Zscaler and CrowdStrike have expanded their partnership. This comes shortly after Zscaler’s definitive acquisition of MDR player Red Canary. The deepened collaboration focuses on security operations and managed detection and response, with both security companies further integrat … | Continue reading
Telecom operator Orange Belgium was the victim of a cyberattack at the end of July, in which hackers gained access to 850,000 customer accounts. The company emphasizes that critical data such as passwords and financial data remained secure. Orange Belgium took immediate action at … | Continue reading
Apple seems to be opening the door wider for alternatives to ChatGPT within its development tools. The latest beta version of Xcode 26 shows that not only Apple’s own models and OpenAI’s ChatGPT will be supported, but that Anthropic’s models will also be making their debut. This … | Continue reading
Okta has published an open-source detection catalog that helps Auth0 customers identify suspicious activity in event logs more quickly. The Customer Detection Catalog can be found on GitHub and contains ready-to-use rules in Sigma format. This allows organizations to expand their … | Continue reading
Appian has announced new AI enhancements for its process automation platform. Semantic smart search is designed to deliver better results based on intent rather than just keywords. In addition, Appian AI will be available for self-managed environments. A key development is that a … | Continue reading
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has teamed up with Intel to announce the eighth generation of memory-optimized EC2 instances: the R8i and R8i-flex. These new instance types run on specially developed Intel Xeon 6 processors with DDR5 7200 MT/s memory. According to AWS, they deliver the … | Continue reading
Alation introduces Chat with Your Data, an AI chatbot that allows employees to ask questions about company data in natural language. Thanks to metadata-aware agents, the solution promises 60 percent more accurate answers than other AI tools. With each answer, Chat with Your Data … | Continue reading
More than 405,000 participants in the cervical cancer screening program will receive a letter from Bevolkingsonderzoek Nederland (Dutch Population Screening) by today at the latest. Their data was involved in the cyber incident at the Clinical Diagnostics laboratory. The organiza … | Continue reading
Competition in the printer market is fierce. There are still many players active in this declining market. This drives innovation, at least at HP. In this article, we take a closer look at that innovation. Software, AI, security, and the Workforce Experience Platform play an impo … | Continue reading
Agentic AI is taking center stage at the Google Cloud Security Summit 2025. New features are set to enable the securing, monitoring, and deployment of AI agents in a variety of ways. Google Agentspace and Agent Builder are being expanded with new capabilities. Discovering AI agen … | Continue reading
Microsoft has fixed a critical Windows upgrade bug that has been plaguing users since August 12. The issues affected both Windows 10-to-11 migrations and Server upgrades, while users had been struggling with other Patch Tuesday complications for days. The upgrade bug was just one … | Continue reading
Various vulnerabilities in Intel’s internal sites allowed unauthorized users to access the personal data of approximately 270,000 employees, more than the company currently employs. Easy-to-circumvent logins and hard-coded login credentials were the weakest links. Security resear … | Continue reading
Databricks is approaching a valuation of $100 billion (€86 billion). The new round of financing represents a 61 percent increase compared to December 2023. The explosive growth of AI is helping the company achieve impressive figures. Databricks had no plans to raise money again s … | Continue reading
AI workflows are now proliferating and impacting the way information-based services are underpinning operations in conceivably every industry vertical. From cake bakeries to petrochemical installations, AI data is now in flux… so for the medical science market, we can look at Tet … | Continue reading
Companies worldwide risk billions in lost revenue if they are too slow to adopt artificial intelligence. At the same time, many CIOs expect that rapid and thoughtful deployment of AI will enable them to outperform larger competitors and capitalize on new market opportunities. The … | Continue reading
AWS has announced new prices for Kiro, its AI-driven development environment that attracted significant attention earlier this year. While the service was initially launched with reasonable-looking rates, the final pricing is significantly higher. This has led to fierce criticism … | Continue reading
Palo Alto Networks has announced that founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Nir Zuk is leaving the company after more than 20 years. Zuk founded the cybersecurity company, now worth $91 billion, in 2005 and introduced the next-generation firewall, playing a major role in the … | Continue reading
Research exposes a global network of task scams that lure job seekers with fake job offers. Victims lose hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars via crypto payments after falling prey to sophisticated scams. Trend Micro’s investigation mapped out an extensive criminal infras … | Continue reading
SoftBank Group is investing $2 billion (€1.7 billion) in Intel through a share issue. This capital injection comes at a time when the US government is also considering acquiring a 10 percent stake by converting Chips Act subsidies into shares. Intel is struggling with a loss of m … | Continue reading
The new series of Google Pixel phones has been unveiled. Visually, little has changed; the real progress is in the software. During Google’s presentation of the latest Pixel series, it became clear once again who the company really has in mind: potential iPhone-to-Android switche … | Continue reading
Identity manager Ping Identity has added new Just-in-Time Privileged Access functionality to its platform. The solution enables real-time cloud access to be assigned according to zero trust principles, replacing traditional vault-based PAM systems with a more dynamic approach. Th … | Continue reading
The annual Python Developers Survey shows a programming environment in transition. Data science accounts for more than half of all Python use, while Rust is emerging as Python’s performance partner. Remarkably, exactly 50 percent of the developers surveyed have less than two year … | Continue reading
Fujitsu has officially kicked off the development of a superconducting quantum computer with 10,000 qubits. The Japanese company aims to complete the project by 2030 as part of a broader government initiative to industrialize quantum computing. The new machine will use Fujitsu’s … | Continue reading
Microsoft is changing its pricing policy for Online Services within volume licensing programs effective November 1, 2025. Critics say this amounts to a significant price increase for both new and existing customers. Whereas volume licenses with different price categories existed … | Continue reading
Just two months after its previous acquisition, IFS has closed another deal to expand its Industrial AI portfolio. The offering of supply chain specialist 7bridges will be integrated with IFS Cloud. The acquisition price has not been disclosed, but IFS has stated that both the 7b … | Continue reading
HR giant Workday has also been hit by the wave of Salesforce attacks. At least, that’s how it appears. On Friday, the company confirmed that an “external CRM environment” had been infiltrated via social engineering. Although no customer systems were affected, the stolen informati … | Continue reading
Anthropic has given its latest AI models, Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, a remarkable new capability. They can now end a conversation themselves. This feature will only be used in rare, extreme situations, such as persistent harmful or offensive behavior by users. Interestingly, the meas … | Continue reading
China’s Prinano has delivered its first self-developed nanoimprint lithography machine. The company is thus marking a significant step in the global battle for chip production technology. According to TrendForce, the machine is part of the PL-SR series. This is an inkjet step-and … | Continue reading
Last week, telecom company Colt Technology Services was hit by a major cyberattack. Now the alleged perpetrators have been identified: WarLock. The method used in the attack also appears to be clear. A member of the WarLock hacker group has claimed responsibility for the Colt att … | Continue reading
Google has acknowledged in Australia that it was guilty of anti-competitive agreements with telecom companies Telstra and Optus regarding the default installation of Google Search on Android devices. The agreements ran from late 2019 to early 2021. During that period, the two tel … | Continue reading
The Nova hacker group already received a ransom payment from its victim Clinical Diagnostics. This appears to be insufficient, as one of the agreements with the criminal gang appears to have been violated – according to the gang, that is. Participants in the National Population S … | Continue reading
NIS2 hasn’t been converted into national law in every EU country, despite the deadline set for October 2024. However, in some cases legislation has caught up. What do organizations need to take into account? We’ll be discussing this in an extensive roundtable discussion with expe … | Continue reading
Update – The US government is considering using the Chips Act funding to finance its Intel stake, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. The discussions are reportedly focused on using Chips Act funding to at least partially finance an equity stake in Intel. According to the sources, … | Continue reading
Google introduces Gemma 3 270M, a new compact AI model with 270 million parameters that companies can fine-tune for specific tasks. The model promises significantly lower operating costs than larger alternatives. Gemma 3 270M is the latest addition to Google’s open source AI mode … | Continue reading
Cisco reported revenue of $14.7 billion (€12.6 billion) for the fourth quarter of 2025, an increase of 8 percent compared to last year. The networking company saw particular growth in AI infrastructure orders from webscale customers, which more than doubled the original target. W … | Continue reading
Telecom company Colt Technology Services has been dealing with a cyber incident since August 12 that has taken important customer systems offline. The company is working around the clock to restore the affected infrastructure. The disruption mainly affects customers who depend on … | Continue reading
German supercomputer company ParTec AG has stepped up its legal battle against Nvidia with a third patent infringement lawsuit. The case has been filed with the Unified Patent Court in Munich and specifically targets Nvidia’s DGX supercomputers. These systems are an important par … | Continue reading
Workday has acquired low-code platform Flowise, a company specializing in the development of AI agents. With this move, Workday aims to strengthen its position in the market for AI-driven business solutions. Flowise enables the creation of both simple chatbots and complex automat … | Continue reading
The US government under President Donald Trump is in talks with Intel about a possible state stake in the company. This was reported by Bloomberg. Sources close to the negotiations say that the investment is primarily intended to speed up the construction of Intel’s mega campus i … | Continue reading
The US government under President Donald Trump is in talks with Intel about a possible state stake in the company. This was reported by Bloomberg. Sources close to the negotiations say that the investment is primarily intended to speed up the construction of Intel’s mega campus i … | Continue reading
AI company Cohere is now worth $6.8 billion after another successful investment round. Investors AMD, Nvidia, and Salesforce have doubled their investments. Canadian company Cohere has managed to distinguish itself in a crowded enterprise AI market. How did it do that? Where Open … | Continue reading
Oracle and Google Cloud are making AI models accessible to businesses via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The collaboration will start with Gemini 2.5 and is intended to help customers build versatile AI agents for various business applications. An important aspect of the coll … | Continue reading
Global demand for electricity is growing by 4 percent per year, partly due to AI-driven data centers. Equinix is signing agreements with four nuclear companies to secure its power needs for the future. Equinix is opting for a diversified approach and signing agreements with four … | Continue reading
Palo Alto Networks introduces new tools to prepare organizations for the quantum threat. The biggest innovations are a Quantum Readiness Dashboard and 14 new firewall models designed to be future-proof. For applications that do not support quantum-secure encryption by default, Pa … | Continue reading
Google has added new features to the Gemini app, enabling the AI assistant to get to know users better and offer more options for data management. The most important additions are a feature that uses previous conversations for personalization and an option for temporary, unsaved … | Continue reading
US authorities have secretly placed location tracking devices in specific shipments of advanced AI chips. According to sources, these shipments are at high risk of ending up in China in violation of export rules. This was reported by Reuters. The use of this method shows how far … | Continue reading
A new version of the in-memory key-value database Redis has been released. Redis 8.2 is now generally available and includes a range of performance improvements. The previous FOSS release, version 7.2, will reach end of life in February 2026. About a year and a half ago, Redis sw … | Continue reading
US President Donald Trump appears to have changed his mind. Having called on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign over his ties to China, Trump has now applauded his “amazing story”. Nevertheless, another exhilirating tale will need to unfold for Tan’s company to make it through its da … | Continue reading