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We report from the opening keynote of COMPUTEX 2026, where Jensen Huang tore up the cosy world of Windows laptops and PCs with NVIDIA's new family of chips! Story here: https://lnkd.in/gcfjRsuW

Platform engineering has a self-image problem. For years, the discipline has mostly described itself in terms of developer convenience: reducing cognitive load, hiding Kubernetes complexity, creating golden paths and allowing teams to deploy without filing tickets. That was useful work. In many organisations, it was necessary work. But it was still mainly framed as relief work for developers. That framing is becoming obsolete, not because developer experience no longer matters (it does), but because the context around software delivery has changed. Once AI agents start contributing to code, tests, configuration, and deployment workflows, the platform is no longer just the place where developers go to move faster. It becomes the mechanism by which the organisation defines what is allowed to happen at all. Read ☁️ Petr Svoboda's latest opinion article here: https://lnkd.in/gxGJX5_7

Napster is often remembered as the service that nearly broke the music industry. A better description might be that it exposed a truth the music industry didn’t want to hear. Consumers had discovered a faster, easier way to get what they wanted, and no amount of litigation was going to make them forget it. That’s why Napster’s 27th anniversary still matters. The technology itself is long gone, but the expectations it created are everywhere. We stream rather than buy. We subscribe rather than own. We expect content to be available immediately, on any device, almost anywhere in the world. In many ways, modern digital business is still operating according to rules that Napster helped write. The responses below explore that legacy from different angles, but they keep returning to the same conclusion: Napster wasn’t really a story about music piracy. It was an early lesson in what happens when technology changes consumer behaviour faster than an industry can adapt. Featured story here: https://lnkd.in/gWa2fxGD Our thanks to Alexandra Hayes (WAPlus CRM), Mike Salvaggio (SEO Brand), Andrew Selepak (University of Florida) and Harrison Mbemba (AuxChord) for their contributions to this story.

There is, sad to say, no shortage of Android malware out there. An estimated user base of almost 4 billion equals one heck of a lot of payload potential, after all. And now a no-code Android remote access trojan (RAT) is threatening colossal damage. It’s called BTMOB, but that doesn’t appear to stand for anything other than absolute chaos. This Android RAT ,is notable, ESET researchers say, “for the damage it can wreak”. The main reason for this is that attackers don’t need any code-writing skills. Using the Android Package Kit builder provided with BTMOB, attackers can enable new payload generation and phishing lure customisation without writing extra code. As such, “defenders should expect rapid payload turnover rather than a stable set of threats,” Daniel C., a security researcher at ESET has warned. While BTMOB is hardly new, having first appeared on the threat intelligence radar a year ago, the May 26 ESET deep-dive analysis surfaced new attacks and new causes for concern. The biggest being that this thing really does lower the barriers for device compromise. Story here: https://lnkd.in/gGcqnuvY

-- By Tim Danton, live at COMPUTEX -- When it comes to objects that excite, business laptops sit near the bottom of most people’s list. I’m not one of those people, and neither was the Acer representative – who didn’t wish to be named, so let’s call him Trevor* – who showed me the 2026 update to Acer’s TravelMate P6 14 at a pre-Computex event in Taipei yesterday. “Feel this,” said Trevor, prompting me to slide my finger along the laptop’s surface. I quickly realised why he was so keen, with a soft, almost fabric-like feel to the surface. “It has a molecular coating on there,” Trevor explained, “making it feel really comfortable for touching.” First-look review here: https://lnkd.in/gXR7EB29

Abertis has signed a new five-year global agreement with IBM to modernise its technology infrastructure as part of its ongoing digital transformation. Under the agreement, IBM will support the motorway operator in migrating to SAP S/4HANA technology, with the project aimed at improving scalability, reliability and user experience across the company’s operations in Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Chile and Puerto Rico. The agreement also includes the option to expand into additional markets in Europe and the Americas. “This allows us the opportunity to make decisions with a long-term perspective and reduce complexity in a very diverse environment,” Abertis CIO Miguel Ángel Medina said. Story here: https://lnkd.in/g3GWjkZG

Workday has announced the expansion of Workday GO to Australia and New Zealand as it looks to further support midsize organisations.   Workday describes Workday GO as an all-in-one solution to help midsized organisations manage HR, finance and payroll. The platform is embedded with AI capabilities to support employee self-service, workflow optimisation, automated financial insights and anomaly detection. According to Workday, the solution’s preconfigured design allows organisations to deploy the platform in weeks rather than months, helping businesses accelerate time to value while simplifying ongoing operations. “Mid-market businesses across ANZ are under increasing pressure to grow, compete and adapt, without the same luxury of resources as larger enterprises,” Workday Australia senior regional director Matt Lovell said. Story here: https://lnkd.in/gePsaiwj

The ChatGPT Codex has become a killer app over the past few months. Not only can it run coding jobs, but manipulate files on your local computer and run agentic AI jobs. Now you can remotely control Codex from your iPhone or Android smartphone, unleashing another powerful (and potentially risky) element to the app. In this article, we show how to remote control ChatGPT Codex from your phone and what you can do with it: https://lnkd.in/gVrfi8FB

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Minutes into a live stream, the stakes are high for operators. During peak traffic, pirated streams are already using an operator’s valuable CDN capacity to distribute their premium content free of charge. Operators then face a conundrum of which threats to disrupt. Why can’t all illicit activities be stopped? The misconception that piracy stems from inaction fails to recognise its systemic and cross-border nature. The industry widely recognises that without basic anti-piracy protections, revenue and content value would be jeopardised. For operators, managing piracy means controlling leakage to preserve the return on investment from rights fees. At the same time, it is worth saying that total piracy elimination is unrealistic; that goal would distract from more effective strategies to confront the moving target. Anti-piracy efforts should be less of a moral crusade and instead more of a disciplined approach to risk and resource allocation. Read Andrew Bunten's latest opinion piece here: https://lnkd.in/gcrFbwc9