2026-08-25
Why AI Is Becoming Higher Education’s New Defense Against the User Access and Credential Battleground
Cybercriminals have moved up-market, and higher education is now squarely in their sights. For years, K-12 districts absorbed the worst of it. When the pandemic forced remote learning overnight, school systems that had never planned for it were left exposed. Higher education looked comparatively safe: campuses already ran mature IT departments, had budget for security tooling, and had been operati [...]
2026-08-25
An Australian court has found eHarmony misled users over what its memberships cost
Australia’s Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships, in a case the competition regulator brought after receiving hundreds of complaints. The findings read as a catalogue of the design choices regulators now call dark patterns, applied to a subscription that renewed automatically at a much […]<br /> This story continues at [...]
2026-08-25
Southeast Asia is planning four times the data centre capacity it runs
Southeast Asia has 306 data centres running and 173 more in the pipeline, according to figures published on Tuesday. The capacity being planned is nearly four times what is already operating. Southeast Asia data centre investment will rise from $15.72bn in 2025 to $35.08bn by 2031, according to Arizton. The Chicago research firm puts that […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-25
Two new AirPods 5 models will launch alongside the iPhone 18, says reliable analyst — here's what I'd like to see Apple change to make them better value than AirPods 4
A new report suggests the Apple AirPods 5 will launch alongside the iPhone 18 Pro, and an ANC-toting model will be along for the ride. [...]
2026-08-25
The Missing Metric Between Tokens and Cloud Spend
The problem isn't that AI teams lack cost data. It's that the token dashboard and the cloud bill describe different systems, owned by different teams, with no reliable way to connect them. A support agent may resolve one ticket after five model calls, a retrieval step, two tool calls, and a retry. The business records one completed case. The infrastructure records a scatter of requests, [...]
2026-08-25
Regeneron Commits to Veeva Vault CRM Globally
Veeva Systems announced on August 25, 2026 that Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has committed globally to Vault CRM, the life sciences CRM Veeva has rebuilt around agentic AI. Regeneron said it plans to use the platform to generate what Veeva calls Commercial Evidence (structured insight captured from AI-assisted field engagement) to surface barriers to treatment adoption and get its medicines to eligib [...]
2026-08-25
AI Is Making Software Development Faster. Industrial Software Still Requires Engineering Expertise.
AI Is Transforming Software Development A few weeks ago, I asked a generative AI tool to build an online version of a Japanese card game my father used to own. About ten minutes later, a working web application was ready. The result was both impressive and eye-opening. A few prompts generated functional code, built the user interface, and produced an application that worked. Only a short time ago, [...]