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As OpenAI and Claude fight over ads, Google says ‘show me the money’
As OpenAI walks the advertising tightrope to balance revenue gains against credibility and safety, ad kingpin Google is roaring ahead to use AI to improve its advertising products.…
Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum'
The Open Compute Project (OCP) wants to develop specs for distributed datacenters and has decided the all-optical Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) stack can make them possible.…
Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie
Cisco is on track to deliver its unified management tool Cloud Control later in 2026, but while its users wait for that moment it’s pumping out plenty more agentic tools to manage their networks – and make sure agents behave.…
AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show
LayerX, a security company based in Tel Aviv, says it has identified a zero-click remote code execution vulnerability in Claude Desktop Extensions that can be triggered by processing a Google Calendar entry.…
Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps down LiquidStack
GPUs are so hot right now – literally and metaphorically – that they’re driving mergers and acquisitions in the datacenter cooling industry.…
Microsoft's Valentine's gift to admins: 6 exploited zero-day fixes
What better way to say I love you than with an update? Attackers exploited a whopping six Microsoft bugs as zero-days prior to Redmond releasing software fixes on February's Patch Tuesday.…
Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency
Microsoft wants you to know that it has found a new way of saving power at its datacenters using high-temperature superconducting (HTS) power delivery systems. And good news: it'll be possible ... someday.…
AI face analysis used to predict MBA pay, researchers claim
A picture is worth a thousand words or, perhaps, a hundred thousand dollars in extra salary. Academics claim that personality traits inferred using AI photo analysis can predict how depicted individuals will fare in the labor market.…
Cadence heard you wanted some AI in your AI so it used AI to design an AI chip
The idea of machines that can build even better machines sounds like sci-fi, but the concept is becoming a reality as companies like Cadence tap into generative AI to design and validate next-gen processors that also use AI.…
AI agents spill secrets just by previewing malicious links
AI agents can shop for you, program for you, and, if you're feeling bold, chat for you in a messaging app. But beware: attackers can use malicious prompts in chat to trick an AI agent into generating a data-leaking URL, which link previews may fetch automatically.…
Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave
IBM services spin-out Kyndryl said it was reviewing its accounting practices after it announced revenue below market expectations and the departure of its CFO.…
AFRINIC says it's back on track and will soon deliver the plan that proves it
APRICOT 2026 After years of strife, the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is weeks away from signing off on a budget and action plan, activity that one of the organization’s newly appointed executives believes demonstrates it is back on track.…
Trump to hyperscalers: your datacenters, your power bill
The Trump administration continues its AI push, working to defuse public opposition to datacenter energy and water consumption - while dangling a promise to exempt hyperscalers from chip tariffs to help them stock their facilities with GPUs and accelerators.…
Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security
Microsoft is introducing a raft of Windows security features that users and administrators alike might assume are already part of the operating system.…
Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase
Concerns over changes to Oracle's Java licensing strategy are hitting more than nine out of ten users as businesses struggle to adapt to the regime, according to research.…
Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks
Singapore spent almost a year flushing a suspected China-linked espionage crew out of its telecom networks in what officials describe as the country's largest cyber defense operation to date.…
GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
Scarcely a day goes by without an outage at a cloud service. Forget five nines – the way things are going, one nine is looking like an ambitious goal.…
Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores
Apple and Google have pledged to change how their app stores operate in the UK following scrutiny from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is trying to curb their control over the app distribution pipelines feeding UK phones.…
AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment
APRICOT 2026 Indonesia's Universitas Islam conducted experiments that found using generative AI vastly reduces the cognitive load on network pros during IPv4 to IPv6 migrations, but that organizations may not be ready for both AI and the new network protocol.…
Nearly 17,000 Volvo staff dinged in supplier breach
Nearly 17,000 Volvo employees had their personal data exposed after cybercriminals breached Conduent, an outsourcing giant that handles workforce benefits and back-office services.…