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Global cybersecurity solutions provider eSentire today released its 2025 YEAR IN REVIEW, 2026 THREAT LANDSCAPE OUTLOOK REPORT titled: “The Industrialization of Cybercrime: Identities are Under Attack.” One of the most alarming attack trends tracked by eSentire in 2025 was a 389% increase year over y...

Ultra-High Bandwidth and Low Latency to AWS at Substantially Lower Cost CoreSite, an American Tower company (NYSE: AMT) empowering critical business and AI workloads that impact everyday life through interconnected data center solutions, today announced the launch of native 400 Gbps (400G) Amazon We...

Recognized for Patented Embedded Signature Verification Technology Enabling Real-Time, Check Fraud Detection ParaScript, an AI-powered document processing company, is proud to announce that it has won the 2026 BIG Innovation Award in the Product Innovation category for its Embedded Signature Verific...

In this tutorial, we build a hands-on comparison between a synchronous RPC-based system and an asynchronous event-driven architecture to understand how real distributed systems behave under load and failure. We simulate downstream services with variable latency, overload conditions, and transient er...

Confer is designed to look and feel like ChatGPT or Claude, but your conversations can't be used for training or advertising.

In this tutorial, we build a clean, advanced demonstration of modern MCP design by focusing on three core ideas: stateless communication, strict SDK-level validation, and asynchronous, long-running operations. We implement a minimal MCP-like protocol using structured envelopes, signed requests, and ...

In this tutorial, we build an advanced agentic AI workflow using LlamaIndex and OpenAI models. We focus on designing a reliable retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agent that can reason over evidence, use tools deliberately, and evaluate its own outputs for quality. By structuring the system around...

The flood of AI-generated sexual imagery has spurred concern from state and Congressional officials alike.

OpenAI says that users impacted by the ads will have some control over what they see.

In an attempt to alleviate rising electricity prices, the White House wants grid operator PJM to hold an auction for new generating capacity, and it wants tech companies to bid.

AI companies are clustering around healthcare, and fast.  In just the past week, OpenAI bought health startup Torch, Anthropic launched Claude for Health, and Sam Altman-backed Merge Labs closed a $250 million seed round at an $850 million valuation. The money and products are pouring into health an...

A new era of app creation is here. It's fun, it's fast, and it's fleeting.

AI companies are clustering around healthcare and fast.  In just the past week, OpenAI bought health startup Torch, Anthropic launched Claude for healthcare, and Sam Altman-backed MergeLabs closed a $250 million seed round at an $850 million valuation. The money and products are pouring into health ...

New Annual Report from the GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team (GRIT) Reveals a 58% YoY Increase in Ransomware Victims as Record Activity Becomes the New Norm GuidePoint Security, the cybersecurity advisor and services partner organizations rely on to protect what matters most, announced today...

Strategic partnerships and AI innovation drive company’s growth in managed services bookings and overall success in 2025 Corsica Technologies, a leading national managed service provider (MSP) and industry pioneer in AI-enabled automation, today announced strong business momentum in 2025 driven by s...

Suppose you’ve built your machine learning model, run the experiments, and stared at the results wondering what went wrong.

Soterix Systems, an innovator in AI-driven cloud computing software, today announced the appointment of Paul Smith as Executive Vice President of Sales. Smith’s arrival supports the aggressive expansion of Soterix Systems, with a continued, concentrated focus on scaling customer adoption of NexaiQ, ...

As cross-continental digitalisation developments converge to forge tomorrow’s AI economy, Africa today is united in its ambition to become a thriving, technologically empowered market where world-class digital infrastructure yields unprecedented socio-economic returns.  At the forefront of this shar...

Ability to Protect 90+ SaaS Apps and Cloud Services Data, Partner-first Approach, and Innovation to Drive Customer Success and Accelerate Business Growth for Channel Partners Highlight Latest Industry Recognition HYCU, Inc., a leader for modern data protection for on-prem, cloud, and SaaS and one of...

Inaugural award highlights innovation and meaningful customer outcomes including enhanced efficiency, reduced infrastructure costs, and enhanced security Forescout Technologies, a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced it has been named Keysight Technologies, Inc.’s (NYSE: KEYS) Network Vis...

Autonomous IT leader achieves ATO for EVAS Program Tanium, a leader in Autonomous IT, and global technology and services provider Computacenter Canada Inc. have partnered to provide critical real-time visibility into the government of Canada’s networks and endpoints. Led by the joint Canadian team f...

Irina Ghose joins Anthropic as India managing director after 24 years at Microsoft.

OpenAI and Microsoft tried to dodge a courtroom showdown with Elon Musk, but a federal judge on Thursday rejected their requests to dismiss the case.

In this tutorial, we demonstrate how an autonomous, agentic AI system can simulate the end-to-end prior authorization workflow within healthcare Revenue Cycle Management (RCM). We show how an agent continuously monitors incoming surgery orders, gathers the required clinical documentation, submits pr...