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You know things are bad when the Pope gets involved. No doubt reeling from a launch that somehow went down even worse than Ferrari itself anticipated, the Italian carmaker sought to get the endorsement of none other than His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for its first EV, the Luce.Guided by Ferrari chairman John Elkann and senior Ferrari executives, in a hillside town about 15 miles southeast of Rome, the pontiff sat in the driver’s seat and listened patiently as test driver Raffaele De Simone explained the vehicle’s controls and driving modes as if he really was speaking to a man…

1 Dell’Oro said 5G MCN revenue in North America and EMEA expanded 20% year over year during the quarter, continuing momentum that began in 2025 In sum – what to know: Regional divergence – 5G mobile core network revenue grew 20% in North America and EMEA while China recorded its sharpest decline since 5G was introduced. Cloud-native shift – Operators are accelerating 5G SA upgrades as the industry transitions toward cloud-native, microservices-based network architectures. Vendor concentration – Huawei, Ericsson, and Nokia continued expanding market share dominance as operators scrutinize network spending and server costs. Worldwide 5G mobile core network (MCN)…

Acknowledgements We’d like to thank our collaborators, listed on the authors’ list, who helped create ERA, as well as all the scientists who are among the early adopters. Algorithm development underlying ERA was led by Eser Aygun, Gheorghe Comanici and Shibl Mourad. The epidemiological forecasting work is led by Zahra Shamsi, Sarah Martinson, Nicholas Reich, Martyna Plomecka, and Brian Williams. The research on carbon dioxide monitoring is led by Aarón Sonabend-W, Sean Campbell, Renee Johnston, Vishal Batchu, Carl Elkin, Christopher Van Arsdale, John Platt, and Anna Michalak. The paper on runoff forecasting is authored by Ignacio Lopez-Gomez, Michael Brenner, and…

Moving data from your operational database has traditionally meant setting up and monitoring a pipeline for each source to each destination. For most teams, this is a brittle, ungoverned, and O(n) human effort.Today, we’re changing this approach. Available now in Public Preview,  Lakebase features a Change Data Feed (CDF) that is stored and governed in Unity Catalog Managed Tables. Enable the feed once and allow all engines, models, and agents to read from it directly. Why is landing operational data into the lake still so hard?While Lakeflow Connect has made ingesting data into the Lakehouse trivial, getting data out of the OLTP database…

Anthropic is reportedly in early discussions to rent server capacity powered by Microsoft’s Maia chips, according to The Information and CNBC.The talks come shortly after Anthropic agreed to use Google’s cloud infrastructure and Tensor Processing Units under a large multi-year agreement. They also follow a separate Microsoft agreement announced in November. Under that deal, Microsoft said it would invest US$5 billion in Anthropic, while Anthropic committed to spending US$30 billion on Azure.As part of that Microsoft agreement, Anthropic also committed to contract additional compute capacity of up to 1GW. Anthropic also uses cloud services from Amazon Web Services and Google…

Why Financial Agility is the New Competitive Edge By: Romie Castelli, Senior Managing Director Americas Sales, Cisco Capital I am often asked about the value of technology financing. Years ago, when capital was inexpensive and the standard operating procedure for many businesses was to “sweat” their technology assets for as long as possible, financing was often viewed as an optional convenience. Today, we are operating in a completely different reality. On one hand, we are witnessing an unprecedented surge in AI adoption, with businesses across every industry racing to accelerate their transformation. On the other, we face a complex macroeconomic…

Image credit: CIFOR-ICRAF, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. A landmark scientific assessment of the Congo Basin has warned that the next decade will be critical in determining the future of the world’s largest tropical forest carbon sink, amid mounting pressures from climate change, unsustainable resource use and governance failures. The 2025 Congo Basin Assessment Report – Congo Basin Resilience and Sustainability: From the Past to the Future – was officially presented in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, during the 61st Annual Meeting of the African Development Bank. Produced by the Science Panel for the Congo Basin (SPCB), convened by the UN Sustainable…

For decades, ERP (enterprise-resource planning) systems have been the backbone of business. They brought together finance, manufacturing, supply chains, procurement, human resources, and customer data into one centralized platform. Then came M2M (machine-to-machine) communications and the rise of the IoT (Internet of Things), connecting physical assets, equipment, and infrastructure to digital systems in realtime. Now, AI (artificial intelligence) has entered the conversation—and many are beginning to ask one really big question: Will AI be the end of ERP? I’d like to add my two cents to this conversation. For one, this isn’t the first time we have had this conversation.…

Most of us assume that switching something off means it stops using power. It doesn’t. Appliances, devices and home electronics continue using electricity in standby mode — and according to the US Department of Energy, that sneaky power draw costs the average household roughly $100 a year.Your home is harboring energy vampires in nearly every room — and they’re quietly draining your wallet. To find the worst in my home, I ordered a $12 power meter from Amazon and tested the passive power draw of nearly every device and appliance I could — 18 in total.The goal? Find which of them wastes the…

Programming paradigms determine how developers approach problem-solving, structure logic, and manage application state. They also influence how software developers think about performance and debugging and how teams collaborate as an application scales. A firm grasp of these paradigms allows for more deliberate code design and better architectural choices. In 2026, programming paradigms matter more than ever. Modern software systems are layered and abstracted: Front-end frameworks abstract Document Object Model (DOM) updates. Developers define the interface state instead of manually changing DOM elements. Infrastructure tools abstract server provisioning. Engineers define the desired infrastructure in configuration files rather than configuring servers step-by-step.…