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Amazon's Controversial Change to Echo's Privacy Settings Takes Effect Soon

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Amazon's Controversial Change to Echo's Privacy Settings Takes Effect Soon

Image: stockcatalog/Flickr/Creative Commons Last week, Amazon sent an email to select Echo users, warning they must now consent to having their Alexa voice recordings sent to the company’s cloud for processing. The email was sent to users with the Do Not Send Voice Recordings setting enabled on their Echo speaker or smart display, which ensured their commands are processed locally on the device; however, starting March 28, this setting will no longer be available, and…

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Will Cisco’s Free Tech Training for 1.5M People Help Close EU’s Skills Gap?

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Will Cisco’s Free Tech Training for 1.5M People Help Close EU’s Skills Gap?

Roxana Mînzatu, Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness and Cisco Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins. Image: Cisco Cisco recently announced its initiative to provide 1.5 million people in the European Union by 2030 free courses on basic digital skills. Cisco Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins said the plan also includes training 5,000 instructors in AI, cybersecurity, data science, and digital transformation to help professionals stay competitive in a rapidly evolving…

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Engineer Perspectives: Best of Cisco Live Amsterdam 2025

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Engineer Perspectives: Best of Cisco Live Amsterdam 2025

At every Cisco Live, there is a moment when you are queuing, waiting to collect your badge when you see that engineer – the one who built the new tool that changed your workflow, whose name you can’t quite remember – standing next to you. Or you spot that customer, carrying their suit, and realize they are getting ready to receive an award for the project that revolutionized their industry. Or perhaps you notice those…

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SonicWall Report: “Threat Actors are Moving at Unprecedented Speeds”

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SonicWall Report: “Threat Actors are Moving at Unprecedented Speeds”

SonicWall’s new 2025 Annual Threat Report highlights startling revelations, including that hackers exploited new vulnerabilities within two days 61% of the time, and that it takes the average organization between 120 and 150 days to apply a patch. In addition, the firm’s researchers detected 210,258 “never-before-seen” malware variants in 2024. Researchers reported that, in 2024, the average ransomware payment reached $850,700, with total related losses often exceeding $4.91 million when factoring in downtime and recovery…

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Modernizing Industrial Networks: The Business Case for IT/OT Collaboration 

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Modernizing Industrial Networks: The Business Case for IT/OT Collaboration 

New report from Harbor Research examines how leaders are accelerating IT/OT partnerships for significant operational and financial benefits  “From 2018-2023, cybersecurity attacks involving critical infrastructure in manufacturing, utilities, transportation systems and similar mission critical domains almost doubled year over year driving an average compound annual growth rate of over 90% per year.”– Harbor Research, The Business Case for IT/OT Collaboration in Modernizing Industrial Networks   Cybersecurity urgency and AI readiness are proving to industrial companies that modernizing…

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Cisco and NVIDIA Unite to Propel AI into the Enterprise

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Cisco and NVIDIA Unite to Propel AI into the Enterprise

Today Cisco and NVIDIA announced a mutual intent to expand a partnership that brings together two of the industry’s most innovative data center networking and compute leaders. Our collaboration will help enterprises accelerate AI projects and make it easier for more customers than ever to standardize on Cisco as they modernize their data center networks. A Unified Architecture for AI Workloads To date, most of the industry dialog on AI has been focused on chips,…

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Cisco Wins “Industrial IoT Company of the Year 2025” Award from IoT Breakthrough Organization

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Cisco Wins “Industrial IoT Company of the Year 2025” Award from IoT Breakthrough Organization

I’m pleased to report that Cisco was named Industrial IoT Company of the Year 2025 in the IoT Breakthrough Awards Program. Since 2017, IoT Breakthrough has made annual awards to industrial IoT companies and products based on quality, unique technology, and market leadership. I would like to thank our customers, partners, and the entire Cisco industrial IoT team for making this award possible. “Most people know Cisco for their enterprise networking products, but for over…

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Darktrace: 96% of Phishing Attacks in 2024 Exploited Trusted Domains

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Darktrace: 96% of Phishing Attacks in 2024 Exploited Trusted Domains

Threat actors are increasingly targeting trusted business platforms such as Dropbox, SharePoint, and QuickBooks in their phishing email campaigns and leveraging legitimate domains to bypass security measures, a new report released today has found. By embedding sender addresses or payload links within legitimate domains, attackers evade traditional detection methods and deceive unsuspecting users. According to Darktrace’s Annual Threat Report 2024, the authors detected more than 30.4 million phishing emails, reinforcing phishing as the preferred attack…

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Meeting the Moment: Innovation for Unprecedented Times 

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Meeting the Moment: Innovation for Unprecedented Times 

The last thirty days have been unprecedented. DeepSeek, Operator, Deep Research, and a wave of innovation and competition have changed the global narrative on AI. We’re no longer talking about incremental improvements to AI; these innovations are challenging foundational beliefs and redefining how we perceive the economics and timelines for how AI is going to impact our lives. We are living in incredible times. I couldn’t be more proud of the innovation, velocity, and grit…

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Cisco Learning Promotes AI Readiness with AI Learning Journey and New Certifications

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Cisco Learning Promotes AI Readiness with AI Learning Journey and New Certifications

AI is everywhere – and not just in conversation and on the news. It’s in software, in workflows, and across network and security operations. It’s a transformational moment for job roles and job tasks, whether you are using AI or building AI infrastructure. Cisco’s recent AI Readiness Index, released in November 2024, showed that just one in seven organizations are fully prepared to deploy new AI technologies. A lack of skills is a key reason…

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