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A firewall is intended to be a boundary attackers can’t cross. But firewalls face the web, making them just as vulnerable to attack as other systems, as evidenced by the emergency hotfixes released by Check Point Software for several of its products. The patches address a high-severity privilege escalation flaw, CVE-2026-123039 , that gives attackers root privilege access and the ability to send …

Cisco continues to benefit from a “ networking supercycle ,” reporting record revenue—driven by demand for AI infrastructure, security, and campus refreshes from hyperscalers and enterprise customers—for its fiscal first quarter ended October 24. “In Q1, we delivered record quarterly revenue of $18.5 billion, up 24% year over year, and record non-GAAP earnings per share of $1.40, up 40% year over…

Nvidia co-founder and its only CEO ever Jensen Huang resigned on Thursday, November 12, to be succeeded by Nvidia’s Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress , at least temporarily. Kress was more or less the default choice because there were no other C-level executives available. Nvidia has operated without a chief operating officer and has no executive whose expertise spans across the entire breadt…

Secure access service edge (SASE) is becoming an increasingly important component of enterprise networking and security strategies, as enterprise organizations expand their use of cloud services, AI applications, and hybrid work environments. Cloud-delivered SASE converges networking and security functions to provide secure access to applications and data wherever end users or resources are locat…

The tech world has been rattled by the toppling of one of its most prominent leaders, and the widespread implications it could have on the AI industry itself. Nvidia, which provides the underlying AI infrastructure for seemingly every company on the planet, announced on Thursday that its president and CEO Jensen Huang has resigned, effective immediately. Earlier this week, news broke that Huang h…

The big Red Hat news at this week’s KubeCon conference in Salt Lake City is the general availability of its agentic AI management tools for OpenShift 5, including an MCP server and an MCP gateway, with MCP support for RHEL and Developer Hub coming soon. Managing AI agents is a top concern for enterprises today as AI models get smarter and more capable. Without adequate controls, they can cause si…

As enterprises race to deploy AI agents and expand AI infrastructure, AMD has launched a new generation of EPYC server processors built to challenge both Intel’s dominance in enterprise CPUs and Nvidia’s ambitions in data-center computing. The 6th Gen EPYC lineup offers up to 256 cores per socket and supports PCIe Gen 6 and DDR5 memory, with AMD touting major gains in performance, efficiency and …

Cisco has added support for Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to its AI Defense package to help enterprise customers more quickly identify AI agent vulnerabilities before potential attackers can exploit them. As AI agents gain more responsibilities and are allowed access to resources such as enterprise databases, applications, credentials and business workflows, that could open a security problem across …

Commvault on Tuesday rolled out its answer to enterprise backup restoration nightmares. Called Recovery Studio, the vendor promised that the product would “orchestrate the recovery of applications, identities, configurations, infrastructure dependencies, and datasets together in an automated, runbook-driven workflow.” Analysts and consultants applauded the effort, agreeing that enterprises today …

To date, AI conversations have centered on GPUs, AI factories, and data centers. At Cisco Live APJC in Melbourne this week, Cisco shifted the focus to the campus, the branch, and the network that connects everything. The opening keynote set a realistic tone for where the industry is. Agents don’t behave like people, and networks built for people won’t hold up when thousands of agents work around …

Oracle has reportedly cancelled a five-year agreement to lease advanced artificial intelligence computing capacity to Chinese technology giant Tencent , following concerns raised by the Trump administration over the deal’s implications for U.S. technology export restrictions. The agreement was estimated to be worth $7 billion. It would have provided Tencent with access to approximately 100,000 ad…

Republicans weren’t the only group taking it on the chin in midterm elections. Data centers and their supporters got positively annihilated at elections across the country. These concerns are reflected in public opinion. The data center development opponents won and won big. A University of Massachusetts Amherst poll cited by Stateline found that just 11% of Americans supported building an AI dat…

AI models are becoming more performant, efficient, and sophisticated by the day; but this can be incredibly taxing for the infrastructure running them. Google Cloud is addressing these growing memory, security, and performance demands with two additions to its eighth-generation tensor processing unit (TPU) portfolio. TPU 8tx is optimized for secure and confidential inference, while TPU 8i Max is …

Residential proxies are often used by bad actors to hide the true source of internet traffic — and now one of them appears to have taken up residence in the White House. The Residential Proxy Observatory , set up by Layer3 Intel to monitor the threat of anonymized network activity, has identified proxy exit activity on one particular network, AS2650, which is registered to the executive office of…

OpenAI has responded to the data center culture war pitting communities against tech companies with a proposal to reduce its power demand during periods of grid strain. The company is also mindful of the bad publicity generated by talk of data centers and has renamed them “compute campuses” in an attempt to make them less scary. This is in line with the recent trend for renaming places like the G…