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This reporter has lately been complaining in team meetings about having to fight with our company ChatGPT, specifically mentioning "yelling at a machine," but recent research indicates that might not be all bad -- blood pressure notwithstanding. A new study finds that ChatGPT-4o gives more accurate answers when prompted rudely rather than politely, contradicting previous research suggesting the opposite.
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By Tom Fenton
VMware’s newly renamed Workstation Pro 25H2 introduces calendar-based versioning, automation tools, and expanded hardware and OS support, signaling a renewed focus on the long-running desktop hypervisor.
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By Tom Fenton
An in-depth look at how Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has damaged not just budgets but the trust, talent, and ecosystem that once made VMware central to enterprise IT.
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Veeam Software announced plans to acquire Securiti AI for $1.725 billion to combine data resilience, privacy, and AI trust in a unified platform aimed at helping organizations securely manage and unlock the value of their data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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Paul Schnackenburg, our 1-person SOC Down Under, goes into the basics of quantum computing, what the potential risks are, what steps you can take to mitigate those risks, what others in the industry are doing and how you can adopt the recommendations outlined by several different governments.
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Rubrik introduced Rubrik Agent Cloud, a new enterprise platform for monitoring, governing, and remediating AI agent activity across clouds and SaaS apps, positioning it as a control layer for the AI agent lifecycle built on Rubrik Security Cloud.
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Brien Posey warns that insider threats remain one of the most overlooked risks to storage security, urging layered defenses that combine access control, monitoring, and employee awareness.
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By Tom Fenton
KubeCon’s Project Pavilion serves as the heart of open-source innovation, bringing together maintainers, contributors, and attendees to collaborate on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s projects in a hands-on, community-driven environment.
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Veeam launched Veeam Data Cloud for Managed Service Providers, a secure multi-tenant SaaS platform that simplifies data protection, strengthens security, and expands partner growth opportunities through the Veeam Cloud & Service Provider program.
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Nutanix introduced Partner Central, a unified, intelligence-driven platform that consolidates tools, insights, and engagement resources to help partners sell faster and manage business growth more efficiently.
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ribl expanded its AI capabilities with Cribl Notebooks, BYOAI, and a standalone Cribl MCP server, enabling agentic AI readiness across IT and security telemetry infrastructure.
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New York Fed research finds that while AI adoption is rising, its impact on layoffs remains limited--for now--with firms more likely to retrain than replace workers.
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A new Cloud Security Alliance study shows that AI SOC agents like Dropzone AI significantly improve investigation speed, accuracy, and consistency while boosting analysts’ confidence and attitudes toward AI.
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By Tom Fenton
After finding his recent presentation well received, Tom Fenton puts it online.
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Executives fear career consequences as new Dataiku survey shows 60% of data leaders worry their jobs are at risk if AI fails to deliver results, with most citing explainability, reliability, and security as top challenges.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton spotlights five startups to watch at KubeCon 2025--TestifySec, Chkk, Border0, DevZero, and Syntasso’s Kratix--each tackling key challenges in security, reliability, and developer productivity across the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem.
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At our Container Security 101 Summi today, expert Greg Schulz highlighted backups as the frontline in ransomware defense, stressing immutability, air-gaps, and verification as essential safeguards for resilient containerized environments.
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A new ControlMonkey survey finds 98% of enterprises face blockers to cloud scale and resilience as AI workloads surge, with security, visibility, and automation gaps creating what the report calls a "turning point" for infrastructure readiness.
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Brien Posey warns against "vibe coding," the risky practice of using AI-generated code without review, and outlines best practices for securely and effectively integrating AI into software development.