sent shockwaves through the tech industry. more →
Cloudflare, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Serverless Statusphere: A Walk Through Building Serverless Atproto Applications On Cloudflare's Developer Platform
Social media users are tired of losing their identity and data every time a platform shuts down or pivots. In the ATProto ecosystem - short for Authenticated Transfer Protocol - users own their data and identities. more →
AI Is Ready. Is Your Data?
Justin Yan will bring a customer-inspired scenario to life through a demonstration - covering ETL pipeline construction, large-scale pipeline operations, and automated governance enforcement using AI agents. Participants are encouraged to question the approach and compare it against their own data challenges. This is not a conversation about doing the same work a little faster. It is a conversation about how the way enterprises deliver data is about to fundamentally change. more →
Dell, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Learning How Dell's Hardware-Assisted Security Brings Value To The Organization
Lars Troen recently explored the significant benefits of Dell's Hardware-assisted Security and its impact on organizational protection. more →
Dell, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Beyond The Perimeter: Dell's Three-Pillar Defense Against Modern Cyber Threats
The corporate security perimeter isn't just disappearing-it's already gone. In today's enterprise IT environments, digital assets span countless endpoints, cloud environments, and on-premises systems, all while facing threat actors who've weaponized AI to supercharge their attacks. more →
Dell, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Amplifying Cyber Resiliency For Modern Enterprises
As cyber threats grow in sophistication, conventional security tools often fall short-particularly in the protection of backup data sets. Today, backup data frequently becomes an attack target. Slow and incomplete detection often leads to expensive recovery delays. This challenge calls for a new approach-one that identifies threats rapidly and enables swift action to minimize damage. more →
The State of Data and AI Governance
The State of Data and AI Governance webinar will examine the organizational, cultural, and technical foundations required to govern data while enabling AI effectively. This includes the frameworks, roles, processes, and technologies needed to ensure trust, compliance, and responsible use at scale. more →
IBM, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Can LLMs Learn Social Skills By Playing Games?
A new open-source framework, TextArena, pits large language models against each other in competitive environments designed to test and improve their communication skills. more →
Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System
This session explores why observability is emerging as a foundational capability for trustworthy AI. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure health, modern observability provides the transparency and context needed to understand how AI systems behave, why they produce specific outcomes, and whether they continue to perform as intended over time. more →
NVIDIA, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
AI On: How Financial Services Companies Use Agentic AI To Enhance Productivity, Efficiency And Security
With advancements in agentic AI, intelligent AI systems are maturing to now facilitate autonomous decision-making across industries, including financial services. more →
NVIDIA, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Into The Omniverse: How Global Brands Are Scaling Personalized Advertising With AI And 3D Content Generation
Marketing leaders are accelerating content pipelines with solutions built using OpenUSD, NVIDIA Omniverse and agentic AI. more →
NVIDIA, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
NVIDIA Run:ai: Unlocking Enterprise GPU Efficiency
AI infrastructures are notoriously resource-intensive, and enterprises consistently grapple with the challenge of optimizing GPU utilization. Dell Technologies, through its AI Factory platform, is tackling this challenge by integrating NVIDIA's recently acquired orchestration solution, Run:ai. more →
Modernization That Ships with AI
Most companies are adding AI agents to legacy systems rather than modernizing how the work actually gets done. That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business. more →
Okta, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
3 MFA Myths That Are Holding You Back
How many times have you clicked 'Remember this device' only to be hit with an SMS code the next time you log in? It's annoying, inconsistent, and exactly why so many people assume Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a friction-filled nightmare. more →
Okta, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Identity Threat Protection Detections Now Available With Adaptive MFA Super Admins
Okta is thrilled to announce the General Availability of Identity Threat Protection with Okta AI (ITP) Detections for Super Admins, now included with the Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication SKUs. This new feature extends essential security detections to your most privileged accounts, reinforcing Okta's Secure Identity Commitment. more →
Symantec, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
How To Make The Most Of Hacker Summer Camp
The phenomenon of Black Hat and all that orbits it started in 1993 with the first DEF CON-a gathering that actually was created as a party for members of a Canadian hacker network. Over the years it blossomed into being the world's largest hacking conference, and has been host to some pretty pivotal moments in our industry's history. more →
Symantec, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Can You See Ransomware Coming? Run This Vision Check.
In Q1 of 2025, ransomware attacks surged 46% (oof), while median dwell time in ransomware cases came in at five days in 2024. With many strikes happening after hours, defenders find themselves with less time to respond before APTs wreak serious havoc. more →
Tintri, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Enterprise Strategy Group Validates Tintri VMstore Kubernetes Data Services
New Research Substantiates Tintri's Unmatched Simplicity, Observability and DevOps Acceleration for Kubernetes Environments more →
Building the AI Factory: CI/CD, GitOps, and Delivery for GenA
Join our expert panel to discover why you shouldn't build a separate AI stack. Instead, learn actionable, engineering-focused solutions to manage GenAI by extending the disciplines you already use, including GitOps, CI/CD, policy-as-code, and declarative delivery. more →
