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A new DigiCert study is raising serious alarms about the pace of AI adoption inside organizations. Seventy-eight percent of companies surveyed have experienced an AI-related security incident or identified a vulnerability, yet three quarters have deployed four or more AI tools in just the past six months. The gap between deployment speed and governance readiness is growing, and experts say dedicated security budgets can no longer be an afterthought.
Shifting gears, Nintendo has confirmed it will shut down Mario Kart Tour on September thirtieth, and here is the part that stings for fans — the company has no plans to release an offline version. That means every race, every unlocked character, every achievement simply disappears when the servers go dark. It is a pointed reminder of what players risk when a game lives entirely in the cloud.
And on the infrastructure side, IBM is expanding its Z seventeen and LinuxONE five mainframe lineups with new single frame and rackmount form factors, bringing mainframe-class reliability to smaller footprints. It is a quiet but meaningful signal that the mainframe, often written off as legacy hardware, continues to find new relevance in modern enterprise environments.
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