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New Zealand NH90 helicopter hits 3,000 flight hours
Heavy use in disaster relief and military missions has made New Zealand's NH90 fleet the first in the world to log 3,000 hours in service.

Marketing leaders fret over AI brand discovery gaps
A growing measurement gap has left Australian marketers most worried about AI misrepresenting their brands, the research found.

Microsoft tightens AI governance as agentic risks rise
Stricter controls on agent identities and tool access aim to curb security and reliability risks as autonomous AI systems spread.

S-Docs adds AI tools for regulated Salesforce workflows
Regulated Salesforce users can now start document creation and e-signature in AI assistants while approvals and audit trails stay inside Salesforce.

Saviynt unveils 12-city AI identity security roadshow
The roadshow highlights rising concern that AI systems are gaining broader access than human staff inside enterprises.

Hobbies are dead
As if to demonstrate their power, governments of the world seem hell-bent on crushing many of the hobbies that have bought people so much joy for so many years.

Grindr to pay £26m to settle claims it allegedly shared users' HIV status
The long-running claim alleges Grindr breached UK privacy laws by sharing data with third parties.

Google Cloud finds Gemma 3 12B outscales 27B on TPU
Under heavy generation load, the smaller model kept scaling on TPU v6e while the 27B version hit a throughput plateau above 64 users.

Yahoo cuts Spark cluster failures by 85% with flexible VMs
Google Cloud's fallback machine selection has helped Yahoo keep analytics jobs running, cutting Spark cluster provisioning failures by 85%.

Exclusive: Ineffable Intelligence adds six ‘cofounders,’ hiring veterans from Google DeepMind, InstaDeep and venture firm Flying Fish

Tenable & OpenAI launch AI inspector for cyber agents
Businesses using agentic AI in security operations could face less deployment risk as Tenable and OpenAI add pre-release checks for community tools.

AI cancer cures slowed by chip shortage, says UK's biggest tech boss
The head of chip designer Arm says modelling how a DNA marker is impacted by cancer cannot be done now, but computers are "going to solve it".

Entire launches Agentic Search for code repositories
Software agents could cut search time and token use by querying code history across repositories, commits and session transcripts.

ControlMonkey expands backup to security platforms
Organisations using multiple security tools now face a bigger risk of configuration loss, as ControlMonkey extends recovery into those platforms.

Three Industries, One Common Challenge: Getting Data Right Before MDM
Poor-quality records could undermine MDM programmes in finance, healthcare and manufacturing as AI begins acting on the data.

Guickly raises USD $4.2m to track enterprise AI spend
Enterprise buyers now have a new tool to curb unpredictable AI bills as Guickly secures USD $4.2 million and targets shadow usage.

Foxit adds local AI & Workspace in PDF Editor update
Local AI processing in Foxit's latest PDF Editor update is aimed at regulated users who need document analysis without sending files to the cloud.

Google automates dual-write database migration to Spanner
Automated code generation cut months from Google's finance migration, helping engineers keep legacy systems and Spanner in lockstep without downtime.

Google Cloud adds BigQuery streaming & Dataflow updates
Live analytics get a boost as BigQuery now handles stateful streaming queries, while Dataflow and Kafka gain easier pipeline and testing controls.

Windows 11 can auto-adjust your monitor’s refresh rate to save power
Windows 11 supports the activation of a dynamic refresh rate (DRR) on monitors equipped with the relevant technology. When this feature is enabled, the operating system automatically adjusts the refresh rate to suit the user’s activity. For example, while the user is working with standard desktop applications, Windows maintains the...