In a deep-dive session at Cisco Live, Ramana Kompella, head of Cisco Research and Cisco Fellow, detailed precisely what quantum networking is, how it works at a theoretical level, and what Cisco is building to enable real world applications. During his session, Kompella made the case that the bottleneck to practical quantum computing is not the processor. It is the network connecting processors together. His argument drew directly from the history of classical infrastructure: The same scale-out methodology that built the modern internet could, he said, accelerate the arrival of useful quantum computing by decades. “Quantum networking can accelerate the…
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Google just shared more information to help us get our websites ready for agents. There is a new report from Lighthouse that anybody can run. You do not need external software to run it. You can do it right from within your Chrome browser. The report tells you whether your website is discoverable for AI agents, whether you have WebMCP integration set up, and something worth discussing: an evaluation of your LLMs.txt file! How To Run The Agentic Web Report Right now, if you try to get this report from within the standard version of Chrome, you probably will not…
Unlike other website pages that may educate or introduce, landing pages have one job—to get someone to take a specific action. But many of them aren’t converting, even when the offer itself is objectively strong. Design plays an important role here, but the culprit behind lackluster conversion rates is often the copy. A common pitfall is landing pages full of polished language that reads well but doesn’t actually make it easy and automatic for the visitor to take action. Effective landing page copy goes beyond the marketing buzz and does something simpler. It helps someone quickly understand what the offer…
A Shopify service disruption on Tuesday affected core commerce functions, potentially preventing merchants from managing stores and customers from completing purchases. The big picture. Shopify confirmed that some merchants and customers experienced issues across multiple services, including storefronts, checkouts, the Shopify admin dashboard and Retail POS. Access to Shopify Support was also impacted. What happened. Shopify first acknowledged the issue at 9:27 a.m. EDT, saying merchants may experience problems accessing: At the same time, customers could encounter issues with: The outage also affected access to Shopify Support. Why we care. If Shopify storefronts or checkouts are unavailable, paid traffic can’t…
Google Lighthouse now includes an Agentic Browsing category that audits how well AI agents are able to navigate, understand, and act on a site. Google’s documentation notes that the Agentic Browsing category is experimental. Practically speaking, that means you need to run Lighthouse in Chrome Canary, Google’s experimental Chrome channel that’s released daily.The Agentic Browsing category runs three sets of checks: WebMCP: Validates your WebMCP integration — a proposed web standard that lets a site provide directions for AI agents to act upon Agent-centric accessibility: Reviews the part of your accessibility tree that matters most for machine interaction, including names and labels,…
Cloud computing has reached a crossroads. The high cost and data sensitivity of AI workloads are raising the appeal of private clouds, even as neoclouds and sovereign clouds shake up the cloud provider landscape. New cyberthreats, shifting compute requirements, and management complexity are adding to cloud complications. Download the June 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World, and learn how to navigate the latest cloud strategy developments.
In this week’s episode of the Niche Pursuits podcast, Rob Walling and I discuss how SaaS founders can build, grow, and sell software businesses that create more freedom. Rob brings 25 years of SaaS experience, including lessons from building and selling companies, mentoring founders, and investing in 239 SaaS businesses. This conversation is geared toward solo operators and bootstrapped founders who want clear ways to improve pricing, reduce churn, and find better customers. Get ready to create a business that can one day run with less founder involvement. Watch the Full Episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9zDPOxvLbo&feature=youtu.be Building A SaaS Career From Small Products…
When AI arrived in the marketing mainstream, it was accompanied by a persistent and scary narrative: The machines are coming for our jobs. On the surface, those fears might appear well-founded. According to the Content Marketing Institute, 43% of surveyed marketers said their organization had laid off marketing employees within the last year – a staggering 30% increase from 2024. For organizations with 1,000 or more employees, this number rises to 62%. But a single stat can never give us the full picture. One thing we have in abundance right now is research papers, reports, and surveys trying to understand…
Are you trying to decide between Gelato, Printify, and Printful? If you want to start a print-on-demand business, then you may be wondering which platform is the best one to use for your online business. Gelato, Printify, and Printful are three popular print-on-demand companies that help you sell custom products online without keeping inventory, buying… Are you trying to decide between Gelato, Printify, and Printful? If you want to start a print-on-demand business, then you may be wondering which platform is the best one to use for your online business. Gelato, Printify, and Printful are three popular print-on-demand companies that…
It seems like every brand is scrambling to get a piece of the pie in this new answer engine optimization (AEO) world. But what if you could get ahead of the curve by knowing the best on-page content formats for AI as verified by research? I pored over results from the new HubSpot State of AEO 2026 report and Wix Studio’s AI Search Lab research on most-cited content types to find out.