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January 7, 2026 by Vertical Axion
The digital economy runs on electricity. Every cloud app, AI model, and streaming service depends on massive infrastructure humming behind the scenes. Today, that infrastructure is growing so fast it’s starting to collide with a very real limit: available power. The explosion in data center energy consumption is pushing electricity networks worldwide to their limits, […]
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January 6, 2026 by Vertical Axion
The tech hardware market is under pressure, and business owners are starting to feel it in their budgets. The memory crunch driving server and PC prices up isn’t just a blip. It’s a full-on shift in the tech supply chain that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. Understanding how High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM), Dynamic Random Access Memory […]
January 5, 2026 by Vertical Axion
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future-facing experiment tucked away in IT departments. It’s a boardroom priority. Business owners across industries are realizing that the organizations pulling ahead have leadership with the technological understanding to ask the right questions and move decisively. In this environment, tech-fluent leaders’ AI strategies are becoming a defining factor between […]
January 3, 2026 by Vertical Axion
A collapsed supervolcano might not seem like it has much to do with modern technology, but a crater from an eruption 16 million years ago could solve a problem businesses have been wrestling with for years. Researchers discovered an enormous concentration of lithium-rich clay within the McDermitt Caldera, which stretches across the Nevada–Oregon border. Early […]
January 2, 2026 by Vertical Axion
Google just rolled out one of the biggest Android security batches of the year, squashing 107 vulnerabilities across the entire ecosystem. If your business runs on Android phones or tablets, this patch isn’t optional. While many updates quietly address minor issues, these Android fixes stand out. Two of the bugs are already being exploited in […]
January 1, 2026 by Vertical Axion
News of yet another malicious extension making the rounds might feel like background noise at this point. But this one deserves your attention. Security researchers at Koi Security recently uncovered a long-running campaign, now known as ShadyPanda, that quietly infected 4.3 million devices and stole data via more than 100 seemingly harmless browser extensions on […]
December 31, 2025 by Vertical Axion
Running a business in the cloud used to feel like a guarantee of safety. But a new report is shaking that confidence. Researchers at Oligo have uncovered serious cloud security issues tied to Fluent Bit, a popular open-source log processing tool used by just about every major cloud provider, including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, […]
December 30, 2025 by Vertical Axion
When you’re juggling invoices, client calls, and everything else, the last thing you need is some hidden flaw in your network quietly letting attackers slip in. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what recently surfaced with ASUS AiCloud routers. ASUS has issued an urgent warning and a critical firmware patch to address a serious authentication bypass vulnerability that […]
December 29, 2025 by Vertical Axion
If your business relies on Teams for conversations, file sharing, and getting things done, you need to know about this Microsoft Teams bug recently discovered by cybersecurity researchers. A new feature designed to make collaboration easier has accidentally opened the door to attackers. If you don’t act now, this cross-tenant vulnerability could put your company […]
December 27, 2025 by Vertical Axion
Most of today’s generative AI tools come with strong guardrails. They won’t teach you how to make explosives or walk you through committing digital fraud. These rules usually work well, and tools like Grok, Claude, or Gemini will shut you down when you try to use them for anything nefarious. Unfortunately, cybercriminals often won’t take […]
December 26, 2025 by Vertical Axion
AI browser tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity are becoming the go-to way for many business owners to research competitors, summarize emails, and speed up daily tasks. But as these tools grow more capable, hackers are quietly manipulating them. The latest example is almost unbelievable: hackers can influence AI browsers just by adding hidden text […]
December 25, 2025 by Vertical Axion
Your digital calendar is the command center of your workday. It tells you where to be, who you’re meeting with, and which deadlines are creeping up. You probably never second-guess it. But what if your calendar suddenly started feeding you phishing links or malware notifications without you ever clicking accept? Unfortunately, malicious calendar alerts are […]
December 24, 2025 by Vertical Axion
Google’s new Antigravity IDE landed with a lot of buzz. Marketed as an AI-first development environment, it helps teams ship code faster by letting intelligent agents write, test, and even manage parts of a project automatically. For many businesses, it sounded like a major productivity boost: an all-in-one tool that could make software development quicker, […]
December 23, 2025 by Vertical Axion
Another VS Code attack wave is in the spotlight, and security researchers are sounding the alarm. A malware family known as Glassworm has resurfaced across both the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and the OpenVSX Registry, two widely used hubs for downloading VS Code extensions. For business owners who rely on development teams to keep operations […]
December 22, 2025 by Vertical Axion
Retail is changing fast, but not always in loud or flashy ways. Behind the scenes, AI agents in retail operations are doing the quiet, repetitive tasks that keep stores running smoothly. And according to a new Fluent Commerce report, more than two-thirds of retailers are already piloting or partially implementing agentic AI. Even more striking, […]
December 20, 2025 by Vertical Axion
Just a few years ago, the idea that your business could predict what a customer wants before they do and deliver it flawlessly sounded like science fiction. Today, it’s just a Tuesday. Thanks to AI, organizations can now hyper-personalize customer experiences, predict demand shifts, and spot trends at a speed humans simply cannot match. But […]
December 19, 2025 by Vertical Axion
When most companies hear the words “ransom threat,” panic sets in. But sometimes, the story takes a surprising twist. Checkout.com’s CTO, Mariano Albera, recently showed the business world a bold way to respond to cybercrime with transparency, accountability, and even opportunity by flipping the script on a CTO ransom threat. The Unexpected Response to a […]
December 18, 2025 by Vertical Axion
Artificial intelligence is a trusted partner for many businesses, powering everything from customer support chatbots to marketing insights. Most users assume AI tools operate with strong safety guardrails at all times. After all, we expect them to follow rules, provide helpful guidance, and avoid dangerous outputs. But recent research suggests that even trusted AI systems […]
December 17, 2025 by Vertical Axion
European textile manufacturer Fulgar isn’t a name most consumers know, but it just made headlines for a serious cyber incident. The company confirmed that it fell victim to a fabric supplier cyber breach at the hands of the ransomware group RansomHouse. The company is no small business; they’ve been around since 1976 and supply industry […]
December 16, 2025 by Vertical Axion
If you’ve ever tried to look someone up on LinkedIn and found yourself playing “keyword roulette,” you’re not alone. For years, the platform’s search box rewarded very literal searches, and unless you typed the exact job title or patiently clicked through a maze of filters, perfectly good matches slipped through the cracks. LinkedIn is rolling […]
December 15, 2025 by Vertical Axion
In the latest news that has security teams scrambling to shore up their defenses, the Everest ransomware group posted a threat notice on its dark leak site involving global sportswear giant Under Armour. The group claims to have stolen “millions of personal data,” along with internal company files, and even posted samples to prove it. […]
December 13, 2025 by Vertical Axion
Have you ever thought about Android photo frames’ security? If you use digital displays in your lobby, waiting room, or showroom, you need to. Although these frames seem harmless, security researchers recently uncovered a serious threat involving Uhale-branded Android photo frames. According to the mobile security company Quokka, thousands of these frames download Android photo […]
December 12, 2025 by Vertical Axion
If you’ve ever assumed cybercriminals launch an attack and hope for the best, think again. The newest twist in the Kraken ransomware campaign shows attackers are now “testing the waters” before they go all in. Cisco Talos researchers just exposed malware that runs a secret “ransomware benchmark” before encrypting files for real. Imagine a burglar […]
December 11, 2025 by Vertical Axion
Many organizations are discovering an uncomfortable truth: AI expectations are rising much faster than internal processes can keep up. And no one feels that tension more than Chief Information Officers. New research from Salesforce shows that CIOs are increasingly being held responsible for everything AI touches, from ethics to risk to ROI, often without clear […]
