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  1. IT Pro Cloud

    New Omdia study shines light on Kaseya's unified IT service delivery platform

    MSPs save more than $310,000 on average per year after standardizing on the vendor's offering, according to the findings

  2. Help Net Security

    Chinese spies impersonate White House, Anthropic figures to phish AI policy experts

    A China-aligned espionage group has been posing as a former White House official and a prominent economist to get into the cloud accounts of AI policy experts in the US, Proofpoint have found. The group, which the researchers track as TA419, ran several credential phishing campaigns in July 2026...

  3. CIO

    AI agents: High effort, low return

    AI has arrived in the business world — and the results are thus far underwhelming. According to McKinsey, 89% of companies now use AI regularly, and the majority are at least experimenting with AI agents. However, a significant gap remains between usage and economic success. “We find that only 37%...

  4. CIO

    AI agents: High effort, low return

    AI has arrived in the business world — and the results are thus far underwhelming. According to McKinsey, 89% of companies now use AI regularly, and the majority are at least experimenting with AI agents. However, a significant gap remains between usage and economic success. “We find that only 37%...

  5. CIO

    AI agents: High effort, low return

    AI has arrived in the business world — and the results are thus far underwhelming. According to McKinsey, 89% of companies now use AI regularly, and the majority are at least experimenting with AI agents. However, a significant gap remains between usage and economic success. “We find that only 37%...

  6. CIO

    AI agents: High effort, low return

    AI has arrived in the business world — and the results are thus far underwhelming. According to McKinsey, 89% of companies now use AI regularly, and the majority are at least experimenting with AI agents. However, a significant gap remains between usage and economic success. “We find that only 37%...

  7. Wired

    Election Deniers Think the GOP’s Terrible Midterm Polling Is a ‘Psyop’

    Dozens and dozens of high profile MAGA influencers and pundits have weighed in. “The laughable fake polls are rolling out,” Catturd posted on X.

  8. CIO

    Who should own analytics: IT, the business or both?

    Clients ask me this question perhaps more than any other. They’ve usually just come off a bad experience, either analytics stuck in IT’s backlog for months or analytics scattered across the business without anyone accountable for what it all means. My answer is always the same. Split it. IT owns...

  9. Wired

    A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data

    While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

  10. Security Week

    Warlock Expands SharePoint Exploitation in Critical Infrastructure Attacks

    The China-based hacking group has been exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities since July 2025. The post Warlock Expands SharePoint Exploitation in Critical Infrastructure Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  11. Wired

    31 Best STEM Toys for Kids (2026): Learning Made Fun

    We found lots of math-filled and science-rich toys for tiny nerds to assemble, bake, squish—or even tear apart and rebuild.

  12. Wired

    Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess

    A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration.

  13. Infosecurity Magazine

    Police Target KillSec Ransomware Group with Arrests and Seizures

    Investigators have disrupted the operations of ransomware group KillSec and arrested several key suspects

  14. The Next Web

    The difference between a liar and a bullshitter

    Back in 1986, a Princeton philosopher named Harry Frankfurt published a short essay with a title you don’t expect to see in an academic journal, “On Bullshit.” It stayed largely inside academic circles for the better part of twenty years. Then in 2005 Princeton University Press decided to reprint...

  15. NY Times

    Amazon Promises More Local Funding and Less Secrecy Around Data Centers

    The internet giant is the latest technology company trying to address increasingly hostile local sentiment toward data center projects.

  16. NY Times

    Russia’s Latest Propaganda? A.I.-Generated War Songs.

    Russians are creating and spreading music glorifying the invasion of Ukraine, using platforms built in the United States.

  17. CSO Online

    Rolling the cyber dice with open-source and open-weight AI models

    With typical cybersecurity exposure, I can conduct pen testing with deterministic tools. I am able to predict how a piece of software is going to respond. I even stand a decent chance of finding vulnerabilities before they can be exploited against me. What we are dealing with now is a new kind of...

  18. CSO Online

    Rolling the cyber dice with open-source and open-weight AI models

    With typical cybersecurity exposure, I can conduct pen testing with deterministic tools. I am able to predict how a piece of software is going to respond. I even stand a decent chance of finding vulnerabilities before they can be exploited against me. What we are dealing with now is a new kind of...

  19. CIO

    Who should own AI? I started with an incomplete answer

    Several months ago, I was invited to an event for CTOs. Just looking around the room, I could see someone had made an assumption about my title. I am a chief transformation officer, not a chief technology officer. I stayed anyway to see how the other type of CTO thinks about AI. When a CISO got...

  20. CIO

    $6T in annual AI revenue needed to pay off data center investments

    Hyperscalers are rushing to build more data centers to run AI workloads — but will the AI industry ever generate enough revenue to pay for that infrastructure? Researchers at Bain and Company have looked into this and concluded that productivity gains from existing AI services are not enough to...