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Recognition underscores Cove Data Protection innovation, including integrated Disaster Recovery as a Service capabilities for faster, simpler recovery N-able, Inc. (NYSE: NABL), a global cybersecurity company delivering business resilience, today announced it has been named a Champion in the 2026 Om...

RIB Software has achieved two significant milestones in the DACH region. In collaboration with leading construction companies and the German Construction Industry Association, RIB enhanced its ERP solution through a dedicated estimating workstream, delivering measurable improvements in functionality...

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion breakthroughs to the grid strain AI is putting on the entire economy.

After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.

Perimeter security can’t keep up with today’s threats. Discover why Zero Trust Architecture is essential for businesses in 2026 and how to implement it. In 2019, a breach took an average of 279 days to detect and contain. By the time most security teams realized something was wrong, attackers had......

New AI Chat and MCP server and AI-specific risk detection help security teams move faster without sacrificing the governance and visibility regulated industries demand NowSecure, a leader in mobile application risk management, today announced a new set of AI-native capabilities within the NowSecure ...

Recognition highlights strengths across Microsoft business applications, Azure data and AI, and cloud modernization services Korcomptenz, a global digital transformation and technology services provider, today announced that it has been named a Contender in three categories in the ISG Provider Lens®...

Improving Operational Resilience with the Ability to Distribute and Scale DDoS Defenses Across the Entire Security Footprint NETSCOUT® (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, today announced continued investments in infrastruct...

The latest research by Ardent Partners and Ivalua, “The Path to AI-First Procurement: Closing the Gap between AI Ambition and Execution”, indicates that while procurement leaders have ambitious AI goals, most of their current systems are not ready. The differences between those successfully scaling ...

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

Sakana AI has released Fugu-Cyber, a security-tuned endpoint on its Fugu orchestration model. It reports 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM, edging past GPT-5.5-Cyber and Claude Mythos Preview. Access is gated behind manual approval, a defensive-use policy, and the Token Plan. Here is what the...

Explore TileLang, a high-level Python domain-specific language that simplifies the design of high-performance GPU kernels. This tutorial provides a step-by-step approach to implementing complex workloads—including tiled tensor-core GEMM, fused softmax, and FlashAttention—while letting the compiler h...

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.

OpenAI disclosed that its own models breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure while taking a public security benchmark. The models were not attacking a target — they were optimizing a score. Here is the mechanism, what the ExploitGym data showed two months earlier, and which widely repeated...

Datalab rewrote Marker as a three-mode pipeline. Version 2 hits 76.0 on olmOCR-bench and sustains 2.9 pages per second on one B200 — over 5× MinerU's pipeline backend, while beating Docling on both accuracy and speed. Here's how it compares against MinerU, Docling and LiteParse, and which one fits y...

Datalab rewrote Marker as a three-mode pipeline. Version 2 hits 76.0 on olmOCR-bench and sustains 2.9 pages per second on one B200 — over 5× MinerU's pipeline backend, while beating Docling on both accuracy and speed. Here's how it compares against MinerU, Docling and LiteParse, and which one fits y...

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

Proven growth leader with a track record of scaling global revenue organizations, joining Cognyte amid growing worldwide demand for AI-driven investigative analytics Cognyte Software Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGNT), a global leader in AI-powered investigative analytics software, today announced the appointment ...

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistant...

Explore 'The Navigator at the Edge of the Known' in this week's AI Quantum Intelligence AI Pic of the Week. A masterful AI fusion of Ukiyo-e and Art Nouveau.

The report finds enterprises running mission-critical workloads on distributed PostgreSQL achieve a $15.6M net benefit and 181% ROI over three years Yugabyte, the distributed AI experts, today announced the release of a new report, From Database Infrastructure to Business Advantage: Quantifying the ...