IT SPARC Cast
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IT SPARC Cast is a digest of the Enterprise IT news over the last week, with insights, opinions, and a little sarcasm from 2 experts each with over 20 years of experience working in IT or for IT vendors.
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Windows Falls Below 60%! Meta’s Brilliant Memory Hack, and Claude Code Under Fire
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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The First AI Ransomware Is Here — And It Learned on the Fly
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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Microsoft Gives AI Memory | Meta Slows Down & Ford Changes Course
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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Microsoft Warns: Your AI Agent Could Be Poisoned via MCP
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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OpenAI’s Spicy New AI Chip, Patch Planet & Why AI Needs Nuclear Power
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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UniFi Under Attack? Why Auto-Patching Saved the Day from Multiple 10.0 CVEs
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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40,000 Workloads Leaving VMware?! Bezos Says AI Won’t Kill Jobs
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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FortiGate Firewalls Compromised: Why Patching Didn’t Fix the Problem
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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200 Microsoft Patches?! RoguePlanet Zero-Day & Ubiquiti’s Enterprise Firewall
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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One Character Broke Linux Security: CVE-2026-23111 Explained
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Microsoft vs Security Researchers | RTX Spark & Why Linux Won
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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AI Finds a Redis Vulnerability Humans Missed for Two Years
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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AI Needs Managers Now? | Smart Glasses Return & Mythos Finds 23,000 Bugs
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Underminr Explained: The CDN Attack That Hides Malware Behind Trusted Traffic
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May 29, 2026 |
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AI Data Centers, Vibe-Coded Android Apps, and the Coming Security Flood
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May 25, 2026 |
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Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day: No Patch, Active Exploitation, Major Risk
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May 22, 2026 |
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OpenAI’s Daybreak, Google’s AI Laptop Push, and Cisco’s AI Fingerprinting Tool
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May 18, 2026 |
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Dirty Frag Explained: Critical Linux Kernel Exploit Hits VPNs and Servers
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May 14, 2026 |
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Plaintext Passwords, Rogue AI Coders, and Why Developers Aren’t Dead Yet
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May 11, 2026 |
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Amazon’s $100B AI Play, SpaceX’s Coding Bet, and Google’s New TPUs
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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NIST Is Falling Behind? CVE Overload, AI, and the Future of Vulnerability Tracking
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Amazon’s AI Power Play, Copilot Goes Agentic, and Netgear Wins Big
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Open a PDF, Lose Your System: Adobe Zero-Day Exploit (CVE-2026-34621)
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Docker Security Nightmare? CVE-2026-34040 Lets Attackers Escape Containers
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Are CEOs Using AI as an Excuse? | Patch Chaos & Why Sora Was Shut Down
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Axios Supply Chain Attack: 45M Weekly Downloads Turned Into a RAT
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Musk Builds a Chip Empire, Zuckerberg’s AI CEO, and Arm Enters the AI Chip War
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Router Supply Chain Risks: The Hidden Security Threat in Your Home Network
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Computers Built From Living Neurons?! Inside Final Spark’s Bio-AI Future
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Pokémon Trained Robots?! Stargate Canceled, Nvidia Goes to Space & SaaS Is Dying
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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North Korea’s Fake IT Workers: The Insider Threat Hiding in Plain Sight
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Redux - Node.js Security Crisis, Meta’s AI Agent Network, Nvidia’s Open Agent Platform & Oracle’s Data Center Bet
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Node.js Security Crisis, Meta’s AI Agent Network, Nvidia’s Open Agent Platform & Oracle’s Data Center Bet
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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14,000 ASUS Routers Infected: KadNap Botnet Creates Nearly Untouchable Malware Network
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Google Quantum-Proofs HTTPS, 6G Hits 1 Tbps, and Internet Over LASERS?! | IT SPARC Cast
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Android CVE-2026-21385: The IoT Devices IT Forgot to Patch
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Anthropic Drops Safety Pledge, Open Source Security Crisis & OpenAI’s Compute Crunch
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Conduent Ransomware Breach Hits 25 Million – HR & Benefits Data Exposed
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, HDD Sellout 2026, and Copilot’s Confidential Email Bug
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Apple iOS/iPadOS/MacOS CVE-2026-20700 Zero-Day: Sandbox Escape & RCE Explained
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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UniFi 10.1, AI Data Centers Go Nuclear, and SpaceX Eyes Orbital Compute
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Windows Notepad RCE?! CVE-2026-2841 Exposes Windows 11 Users
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Quantum Breakthroughs, AI Cloud Billions, and Apple’s Margin Squeeze
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Why OpenClaw on Work PCs Puts Enterprise Data at Risk
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Work-From-Office Fallout, Rocket-Powered Data Center Cooling & Microsoft’s New AI Chip
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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WhatsApp Encryption on Trial & AI Chat App Data Exposure: Enterprise Messaging Risks
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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ERP’s Inevitable Reinvention, UniFi Fabric, and Why OpenAI Isn’t the AI Bubble to Fear
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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VoidLink: The AI-Built Linux Malware Framework That Could Change Cyber Attacks Forever
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Apple Taps Google for AI, Copilot Pushback, AI Commerce & Nuclear Power for Data Centers
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Cisco Secure Email Gateway CVSS 10.0 Zero-Day Via the Spam Filter
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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CES Brings New CPUs, AI Agents, and Deep OS-Level Copilot Integration
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Ni8mare in n8n: CVSS 10 Workflow RCE Hitting Automation Platforms
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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2026 Predictions: AI Reality Check, Quantum Breakthroughs, and the Next Cloud Reckoning
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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The 5 Biggest IT Security Failures of 2025 (Cloud, Ransomware, RCEs)
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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CEOs Double Down on AI, Crystal Storage Goes Mainstream, and Coursera Buys Udemy
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Microsoft Disables RC4: Why This Legacy Cipher Had to Die
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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AI Layoffs, Data Centers in Space, Jet Engines for Power, and Google’s MCP Play
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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React Server Components Under Active Exploit: CVE-2025-55182 Goes Code Red
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Apple’s AI Shakeup, India’s Surveillance App, OpenAI Code Red, and Multi-Cloud Peace Treaty
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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UniFi’s New Bridges, ChatGPT Group Chats, and… an IT Simulator Game?!
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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SuperComputing 25 Highlights: Cooling Wars, CXL Memory, & Hybrid AI Clouds
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Grounded Planes, Open-Source Drama, Russian Stealth Malware, and Powerless Data Centers
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Cisco CVE Double Feature: ASA Firewall RCE + ISE Root Takeover (CVE-2025-20333, CVE-2025-20362, CVE-2025-20337)
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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AI in Orbit, Microsoft’s Missteps, and the OpenAI Backdoor Nobody Saw Coming
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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CVE-2025-52665: Ubiquiti UniFi Access Vulnerability — When Smart Doors Turn Dangerous
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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EA’s AI Divide, Qualcomm’s Data Center Push, and Ubiquiti’s SFP Revolution
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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DNS Nightmare: CVE-2025-40778 and the Scariest Phishing Setup Yet
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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OpenAI’s Atlas Browser | Quantum Breakthrough | AWS DNS Outage Explained
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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7-Zip Vulnerability: New CVEs Allow Remote Code Execution and File Overwrites
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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UniFi 9.5 Arrives, Satellite Secrets, and Cloud Vendors Cut Ties with China
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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F5 Breach: Nation-State Hack Exposes Source Code & Global Infrastructure Risks
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Ubiquiti’s Power Play, Google’s Code Doctor, and Synology’s Surrender
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Redis “RediShell” CVE-2025-49844: Cloud Infrastructure at Risk
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Landlord Hacks, Stargate Chips, and Robot Takeovers
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) Hardware Attacks
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Nvidia & OpenAI's $100B AI Play, Moon Helium Mining, and Windows 10’s Reprieve
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Critical SNMP Vulnerability in Cisco IOS/IOS XE – CVE-2025-20352
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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UniFi’s Storage Wars, AI Outsourcing Fallout, and Nvidia’s Intel Bet
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Chrome Zero-Day Exploit: CVE-2025-10585 in V8 Engine
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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GitHub Kills Vibe Coding | Deep Fission Drills | OpenAI’s Chip Move
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Academic Ransomware AI? PromptLocker Panic Explained
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Shadow AI, ChatGPT & the Law, and Japan’s AI Back Office Revolution
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Crypto Wallets Compromised by Malicious npm Package
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Encryption Under Fire, AI Unleashed, and Nvidia’s Epic Surge
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Zombie Cisco Gear: CVE-2018-0171 Exploited by Russian Espionage
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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UniFi Object Networking, Password Failures, and Black Hat Intel
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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QuirkyLoader Malware & The Quishing Epidemic: What IT Needs to Know
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Digital Ghosts, Vibe Coders, and AI Help Desks
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Docker Hub CVE Wake-Up Call: Malware from 2024 Still Lurking in 2025 Images!
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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UniFi Goes DIY, Cisco Open Sources AGNTCY, and AI Writes Buggy Code
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Breach of Trust: How TEA App’s Security Failures Exposed 1M+ Private Messages
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Enterprise IT in 2055: Code as Thought, Neural Interfaces, and the New Tech Workforce
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Google Secures OSS, Meta Gestures Boldly, and TapTrap Gets Trapped
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Emergency SharePoint RCE Warning – CVE-2025-53770 & CVE-2025-53771 Under Active Exploit
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Enterprise IT in 2045: Neural Interfaces, Quantum Comms & Context-Aware Collaboration
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Windsurf Wipeout, Quantum Rumbles, and UniFi 9.3 Rolls Deep
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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SonicWall Backdoor Exploit – CVEs, One Time Password Theft, and Vendor Silence
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Fusion, Quantum, and Super AI: Are We On the Verge of a Sci-Fi Future?
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Ruckus in the Network: CVSS 10.0 nightmare and the Secrets You Can’t Change
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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I’M NOT A BOT! Linux Foundation Adopts A2A, and Snap Gets Ad Blocked
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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HPE + Juniper: The Merger Is Approved… Now What?
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Ingram Micro Ransomware Breach: What Happened and How to Protect Your Business
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Two New Linux Privilege Escalation Flaws You Need to Patch (CVE-2025-6018 & CVE-2025-6019)
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Tech Titans Collide, Congressional Bans, and the Computer Science Crash?
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Cloud SLA Theater: Why 99.999% Uptime Is a Joke in 2025
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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SAP NetWeaver RCE Flaw (CVE-2025-31324): Patch It or Get Owned
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Amazon’s AI Layoffs, Deepfake Scams via Zoom, and Corporate Tensions – Welcome to the New Normal
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Government Data Requests: Apple’s Transparency and the Quiet Threat to Privacy
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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AI Budgets, Quantum Ambitions & The Great Startup Bubble
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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The Death of the Network OS: Why Open Source and AI Will Reshape IT Forever
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Why Naming Hackers Matters: Industry Push for Standardized Threat Actor Glossary
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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AI Hallucinations, YouTube DOX Tools, and OpenAI’s Business Flex
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Actively Exploited: Broadcom & Commvault Vulnerabilities Added to CISA KEV List
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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ChatGPT Goes Rogue, RIP VGA, and Train Co-Pilot on Your Data
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May 30, 2025 |
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Follow up on PowerSchool Breach thatExposed 60 Million Student Records
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May 27, 2025 |
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Signal vs Recall, Google Meet’s Real-Time Translation, and Google Beam’s 3D Telepresence
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May 23, 2025 |
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Top Twenty Most Influential IT Pioneers That You Never Heard Of (Part 2)
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May 14, 2025 |
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Cisco’s Quantum Bet, Disney Hackers, and OpenAI News Round Up
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May 09, 2025 |
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Top Twenty Most Influential IT Pioneers That You Never Heard Of (Part 1)
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May 07, 2025 |
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Top 10 Biggest Networking Companies That No Longer Exist
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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AI Hallucinations, Quantum Leaps, and the Certpocalypse
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Top 10 Most Likely Ways You’ll Be Breached
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Drones, Doom, and Data Sovereignty
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Top 10 Most Notorious Hackers (and Hacker Groups) That Got Away With It
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Microsoft AI Co-Pilot Conquers Patch Tuesday
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Top 10 Hackers That Ran Afoul of the Law and Then Made Good
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Signal Flare & Coding Is Dead?
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Top 10 Most Influential Operating Systems You’ve Never Heard Of
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Windows 10’s Final Countdown & The Data That Could Doom You
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Top 10 Biggest Operating System Flops of All Time
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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AI Agents, Generalist Robotics, Superbugs & Remote Work Wins
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Top Ten: Technologies Older Than You Think
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Unifi’s 10Gig WiFi 7 Upgrades & The Hidden Dangers of IoT
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Data Privacy Under Attack: Apple, the UK, and the Global Encryption Crackdown
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Ubiquiti’s WiFi 7 Bait & Switch, Employee Surveillance, and the Danger of Old CVEs
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Disney’s AI Disaster, Microsoft’s Free Office, and Weaponized AI Lawsuits
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s Rant: Is Remote Work Really to Blame?
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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AI Hallucinations in Court, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs, and a Major Palo Alto Firewall Vulnerability
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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EU’s $200B AI Gamble, Workday’s AI Agent Platform, and the UK’s War on Privacy
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Adobe’s AI Contracts, OpenAI vs. Open Source, and DeepSeek’s Major Security Breach
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Listener Q&A - Elon Musk, RTO, and Selling Remote Work to the C-Suite
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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RTO Inequity, DeepSeek’s Privacy Red Flags, and Apple Silicon Security Risks
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Who Owns Your Time? Setting Work Expectations in the Remote Work Era
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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South Carolina Goes Nuclear, Stargate Project Launches, and TikTok Privacy Concerns
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Effective Leadership of Remote Workers - Part 2: Asynchronous Tools, Team Building, and Recognition
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Doom in a PDF, Microsoft Co-Pilot Chat, and VMware’s Mass Exodus
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Being an Effective Leader for Remote Workers - Part 1: Meetings That Matter and Tailored Engagement
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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CES Enterprise Recap - NVidia’s AI Leap, Ubiquiti’s Enterprise Move, and Deep Fission
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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AI for Workers, Government Hardware Fails, and Security Overhauls
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Salt Typhoon Hacks, Siri’s Future, and the Death of Hashtags
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Clear Audio for Remote Work: From Noise Suppression to Microphone Choice
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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English as a Programming Language, AI’s Web Takeover, and UEFI Security Warnings
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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IT's Role in Remote Work: Lighting - From Practical Setups to Professional Standards
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Apple Vulnerabilities, VMware Alternatives, and Pat Gelsinger’s Intel
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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IT’s Role in Remote Work: Virtual Backgrounds, Professionalism, and Lead by Exmaple
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Phobos Ransomware Arrest, Windows 365 Link Nerd Fight, and a Palo Alto CVE Warning
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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IT’s Role in Supporting Remote Workers: Communication, Tools, and Culture
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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OpenAI Agents, Salesforce’s AI Expansion, and Android’s Critical Security Flaws
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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IT’s Essential Role in Enabling Remote Work: Productivity, Flexibility, and the RTO Debate
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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TP-Link Zombies are coming, GitHub’s AI Spark Tool, and a Critical SharePoint Vulnerability
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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AI in K-12 Education Part 3: Policies, Challenges, and the Path Forward
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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AT&T vs. Broadcom, Delta’s Legal Battle with CrowdStrike, and Super Micro’s Audit Issues
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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AI in K-12 Education Part 2: Tackling Cheating, Privacy, and Policy
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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IT SPARC Cast - October 25th 2024
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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AI in K-12 Education Part 1: Revolutionizing Education or Raising Concerns?
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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IT SPARC Cast - October 18th 2024
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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IT SPARC Cast - October 11th 2024
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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IT SPARC Cast - October 4th 2024
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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IT SPARC Cast - September 27 2024
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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IT SPARC Cast - September 20 2024
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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IT SPARC Cast - September 13 2024
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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IT SPARC Cast - September 6 2024
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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IT SPARC Cast - August 30 2024
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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IT SPARC Cast - August 8 2024
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Aug 28, 2024 |