Author: Carter

Enterprise storage migrations involve far more than simply transferring data. The real challenge lies in safeguarding business operations, sustaining performance, controlling costs, and instilling confidence in teams—especially when terabytes or petabytes of data underpin mission-critical applications. Building that confidence becomes particularly difficult when migration planning is disjointed. Many organizations still depend on a mix of custom scripts, third-party utilities, and siloed workflows to evaluate environments, relocate data, and maintain system alignment throughout the transition. This often leads to missed timelines, unnecessary disruptions, and teams stretched thin trying to keep essential workloads online. An effective migration strategy begins with recognizing that…

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETStay updated with ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeaways Solar savings depend heavily on location.Solar panels can cause burns, shock, or death.Plug-in solar needs a battery during power cuts.Renewable energy is often clouded by a sea of myths and misinformation. Strong opinions are everywhere, and they tend to clash. But these myths aren’t helping anyone who’s trying to decide whether solar is worth it, or who has already invested and wants to maximize their setup.Also: Considering plug-in solar? My expert recommendation after installing the DIY energy system at homeLet’s bust some myths. I’ve spent…

Retailers are turning to computer vision to boost productivity, using automated shelf tracking to defend their thinning profit margins.This technology rollout tackles the costly in-store execution errors that are draining billions from the industry. A report by Coresight Research—developed with technology partners Simbe and RELEX Solutions—puts a precise figure on these operational gaps.These inefficiencies eat up 6.4% of total sales sector-wide. In 2026, the hardware, mass merchandise, and grocery segments will lose $196.4 billion to these failures. That loss figure is climbing 21% year-over-year, dwarfing the sector’s overall projected sales growth of just 3%.Nearly all retailers—90%—are struggling with shop floor…

def extract_function_source(full_text, function_name): text = full_text.replace(“rn”, “n”) fence = re.search(r”“`(?:python)?n(.*?)“`”, text, flags=re.S | re.I) if fence: text = fence.group(1) pattern = rf”^defs+{re.escape(function_name)}s*(” match = re.search(pattern, text, flags=re.M) if not match: return “” chunk = text[match.start():] lines = chunk.splitlines() collected = [] for i, line in enumerate(lines): if i > 0: if line.startswith(“def “) or line.startswith(“class “): break if line.startswith(“if __name__”): break if line and not line.startswith((” “, “t”, “#”)) and re.match(r”^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*s*=”, line): break collected.append(line) source = “n”.join(collected).rstrip() try: ast.parse(source) return source except SyntaxError: fixed_lines = [] for line in collected: fixed_lines.append(line) candidate = “n”.join(fixed_lines).rstrip() try: ast.parse(candidate) source = candidate except…

Right now, $15 billion is parked in three financial products being sold to bitcoin investors as a safer, more intelligent way to gain exposure to bitcoin: Strategy’s preferred shares, STRC, and SATA. All three use the same sales pitch. Tax advantages. 11.5% yield. Bitcoin backing. Money-market-level safety. Retail investors make up 82.7% of the buyers. Every single claim in that pitch is false, and the actual security these buyers hold is designed to break down in precisely the kind of bitcoin environment it claims to benefit from. The Sales Pitch Tells One Story. The Actual Structure Tells the Real One…

Klue, a competitive intelligence platform, experienced a security breach involving OAuth credentials. This allowed a threat group known as “Icarus” to steal Salesforce CRM data from several companies as part of an active extortion scheme. Yesterday, sources informed BleepingComputer that multiple organizations had their Salesforce data pilfered and are now facing extortion demands from this relatively new criminal group. Both ReliaQuest and Huntress, two cybersecurity companies, have released reports verifying the incident. Huntress confirmed that its own Salesforce data was compromised in the attack. Salesforce has temporarily deactivated the Klue Battlecards integration on its platform while the breach is under…

SAN DIEGO — For FinOps teams, artificial intelligence now represents both a significant hurdle and a promising avenue. At this year’s FinOps X conference, AWS highlighted a suite of product enhancements that directly address this dual nature. AWS launched the AWS FinOps Agent in public preview, an AI-driven solution built to streamline cloud cost analysis, anomaly detection and reporting, while also highlighting optimization opportunities. Additionally, AWS enhanced cost transparency for Amazon Bedrock by introducing detailed attribution features, enabling businesses to monitor AI expenditures at the application, agent and user levels. Further enhancements included fresh cost management features for optimization,…

Here is a scenario that many marketing teams will be familiar with. A campaign runs for a few weeks, the click-through rates appear average, form submissions fall short of expectations, and the cost per acquisition is trending upward. The call is made to pull the plug on it. A month down the line, someone realises that inbound call volumes have dropped.The campaign was not underperforming. It was generating calls. But because those calls were never captured in the attribution model, no one was aware of it.This is the fundamental issue with multi-touch attribution as most teams practise it. The model…

Its newest release, Claude Fable 5, is a safety-enhanced variant built on the Claude Mythos architecture. I put the model through rigorous testing around the clock from the moment it launched, throughout the entire 72-hour window it remained accessible. Regrettably, the model is no longer accessible at this time, having been taken offline following a directive from the US government. Still, given the extensive hands-on experience I had with it, I’d like to share my assessment — covering what I accomplished with the model, where it fell short, and more. Although it’s currently unavailable, I’m optimistic it will return before…

Previously, we’ve explored well-known methods for improving the efficiency and reducing the expenses of AI applications, such as streaming replies and caching prompts. Now, I’d like to shift focus to another crucial aspect of developing practical AI applications: structured outputs that machines can easily interpret. In most demonstrations so far, we’ve worked with open-ended text responses from AI models. A user poses a query, the model replies in everyday language, and we simply present that reply somewhere. It’s pretty uncomplicated. But what if the model needs to deliver information arranged in a particular way (like JSON) so we can work…