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DARPA backs multiple quantum paths in benchmarking initiative

Network World

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 15 quantum computing companies for its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative , to see if utility-scale quantum computers can be built by 2033. Selected companies include IBM, HPE, Quantinuum, IonQ, Xanadu, Rigetti, and others from North America, Europe, and Australia and covers multiple approaches to quantum computing, including trapped ions, superconducting qubits, photonics, and silicon spin qubits.

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Massive modernization: Tips for overhauling IT at scale

CIO Business Intelligence

Nimesh Mehta likens decommissioning legacy systems to going on an archeological dig: There are systems that still have a lot of value; its just a matter of unearthing them, taking out what isnt needed, and building new processes on top. Our company is about 176 years old, so weve got a lot of legacy systems that are older than me, says Mehta, executive vice president and chief information and strategy officer at National Life Group.

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RSAC 2025 Early-Stage Expo Preview: AppSec, IAM, GenAI, SecOps, And More

Forrester IT

As we put together our game plan for what to see at RSA Conference 2025, we want to scope out innovation, identify which vendor booths are a must-see, and (at least for one of us) minimize the number of steps to take around Moscone.

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When Should Human Decision-Making Overrule AI?

Information Week

AI occasionally generates really stupid recommendations. That's when humans must step in to make the final call.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook For Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.

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DDoS Attacks Now Key Weapons in Geopolitical Conflicts, NETSCOUT Warns

Tech Republic Security

Hackers now use AI and botnets to launch powerful DDoS attacks, bypassing security and overwhelming servers as law enforcement struggles to keep up.

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9 steps to take to prepare for a quantum future

Network World

Over the past year, vendor after vendor has reached the critical quantum-computing milestone where adding more qubits no longer adds a disproportionately higher amount of errors. For the first time, we can confidently say, the zero to one moment has happened, and now we can look at scaling roadmaps instead of science roadmaps, says Pranav Gokhale, vice president of quantum software at Infleqtion, which is focusing on the neutral atom approach to quantum computing.

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The AI Effect: Pervasive, Promising, and Pressing

Forrester IT

AI is rapidly transforming industries, and clients are seeking guidance on how to invest wisely and measure ROI amid the hype. As AI continues to evolve, trust in data, models, and outcomes will be crucial for scaling and realizing its full potential. The future of AI is about balancing innovation with careful planning to stay ahead without being overwhelmed.

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Quit Fooling Yourself: How to Actually Be Ready for a Cyberattack

Information Week

Cybersecurity should be integrated into an organization's overall strategy, not treated as an afterthought or isolated task.

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10 Missed GenAI Opportunities in Digital Transformation a CIO Must Be Paranoid On

Social, Agile and Transformation

CIOs must move beyond mere productivity and embrace genAI opportunities in digital transformation. While tactical improvements are significant, focusing solely on them can hinder real change. CIOs should prioritize data architecture, AI governance, and improving customer experiences, while maintaining rigorous evaluation of risks and compliance to maximize the benefits of genAI.

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Tariff war throws building of data centers into disarray

Network World

Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their data center building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of the current tariff wars pushed by the United States. This is obviously a fluid situation. The stated goal of the [US] administration is to bring more development into the US, said Forrester Senior Analyst Alvin Nguyen.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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New AI education initiatives show the way for knowledge retention in enterprises

CIO Business Intelligence

Two of the biggest names in artificial intelligence are independently developing new AI tools that encourage learning, at a time when the technology has been criticized for dumbing down smart users in the enterprise and discouraging critical thinking. While the new initiatives from OpenAI and Anthropic are aimed at transforming how AI is used in higher education, the opportunities they open up extend beyond universities.

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Brands, Take Cover: The Tariffs Have Hit The Fan

Forrester IT

Markets And Consumers Are In Chaos Mode Weve had a little time to chew on the sweeping tariff plans of Liberation Day, and if the markets are any indicator, its been tough to digest.

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High-Severity Cloud Security Alerts Tripled in 2024

Information Week

Attackers aren't just spending more time targeting the cloud they're ruthlessly stealing more sensitive data and accessing more critical systems than ever before.

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North Korean Hackers Disguised as IT Workers Targeting UK, European Companies, Google Finds

Tech Republic Security

The attackers pose as legitimate remote IT workers, looking to both generate revenue and access sensitive company data through employment. "Europe needs to wake up fast, according to Googles Jamie Collier.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan begins to lay out technology roadmap

Network World

He s only been on the job for two weeks, but newly appointed Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan gave a major speech at a partner conference this week where he said the ailing company needs to get its act together, and he doesn t want customers to hold back on their criticism. Intels Vision conference in Las Vegas included several hundred partners and customers, as well as top analysts.

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ServiceNow to acquire Logik.ai to boost CRM portfolio

CIO Business Intelligence

ServiceNow is acquiring Logik.ai and its configure, price, quote (CPQ) solution to expand its customer relationship management (CRM) product portfolio and accelerate its momentum in sales and order management. Logik.ai, founded in 2021, provides a product that integrates artificial intelligence and an advanced rules engine to streamline the transaction management cycle.

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Confidence In Marketing Measurement Is Increasing, But The Job Is Getting Bigger

Forrester IT

One of the most interesting aspects of my role as a Forrester analyst is hearing marketers ask questions about how others in their position or industry are approaching measurement. A common fear I hear is that everyone else in a clients competitive set has figured things out and the client brand is being left behind.

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Court rejects Home Office bid for blanket secrecy in hearings over Apple encryption case

Computer Weekly

Investigatory Powers Tribunal rejects Home Office arguments that identifying the bare details of legal action by Apple would damage national security, leaving open possibility of future open court hearings

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyers Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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Microsoft: Windows CLFS Vulnerability Could Lead to ‘Widespread Deployment and Detonation of Ransomware’

Tech Republic Security

Microsoft warns CVE-2025-29824 lets attackers with user access escalate privileges to deploy ransomware via a flaw in Windows CLFS.

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AI commentary goes into full swing at Players Championship

Network World

As a golf fan, one of the events I look forward to is the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass at the home of the PGA Tour in Ponte Vedra, Florida. The event has seen many magical moments such as Fred Couples making a par on 17 after hitting his first shot into the water and the iconic Tiger Woods Better than most moment. This most recent Players Championship was highlighted by more unforgettable golf moments, culminating with Rory McIlroys win.

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Explorando la confluencia de la tecnología y la sostenibilidad para un futuro mejor

CIO Business Intelligence

Los esfuerzos de sostenibilidad estn cobrando fuerza a escala mundial , y los gobiernos y las organizaciones estn poniendo todo su empeo en la formulacin y aplicacin de polticas que puedan detener o incluso revertir el dao medioambiental global y crear un impacto positivo para las comunidades locales. Las regulaciones actan como un sistema de premio y castigo , en el que se incentiva a las organizaciones a adoptar polticas respetuosas con el clima, mientras que se aumentan las sanciones por incu

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Once More Unto The Breach: Tech Leaders Face Another Year Of Volatility And Cuts

Forrester IT

In todays era of volatility, technology leaders will need to do more with even less. This means dusting off the cost-cutting playbook to seek out additional optimization opportunities without sacrificing your AI ambitions. Here are a few cost-cutting measures to focus on in the near term.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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How Today’s CIOs are Upskilling

Information Week

The chief information officers role is more important than ever. To stay on top of their game, they need to continually upskill. This is what theyre doing.

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In their own words: Microsoft leaders, past and present, on the company’s legacy and impact

GeekWire

Leaders from throughout Microsoft’s history shared their thoughts about the company’s impact. [Editors Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025.] Whats the significance of Microsoft in modern business and tech history? For the past several months, in the course of reporting GeekWires Microsoft@50 series , weve asked variations of that question in interviews and email exchanges wi

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Surge in threat actors scanning Juniper, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks devices

Network World

A surge in internet probes targeting devices from Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems, and Palo Alto Networks should put their admins on alert, say security experts. A threat actor is probing the internet using default credentials for a Juniper Networks router, prompting a cybersecurity expert to warn network admins to change the login combo from the factory setting if they havent already done so.

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Many CIOs operate within a culture of fear

CIO Business Intelligence

Many IT leaders say they work in organizations that operate with a culture of blame, making it difficult to admit mistakes and then learn from errors. Forty percent of IT leaders specifically overseeing software development at their organizations say they fear acknowledging their mistakes, according to a recent report by digital transformation provider Adaptavist.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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What You Can Learn From Shopify’s CEO’s Memo On Workforce AI

Forrester IT

What Shopifys CEO Gets Right And Wrong About Workforce AI Shopifys CEO Tobias Ltke released an internal email he’d sent to employees with the subject, AI usage is now a baseline expectation. His enthusiastic missive implores employees to adopt AI tools as a thought partner, deep researcher, critic, tutor, or pair programmer.

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7 Ways Generative AI Can Help You Survive a Layoff

Information Week

Surviving a layoff involves more than enduring a long and intensive job search. Heres how generative AI tools can help keep the wolves away from your door and maybe even help put food on your table.

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Benchmarks Find ‘DeepSeek-V3-0324 Is More Vulnerable Than Qwen2.5-Max’

Tech Republic Security

While the latest iteration of Qwen2.5-Max outperforms DeepSeek-V3 on security, the AI model lags behind its competition in several other areas.

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Mechanical Orchard taps gen AI for mainframe-to-cloud modernization

Network World

IBM is expected to drive AI deep into its next mainframe refresh , due this spring, in a move aimed at keeping and attracting Big Iron customers. Meanwhile, theres no shortage of vendors vying for enterprise customers that are interested in moving off the mainframe and into the cloud. Among them is startup Mechanical Orchard, which is unveiling its generative AI-based Imogen service.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.