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AI plans threaten junior hiring as staff left unready

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Employers plan to cut junior hiring as AI expands, leaving most staff feeling unprepared for rapid shifts in work and skills demand.
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Persistent named among TIME's Best Asia-Pacific firms

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Persistent earns spot on TIME's Best Asia-Pacific Companies 2026 list, ranking ninth in regional professional services and seventh in India.
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Persistent named among TIME's top Asia-Pacific firms

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Persistent ranks among TIME's Best Companies in Asia-Pacific 2026, placing ninth for professional services and seventh overall in India.
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Fortinet unveils AI-driven cloud SOC & endpoint revamp

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Fortinet debuts cloud SOC preview and unified FortiEndpoint as it leans on agentic AI to automate security ops and cut endpoint sprawl.
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Nvidia survey shows AI driving revenue, cuts & spend

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Nvidia survey finds AI now widely embedded in operations, driving revenue gains, cost cuts and fresh spend as firms move beyond pilots.
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Women engineers gain AI career boost, yet trust lags

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Women engineers say AI is accelerating careers but remain wary of bias and blurred accountability for machine-generated code at work.
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Women tech leaders urge structural change on IWD

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Women tech leaders mark IWD by demanding structural change on trust, mentorship and pay, warning UK firms lose GBP £2bn-£3.5bn a year.
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Netgear expands AV-over-IP skills training in APAC

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Netgear broadens its free AV-over-IP training in APAC, adding courses from 12 tech brands to tackle the region's networking skills gap.
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OptiValue Tek, SFJ join forces on AI-led enterprise revamp

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OptiValue Tek and SFJ Business Solutions forge alliance to drive AI-led legacy modernisation and agentic enterprise transformation worldwide.
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Finastra unveils AI tool to speed up bank payments ops

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Finastra launches OperatorAssist AI to cut banks' payment investigation work, promising 20-30% faster exception handling and reduced costs.
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How the universal adoption of AI can help women in insurance balance the scales

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As AI reshapes insurance, automation could free women from routine tasks and open faster routes into higher-skilled, better-paid roles.
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Digital.ai unveils AI tool to harden mobile app builds

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Digital.ai launches Quick Protect AI to harden Android and iOS apps post-build, embedding automated security into CI/CD pipelines.
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From side hustles to scalable brands: How marketplaces are paving the way for female entrepreneurs

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Digital marketplaces are empowering UK women to turn side hustles into scalable brands, bypassing traditional funding bottlenecks.
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5 ways women in tech can negotiate a pay rise

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Women in tech are still paid less and promoted slower; here are five strategic steps to negotiate the rise your impact deserves.
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Don't rule yourself out of a career in STEM

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Women are urged not to self-select out of STEM, as diverse skills and personalities are vital to drive innovation and challenge stereotypes.
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CIOs warn AI adoption is racing ahead of governance

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CIOs warn AI is being rolled out faster than governance can keep up, with many fearing security gaps and lacking oversight of tools in use.
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Agentic AI boosts elite cyber teams but hinders rookies

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Agentic AI massively accelerates elite cyber teams but can slow inexperienced hackers, Hack The Box's large-scale benchmark reveals.
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Tech Data & NetApp unveil AI Test Drive hub in India

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Tech Data and NetApp open an AI Test Drive hub in India, giving partners ready-made infrastructure to trial and scale real-world projects.
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Architecting inclusion: Industrial corridor design and the risk of structural lock-In

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India's industrial corridors risk locking in unequal workforce structures unless inclusion, mobility and care design guide early planning.
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LevelBlue & Tenable expand exposure tools for partners

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LevelBlue debuts Exposure Management for Partners with Tenable, giving MSSPs and MSPs tiered, unified exposure and risk visibility tools.