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Venice AI, which offers access to 200+ AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a $65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation

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Looker in 2026 Gartner Analytics and BI platforms MQ

For the third consecutive year, Google has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. This recognition comes on the heels of Google Cloud Next 2026, where we feel we showcased a fundamental evolution in how enterprises interact with data: the

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Announcing Claude apps gateway for Google Cloud

Anthropic's agentic coding tool Claude Code has worked with Google Cloud for a while now. An individual developer could easily point CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1 at a Google Cloud (GCP) project, grant the role roles/aiplatform.user, and inference stays inside your Google Cloud perimeter. That flow

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New IDC study: How Mandiant transforms security into a competitive advantage

Security leaders are now expected to protect business growth and clearly articulate security value to their board of directors, in addition to managing risk. While translating technical defense into measurable financial returns can be challenging, Mandiant Consulting can help you bridge the gap. Organizations that engaged with Mandiant Consulting reported

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75 Blog Posts To Learn About Penetration Testing

Let's learn about Penetration Testing via these 75 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Penetration testing, or pen testing, is a simulated cyberattack against a computer

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How to Connect AI Agents to Live Web Data With Bright Data's MCP Server

Your AI agent is brilliant. It reasons beautifully, handles complex queries, and responds confidently. It only has one issue: it’s blind. 🙈 This is because the LLM in your agent is blind to anything that happened after its training cutoff. And since your competitor’s price moves every day and

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Best Business Laptop for 2026

Most people don't get to choose their company laptop. Or at least, you likely don't have much choice; it's simply whatever business laptops your IT department has available. However, if your employer is bring-your-own-device-friendly, or you're a contractor or self-employed, you may

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Anthropic is bringing back Claude Fable 5 globally after US lifts export control order — where can enterprises access it?

Anthropic is restoring global access to its most powerful generally released AI model yet, Claude Fable 5, today, after the U.S. Department of Commerce withdrew emergency export controls that led the company to suspend all access to both Fable 5 and its less restricted cybersecurity counterpart model Claude Mythos

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Meta names Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz as its first-ever chief data officer, to manage AI analytics across the company; Denise Moreno is named CMO

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Want a private ChatGPT alternative? How Proton's Lumo 2.0 locks down your data, EU style

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Proton debuts Lumo 2.0, overhauling the chatbot for increased security and responsiveness. * The maker of ProtonMail and ProtonVPN says its AI bot is never trained on user data. * The latest Lumo targets consumers and

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WinRAR

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data, reduce the size of email attachments, open and unpack RAR, ZIP as well as create new archives in these and other popular file formats. By consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is often faster than the competition. Is WinRAR free?

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Scaling LLM Inference: Multi-Node KV Cache Offloading with GKE & Managed Lustre

Miro Nikolov Staff Software Engineering Manager, Google Cloud Managed Lustre Barak Epstein Senior Product Manager, Google Cloud Managed Lustre Significant contributors to this article include Sneha Aradhey, Software Engineer, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Michael MacDonald, Sr Software Engineer, Google Cloud Managed Lustre. Enterprise production environments are shifting to distributed, multi-node