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Security
In The Rush To Adopt Hot New Tech, Security Is Often Forgotten. AI Is No Exception
Boards Are Being Told To Rethink Their Role In Cybersecurity
DDoS Is The Neglected Cybercrime That's Getting Bigger. Let's Kill It Off
Humor
I Was A Part-Time Dba. After This Failover Foul-Up, They Hired A Full-Time DBA
Techie Ended Vendor/Client Blame Game By Treating Managers Like Toddlers
Linux
DevOps
Patch Management vs Vulnerability Management: What's The Difference?
Vibing With The Future: Why 'Vibe Coding' Is The Next Big Wave For DevOps And CI/CD Teams
Google News
Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Flash Image With Advanced Editing And Consistency Features
New On Android: Write Smarter, Share Quicker And Remix Emoji
CrowdStrike News
Every October, organizations across the country recognize Cybersecurity Awareness Month— but too often, the effort becomes a box-checking exercise. Employees skim a few slides, click through an online module, and move on without truly changing their behaviors. At DC Edge, we believe awareness should be engaging, memorable, and impactful.
That’s why we’ve partnered with an industry leader to bring you Virtual Cyber Escape Rooms—a fun, interactive way to teach critical cybersecurity skills. Instead of passively watching or reading, your team steps into a high-energy challenge where they must collaborate, solve puzzles, and outsmart a hacker.
Security
In The Rush To Adopt Hot New Tech, Security Is Often Forgotten. AI Is No Exception
Cisco finds hundreds of Ollama servers open to unauthorized access, creating various nasty risks...more
Boards Are Being Told To Rethink Their Role In Cybersecurity
Boards of directors are being told that cybersecurity is now central to business resilience and growth, and that they must engage more directly in the way their organizations manage risk....more
No Time For Cybersecurity Complacency In 2025
Cybersecurity is not a 'set it and forget it' affair. It requires continuous vigilance, adaptability, and a proactive approach to stay ahead of increasingly savvy cyber criminals capable of attacks that can cripple a company in many ways....more
DDoS Is The Neglected Cybercrime That's Getting Bigger. Let's Kill It Off
Don't worry, there's a twist at the end...more
Humor
I Was A Part-Time Dba. After This Failover Foul-Up, They Hired A Full-Time DBA
At last, enough hours in the day to RTFM...more
Techie Ended Vendor/Client Blame Game By Treating Managers Like Toddlers
Bickering continued despite mess putting cancer patients at risk...more
Linux
Linux Mint 22.2 Polishes The Desktop, But Kernel Updates Are The Real Deal
Point release brings Cinnamon tweaks, shiny apps, and Ubuntu's Hardware Enablement stack...more
Data Connectors Edge was created to solve a simple but growing problem: cybersecurity has become too complex, too fragmented, and too expensive - especially for small to mid-sized businesses and regulated industries. Register
DevOps
Patch Management vs Vulnerability Management: What's The Difference?
Many organizations struggle with security gaps even after investing in different tools and processes. One of the most common reasons for breaches is the presence of unresolved weaknesses in systems. A report by Ponemon Institute highlights that 60% of organizations experiencing a breach in 2024 admitted the root cause was an unpatched or unresolved vulnerability....more
Vibing With The Future: Why 'Vibe Coding' Is The Next Big Wave For DevOps And CI/CD Teams
If you're plugged into the pulse of developer innovation - and if you're reading DevOps.com, I know you are - you've probably seen 'vibe coding' floating to the top of the AI conversation....more
Google News
Google's Most Powerful Supercomputer Ever Has A Combined Memory Of 1.77PB - Apparently A New World Record For Shared Memory Multi-CPU Setups
Ironwood TPU is already deployed in Google Cloud data centers...more
Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Flash Image With Advanced Editing And Consistency Features
Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (nicknamed nano-banana), its newest image generation and editing model. The system introduces several upgrades over earlier Flash models, including character consistency across prompts, multi-image fusion, precise prompt-based editing, and integration of world knowledge for semantic understanding....more
Get Gemini's Help In Google Sheets With One Simple Step.
AI in Google Sheets makes categorizing, summarizing or even generating hundreds of rows of text quick and painless. For instance, you can use the AI function to categorize user feedback, summarize product reviews or write personalized copy....more
New On Android: Write Smarter, Share Quicker And Remix Emoji
Polish your writing with AI, browse Emoji Kitchen stickers, share files with a tap and more....more
CrowdStrike News
Secure AI At Machine Speed: Defending The Growing Attack Surface
As AI becomes embedded across the enterprise - from customer-facing tools to backend automation - it dramatically expands the enterprise attack surface. Models, agents, apps, and data pipelines now span public and private clouds, SaaS, and edge environments, creating a sprawling, opaque risk landscape....more
Are you building an application that needs to scale to tens of thousands of concurrent requests per customer? Register
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