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# Introduction Large language models (LLMs) often lean toward “flowery” and excessively long-winded phrasing in their answers. Pose a straightforward question, and you will likely be inundated with dense, enthusiastic, and overly elaborate paragraphs. This tendency stems from their training, as these models are designed to be highly helpful and conversational. Regrettably, verbosity is a critical factor that needs to stay on the radar and can be linked to a higher probability of a significant issue: hallucinations. The longer the response grows, the greater the likelihood it deviates from verified facts and drifts into fabricated territory. To put it simply,…

Posted on May 11, 2026 by Munib Ali, Director of Engineering, SRE Fairwinds CNCF projects highlighted in this post Kubernetes drives your products, yet that same power and flexibility bring organizational hurdles tied to complexity and upkeep. Keeping pace with the rapid evolution of open source can be difficult, particularly at scale. Each year, you invest in senior engineers to handle version updates, deprecated APIs, and broken add-ons—none of which move the needle on customer-facing KPIs. The exact numbers depend on the environment, but in many mid-size EKS setups, a single minor upgrade spanning three regions takes four to six…

By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News.Telit Cinterion has teamed up with Denver-based New Frontier Communications to bring NExT SIM and eSIM connectivity solutions to U.S. businesses that rely on mobile and field-based operations. The collaboration centers on multi-carrier cellular access, unified management, and built-in redundancy for IoT deployments in rural or hard-to-reach areas.For many enterprise IoT initiatives, the real connectivity challenge isn’t just about whether a device can connect to a cellular network. It’s about whether an entire deployment can stay online across different service regions, remote locations, vehicle routes, and temporary work sites where coverage varies…

monsitj/iStock/Getty Images PlusStay updated with ZDNET: Set us as a preferred source on Google.Key Points from ZDNETApp security must be a top-level leadership responsibility.Company culture can determine the success of secure-by-design efforts.An operational framework turns security prevention into everyday practice.Companies are now prioritizing software strategies that improve cybersecurity. The goal is to integrate security from the very beginning of development and create tools that detect bugs and vulnerabilities before they escalate. This piece explores the shift from reacting to threats after the fact to preventing them upfront as a cultural shift, and why leaders must move security from an afterthought…

Bitcoin (BTC) kicks off the new week on a strong note, with the $80,000 support level holding firm after a turbulent weekly close.Key takeaways:Bitcoin retains its upward momentum potential, with one trader eyeing $85,000 in the near term.Many analysts also predict continued consolidation as BTC/USD navigates CME futures gaps and hunts for liquidity.The ongoing US-Iran conflict continues to trigger sudden market swings across cryptocurrencies and risk assets.Strong buyer interest in BTC supports forecasts of a sustained long-term uptrend.Two key Bitcoin price indicators are approaching their first “golden cross” signal in nearly three years.Fresh BTC price targets point to $85,000Bitcoin experienced…

On Friday, tens of thousands of students worldwide who were preparing for their final exams regained access to a crucial online learning platform after a cyberattack had previously taken it offline, causing widespread disruption in schools and universities. Elizabeth Polo was attending a creative writing class at the University of Maryland late Thursday afternoon when a classmate suddenly yelled, “Canvas got hacked.” A message from a hacking group appeared on her computer screen. “Our entire class just started panicking about it,” said Polo, a junior. “Our poor professor was trying to calm everyone down, but it was just total chaos.”…

Since the Pentagon merged its Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) into the Office of the Under Secretary for Research and Engineering last year, the unit has been going through a period of change. Before this shift, CDAO reported straight to the deputy secretary of Defense, and some experts feared the reorganization might push AI initiatives to the sidelines or diminish their visibility within the department. However, Andrew Mapes, the acting principal deputy chief digital and AI officer, says the opposite is happening: the restructuring is actually helping CDAO move faster to deliver AI capabilities across the entire department…

Bain & Company has projected a US$100 billion opportunity in the U.S. for SaaS firms leveraging agentic AI. According to the consulting firm, this market is linked to streamlining coordination tasks across enterprise systems.This projection is based on the second installment of Bain’s five-part series examining the software industry in the AI era. The report explores where agentic AI could unlock new software markets and how SaaS companies can seize them.Coordination work in enterprise systemsBain highlighted that this market stems from the manual tasks employees handle between enterprise applications. These processes often involve ERP, CRM, and support systems. They may…

Scaling large language models (LLMs) is expensive. Every token processed during inference and every gradient computed during training flows through feedforward layers that account for over two-thirds of model parameters and more than 80% of total FLOPs in larger models. A team of researchers from Sakana AI and NVIDIA have worked on a new research that directly targets this bottleneck — not by changing the architecture, but by making the computation inside feedforward layers significantly cheaper through unstructured sparsity. Sparsity Exists, But GPUs Ignore It Inside a transformer’s feedforward block, for any given input token, only a small fraction of…

Shifts in U.S. Federal Reserve leadership, key inflation reports, and corporate earnings are set to shape the week ahead, as investors assess bitcoin’s BTC$80,814.36 recent resilience amid a busy macroeconomic calendar.”We’re seeing a market phase where capital is becoming more discerning rather than just chasing speculation,” Jake Seltzer, CEO of Quantix Finance, shared with CoinDesk via email. “Bitcoin holding strong at these price levels matters because it’s boosting confidence throughout the wider digital asset space, especially among institutional investors who had been waiting on the sidelines.”This week brings a combination of inflation figures and earnings reports from numerous crypto-related firms.”In…