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Cybersecurity is back in the headlines, and the numbers are sobering. A new report from the Cyber Monitoring Centre estimates that the attack on Jaguar Land Rover this past August cost the UK economy roughly one point nine billion pounds — a figure that underscores why Zero Trust architecture is no longer optional for businesses of any size.
Shifting from defense to ambition, Salesforce is facing some uncomfortable questions about its Agentforce AI platform. The company claims it has reached one point two billion dollars in annual recurring revenue, but a new customer report tells a different story — partners say they aren't seeing meaningful growth, and many users admit they simply aren't ready for the data demands that agentic AI requires.
And in a story that blends nostalgia with the very latest in AI development, Dave Plummer — the engineer behind the original Windows Task Manager back in nineteen ninety-six — has used Claude to vibe-code a completely rebuilt version called TMOG. He fed the AI a one hundred and seven page specification, and the result now runs natively on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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