Patagonia is attracting multibillion-dollar AI data center plans, but power infrastructure and connectivity gaps could determine which projects get built.

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Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 delivers hourly AI weather forecasts at 5-kilometer resolution, targeting precipitation, wind and solar forecasting.

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CISA added CVE-2023-49105 to its exploited-flaws catalog after researchers tied the old ownCloud bug to reported Philippine nuclear data theft.

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Five Singapore firms account for 98% of Southeast Asia’s data-center equity funding as new cloud and AI capacity spreads across the region.

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Google DeepMind tested Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite behind a cryptographic wall designed to protect confidential AI benchmarks and proprietary model weights.

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Anthropic eyed up to 5GW of AI data center capacity in NSW. Here’s what the potential buildout could mean for Australia’s power grid and IT leaders.

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Google adds pay-as-you-go pricing, spending caps and savings plans to help businesses manage Gemini Enterprise agent costs and unpredictable usage.

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Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, giving law firms AI agents for contract review, legal research, compliance monitoring and other workflows.

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Shadow IT risks are quietly reshaping the job of every IT administrator, whether they have noticed it yet or not. Shadow IT itself is nothing new: it is any hardware, software, or cloud-based services running on company systems without the knowledge or approval of the IT department. What has changed is the scale of it.

What does the cloud actually cost this month? Ask finance, ask the DevOps lead, ask the admin who provisioned half the instances two years ago – chances are good all three give a different number. That gap is not a rounding error. It is, according to Flexera's 2026 State of the Cloud Report, roughly 29 percent of total cloud spend disappearing into overprovisioned resources, idle compute, and services nobody remembers switching on.