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For nearly a decade, enterprise IT leaders have followed a cloud-focused approach, leaning on massive public cloud infrastructure to power their workloads. However, as the tech industry matures, the problems with cloud infrastructure not only become more apparent but also more expensive. As a result, IT leaders are looking beyond these traditional set-ups for more…

Your browser does not support the audio element. Sponsored by Fable 5 is back. That’s the publicly available “Mythos-class” (AI industry for “big ole baddie”) model from Anthropic, who is largely considered the leading AI model developer right now (but to quote Elf, “you never can tell, kid”). As expected, the internet immediately handled the…

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after “careful consideration,” adding, “Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues…

A recently identified but accidentally unpublicised remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Microsoft SharePoint, tracked as CVE-2026-45659, has been added to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (Cisa’s) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (Kev) catalogue after evidence of active exploitation in the wild was identified. Microsoft is understood to have made a patch for CVE-2026-45649…

Daring tree climbers and researchers have challenged a major assumption in tree drought biology.  In rainforests on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, water transport systems of a colossal, dominating family of trees are not more impaired than shorter trees in the face of drought, researchers report July 2 in Science. The find counters the notion that…