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CISCO MERAKI NEWS
- Build Physical Security Superpowers with Smart Bullet Cameras and Multi-Imagers
Physical security breaches are of top concern for CSOs. Protecting your organization requires an approach as proactive and advanced as cybersecurity. But with the latest smart cameras, it doesn’t […]
- Cisco Meraki for Government Achieves FedRAMP® Moderate Authorization
Cisco Meraki is excited to announce that we have achieved FedRAMP® Moderate and StateRAMP® Moderate Authorization. Built on our reliable and scalable Cisco Meraki cloud networking platform, trusted […]
MICROSOFT 365 NEWS AND ROADMAP
- Copilot in Excel: Built for the era of Frontier Finance
Plenty of AI tools claim to be built for finance; Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel is proving it in practice. The post Copilot in Excel: Built for the era of Frontier Finance appeared first on […]
- Copilot Cowork is now generally available
Cowork is the fastest growing feature in the history of our Frontier program, and Cowork has among the highest user satisfaction of any Copilot or agent experience we have shipped. The post Copilot […]
APPLE NEWS
- 12th-Generation iPad: Everything We Know About Apple’s Next Budget Tablet
Apple is working on a 12th-generation iPad, and plans to update the most affordable tablet in the iPad in 2027. It’s not going to be a major update, but if you’re planning a purchase, you might want to wait for the newest model. Design There are no rumors of an updated design for the 12th-generation iPad, so it will likely have the same 11-inch edge-to-edge display with Touch ID Side Button and thick bezels. […]
- Apple Store App Getting AI Shopping Assistant
Apple’s privacy policy for the Apple Store app suggests it will soon get a virtual shopping assistant to help users decide what to purchase. The app will have a chat interface where users can ask questions about Apple products, with Apple using data like account information, device identifiers, chat information, carrier information, and location data to offer a personalized experience. Transcripts of chats are saved for […]
DELL NEWS
- Teaching a Robot to Dance
Mitch Chaiet had never touched a robot. Eight months later, his Unitree G1 was dancing for a well-known rapper. He’s sharing the open-source pipeline behind it.
- The Next Era of All-Flash Storage Starts Today
The most demanding moment in IT meets the most capable storage platform ever built.
HP NEWS
- HPE selected for R&D projects for U.S. DOE-led Genesis Mission to advance AI-driven innovation and scientific discovery
WASHINGTON, D.C. – July 22, 2026 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced it has been selected to participate in multiple key research and development (R&D) projects in the first phase of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission. The awarded projects focus on advancing AI innovation and scientific discovery across AI model application, performance optimization, networking, cybersecurity, and water availability. In […]
- HPE releases annual Living Progress Report as AI uptake makes efficient, secure, and responsible digital infrastructure even more critical
HOUSTON, Texas, July 13, 2026 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced the publication of its 11th annual Living Progress Report, detailing the company’s Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) progress against its Living Progress strategy. The report highlights how HPE enables customers to operate effectively as rising demand for compute-intensive workloads like AI place greater pressure on energy, resources, regulation, and trust. Living […]
IT SECURITY NEWS
- Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs
RefluXFS, a new Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS filesystem and gain persistent root access. Qualys said default installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its derivatives, Fedora Server, and Amazon Linux can meet the conditions for exploitation. The company demonstrated the race
- Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access
Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management (MDSM) products, including a critical flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-16232 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an authentication bypass affecting the Check Point SmartConsole login process that allows an
AI NEWS
- Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient.There’s often a gap between one person’s request and another’s understanding. Most of the time, we bridge it using general knowledge. For example, if you ask a friend to get you […]
- Chinese AI Model Uses Less Muscle for Coding Tasks
Zain Hasan, an AI engineer at Together AI, has taught himself to use AI coding assistants while still keeping an eye on cost. He directs difficult problems to a frontier model, meaning one near the current state of the art in reasoning and capability, such as Anthropic’s Fable. But if the task that Hasan is outsourcing is more straightforward, he directs it to a less capable—and less expensive—language model. Right now, […]
