The landscape for digital advertising has been changing for quite a while now. In the past, marketers crafted very strategic campaigns with highly focused targeting to reach their target audiences. Messaging was tied extremely closely to the campaign’s keywords, sometimes exactly, and performance usually flowed from the high relevance of the ad to the user query. More recently, the machines are capable of doing much of that highly focused targeting for us, and honestly, they can do a much better job. They make decisions based on combined and compiled user behavior rather than a one-time search. This has led many…
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Our time is limited, but there’s a nearly unlimited number of podcasts, audiobooks, and YouTube videos to watch. You wouldn’t be alone if you turned to the seemingly innocent “1.5x” or 2x” speed button as a solution, but at what cost? Look, I get it. You have a million podcast episodes in your queue and a long list of audiobooks you’ve never gotten around to. Speeding up playback seems like an easy solution to pack more content into smaller windows of time. You will accomplish that, but I think this practice is a bit dystopian. Allow me to explain. The…
Ravie LakshmananMar 10, 2026Network Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign where threat actors are abusing FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) appliances as entry points to breach victim networks. The activity involves the exploitation of recently disclosed security vulnerabilities or weak credentials to extract configuration files containing service account credentials and network topology information, SentinelOne said in a report published today. The security outfit said the campaign has singled out environments tied to healthcare, government, and managed service providers. “FortiGate network appliances have considerable access to the environments they were installed to protect,” security researchers Alex…
Starting July 1st, Meta will add “location fees” to ad buys targeting users in six countries — effectively offloading the cost of European digital services taxes onto the advertisers themselves. The numbers. Fees will match each country’s digital services tax rate: France, Italy, Spain: 3% Austria, Turkey: 5% UK: 2% How it works in practice. Per Meta’s email to advertisers — “$100 in ads delivered to Italy will cost $103, plus any applicable VAT on top of that.” The fine print. The fees apply to where the ad is delivered, not where the advertiser is based — meaning a US…
I’ve been using some form of voice communication on my desktop daily for the past few years. It doesn’t matter if I’m gaming, jumping into meetings, or just having a video call with my folks. There’s always something that I’m doing that requires me to bark at my PC in some capacity. But for whatever reason, my PC also loves to change the default communication device randomly, sometimes picking up my Meta Quest 3 as a headset and other times completely overriding my NVIDIA Broadcast setup with something else entirely. I’m sick of it, I’m tired of it, and I…
Fortinet has announced major innovations across the Fortinet Security Operations (SecOps) Platform. The updates feature next-generation SecOps advancements, including expanded agentic AI capabilities, a preview of FortiSOC, managed services, and endpoint security enhancements delivered through FortiEndpoint. “As attackers weaponize AI to accelerate reconnaissance, exploit development, and social engineering, security operations must function with the same speed and coordination. Fortinet is advancing a unified, AI-powered security operations platform that provides a scalable operating architecture across our defense framework, enabling organizations to build, extend, or optimize their SOC through a single architecture spanning self-managed, cloud, and managed deployments,” said Ken Xie, Chairman…
With a VPN, UK citizens can protect their online privacy when surfing the web and unblock content from anywhere in the world. The UK has fast become one of the most snooped-on places in the world due to the Investigatory Power Act (A.K.A. the Snoopers Charter). Thankfully, with a VPN, UK citizens can protect their online privacy when surfing the web and stop the snoopers in their tracks. What’s more, a VPN can also unblock content that isn’t available in the United Kingdom, such as Hulu or DAZN. VPNs can also provide you with a UK IP address so that…
AI search engines like ChatGPT are actively shaping how your brand gets discovered, described, and evaluated—and LinkedIn is one of their primary sources.But it’s not just about how often your content is cited by AI. What’s more important is understanding why AI models trust certain kinds of LinkedIn content and not others, and how brands can win that trust.We analyzed 89,000 unique LinkedIn URLs cited by ChatGPT Search, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity, and put together a practical playbook to help you increase your AI visibility.At a Glance: 5 Key Takeaways for Your AI Visibility Strategy LinkedIn is one of…
Google Messages is the official Google app for messaging. Google Messages is revolutionizing how a billion users connect and is powered by Rich Communication Services (RCS), the industry standard for texting that replaces SMS and MMS. With RCS, you can share high resolution photos and videos, enjoy dynamic group chats, and seamlessly connect with other RCS users including your iPhone friends. • Rich Communication: Share high-quality photos and videos, see when friends are typing, and enjoy dynamic group chats that now seamlessly include your iPhone friends.• Personal Touch: Make conversations uniquely yours with features like custom chat bubble colors or…
That gap is not static. Promode Nedungadi, Chief Technology Officer, said the architectural and algorithmic trends driving AI are making the network problem harder, not easier. Techniques like mixture-of-experts models and the disaggregation of inference into separate prefill and decode stages all require more data movement.“Every one of those requires more data to be moved around,” he said. “The amount of data being moved per token is growing.” The scale challenge also has more than one dimension. Perkins described three: scale-up, which refers to interconnecting GPUs within a single training domain; scale-out, which covers the broader cluster fabric; and what…