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AI Budgeting: Are We All Just Winging It?

Your AI budget was locked in January. Then the CEO said everyone should be building. Now AI spend is spread across 20 vendors, company credit cards, month-to-month invoices, and enterprise plans, and the board wants to know what it all returned. Emily Allen, Director of Finance & Accounting at CloudZero, shares how she's rewriting the rulebook for AI spend governance, budgeting, and forecasting. She uses CloudZero to see every dollar of AI spend by team, project, and feature.

WhatsUp Gold NPM 13.1 and WhatsUp Gold NDR 13.1 Release Update

Most IT teams do not have the luxury of separating network operations and security professionals into different groups. The same teams need to investigate a slow application and examine unusual traffic patterns or security issues. The latest Progress WhatsUp Gold NPM and Progress WhatsUp Gold NDR releases include new functionality that directly addresses this reality. Both WhatsUp Gold NPM and WhatsUp Gold NDR have been updated to shorten the time between discovering an issue and understanding it.

Best AI for Technical Interviews When Trade-Offs Count More Than the Code

Generative AI can crank out code, yet interviewers judge how you think. CoderPad's 2026 survey found that 66 percent of hiring leads praise candidates who fix AI errors, while 56 percent reward clear trade-off explanations. Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Survey echoes this: 66 percent of developers name AI solutions that are "almost right, but not quite" as their biggest AI frustration. Canva agrees, applauding applicants who "offer alternative approaches and weigh trade-offs thoughtfully."

Occupational Safety Tech: How Modern IoT and Sensors Are Preventing Future Worksite Toxins

Chemicals lurk in industrial air unnoticed until someone gets sick. According to estimates from the International Labour Organization, over one billion workers face hazardous substance exposure globally every year.

Cradlepoint R1900: Deployment Configuration Guide for Enterprise IT Administrators

When an enterprise IT team faces the challenge of deploying secure, high-performance wireless connectivity at remote or mobile sites, the Cradlepoint R1900 router often stands out for its rugged build and advanced networking capabilities. Imagine outfitting a fleet of emergency response vehicles or setting up edge connectivity at a construction site-both scenarios demand reliable network performance under harsh conditions. IT administrators must not only install and configure these devices but also ensure they integrate seamlessly with existing infrastructure and adhere to strict security standards.

Top tips: 4 tips to fix your phone's storage problem

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and list practical ways to explore these trends. This week, we're clearing out the one notification nobody wants to see: storage full. You’re about to capture the perfect moment and a message pops up: Storage full. The same sentiment applies to a fridge:Nobody means to overstuff it, but a little goes in every day at a faster rate than items come out, until a lemon ends up balanced on the edge of a shelf.

What Is OpenTelemetry? A Guide to the OTel Framework

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open-source observability framework, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), that standardizes how your applications generate, collect, and export telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs. The instrumentation stays vendor-neutral, so you can instrument a service once, send its telemetry to the observability tool your team uses today, and point it at a different tool next year without touching application code.