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Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco

Reducing memory requirements to control costs in a new wave of kit

Cisco will make around five percent of staff redundant and has generously offered them free Cisco training for a year once they’re gone.

CEO Chuck Robbins broke the news in a Wednesday blog post titled “Our Path Forward” that opens “Today we announced our Q3 FY26 earnings with record revenue of $15.8 billion, up 12 percent year over year, and double-digit top and bottom-line growth. The ELT [executive leadership team] and I could not be prouder of the growth you have all delivered for Cisco.” That growth included net income growing 35 percent to $3.4 billion.

Yet Robbins’ pride was not sufficient for all Cisco staff to keep their jobs.

The CEO said the layoffs are necessary because “The companies that will win in the AI era will be those with focus, urgency, and the discipline to continuously...

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How Wet Weather in Argentina Helped Fuel the Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak

The hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has created a global public health crisis. But the driver of it is a rodent that weighs about an ounce, and climate shifts this year that have helped increase the odds of transmission. Across the Southern Cone, researchers have long associated

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I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body

I recently gave my OpenClaw a real robot arm to play with. The results just about blew my own neural network. The AI agent was able to configure the arm, use it to see and slowly grab things, and even train another AI model to pick up and place specific

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GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft's Python SDK

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and authorship platform. The threat group TeamPCP, formally tracked by Google Threat Intelligence Group as UNC6780, claimed responsibility and

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