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What the Data on IT Fragmentation Actually Means for Your Security and Productivity Decisions

What the Data on IT Fragmentation Actually Means for Your Security and Productivity Decisions

A JumpCloud and Google Workspace survey of IT leaders has produced findings that deserve more attention than the typical conversation about workplace software receives. Only 6% of IT leaders report that their current office software setup functions as it should, leaving 94% contending with problems that span rising costs, security vulnerabilities, and compounding operational complexity. […]

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What the Data on AI-Generated Code Quality Actually Means for Your Software Development Decisions

What the Data on AI-Generated Code Quality Actually Means for Your Software Development Decisions

A CodeRabbit analysis of 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, split between AI-assisted and purely human-authored code, has produced findings that deserve more careful attention than the general debate about AI in software development typically receives. AI-assisted code averaged 10.83 issues per pull request compared to 6.45 in human-written code, representing approximately 1.7 times as many […]

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Why the Most Effective Organizations Are Pulling Back From AI-First and What They Are Replacing It With

Why the Most Effective Organizations Are Pulling Back From AI-First and What They Are Replacing It With

A study from monday.com, combined with Nielsen research, has surfaced a dynamic that is developing quietly beneath the continued growth in AI adoption metrics: 94 percent of directors are actively using AI tools at work, and a significant portion of them feel uncomfortable about it. The discomfort is not primarily about the tools themselves. It […]

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Why a Criminal Hacking Tool Becoming a Geopolitical Weapon Should Change How You Think About Your Business’s Risk

Why a Criminal Hacking Tool Becoming a Geopolitical Weapon Should Change How You Think About Your Business’s Risk

The trajectory of RomCom RAT from financial crime tool to instrument of state-aligned cyber espionage is worth understanding not as a story about malware evolution but as evidence of how the threat landscape that businesses operate in has fundamentally changed. What began as a relatively conventional remote access trojan used for credential theft and account […]

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Why Cybercriminals Consider the Holiday Season Their Best Business Quarter

Why Cybercriminals Consider the Holiday Season Their Best Business Quarter

The same conditions that make the holiday season valuable for retailers make it attractive for attackers: high transaction volumes, elevated customer account activity, staff attention stretched across operational priorities, and the organizational pressure to keep orders moving that makes careful security review feel like a luxury. The RH-ISAC 2025 Holiday Season Cyber Threat Trends report […]

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The Customers Your AI Strategy Is Leaving Behind and What It’s Costing You

The Customers Your AI Strategy Is Leaving Behind and What It’s Costing You

Research from Cisco and the OECD has quantified a generational divide in AI adoption that businesses deploying AI in customer-facing functions need to understand as a revenue and retention issue rather than a demographic curiosity. Among adults under 35, more than half are actively using AI tools, and more than 75 percent report finding them […]

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Why Your Next Server or PC Purchase Is Going to Cost Significantly More Than Your Last One

Why Your Next Server or PC Purchase Is Going to Cost Significantly More Than Your Last One

The hardware budget assumptions that business owners carried into 2025 are no longer accurate, and the mechanism driving the change is not the kind of temporary supply disruption that resolves itself within a few quarters. DRAM prices have increased approximately 50 percent this year, with analysts at Counterpoint Research forecasting an additional 30 percent increase […]

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Why the Leaders Who Understand AI Are Pulling Away From Those Who Don’t

Why the Leaders Who Understand AI Are Pulling Away From Those Who Don’t

The gap between organizations that are extracting measurable value from artificial intelligence and those still running inconclusive pilot projects is not primarily a technology gap. The tools available to both groups are largely the same. The difference that research and operational observation consistently reveal is leadership: specifically, whether the people making resource allocation decisions, setting […]

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Why a 16-Million-Year-Old Volcanic Crater Could Reshape Your Business’s Supply Chain

Why a 16-Million-Year-Old Volcanic Crater Could Reshape Your Business’s Supply Chain

A geological survey of the McDermitt Caldera, the remnant of a supervolcano that collapsed along the Nevada-Oregon border approximately 16 million years ago, has produced estimates that are drawing serious attention from manufacturers, technology companies, and supply chain planners across multiple industries. Researchers have identified a concentration of lithium-bearing clay within the caldera that early […]

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