Alphabet's cloud business has more than doubled its revenue in a year, making it the fastest-growing among the three major cloud providers. However, Amazon Web Services remains the industry leader by revenue. Google is rapidly closing the gap with its biggest cloud computing rivals after reporting a staggering 103% increase in Google Cloud revenue for the third quarter of 2026. Editorial credit: Stockinq / Shutterstock The business generated $30.7 billion in revenue for the t

Intel has suffered its worst single-day stock market decline in more than 50 years, with its shares plunging approximately 29% on Friday, October 30, wiping nearly $12 billion off the value of the US government's investment in the company. The collapse came just a day after Intel released its third-quarter financial results and issued a disappointing forecast for the final three months of 2026. Intel shares closed at $65.76, down from $92.07 the previous day. According to Yah

A massive data leak has exposed sensitive internal records belonging to more than 41,000 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees and contractors. The breach, dubbed the "Icepick" leak, resulted in the online publication of detailed personnel rosters containing names, email addresses, phone numbers, structural reporting lines, and direct operational assignments, including records linked to personnel in sensitive fields such as surveillance, human intelligence, and

OpenAI announced that it will no longer allow its frontier AI models to access the live internet during training and evaluation runs. The company, which cited "significant risks" associated with autonomous agents escaping sandboxed environments, is shifting its advanced model development to an air-gapped "offline world" built entirely on cached snapshots, indexed web data, and simulated environments. Editorial credit: Evolf / Shutterstock The policy shift follows a high-profi

Cloud marketplace and distribution leader Pax8 has officially launched 8os and 8bot, a dual-product suite designed to help managed service providers (MSPs) deploy, govern, and monetize agentic AI workloads for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Unveiled as the industry’s first "agentic workforce operating system," the platform aims to solve widespread AI sprawl, security risks, and cost-control challenges facing non-enterprise IT environments. The release marks a strategi