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Technology giant Cisco is cutting nearly 4,000 jobs, or around 5% of its workforce, despite reporting better-than-expected profit and revenue in its fiscal third quarter. The networking equipment maker said it is reducing its headcount in order to change its “cost structure” and

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In the past few years, creative marketplaces and platforms have realized they are sitting on a data gold mine, and they can either use that data to develop AI models or turn it into a source of revenue by licensing it to other AI labs. Wirestock, which previously helped photograp

Veeam says agentic AI is the number one cyber threat AI Agents are spreading like wildfire and becoming the leading cyber-threat. Veeam says that, as enterprises adopt agentic AI, existing and often siloed data resilience and security tools are leaving gaps in visibility, governa

Uber is expanding its technology footprint in India with new engineering campuses and a data center partnership aimed at supporting its overall product development and infrastructure operations. On Thursday, Uber detailed plans to open two new campuses that can fit around 9,600 p

HYCU adds agentic backup data intelligence layer to find and fill risk gaps Data protector - - HYCU has launched a set of AI Agents in an aiR product, that query multiply-sourced backup data to find cyber-resilience risks no single-source risk visibility app can discover. HYCU’s

HPE announced a broad set of updates across its GreenLake platform, targeting enterprises that are modernizing private cloud environments and preparing data infrastructure for AI-driven workloads. The updates span next-generation private cloud systems, unified data services, and

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U.S. President Donald Trump's summit with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping could hinge on two key tech flashpoints — critical minerals and market access for American companies. The much-anticipated bilateral meeting between the two countries that were locked in a tariff standoff ju

Scientists said this week that a developing El Niño is likely to amplify heatwaves, droughts and floods this year, but warned that the long-term warming caused by burning fossil fuels remains the main driver of climate extremes. El Niño is the warm phase of a semi-regular tempera

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Motorola was early to foldable phones, announcing its first Razr-branded foldable in 2019. Since then, the company has churned out a series of foldable flip phones, but the new Razr Fold is its first attempt at a tablet-style foldable. Samsung, Google, and others have been making

Dive masks on — Subnautica 2 is making a splash on GeForce NOW day-and-date with launch, so members can plunge into the title’s brand-new alien ocean from almost any device. It leads 11 new games joining the cloud this week. A limited-time HITMAN World of Assassination reward eve

Alienware's budget gaming laptop starts at $1,299 — Last-gen parts and a plastic shell bring the premium brand into the mainstream Dell is bringing its gaming brand to a wider audience, but is sacrificing power and premium materials to hit the price point. Alienware has typically

ADP: DRAM shortage is affecting ransomware recovery Interview. Stacy Hayes, chief strategy officer and co-founder at Rubrik-focussed data protection MSP Assured Data Protection, reckons that the DRAM shortage’s real casualty is ransomware recovery. That seems a bit of a stretch.

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Fully-functional RTX 3070 16GB gets frankensteined into existence by harvesting dead PCBs and RX 6800 XT's VRAM chips — doubles frame rate in games like Spider Man 2 at 4K and includes switch for 8GB mode Mod includes a hardware switch for 8/16GB, and a script was written to prev

Equinix Expands Fabric Geo Zones to Tackle Data Sovereignty The company is positioning network-level sovereignty controls as a critical layer for distributed AI and hybrid multicloud infrastructure. Equinix is moving to embed data sovereignty controls into the network itself, exp

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Leading-edge foundry roadmaps for TSMC, Intel and Samsung — outlining the path to 1.4nm nodes and beyond 2nm is here, so what's next? All three leading-edge foundries — Intel Foundry, Samsung Foundry, and TSMC — have initiated mass production of chips using 2nm-class process tech

70% of Americans oppose data centers near their homes, now less popular than nuclear power plants — opposition towards nearby AI infrastructure heating up as tech companies ramp up projects to acquire more compute People don't want data centers in their backyard. A new Gallup sur

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Production of Chinese chips could ramp up this year, as executives at the country's biggest tech companies look to deploy more homegrown technology — as it's reported U.S. chip giant Nvidia could return. On Wednesday, internet titan Tencent suggested that production of Chinese ho

AI Transforms Data Centers into Power and Cooling Plants Dense GPU clusters are reshaping data center design and widening the gap between AI factories and legacy enterprise facilities. AI infrastructure is upending how data centers are designed. As GPU clusters push rack densitie

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Donald Trump has very little leverage heading into two days of meetings with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in Beijing this week, experts say. The thinking goes that Trump came into office with a plan that has since largely failed. He hoped to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, settle

The tyranny of software is almost over. Since the first computer programmers wrote the first computer programs, we, the users of that software, have been forced to live in the worlds those programs create. The features are the features. The design is the design. Want something el

AMD reaches 46% of server x86 CPU revenue — Intel still controls 70% of the consumer PC market share AMD continues to grow stronger as Intel's positions slip. The first quarter of 2026 was quite favorable for AMD as the company managed to increase its unit share on the market of

$499 case turns your PC into a liquid cooling masterpiece for your wall — Portal Advanced comes with an integrated distribution plate and reservoir to start of your build Singularity Computers has launched the Portal Advanced, a premium wall-mounted display case designed to showc

Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' and losing wallet password 11 years ago — bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup The user apparently changed the password while 'stoned.' A Bitcoin holder who changed their wa

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