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Bianca Lewis, Executive Director, OpenSearch Software Foundation, discusses India’s growing role in open source innovation, the rise of AI-powered search and analytics, opportunities for developers and GCCs, and why OpenSearch is positioning itself as a foundational data layer for the AI era. Some edited excerpts: India accounts for a
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping India’s entry-level workforce at a faster pace than the global average, with AI already performing 37 per cent of entry-level tasks across organisations, according to a joint study released by Cognizant and Pearson. The report, The AI Workforce Pulse: The Adaptability Imperative, is based on
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China’s ‘618’ shopping festival, the mid-year sales event named for 18 June and now stretched across several weeks, has become two things at once this year: a showcase for how thoroughly AI has been threaded through online retail, and a reminder of how cautious the Chinese consumer still is.
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Sixteen months ago, Dream was a billion-dollar company. This week it is worth three. The Israeli AI and cybersecurity firm has raised $260m in a round that valued it at $3bn, nearly tripling the $1.1bn it commanded in February 2025, a pace of revaluation that says as much about
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Budgeting for pentesting is no longer a simple choice between buying a tool or hiring an outside firm once a year. Pentesting, or searching for vulnerabilities in one’s cybersecurity defenses by launching a mock cyberattack against it, has become a fundamental method of improving an organization’s security posture.
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Lenovo has raised $2bn through seven-year convertible bonds, and the most notable thing about the debt is that it pays nothing. The Beijing-based maker of computers and AI servers sold zero-coupon notes due in 2033, priced at a conversion premium of 47.5% to Wednesday’s closing share price. Investors
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AirTrunk wants to borrow A$4.3bn, roughly $3bn, to build a single data centre in Sydney. The Blackstone-owned operator is in talks with banks to fund SYD3, a hyperscale facility of more than 400 megawatts, according to people familiar with the matter. The scale of the loan is a
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TL;DR Tesco is migrating 40,000 servers off VMware and suing Broadcom for GBP 100M+. It says Broadcom hiked prices 175% and killed perpetual license support. Tesco, one of Britain’s largest supermarkets, is migrating approximately 40,000 servers away from VMware. It is also suing Broadcom in the
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Atlassian and Splunk on Wednesday announced patches for multiple vulnerabilities in their products, including critical-severity flaws. Splunk resolved a critical issue in AI Toolkit that could allow authenticated attackers with admin roles to execute arbitrary OS commands on the host the Splunk Enterprise instance runs on. “The vulnerability is possible
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Why You Can Trust CNET Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement The series continues the story of Rip Wheeler and Beth Dutton. 3 min read
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Your cabinets are losing the war to gadgets you don't need. Viral kitchen tools make big promises, but most collect dust while a good chef's knife quietly outperforms them all. Professional kitchens aren't stocked with unitaskers -- they're built around a handful
