Among the expected business benefits of AI-driven network management are: Faster resolution of network problems: 54.1% Improve network performance/experience: 51.3% Reduced security risk: 48.7% Cost optimization: 47.8% Proactive problem prevention: 45.9% More time available for strategic projects: 41.9% Responsiveness to change: 37.8% Mitigation of network team’s skills/personnel gaps: 33% “I think AI is going to help us respond to incidents quicker,” said a network infrastructure and operations manager with a Fortune 500 energy company in the EMA report. “It will help us diagnose yellow flags before they turn into red flags. And it will help us reduce our self-inflicted outages.”…
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The Iran-linked threat actor Handala this week targeted US troops in Bahrain in an influence campaign carried out on WhatsApp. The messages, signed Handala and containing a link to the group’s website, claimed the service members were under surveillance and soon to be targeted with drones and missiles. “Your identities are fully known to our missile units, and every move you make is under our surveillance. Very soon, you will be targeted by our Shahed drones and Kheibar and Ghadeer missiles,” the messages reportedly read. On Tuesday, the group boasted on its Telegram channel about publishing the personal information of…
A U.S. citizen who teaches Persian poetry classes online is suddenly unable to receive payments or access funds when his account is flagged and frozen by Paypal and its subsidiary Venmo. A Muslim city councilwoman in New York City has a Venmo payment blocked because she uses the name of a Bangladeshi restaurant in the transaction. Online hubs for erotic storytelling repeatedly lose their payment accounts. Others active in drug legalization fights struggle to keep their bank accounts. These may sound like one-off issues, but they are not. They occur with frightening regularity, as former EFF Activism Director and Chief Program…
Alphabet reported Q1 2026 earnings, with Google Search & Other revenue rising 19% year over year to $60.4 billion. CEO Sundar Pichai tied the quarter’s Search performance to AI Overviews and AI Mode, saying people are “coming back to Search more.” Q1 revenue was lower sequentially than Q4 2025, when Search & Other came in at $63.1 billion, but year-over-year growth increased from 17% to 19%. Total Alphabet revenue reached $109.9 billion, up 22%. Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler noted Google Services “benefited from a strong FX tailwind” this quarter, which boosted the reported numbers above constant-currency growth. What Pichai…
While the world waits to see if Anthropic’s Mythos model is really as scary as people say it is, the financial services industry in Japan is establishing a task force dedicated to addressing the cyber threat it poses.On April 24, the people who manage the world’s fourth largest economy — Japan’s finance minister, the governor of its central bank, presidents of its three megabanks, and a senior executive of its stock exchange — gathered at the headquarters of Japan’s Financial Service Agency in Tokyo. There, they agreed to form a working group to address the fact that artificial intelligence (AI)…
This is part three of a three-part series on how HubSpot transformed with AI. Part one covers how we build with AI. Part two covers how we grow with Agent-first GTM.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic’s Claude Opus large language model (LLM). The package in question is “@validate-sdk/v2,” which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding/decoding, and secure random generation. However, its real functionality is to plunder sensitive secrets from the compromised environment. The package, which shows signs of being vibe-coded using generative artificial intelligence (AI), was first uploaded to the repository in October 2025. The malware campaign has been codenamed PromptMink by ReversingLabs, which linked…
SEO sits at an interesting crossroads. One camp insists on optimizing for large language models (LLMs) and AI engines, and the other insists on doing SEO the same way we’ve always done it. But there’s another way to approach it: combining the fundamentals of SEO with an understanding of how LLMs operate and why. With this approach, you can keep what’s always worked — like on-page SEO and backlinks from reputable sources. Yet you can also look ahead to new tactics, such as optimizing for query fan-out and emerging prompt intents. Since 2023, and the rise of tools like ChatGPT,…
Blog SEO used to mean one thing: rank in Google. That’s no longer enough.More people are turning to AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity to find answers, and the blogs these platforms cite aren’t always the ones ranking No. 1 in traditional search. They’re the ones written clearly, structured well, and backed by genuine expertise.We’ll cover what blog SEO means today, why it still matters, and 11 practical tips you can apply to your next post.What is blog SEO?Blog SEO is the process of creating, structuring, and optimizing blog content so it’s easy to find, understand, and trust, both in…
“Simply put, we are making it incredibly obvious when our customers are configuring insecure features that introduce new and unnecessary risks into their networks,” wrote Anthony Grieco, senior vice president and chief security and trust officer at Cisco, in a blog post when the initiative was introduced. “Initially, customers will receive increased security warnings that recommend discontinuing the use of any insecure features. In subsequent releases, features will be disabled by default or require additional steps to allow for configuration. Eventually, insecure options will be removed entirely.” Another new feature in the SD-WAN software portfolio is the ability from Meraki SD-WAN sites to define…