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Why Google rebranded to Alphabet – and why it paid dividends
When Google rebranded to Alphabet on October 1, 2015, it was to make the sprawling array of Google-related ventures “cleaner and more accountable,” according to founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The launch of the new holding company aimed to restructure the organisation and distinguish between distinct areas of the…
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I think I found the most beautiful 5G mobile router ever built – it even supports Wi-Fi 7 and offers 256GB storage plus a fingerprint reader
The Peppy Pulse Aura 5G router weighs 300g with a 6000mAh battery inside Dual SIM smart switching automatically connects to the strongest available network Aura Pro gets 4GB RAM / 64GB storage, but the Ultra model adds 8GB RAM / 256GB storage Portable routers are often marketed as solutions for…
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How a dispute over royalties gave birth to the PNG file format
In late 1994, controversy was brewing over royalties being imposed on GIFs due to the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression technique used to underpin this image format. Unisys, which had patented the technique some years prior, insisted that royalties be imposed, which sparked a fierce backlash among developers. The resulting battle…
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“Everybody’s under pressure to do more with less” – Why Okta says you need an AI agent governance strategy, and sooner rather than later
AI agents are all the rage – in fact, a recent study confirmed 96% of European businesses reported using or planning to use AI agents by 2026. AI agents inherently need a whole host of permissions to be able to act on a user’s behalf; everything from your calendar to…
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Around 50,000 Cisco firewalls are vulnerable to attack, so patch now
50,000 Cisco firewalls vulnerable to actively exploited RCE flaws CVE-2025-20333 and 20362 Cisco and CISA urge immediate patching; no workarounds available for affected ASA/FTD devices Shadowserver found 48.8K unpatched IPs; top affected countries include USA, UK, and Germany Around 50,000 internet-connected Cisco firewalls are vulnerable to two actively exploited flaws,…
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Broadcom finally patches dangerous VMware zero-day exploited by Chinese hackers
Broadcom patches CVE-2025-41244, a high-severity VMware privilege escalation zero-day Chinese actor UNC5174 exploited the bug using malicious binaries in paths like /tmp/httpd UNC5174 previously targeted French government and commercial sectors using Ivanti CSA vulnerabilities Broadcom has patched a high-severity vulnerability affecting its VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools that was…
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