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The annual assertion by open-source developers that the year of the Linux desktop is here may finally be more than a mere catchphrase According to the web traffic analysis website StatCounter, Linux desktop usage in the U.S. reached 5.03% of the operating system market, with worldwide usage at about 4.1% as of June 2025....

When it comes to threats from the dark web, the U.S. is a prime target A new report by threat intelligence company SOCRadar found that more than four out of five (82%) threats from the dark web aimed at North America targeted the United States over the last 12 months. "The high percentage in the United States suggests a larger digital footprint and...

Many companies are investing heavily in flashy customer experience (CX) technology, yet customers still aren’t seeing the meaningful improvements they expect Why? Businesses are falling into the over/under-investment trap. They overinvest in shiny tech, such as chatbots and advanced analytics. But they under-invest in the people and processes tha...

About a week ago, a viral post declared that on July 19, China had "killed the silicon wafer." The claim was explosive: a breakthrough in a new semiconductor material called indium selenide (InSe) had supposedly rendered the entire Western chip ecosystem — from Intel’s FABs to TSMC’s foundries and America’s sanctions — obsolete overnight....

As businesses grapple with economic instability and labor shortages, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming central to modern operations. A new frontier — agentic AI — expands what’s possible by automating complex tasks across systems and channels AI-powered platform Landbase recently launched an innovative upgrade for go-to-market (GTM) us...

Recent developments — including hardened Linux distributions, live patching for government-grade systems, container image hardening, and hypervisor-level isolation — reflect a broader industry push to meet rising compliance demands without sacrificing uptime Specialized live patching services for government-grade Linux distributions, combined w...

Browsers built on artificial intelligence could transform how users interact with the internet, much like applications shaped the mobile web. That could make AI browsers a killer app The AI community isn't ignoring that potential. Perplexity has released an invite-only beta of its AI browser called Comet, and OpenAI is also working on a browser. Th...

Artificial intelligence (AI) adds significant value across various use cases, including retail, banking, and e-commerce platforms. However, several studies indicate that, despite the potential for substantial returns, many businesses are hesitant to invest in AI A McKinsey study released in December 2023 found that generative AI (GenAI) could add t...

Once the undisputed titan of the semiconductor world, Intel finds itself at a critical juncture. After years of ceding ground to nimble competitors and grappling with internal inefficiencies, the chipmaker is embarking on yet another ambitious recovery effort, this time under the leadership of its new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan Tan’s tenure has begun with a...

Conversational AI is playing a larger role in e-commerce, but many digital shopping assistants still fall short, plagued by clunky pop-ups, generic responses, and rigid keyword-based searches that often miss the mark Nearly half (48%) of AI chat tools fail to resolve customer issues or accurately understand their intent, according to recent researc...

Kubernetes was never meant to be a budgeting tool Its original promise was to empower developers to deploy and run containerized applications at scale, abstract away infrastructure complexity, and accelerate innovation. But as adoption grew, so did cloud spending. That opened the door for a wave of cost-optimization and FinOps tools -- most of whic...

In a digital-first world where milliseconds can make or break a sale, sluggish web performance remains a costly bottleneck for e-commerce brands. That’s the challenge Harper aims to solve with version 4.5, which delivers new capabilities for high-performance, data-intensive applications at scale First launched in 2017 as a distributed systems pla...

Small changes in the large language models (LLMs) at the heart of AI applications can result in substantial energy savings, according to a report released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Monday The 35-page report titled "Smarter, smaller, stronger: resource-efficient generative AI & the future of ...

Many consumers may feel overwhelmed by their subscriptions, but that doesn't seem to be stopping the practice from growing. According to a report released Monday by London-based Juniper Research, the subscription economy will nearly double in the next five years to US$1.2 trillion, from $722.5 billion in 2025 Juniper is forecasting substantial grow...

As retailers continue to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can improve their business, agentic AI represents a seismic shift. Agentic AI is autonomous intelligence that can learn and act independently Think of agentic AI as a digital employee that doesn’t have to wait for instructions. It learns, adapts, and acts on its own, presenting an ...

At its Unpacked 2025 event in Brooklyn, N.Y. last week, Samsung delivered more than a hardware refresh -- it mounted nothing less than a full-scale campaign to redefine what foldable smartphones are, and, more importantly, what they could become Held at the heart of a city known for reinvention, the unveiling of the Galaxy Z Fold7 wasn't just anoth...

What do you do when your outdated digital sales platform is costing you lost sales? Don't assume replacing outdated tools is your only option Pinnacle Textile customers were forced to use phone-only transactions due to the company’s outdated online shopping experience, which had to support more than 15,000 SKUs. Management turned to e-commerce ve...

It began, as these events often do, with a bizarre and sudden failure. Recently, xAI’s Grok, the much-touted “rebellious” and “truth-seeking” artificial intelligence (AI), went completely haywire. Users asking Grok standard questions were met with streams of nonsensical, context-free propaganda and gibberish stitched together from the darkest corners of political forums...

In social commerce, attention is currency, and deals are the magnet that attracts and keeps customers With shoppers ready to bounce after a couple of bad customer experiences (CX), the brands winning loyalty today are the ones that move fast, show up with value, and speak authentically on the platforms where consumers spend their time and money....

Without much fanfare, Meta has been quietly enhancing the capabilities of its WhatsApp messaging software, which could transform it into a super app While super apps have gained traction in Asia, they haven't caught on in the West. Apps like WeChat in China, Grab in Singapore, Gojek in Indonesia, and Paytm in India offer users a bundle of services ...