DC: CxO, Platform Engineering, Humor, Edge, Linux, Cloud, DDN, Rapid7, Cloudflare, Webinars (Tue., July 8th Morning)
Articles Posted Week of Jun 30th, 2025 — Jul 6th, 2025 (328/1/3)
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CxO
CIOs: Are You Being The Champions Of Change For Modern Business?
CIOs See AI Prompting New IT Hiring, Even As Boards Push For Job Cuts
Platform Engineering
Humor
Edge
Linux
Cloud
DDN News
Rapid7 News
Cloudflare News
The Crawl Before The Fall... Of Referrals: Understanding AI's Impact On Content Providers
Message Signatures Are Now Part Of Our Verified Bots Program, Simplifying Bot Authentication
CxO
Healthcare CISOs Must Secure More Than What's Regulated
In this Help Net Security interview, Henry Jiang, CISO at Ensora Health, discusses what it really takes to make DevSecOps work in healthcare....more
CIOs: Are You Being The Champions Of Change For Modern Business?
In addition to managing the wide range of emerging tech, IT leaders are continually expected to step out of their comfort zones and steer the ship during periods of transformation....more
CIOs See AI Prompting New IT Hiring, Even As Boards Push For Job Cuts
CIOs may soon be on the hook for driving cost efficiencies - and possibly enabling layoffs - with AI. Those who can't tie AI to bottom-line results may have a short shelf life, experts warn....more
Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering As Backbone Of Continuous Modernization Efforts
As enterprises grapple with the complexities of modernizing legacy systems while adopting cloud-native technologies, platform engineering is increasingly positioned at the center of that transformation....more
Humor
Junior Sysadmin's First Lines Of Code Set Off Alarms. His Next Lot Crashed The Company
Sensible CEO wouldn't let our hero take the blame - a shoddy supervisor got the slap...more
Edge
Working At The Edge: Realizing The Full Value Of Distributed Intelligence And Its Role In Modern Data Strategy
The edge has become an active layer of enterprise execution, where decisions are made, value is created, and real work gets done. As organizations continue to modernize their infrastructure and connect data with action, the ability to operate effectively at the edge will separate those moving forward from those still trying to keep up....more
Benefits Of Edge Computing
The business landscape constantly runs on data generated in high volumes from computers, applications, and Internet of Things devices, putting data at the centerpiece of every transaction....more
Linux
Linux's Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting
Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades....more
Cloud
From Centralized To Distributed: Why Cloud Architecture Had To Change
What is distributed cloud?...more
Amazon Built A Massive AI Supercluster For Anthropic Called Project Rainier - Here's What We Know So Far
It's almost like AWS is building its own Stargate...more
DDN News
DDN On Infinia Object Storage And Solving The Posix Problem
We spoke to DDN SVP for Products James Coomer and CTO Sven Oehme about the status of its relatively new Infinia object store and about details on its claimed performance, multi-tenancy, and resilience....more
DDN Gears Up For AI Boom With Next-Gen Storage Systems
The new AI400X3 and Infinia 2.1 systems offer enhanced speed, object storage and GPU integration for enterprise AI deployments....more
DDN Targets Enterprise-Shaped Hole In Its AI Storage Offer
Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025...more
Rapid7 News
From .pth To p0wned: Abuse Of Pickle Files In AI Model Supply Chains
Recent threat research highlights a growing risk in the Python and machine learning (ML) ecosystem: the exploitation of serialized model files, specifically those using Python's pickle module....more
Cloudflare News
The Crawl Before The Fall... Of Referrals: Understanding AI's Impact On Content Providers
Content publishers welcomed crawlers and bots from search engines because they helped drive traffic to their sites....more
Content Independence Day: No AI Crawl Without Compensation!
Almost 30 years ago, two graduate students at Stanford University - Larry Page and Sergey Brin - began working on a research project they called Backrub....more
From Googlebot To GPTBot: Who's Crawling Your Site In 2025
Web crawlers are not new. The World Wide Web Wanderer debuted in 1993, though the first web search engines to truly use crawlers and indexers were JumpStation and WebCrawler....more
Message Signatures Are Now Part Of Our Verified Bots Program, Simplifying Bot Authentication
As a site owner, how do you know which bots to allow on your site, and which you'd like to block?...more
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