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  • The Chainsmokers, Chris Lake, Jayda G & More

    The Chainsmokers, Chris Lake, Jayda G & More

    Simply the best new dance tracks of the week.

    The Chainsmokers

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    This week in dance music: Dance-punk darlings The Rapture announced their first headlining tour in 15 years will start in September, including a previously announced performance at Portola in San Francisco.

    “The idea to take The Rapture back on tour wasn’t some grand, strategic decision,” the band’s frontman Luke Jenner told Billboard. “It kind of unfolded the way life does when you’re finally listening to it instead of forcing things. I’d done a lot of personal healing over the years and somewhere in all that space, I found clarity. There’s a sense of purpose now for me that wasn’t there before.”

    Meanwhile, John Summit announced his own festival, Experts Only NYC, will happen September 20-21 on Randall’s Island with a lineup including to headlining sets from Summit’s along with stars from his Experts Only label and friends including LP Giobbi, Kaskade and Green Velvet. Steve Aoki spoke about remixing BTS’ 2017 song “MIC Drop” in a preview for the forthcoming documentary about BTS ARMY.

    In sustainability meets raving sector, the producer of London’s Junction 2 and Paradise in the City festivals announced that neither event will not serve any meat as part of a comprehensive greening initiative. Elsewhere, Karol G and Tiësto defeated a copyright lawsuit over their 2023 collaborative track “Don’t Be Shy,” Fred again.. released a scorching remix of “Victory Lap” featuring Denzel Curry, Anyma shared the complete set list from the first night at of his [UNVRS] Ibiza residency exclusively with Billboard, we spoke with Barry Can’t Swim about his gorgeous new album, Loner and with Chris Lake about his impeccable debut solo album, Chemistry.

    And to close it all out, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.

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  • The Look of Love (Island): Dressing for Virality, Sex, and Becoming a Bombshell

    The Look of Love (Island): Dressing for Virality, Sex, and Becoming a Bombshell

    As for the islanders, the look of love is actually one of lust, too. And while Madix is wearing the reference, the contestants are buoyed by the usual suspects: Fashion Nova, Shein, Asos, H&M, et al. Consider that, while there is much conversation online about fast fashion sponsors and shared wardrobes awaiting in the Villa, these contestants are bringing many of their own clothes, bought before potential internet fame. Should the expectation be that they’re all decked out in Madix-level—and priced—clothing? Simply no. Perhaps that’s why you’ll see self-fashioned villa main character Huda in everything from an $80 Skims slip dress to lots of separates from trendy fast fashion destination Outcast Clothing. Olandria, a current fan-favorite and arguably the best-dressed islander, is more often than not in Shein—some of the best and skimpiest it has to offer, that is.

    After years of working with fast fashion partners, the United Kingdom version of Love Island started partnering with eBay in 2023 in an effort to promote a more sustainable outlook on fashion. It was a compelling switcheroo considering Molly-Mae Hague, one of the show’s most well-known participants, went on to become the creative director of fast fashion giant Pretty Little Thing from 2021 until 2023.

    Could the stateside version of the show follow suit with a similar partnership? Should it? It’s, in islander terms, early days for this version of the show, but the simple answer is yes. Why not inspire its millions of viewers to shop consciously and sustainably? The more tantalizing answer—one posed by the devil’s advocate—is whether or not changing the look of the show could change the show itself. In broad strokes, possibly. The look of Love Island is, in many ways, what makes us unable to look away. Skimpy, sexy, racy. Would two islanders sharing a sneaky, clandestine kiss hit the same if they were wearing, say, vintage J.Crew, or if they looked like the fashion influencers fighting it out over Margiela Tabis on our aforementioned For You pages?

    Probably not. But Love Island, as exemplified by Madix, poses an opportunity for fashion. It just begs the question: should the emperor get new clothes?

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  • Primordial Black Hole Flybys Could Alter Exoplanet Orbits

    Primordial Black Hole Flybys Could Alter Exoplanet Orbits

    Though our Solar System and the movement of its planets appears relatively sedate, there are many things that could upset it. Anything with enough mass that got close enough could disrupt planetary orbits. This includes primordial black holes (PBH).

    PBHs are hypothetical black holes from the early Universe. Rather than forming from collapsing stars, these theoretical objects formed from the gravitational collapse of small pockets of extremely dense sub-atomic matter. This would’ve happened shortly after the Big Bang, before any stars shone.

    New research explains how PBHs could affect exoplanet systems if they get too close and how likely it might be. The research is available at arxiv.org and is titled “The Potential Impact of Primordial Black Holes on Exoplanet Systems.” The first author is Garett Brown from Xanadu Quantum Technologies, and the other authors are from Harvard University and the University of Illinois.

    Primordial black holes could’ve formed when overdense regions in the early universe collapsed. Image Credit: By Gema White – https://www.slideserve.com/gema/primordial-black-hole-formation-in-an-axion-like-curvaton-model slide 19. Cropped to remove all elements of original authorship.Based on Kawasaki, Masahiro (2013-03-18). “Primordial black hole formation from an axionlike curvaton model”. Physical Review D 87 (6): 063519. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.87.063519., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=131103715

    Primordial black holes were first proposed in 1966 and are purely hypothetical. In recent times, some have proposed that they could explain the massive galaxies the JWST detected in the early Universe. They could potentially be important components of dark matter, or even compose dark matter entirely. If they do exist, they could be as massive as asteroids while as small as an atom. Some could be much more massive, since they’re not restricted to the mass range of stellar-mass black holes. They travel at high speeds, and if they are real, one is likely moving through the Solar System at any given time.

    “We explore the prospect that if there is a sizeable population of primordial black holes (PBH) in our galaxy, then these may also impact the orbits of exoplanets,” the researchers write. “Specifically, in a simplified setting, we study numerically how many planetary systems might have a close encounter with a PBH, and analyze the potential changes to the orbital parameters of systems that undergo PBH flybys.”

    Three-body problems are at the heart of this, with the bodies being a star, a planet, and a PBH. In this case, the PBH performs a flyby of the other two. “Such flybys exchange energy with the planet-star system and may perturb the orbit of the planet,” the researchers explain. “While we will phrase our study in terms of PBH, our
    conclusions should be robust for other compact massive objects since the results are entirely set via their gravitational influence.”

    We know of more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets, but high-precision measurements and modelling of their distributed orbital parameters would be needed to infer which ones may have been affected by PBH flybys. This is beyond the capabilities of astronomers. But the topic is a fascinating one.

    “Setting aside the challenges in observations and formation modeling, it is interesting to consider how late-time planetary orbits may be shaped due to interactions between planetary systems and transient close encounters with massive exotic astrophysical bodies that intrude into the parent star’s radius of influence,” the authors write. “Here we present a first analysis of this interesting prospect.”

    The team simulated flyby encounters between a PBH and a solar system with a single star and a single planet. Since PBHs are expected to move at high speeds, these encounters are considered impulsive, whereas an encounter with a slower object would be considered adiabatic. In an adiabatic encounter, the planetary orbit would adjust gradually to the changing gravitational field. In an impulsive encounter, the planetary orbit would be disrupted very suddenly.

    To test how plausible the idea of PBH flybys are, the researchers estimated the number of flybys in the galaxy and their typical velocities. To do that, they based their work on a solar system with one solar-mass star and a planet with a Jupiter-like orbit in terms of its eccentricity and semi-major axis. “We focus on the case that the intruding PBH passes through the system without being captured, i.e. a one time ‘flyby’,” the researchers explain.

    To understand the impact that PBH flybys have on these Jupiter-like systems, the researchers considered three questions:

    • Given a star in a circular orbit around the galactic center at a given distance, how many PBH enter the star’s local neighborhood within a given time period?
    • For a PBH that enters the neighborhood of a star, what is the probability that the PBH comes sufficiently close to appreciably perturb planetary orbits around the star?
    • For a PBH that enters the planet perturbing region, what is the statistical impact on the orbital parameters?

    “By answering each of these questions in turn, we will explore whether PBH (or similar objects) can significantly impact the orbits of exoplanets,” the authors write.

    They found that just like intruding stars, PBH flybys can alter the orbits of planets. How often this happens depends on the masses of PBHs, and their abundance.

    Since we don’t know if PBHs are even real, we also don’t know how abundant they are, or how often they approach solar systems. The team simulated PBHs at different distances from the modelled solar systems to see what would happen.

    This graph shows the probability that a PBH at initial distances of 20, 25, and 30 parsecs will pass within a given distance of closest approach (α) of a star. For star-Jupiter systems we take α = 15 AU. Image Credit: Brown et al. 2025. This graph shows the probability that a PBH at initial distances of 20, 25, and 30 parsecs will pass within a given distance of closest approach (α) of a star. For star-Jupiter systems we take α = 15 AU. Image Credit: Brown et al. 2025.

    A few factors constrain the number of possible PBHs in the galaxy. Microlensing surveys place some constraints, as does potential dark matter annihilation. The researchers settled on 3 × 106 PBHs for the entire galaxy, or 3 million.

    The figure below shows a cumulative count of PBH flybys in terms of increasing distance to the galactic center. The results are averaged over 100,000 simulations,

    This figure shows the number of systems that undergo PBH flybys, taken to be within a radius α = 15 AU, if there are 3 million primordial black holes in the galaxy. The 15 AU value is how close a PBH would have to come to Jupiter to change its orbit impulsively. Image Credit: Brown et al. 2025. This figure shows the number of systems that undergo PBH flybys, taken to be within a radius α = 15 AU, if there are 3 million primordial black holes in the galaxy. The 15 AU value is how close a PBH would have to come to Jupiter to change its orbit impulsively. Image Credit: Brown et al. 2025.

    Depending on a PBHs mass and velocity, and the planet’s velocity, the simulated flybys altered the eccentricity of the Jupiter-like planet’s orbit in different amounts.

    This figure shows the resulting eccentricities in the Jupiter-like planet's orbit after PBH flybys with masses of 0.1 solar masses and a velocity of 200 km/second. Image Credit: Brown et al. 2025. This figure shows the resulting eccentricities in the Jupiter-like planet’s orbit after PBH flybys with masses of 0.1 solar masses and a velocity of 200 km/second. Image Credit: Brown et al. 2025.

    Other results are possible, but rare, according to the authors. Some PBHs might be captured, and some solar systems might suffer multiple flybys. Nature’s like that.

    Unfortunately, there’s currently no way to test these results observationally.

    “It is interesting to consider whether a population of exotic bodies may be able to explain variations or anomalies in the orbits of planetary systems,” Brown and his co-researchers write. “In principle, precision measurements of exoplanet orbital parameters could be used to infer or constrain the abundances of PBH; however, in practice, the large uncertainties relating to both measurements and planetary formation present significant obstacles.”

    It’s possible that future capabilities will allow these types of measurements, but that is an unknown. If it becomes possible, and if better modelling of exoplanet orbital parameters comes to fruition, then astronomers may be able to place constraints on the number of PBHs and flybys.

    “While we do not expect to be able to use exoplanet observations to place constraints in the near future, this work outlines the general principles of how one might use a future precision catalogue of exoplanets to discover or constrain populations of PBH,” the authors conclude.

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  • Polar vortex shifts trigger U.S. extreme cold snaps despite warming: study

    JERUSALEM, July 11 (Xinhua) — An international research group has found that extreme cold snaps in the United States are driven by disruptions in a high-altitude Arctic air mass called the polar vortex, Hebrew University of Jerusalem said Friday in a statement.

    The study, published in Science Advances, reveals that when the vortex stretches over 16 km above Earth, it pushes freezing air into North America. Two distinct patterns were identified: one targets the U.S. Northwest and western Canada, while the other brings icy conditions to central and eastern states, according to the statement.

    These events link to atmospheric wave shifts that bend the jet stream, dragging Arctic air southward. Since 2015, U.S. Northwest cold extremes increased due to a westward-shifting vortex pattern amplified by Pacific climate cycles.

    The study underscores that climate change causes not just warming but also unpredictable severe weather, said the statement, adding that the study helps explain recent deadly freezes in Texas and the Central Plains. Enditem

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  • White House ramps up pressure on Fed’s Powell three weeks before next interest rate decision

    White House ramps up pressure on Fed’s Powell three weeks before next interest rate decision

    President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign against the Federal Reserve and Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates entered a new front this week.

    The latest line of attack comes from Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, who wrote to Powell on Thursday to call out the renovation of the Federal Reserve’s Washington headquarters.

    “The President is extremely troubled by your mismanagement of the Federal Reserve System,” Vought wrote in a letter posted to X. “Instead of attempting to right the Fed’s fiscal ship, you have plowed ahead with an ostentatious overhaul of your Washington, D.C. headquarters.”

    Asked by reporters Friday if he planned to fire the Fed chief, Trump said “no.” But fears persist. Trump’s attacks against Powell have been unrelenting, calling him everything from “very stupid” to insulting him as a “low IQ” person, and even saying, “I think he hates me.”

    Vought, a longtime trusted Trump aide and veteran of his first term – when he served in the budget office in multiple roles – seized on testimony that Powell gave to the Senate Banking Committee on June 25, when he was asked by Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., about the Fed’s renovations. Scott told Powell that “Americans have lost confidence in the Federal Reserve since 2021.”

    “During this time of hardship, the Fed has spent billions on lavish renovations to its D.C. offices. We’re talking about rooftop terraces, custom elevators that open into VIP dining rooms, white marble finishes and even a private art collection,” Scott claimed.

    Powell promised the committee a detailed response in writing, before saying, “Generally, I would just say we do take seriously our responsibility as stewards of the public’s money.”

    Powell then responded to each of Scott’s questions about the renovation: “There’s no [VIP] dining room. There’s no new marble. We took down the old marble, we’re putting it back up. We’ll have to use new marble, where some of the old marble broke. But there’s no special elevators. There’s just old elevators that have been there. There are no new water features. There’s no beehives, and there’s no roof terrace gardens.”

    Vought, in his letter, said Powell’s testimony “raises serious questions about the project’s compliance with the National Capital Planning Act.” Just days ago, the White House appointed three new members to the National Capital Planning Committee who have direct ties to Trump and his administration.

    Speaking Friday morning on CNBC, Vought further criticized Powell for building what he called “a palace” that he said would be “offensive for anyone going to the National Mall.”

    But when pressed multiple times by CNBC about whether he would have posted his letter to Powell on social media if the Federal Reserve chair had expressed willingness to cut the interest rate at the July 30 meeting, Vought struggled to answer.

    “The President is a builder. He’s horrified by the notion of cost overruns,” Vought said before turning his argument back to what he calls Powell’s “fiscal mismanagement of the Fed.”

    Vought’s letter comes amid near-constant attacks from the president and his top aides against the central bank chief. Those attacks have also roiled markets. In April, just as Wall Street was starting to recover from a tariff-induced sell-off, Trump’s criticism of Powell sent them spiraling again.

    Days later, Trump said he had “no intention” to fire Powell, and markets rose.

    In May, the Supreme Court allowed Trump to fire several independent agency members but suggested that its legal reasoning would not apply to the Federal Reserve. The court noted that the Federal Reserve is a “uniquely structured, quasi-private entity” that has its own distinct historical tradition.

    Powell has been asked repeatedly if he would leave the central bank if Trump asked him to or tried to fire him. “No,” was Powell’s stern one-word response in November. He has repeated the same answer since.

    In early July, at a central banking conference, Powell was asked about Trump’s continued attacks. “I’m very focused on just doing my job,” he said, before adding that the only matters important to him are fulfilling the Fed’s congressionally mandated remits of full employment and price stability.

    Central bank leaders in other countries and the European Union said they would be handling the pressure “exactly” as Powell has. Typically, the central banks of the European Union, U.K., Japan, Canada and Switzerland look to the Fed’s independent decisions to help guide their own.

    The Federal Reserve is the world’s most important central bank. It was established to make independent monetary policy decisions and is responsible for key national functions such as distributing dollars and coins, acting as the “government’s bank,” and even processing checks. Its board members and governors typically serve across multiple presidential terms.

    When the central bank makes a decision to lower, raise or keep interest rates steady, its 12-member Federal Open Market Committee votes on that decision. In theory, the Fed chair could be outvoted at any meeting if the rest of the committee disagrees with his or her views.

    Interest rate decisions have wide-ranging impacts for not only American consumers and businesses but for the global economy, which is why the independence of the Fed is so important. Rate decisions could lower or raise borrowing costs for anyone who has a mortgage, car loan, credit card or personal loan.

    More recently, Trump has expanded his attacks to include the committee, saying that they should be “ashamed” of current policy. “The Board just sits there and watches, so they are equally to blame. We should be paying 1% Interest, or better,” Trump said in a social media posting. Trump nominated Powell during his first term and nominated two other currently serving Fed board members as well.

    “Our Fed Rate is AT LEAST 3 Points too high,” Trump said on Truth Social this week.

    A large interest rate cut, like the one that Trump has repeatedly called for, would signal a financial emergency. The last time the Fed cut rates so dramatically was the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when the Fed slashed rates to near zero as the global economy came to a halt.

    But the Fed remains on hold, thanks to Trump’s own dizzying array of tariffs. Powell said earlier this month that the Federal Reserve would have cut rates by now if Trump’s tariffs weren’t so substantial.

    “In effect, we went on hold when we saw the size of the tariffs, and essentially all inflation forecasts for the United States went up materially as a consequence of the tariffs. We didn’t overreact. In fact, we didn’t react at all; we’re simply taking some time.”

    If Powell was removed or the president attempted to fire him, it could have far-ranging impacts.

    “In the unlikely event that Fed Chair Powell is removed or steps down before his term ends in May 2026,” U.S. government debt yields would likely surge, raising the cost for the government to borrow money, analysts at ING said Friday. Stocks would also “likely sell off” given that removal would be “an unprecedented event for the market to get its head around.”

    ING analysts also wrote that the removal of the Fed chair could “trigger a new round of severe downward volatility in the dollar, and the damage would be there to stay.” A weaker dollar would make it more expensive for U.S. companies to import products from overseas and would even make it more expensive for Americans to travel abroad.

    The Federal Reserve declined to comment on Vought’s letter.

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  • Gwadar to Persian Gulf: Ahsan for early commencement of transshipment operations

    Gwadar to Persian Gulf: Ahsan for early commencement of transshipment operations





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  • EPQL seeks urgent approval to use indigenous gas

    EPQL seeks urgent approval to use indigenous gas





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  • Chris Curtis’s Newfound Confidence | UFC

    Chris Curtis’s Newfound Confidence | UFC

    Curtis at middleweight had some notable feats, including some records. Curtis has made a lasting impression on the active middleweight records as he is ranked 3rd in takedown defense, 7th  fortotal fight night bonuses, 9th in significant strikes landed and 5th in strikes landed per minute at 6.07. 

    These stats share a story of someone that wants to entertain and has a knack for putting on a show. Curtis is certainly game bred and ready to do just that.

    Full Nashville Fight Card Preview

    “I feel at home at 170. Against other welterweights, I feel strong again, me having that confidence of not worrying about being undersized lets me fight the way that I am comfortable fighting. I get to go back to the style of fighting that I had before, mixed with some new stuff. It’s a confidence thing, but I feel ready and that I belong at 170.”

    It will be interesting to see how Curtis adjusts to going down and if the power will translate like speed usually does. His opponent, Max Griffin, is another seasoned veteran at almost 40 years of age. Griffin also has power in his hands, so expectations are high for a striker’s delight.


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  • CHAMONIX SPEED FINALS CUT OFF TIMES FASTEST IN HISTORY

    CHAMONIX SPEED FINALS CUT OFF TIMES FASTEST IN HISTORY

    The women’s Speed qualification continued where Kraków left off with the top three places taken by the medal winners in Poland last week.

    In a little mix up of the positions, qualification in Chamonix saw Poland’s Aleksandra Miroslaw in top spot with Indonesia’s Desak Dewi fresh off a first-ever World Cup gold in second and USA’s Emma Hunt in third. The best time of the day was 6.38s from world record holder Miroslaw.

    One climber doing things a little different from Kraków is Hunt’s teammate Isis Rothfork: “I’m very happy with my qualification because Kraków was bad. I was kind of stressed going into this comp and I changed my goals a little bit. I wanted the emphasis on good, quality runs over just being fast and I was able to do well by my standards.”

    Lowering her personal best time to 7.01s to place in 11th overall, Rothfork isolated her thoughts ahead of the competition: “I changed how I was thinking, not how I was climbing.

    “I had some good training before this in Switzerland, and it’s always nice to have good times in training going into a comp but with Speed you can have good times and a bad comp, so I think my mental switch was more key than anything else.”

    With a final round to now look forward to, Rothfork has some new goals and targets to hit: “I’ll just try and take it one step at a time. I’ve never won a race in finals so to PB in the competition and win a race would be nice.”

    The Chamonix qualification was the fastest ever with China’s Zhang Shaoqin time of 7.08s the cut off in 16thplace, and Italy’s Beatrice Colli was maybe caught a little off guard by the times: “I was surprised with 7.03 I was 14th, it’s crazy, everyone is going so fast now.”

    Making it through, Colli gave her thoughts on her round: “I’m happy because Chamonix is always the best place to compete and before qualification, I was feeling great and wanted to do my best. I couldn’t do my best though because I had bad reaction time as I was thinking too much about a false start.”

    While the final is dominated by Poland, Indonesia, USA and China, the Chamonix crowd will have a home nation climber to cheer for as Olympian Capucine Viglione made it through in 12th place.

    Women’s finals competitors

    1 Aleksandra MIROSLAW (POL) 6.38
    2 Desak MADE RITA KUSUMA DEWI (INA) 6.42
    3 Emma HUNT (USA) 6.54
    4 ZHOU Yafei (CHN) 6.54
    5 QIN Yumei (CHN) 6.55
    6 JEONG Jimin (KOR) 6.59
    7 Natalia KALUCKA (POL) 6.60
    8 Aleksandra KALUCKA (POL) 6.80
    9 ZHANG Mengli (CHN) 6.89
    10 Rajiah SALLSABILLAH (INA) 6.94
    11 Isis ROTHFORK (USA) 7.01
    12 Capucine VIGLIONE (FRA) 7.01
    13 Giulia RANDI (ITA) 7.03
    14 Beatrice COLLI (ITA) 7.03
    15 Leslie Adriana ROMERO PÉREZ (ESP) 7.07
    16 ZHANG Shaoqin (CHN) 7.08

    Full women’s qualification Speed results here

    News and updates about the event will be available on the IFSC website and on the Federation’s digital channels: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, and exclusively for the Chinese audience, Douyin, Weibo, and Xiaohongshu.


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  • Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of July 11; Updates from Barracuda, Commvault, CoreWeave & More

    Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of July 11; Updates from Barracuda, Commvault, CoreWeave & More

    Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of July 11, 2025.

    Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy storage and data protection news items.

    For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.

    Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of July 11, 2025

    Barracuda Launches Entra ID Backup Premium to Fortify Identity Data Protection

    Barracuda has introduced Entra ID Backup Premium, a comprehensive SaaS solution designed to safeguard Microsoft Entra ID environments from both accidental and malicious data loss. The new offering extends protection beyond Microsoft’s native 30-day retention, enabling rapid recovery of the 13 most vital identity components—including users, groups, roles, and authentication policies.

    Read the full press release: Barracuda Unveils Entra ID Backup Premium

    Cerebras Launches Qwen3-235B: The World’s Fastest Frontier AI Model with 131K Context

    Cerebras has unveiled Qwen3-235B, a groundbreaking AI reasoning model now available on the Cerebras Inference Cloud. Boasting a massive 131,000-token context window, Qwen3-235B delivers code generation and reasoning at 30 times the speed and one-tenth the cost of leading closed-source alternatives.

    Read the full press release: Cerebras Launches Qwen3-235B

    Cloudian Unveils Unified AI Inferencing and Data Storage Platform

    Cloudian has launched a breakthrough platform that integrates high-performance object storage with AI inferencing capabilities, dramatically simplifying enterprise AI infrastructure. The new solution combines Cloudian HyperStore’s industry-leading storage—delivering up to 35GB/s per node—with integrated support for the Milvus vector database, enabling real-time, low-latency AI inferencing on petabyte-scale datasets.

    Read the full press release: Cloudian Delivers Integrated AI Inferencing and Data Storage Solution

    Platform9 and Commvault Unite to Deliver Advanced Private Cloud Data Protection

    Platform9 and Commvault have announced a strategic partnership, integrating Commvault’s advanced backup and cyber resilience capabilities into Platform9’s Private Cloud Director. This unified solution delivers agentless, application-consistent backup and granular file recovery for both virtual machines and Kubernetes workloads, enabling enterprises to meet recovery targets and maintain robust data protection across private cloud environments.

    Read the full article: Commvault and Platform9 Integration

    Datafy Raises $20M to Slash Cloud Storage Costs with Autonomous Optimization

    Datafy, a startup specializing in autonomous cloud storage optimization, has secured $20 million in seed funding. Their platform offers a hands-off, automated layer that helps businesses cut cloud storage waste and costs—reportedly reducing AWS EBS expenses by up to 40 percent for some customers. The funding will accelerate Datafy’s growth and bring new storage optimization features to market, helping organizations scale efficiently without sacrificing performance.

    Read the full press release: Datafy Raises $20M Seed Funding

    AI-Driven Cloud Demand Powers Record Q2 Growth in Global IT and Business Services

    The latest ISG Index reveals that surging demand for cloud services—driven by enterprise AI initiatives—propelled the global IT and business services market to a record $29.2 billion in Q2, up 17 percent year-over-year. Cloud-based “as-a-service” (XaaS) offerings soared 28 percent, fueled by infrastructure investments from major hyperscalers, while managed services saw steady growth.

    Read the full press release: AI-Driven Cloud Demand Fuels Q2 Growth in Global IT and Business Services Market: ISG Index

    Oracle Database@AWS Now Generally Available

    Oracle and AWS have announced the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS, allowing customers to run Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database on OCI within AWS. Initially available in Northern Virginia and Oregon, with plans for 20 more regions, this service offers seamless data integration, zero-ETL pipelines, and embedded AI vector capabilities.

    Read the full announcement: Oracle Database@AWS Now Generally Available

    Rackspace Launches OpenStack Business for Mission-Critical and Regulated Workloads

    Rackspace has introduced Rackspace OpenStack Business, a fully managed, open-source private cloud solution built for organizations running mission-critical or regulated workloads. This new offering delivers scalable performance, enhanced security, and operational support—without vendor lock-in. Designed for privacy and control, it’s ideal for enterprises seeking dedicated infrastructure for application development, modernization, and compliance-heavy environments.

    Read the full press release: Rackspace Unveils OpenStack Business

    SambaNova Launches First Turnkey AI Inference Solution for Data Centers

    SambaNova has introduced SambaManaged, a turnkey AI inference solution for data centers that can be deployed in just 90 days—far faster than the industry norm. The modular system, powered by SambaNova’s SN40L AI chips, enables existing data centers to offer high-performance AI inference services with minimal infrastructure changes. This innovation addresses the growing demand for rapid, scalable AI infrastructure and is already being adopted by major public companies.

    Read the full press release: SambaNova Launches Turnkey AI Inference Solution

    WEKA Debuts NeuralMesh Axon for Exascale AI Deployments

    WEKA has introduced NeuralMesh Axon, a breakthrough storage system designed for exascale AI workloads. Leveraging a fusion architecture, NeuralMesh Axon delivers up to 20x faster AI performance and 90 percent GPU utilization, addressing the challenges of large-scale AI training and inference. The system integrates seamlessly with GPU servers and AI factories, enabling organizations to accelerate AI model development, reduce costs, and maximize infrastructure efficiency.

    Read the full press release: WEKA Debuts NeuralMesh Axon

    Expert Insights

    Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

    What to Expect at Solutions Review‘s Radware with Sigma on July 24

    The hour-long webinar will be hosted by Michael Morgenstern, Partner at DayBlink Consulting, and feature insights from Eva Abergel, a Senior Solution Expert at Radware. Their discussion will cover how AI-driven security solutions can detect anomalies, mitigate cyber-attacks, protect critical infrastructure, and more.

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    6 Must-Have Human-Centric Skills for the AI Age by Tim King

    Yet despite this shift, most organizations are not prepared. A proprietary study of over 200 senior tech professionals (get the research by my team and I here)—including AI practitioners, cybersecurity leaders, and IT executives—reveals a stark disconnect: while nearly all respondents believe human-centered skills are vital for the AI age, the vast majority admit their organizations lack the structure, time, or training mechanisms to develop them.

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    Mini Jam Highlights On-Demand: Who is Responsible for AI Agent Decisions?

    Our cybersecurity experts tackle the critical question of accountability when AI agents make independent security decisions, exploring who bears responsibility for autonomous AI actions in enterprise environments. They discuss the governance frameworks, identity management challenges, and strategic approaches needed to deploy agentic AI in cybersecurity while maintaining clear accountability chains.

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    Take the Tech Leader Survey – Spring 2025 Now

    In partnership with Skiilify Co-Founder and distinguished Northeastern University Professor Paula Caligiuri, PhD, we’ve just launched our latest enterprise tech leader Survey to uncover how thought leaders are thinking about disruption in this AI moment.

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