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November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

The real challenges in AI? (and the ones top of mind for many tech leaders)? Latency, flexibility and capacity.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #CloudComputing #HybridComputing

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Google researchers detect first operational use of LLMs in active malware campaigns

November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

www.csoonline.com/article/4085...

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group reports that new malware strains use LLMs mid-execution to generate, rewrite, and obfuscate malicious code in real time. #CyberSecurity #AI #artificial_intelligence #GenerativeAI

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group reports that new malware strains use LLMs mid-execution to generate, rewrite, and obfuscate malicious code in real time.

DCIM explained: How data center information management powers AI, capacity planning, and sustainability

November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

Stop guessing and start optimizing. DCIM provides real-time visibility into power, cooling, space, and asset health to reduce costs, increase reliability, and future-proof your capacity planning. #DataScience #DataManagement #data

www.networkworld.com/article/4075...

Stop guessing and start optimizing. DCIM provides real-time visibility into power, cooling, space, and asset health to reduce costs, increase reliability, and future-proof your capacity planning.

Anthropic experiments with AI introspection

November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

Anthropic’s Claude can now describe its own reasoning about 20% of the time, drastically cutting interpretability time, but it demands continuous oversight.

www.computerworld.com/article/4083...

Anthropic’s Claude can now describe its own reasoning about 20% of the time, drastically cutting interpretability time, but it demands continuous oversight.

November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

That is: Individuals and enterprises must be able to immediately turn creativity into action with #AI. #artificial_intelligence #GenerativeAI

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Old threats, new consequences: 90% of cyber claims stem from email and remote access

November 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

www.csoonline.com/article/4081...

At-Bay’s 2025 InsurSec Report shows 90% of cyber insurance claims stem from email and VPNs, and larger companies remain prime targets. #CyberSecurity #CyberSecurityAwareness #CybersecurityNews

At-Bay’s 2025 InsurSec Report shows 90% of cyber insurance claims stem from email and VPNs, and larger companies remain prime targets.

Atroposia malware kit lowers the bar for cybercrime — and raises the stakes for enterprise defenders

October 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

Researchers have discovered an inexpensive, full-featured malware-as-a-service kit combining vulnerability scanning, covert access, and DNS hijacking.

www.csoonline.com/article/4080...

Researchers have discovered an inexpensive, full-featured malware-as-a-service kit combining vulnerability scanning, covert access, and DNS hijacking.

Qualcomm goes all-in on inferencing with purpose-built cards and racks

October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

Qualcomm’s AI200 and AI250 move beyond GPU-style training hardware to optimize for inference workloads, offering 10X higher memory bandwidth and reduced energy use. #AI #ArtificialIIntelligence #GenerativeAI #Hardware

www.networkworld.com/article/4079...

Qualcomm’s AI200 and AI250 move beyond GPU-style training hardware to optimize for inference workloads, offering 10X higher memory bandwidth and reduced energy use.

Inside Google’s multi-architecture revolution: Axion Arm joins x86 in production clusters

October 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

By running production workloads simultaneously on x86 and Arm, Google is signaling a new era of hardware neutrality and accelerating Arm’s growing role in hyperscale cloud environments.

www.networkworld.com/article/4077...

By running production workloads simultaneously on x86 and Arm, Google is signaling a new era of hardware neutrality and accelerating Arm’s growing role in hyperscale cloud environments.

Security patch or self-inflicted DDoS? Microsoft update knocks out key enterprise functions

October 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

The transition from CSP to KSP has triggered failures in smart card authentication, IIS connectivity, and recovery mode devices. #CyberSecurity #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #Windows11 #Microsoft

www.computerworld.com/article/4075...

The transition from CSP to KSP has triggered failures in smart card authentication, IIS connectivity, and recovery mode devices.

Claude just got a skill upgrade and it’s coming for your workflows

October 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

Anthropic’s new ‘Skills’ feature lets Claude autonomously perform structured tasks, another sign that #AI agents are moving beyond chat and into action. #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

www.computerworld.com/article/4074...

Anthropic’s new ‘Skills’ feature lets Claude autonomously perform structured tasks, another sign that AI agents are moving beyond chat and into action.

A mini-CrowdStrike moment? Windows 11 update cripples dev environments

October 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

A critical October patch has disrupted many development environments in #Windows11, forcing companies to roll back updates and causing them to question Microsoft’s QA process.

#CyberSecurity #programming #Development #WindowsUpdate

www.computerworld.com/article/4074...

A critical October patch has disrupted many development environments in Windows 11, forcing companies to roll back updates and causing them to question Microsoft’s QA process.

Oracle's big bet for AI: Zettascale10

October 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

Oracle’s Zettascale10 supercomputer connects 800,000 @nvidia GPUs for massive-context training and inference. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

www.networkworld.com/article/4073...

Oracle’s Zettascale10 supercomputer connects 800,000 Nvidia GPUs for massive-context training and inference.

Inside Nvidia’s ‘grid-to-chip’ vision: How Vera Rubin and Spectrum-XGS push toward AI giga-factories

October 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

At the Open Compute Project's Global Summit this week, the semiconductor darling is announcing details of its newest superchip architecture.

www.networkworld.com/article/4071...

At the Open Compute Project's Global Summit this week, the semiconductor darling is announcing details of its newest superchip architecture.

AWS’s new AI agentic platform aims to automate business workflows

October 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

With deep integrations into platforms like Salesforce, Jira, and Slack, the system lets agents research, create reports, and execute tasks autonomously. Amazon Web Services (AWS) #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AgenticAI #GenerativeAI #AIagents

www.computerworld.com/article/4070...

With deep integrations into platforms like Salesforce, Jira, and Slack, the system lets agents research, create reports, and execute tasks autonomously.

October 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

According to G2, nearly 60% of companies already have #AI agents in production, and fewer than 2% actually fail once deployed. #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

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October 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

For the 3.0 version of its productivity software, Notion didn’t hesitate to rebuild from the ground up; they recognized that it was necessary, in fact, to support agentic #AI at enterprise scale. #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

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Oracle E-Business Suite users targeted in extortion campaign

October 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

Oracle E-Business Suite users are being targeted with spear-phishing emails claiming theft of sensitive ERP data. Whether Cl0p or not, experts warn of the dangers. #Cybersecurity #Security

www.csoonline.com/article/4067...

Cl0p-linked threat actors are targeting Oracle E-Business Suite users with spear-phishing emails claiming theft of sensitive ERP data.

That innocent PDF is now a Trojan Horse for Gmail attacks

October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

A new technique uses PDFs to bypass filters and fetch malicious payloads. #Cybersecurity #Security #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth

www.csoonline.com/article/4066...

A new technique uses PDFs to bypass filters and fetch malicious payloads.

Don't drink or drive, say cyberattackers

October 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

Beer, cars and cyber risk: Jaguar Land Rover and Japanese brewer Asahi are reeling from cyberattacks as threat actors aim for widespread disruption.

#CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #CybersecurityNews #Security #ransomwareattack

www.csoonline.com/article/4065...

Beer, cars and cyber risk: Jaguar Land Rover and Japanese brewer Asahi are reeling from cyberattacks as threat actors aim for widespread disruption.

QR codes become the vehicle for malware in new technique

October 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

A newly-discovered malicious package with layers of obfuscation is disguised as a utility library, with #malware essentially hiding in plain sight in embedded QR codes. #Cybersecurity

www.infoworld.com/article/4061...

A newly-discovered malicious package with layers of obfuscation is disguised as a utility library, with malware essentially hiding in plain sight in embedded QR codes.

www.infoworld.com

September 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

With RapidFire AI, instead of just one configuration, users can analyze 20 or more all at once, resulting in a 20X higher experimentation throughput. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #data

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The experimental phase is over: Atlassian bets on DX to deliver AI ROI

September 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

With the integration of analytics platform DX, Atlassian aims to help enterprises move out of the experimental phase and actually deploy meaningful #AI tools. #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

www.computerworld.com/article/4060...

With the integration of analytics platform DX, Atlassian aims to help enterprises move out of the experimental phase and actually deploy meaningful AI tools.

September 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM

Taryn Plumb

@tarynplumb.bsky.social

Wells Fargo and CoreWeave discuss why enterprises should architect systems that are open and reversible; balance performance and cost; contextualize #AI; and optimize for what matters most for their business. #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

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