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Startup Airrived this week announced emerging from stealth mode with $6.1 million in seed funding to help organizations unify cybersecurity, IT, and business operations through agentic AI. Founded in 2024, the Dublin, California-based firm has built an Agentic operating system (Agentic OS) meant to unify fragmented AI tools across large enterprises’ ecosystems. According to Airrived, its platform was designed to provide agentic intelligence as an OS, not a feature, unifying enterprise domains such as IAM, IT, GRC, SOC, vulnerability management, and business operations. Airrived’s Agentic OS enables organizations to fine-tune LLMs, build deep-reasoning agents, and orchestrate intelligence across assets. The…

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On episode 340 of PPC Live The Podcast, I speak to Amanda Farley, CMO of Aimclear and a multi-award-winning marketing leader, brings a mix of honesty and expertise to the PPC Live conversation. A self-described T-shaped marketer, she combines deep PPC knowledge with broad experience across social, programmatic, PR, and integrated strategy. Her journey — from owning an gallery and tattoo studio to leading award-winning global campaigns — reflects a career built on curiosity, resilience, and continuous learning. Overcoming limiting beliefs and embracing creativity Amanda once ran an gallery and tattoo parlor while believing she wasn’t an artist herself. Surrounded by…

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Oppo is launching the K14x in India next week, and it’s also working on the K14 Turbo and K14 Turbo Pro for China. There will, however, also be a ‘vanilla’ Oppo K14. This has been revealed through its certification by the Bluetooth SIG. It has the model number CPH2869, whereas the K14x (which was also certified by the same authority) has the model number CPH2871. No other details are known about the K14 yet, but its model number reveals that it’s headed to international markets outside of China. We’ll let you know when we find out more about it. Via

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Ravie LakshmananFeb 06, 2026Cyber Espionage / Malware A previously undocumented cyber espionage group operating from Asia broke into the networks of at least 70 government and critical infrastructure organizations across 37 countries over the past year, according to new findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. In addition, the hacking crew has been observed conducting active reconnaissance against government infrastructure associated with 155 countries between November and December 2025. Some of the entities that have been successfully compromised include five national-level law enforcement/border control entities, three ministries of finance and other government ministries, and departments that align with economic, trade,…

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Managing your Google Business Profile (GBP) takes time, and most business owners don’t have much of it.But leaving your GBP unattended can limit your online visibility over time. Google Search, Maps, and AI-powered platforms look for signals that a business is active and up-to-date, such as often posting, using fresh photos, and responding to customer reviews. In general, profiles that show consistent activity are more likely to appear when customers search.That doesn’t change the fact that maintaining a healthy Google Business Profile requires ongoing effort, which can sometimes feel like a full-time job. Semrush Local’s GBP AI Agent reduces the time…

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Nothing may have made a big splash in the Android phone space, but its audio accessories are seriously underrated. The CMF Buds Pro 2 continue down the path of excellence outlined by the brand’s Ear (1) and Ear (2) earbuds. In fact, our reviewer Harish Jonnalagadda loved the Buds Pro 2 so much that he called them the only budget earbuds worth buying.Now, normally, you would expect wireless earbuds of such great standing to cost over $100, but the fantastic CMF Buds 2 Pro are priced amicably. To make your day, Amazon has cut a further 32% off the already…

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As it turns out, that same ICX core platform family that was originally developed by Foundry Networks two decades ago is still very much alive and well in Ruckus today. “Customers have been on the ICX platform for decades,” Giordano said. “What we’ve been able to do successfully is cross-sell that portfolio into Ruckus’s historical customer base,” Giordano said. “Increasingly, customers are no longer adopting best-of-breed Wi Fi and best-of-breed campus networking from a switching perspective.” The company has focused on specific vertical markets, including education, hospitality, manufacturing and high-end residential installations. Now it’s extending that approach into commercial professional…

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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a new binding operational directive aimed at reducing a long-standing cyber risk across federal networks: outdated “edge devices” that are not longer supported by vendors and aren’t receiving timely security updates. By “edge devices”, CISA means load balancers, firewalls, routers, switches, wireless access points, network security appliances, IoT edge devices, software defined networks and other physical or virtual networking devices responsible for routing network traffic and providing privileged access. Unsupported devices are a known target for attackers because they don’t get patches for new flaws, sit on the network boundary, are…

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I’ll admit it freely. I’m no stranger to a bit of shower karaoke. I blast my music in the shower just about every single day, and when doing so, I’ve always got one of my trusty Bluetooth speakers at my side.As a teen, I used to just listen to music from my phone. After all, a lot of modern handsets have excellent waterproofing and protection against the elements, so it only seems natural. But oh my, was I missing out. See, there are so many amazing waterproof speakers on the market that can take shower listening to new heights –…

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