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Technology company F5 fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) platform on Tuesday. The flaw impacts deployments configured as OAuth authorization servers and was already under active exploitation in the wild before the patch became available. BIG-IP APM is a software component in F5’s BIG-IP hardware platform that enables companies to control…

Network operations teams are being asked to hand real decisions to AI agents. Trusting an agent enough to let it act in production is a different problem than building one. Software engineering solved a similar trust problem years ago, with version control, code review, and staged rollouts. Selector is applying that same discipline to AI agents in network operations with a new technology called F…

Network professionals are pinning their hopes on artificial intelligence to deliver them relief from an uptick in network complexity that is only getting worse, in no small part due to the increased use of artificial intelligence. A new report from Cisco and the research and advisory firm Omdia paints a picture of enterprise networks that have literally become too complex for humans to manage. Th…

When the Buffalo Bills opened their new home, Highmark Stadium , for their first regular-season game against the Detroit Lions , most fans noticed the new seats, sightlines, and sound. What they won’t see is the biggest change: an entire venue running on a single converged network rather than a patchwork of vendor-specific systems. That shift, built with Cisco as the stadium’s primary technology …

Wireless networking is evolving rapidly , creating opportunities for IT professionals looking to deepen their skills and add specialized certifications to their resumes. Whether you’re just beginning a career in IT, working in the field since before Wi-Fi existed, or even coming from a non-IT role, there are certifications available to validate wireless know-how. Popular options come from Certifi…

Lenovo is expanding its enterprise infrastructure portfolio with new systems , deployment services, and pre-validated configurations aimed at helping businesses modernize virtualized environments while preparing their data centers for AI workloads. The offerings are intended to give customers more flexibility in modernizing existing infrastructure rather than requiring organizations to totally re…

The state of California has joined the growing number of governments and communities at all levels across the US taking proactive, even preemptive, measures to keep data center development under control. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed what he called the “most comprehensive data center laws in the nation” on Monday. While the seven bills don’t block data center development, they do reinfo…

Huawei is accelerating its AI chips development, bringing forward the release of the next two models in the family powering its AI computing clusters by three to nine months. Its Ascend 960 chip family is a major component of supercomputing portfolio. It now plans to release the Ascend 960DT in the first quarter of 2027, three quarters earlier than previously planned, while the Ascend 960R will b…

A practical, commercial quantum computer is over a decade away, executives at Japanese IT services company NEC are reported as saying. That’s why, according to Japanese news publication The Mainichi , company has pulled the plug on its plans to develop a quantum computer — although it will still continue research into quantum technology. NEC sources told The Mainichi that it would take at least a…

On-device translation used to mean a separate model for every language you wanted to support. English to French, English to German, and so on. However, that becomes unsustainable at a global scale when you’re talking about thousands of possible language pairs. Add to that the fact that most developers have to either send translation requests to the cloud to get fast, accurate results, or keep it …

When enterprise IT calculates the likely environmental and ROI impact from replacing data center systems, it fails to account for much of it, and also tends to discard hardware far too quickly, according to a report from the Basel Action Network (BAN). BAN is an NGO that polices the application of the 1989 United Nations Basel Convention , which restricts the trade of hazardous waste between more…

Cisco released patches for an actively exploited authentication bypass vulnerability in its Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) platform, which is used for enterprise network access control and policy enforcement. This is the second zero-day flaw Cisco has been forced to release emergency patches for this week, after fixing a critical vulnerability in its Secure Email Gateway appliance . The Cis…

Riverbed has added new AI capabilities to its network performance management products that the company says will help network operations teams more quickly troubleshoot problems and provide visibility across distributed enterprise networks. Riverbed NPM 360 integrates agentic AI capabilities of Riverbed IQ and Q into Riverbed’s AppResponse and NetProfiler tool and extend network visibility across…

Netherlands-based AI accelerator start-up Axelera is targeting a major challenge facing enterprise AI deployments with its new Europa platform. Europa is designed to deliver more AI inference performance than competing solutions within the constrained power and cooling budgets of enterprise data centers. The power demands of AI infrastructure have become one of the primary limiting factors of cur…

Broadcom isn’t playing nicely in the European market, according to a new report by the independent monitoring body European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO), which rates Broadcom’s status as “critical” in its most recent analysis of cloud competition in Europe. The company’s conduct has “deteriorated markedly” since October 2025 due to what ECCO calls “continued and escalating” unfair licensi…