DuckDB's First Long-Term-Support Release Puts a Real Clock on In-Process Analytics
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Bruno Digital · 5h ago

DuckDB's First Long-Term-Support Release Puts a Real Clock on In-Process Analytics

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Federal Prosecutors Charge a Ransomware Remediation CEO Over Hidden Payments to Attackers
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Federal Prosecutors Charge a Ransomware Remediation CEO Over Hidden Payments to Attackers

MonsterCloud CEO Zohar Pinhasi faces wire fraud charges alleging his firm secretly paid ransomware operators for decryption keys while billing clients far above the ransom amount, a case every CIO who outsources incident response needs to read closely.

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A Family-Owned Retail Tech Vendor Pulls Its New CEO From an MSP's COO Seat
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A Family-Owned Retail Tech Vendor Pulls Its New CEO From an MSP's COO Seat

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OpenAI and King's College London Say One AI Safety Standard Cannot Fit Every Teenager
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OpenAI and King's College London Say One AI Safety Standard Cannot Fit Every Teenager

A joint workshop from OpenAI and King's College London argues that blanket AI safety settings fail both younger and older teens, a finding that should reshape how edtech vendors design age-based safeguards.

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Oak National Academy Turns England's Curriculum Into Open Data for AI Vendors
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Oak National Academy Turns England's Curriculum Into Open Data for AI Vendors

Oak National Academy has published a draft, machine-readable map of England's national curriculum, giving edtech vendors a shared standard for curriculum alignment that most have been building in-house, inconsistently, on their own.

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New Census Data Shows AI Chatbot Use Among Young Kids Is Outpacing School Policy
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Common Sense Media's 2026 census finds 49% of 9-to-12-year-olds have used an AI chatbot, handing school and edtech leaders a governance gap they have not yet closed.

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Digital Science Buys Jenni AI to Make Citation Verification the Edtech Battleground
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Google Ties Free Search Access to AI Adoption in Schools
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Google Ties Free Search Access to AI Adoption in Schools

Google will cut Search access for K-12 schools that fully disable its AI tools starting next year, turning an opt-out decision into an infrastructure fight for district IT leaders.

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AvidXchange's Survey Shows Most Finance Teams Automated Payments Without a Strategy to Match
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AvidXchange's Survey Shows Most Finance Teams Automated Payments Without a Strategy to Match

AvidXchange's 2026 B2B Payments Strategy Survey of more than 500 mid-market finance leaders found 63 percent now run mostly electronic payments, but 47 percent still lack a formal strategy, and that gap shows up directly in who can actually see their own cash flow in real time.

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Sage's New Invoice AI Workspace Keeps the Approval Decision With Finance Staff
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Sage Intacct will open its first AI Workspace to select customers in November, pairing an AP agent's flagged exceptions with the invoice approval controls finance teams already run, rather than handing the approval decision to the agent itself.

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Snowflake's New Guardrails Admit AI Agents Were Never the Capability Problem
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Snowflake used its Expedition 2026 event to ship cost governance, audit logging, and approval gates for AI agents rather than new autonomy, a signal that the real blocker to production agents has always been control, not intelligence.

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The Dutch Defense Ministry's SAP Sovereign Cloud Deal Sets New Terms for Vendor Lock-In
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The Dutch Defense Ministry's SAP Sovereign Cloud Deal Sets New Terms for Vendor Lock-In

The Netherlands Ministry of Defense struck a sovereign cloud deal with SAP that keeps data and configuration control with the customer and guarantees the right to walk, a template regulated enterprises should be asking their own vendors to match.

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Toyota Finance Australia's 13-Month SAP Migration Sets the Real Clock on ECC End of Life
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Toyota Finance Australia's 13-Month SAP Migration Sets the Real Clock on ECC End of Life

Toyota Finance Australia replaced a 16-year-old SAP ECC environment with S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition in 13 months, and its finance team is still working out what the platform is actually for.

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A Romanian Startup Wants to Ship AI Data Centers Like Cars, and It Already Has a Billion Dollars in Orders
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A Romanian Startup Wants to Ship AI Data Centers Like Cars, and It Already Has a Billion Dollars in Orders

Runware builds AI data center pods on an assembly line and claims it can bring one online within 48 hours of delivery, a factory model that directly challenges the multi-year timelines hyperscalers quote for new capacity.

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Alphabet Lost 500 Billion Dollars in Market Value in a Day, and the Cause Was Free Cash Flow, Not AI Doubt
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Alphabet Lost 500 Billion Dollars in Market Value in a Day, and the Cause Was Free Cash Flow, Not AI Doubt

Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta all posted negative free cash flow last quarter even as cloud revenue kept growing, and the big four hyperscalers plus Oracle have now raised 326 billion dollars in debt this year to keep funding AI buildouts.

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