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Cybersecurity Leadership In The AI Era: What CISOs Are Rethinking Now?

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  In this episode of TechDogs Discover Dialogues Fireside Chat, host Vikramsinh Ghatge brings together Deb Briggs, VP and Chief Information Security Officer at NETSCOUT; Cynthia Overby, Director, Strategic Security Solutions, zCOE at Rocket Software; and Ajay Agrawal, Chief Information Security Officer at Gainsight, for a practical discussion on cybersecurity leadership in the AI era. The CISO roundtable explores how security leaders are moving beyond AI experimentation toward stronger governance and disciplined risk management, covering emerging cyber threats, shadow AI, identity security, third-party dependencies, supply chain exposure, vulnerability management, and the growing challenge of communicating cyber risk to business leaders and boards. A key theme of the conversation is the systemic risk created by third-party and cloud concentration. As organizations increasingly depend on a limited number of cloud providers, managed service providers, and technology partners, a singl...
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Tracking Social Media Performance On Google Search Console

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  Google Search Console is expanding beyond traditional websites by allowing brands and creators to track how their content on social platforms performs in Google Search. The new platform properties feature, now globally available, supports Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube. Users can monitor Google-driven clicks, impressions, search queries, click-through rates, and average position for each verified social account or channel, giving them a clearer picture of how audiences discover their content through search. Setting up the feature requires users to add and verify each social media account as a separate property. Once connected, Search Console provides Performance, Insights, and Achievements reports that highlight traffic trends, leading content, search queries, and key milestones. Users can filter data by posts, dates, countries, devices, and search surfaces, helping them identify content that is gaining visibility or attracting interest over time. The integration gives brands ...
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How To Switch From ChatGPT To Claude: Step By Step Guide

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  Switching from ChatGPT to Claude is less about moving an entire account and more about rebuilding your AI workspace. While Claude offers an official memory-import process that can help bring over useful preferences, work habits, and recurring context, it does not automatically transfer your ChatGPT conversations, Custom GPTs, uploaded files, or integrations. Before making the move, review the information you plan to import and remove anything outdated, inaccurate, confidential, or sensitive. The transition starts by moving the context that matters most. Claude’s memory import feature can help bring over preferences and work-related details from ChatGPT, while custom instructions and reusable prompts can be copied manually. Account-wide preferences can be added to Claude’s instructions, while client-specific rules, publication guidelines, and workflow requirements are better placed inside individual Claude Projects. This helps keep your AI workspace organized and ensures that each...
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Elon Musk Unveils New Payment Platform X Money: Everything You Need To Know

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  Elon Musk's long-promised vision of an "everything app" is taking a major step into financial services with X Money. Beginning its rollout on July 27, 2026, the service is currently available to select U.S. Premium and Premium+ subscribers aged 18 and above. It brings peer-to-peer payments, direct deposits, bill payments, checks, wire transfers, and a Visa debit card into the X platform, allowing users to manage everyday financial activities alongside social and creator interactions. X Money is designed to function more like a fintech wallet or neobank experience than a traditional bank. Users can send money to other X users, receive paychecks through direct deposit, and access an interest-bearing account. Premium+ users can earn up to 6.00% APY, while eligible card purchases can provide 3% cashback. The X Money Card also supports Apple Wallet, has no foreign transaction fees, and offers ATM fee reimbursement under the stated terms. Cross River Bank serves as the regula...
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HR In The AI Era Must Stay Deeply Human Ft. Arppna Mehra

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  In this episode of TechDogs Discover Dialogues, host Vikramsinh Ghatge speaks with Arppna Mehra, Vice President Human Resources at Honeywell, about how HR leadership is transforming in an era defined by AI, business disruption, shifting workplace cultures, workforce agility, and evolving employee expectations. Drawing on her three-decade career, Arppna reflects on how HR has progressed from personnel management to human resources and, increasingly, to people experience. Her leadership philosophy was shaped by an early decision to move beyond traditional HR processes and understand the business firsthand by engaging with line managers, sales, manufacturing, operations, supply chain teams, and customers. A key theme of the conversation is the shift from control-led HR to trust-led leadership. Arppna explains that while HR was once heavily focused on compliance, policies, processes, and predictable execution, modern organizations need HR leaders who enable people and businesses to a...
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Is AI Draining Our Water Supply? The Hidden Cost Of Data Centers

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  Artificial Intelligence may seem weightless and instantaneous, but every prompt depends on a vast physical infrastructure of processors, data centers, cooling systems, electricity grids, and semiconductor factories. These systems consume significant resources, including water. While AI is not single-handedly draining water supplies worldwide, the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is raising concerns about its impact on water-stressed regions. The extent of this impact depends on factors such as climate, location, cooling technology, energy sources, and whether facilities use freshwater, reclaimed water, or closed-loop systems. Water is required at several stages of the AI ecosystem. Data centers may use evaporative cooling to manage the heat generated by high-density computing equipment, while electricity generation and chip manufacturing add indirect water demands. Estimates of AI's water consumption vary widely because they depend on the model, workload, hardware, location, ...
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From Software Marketplaces To Agentic Commerce Ft. Andy Sen, CTO And Co-Founder At AppDirect

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  In this episode of TechDogs Discover Dialogues, host Vikramsinh Ghatge speaks with Andy Sen, CTO and Co-Founder at AppDirect, about the evolution of software commerce and the forces reshaping how businesses discover, purchase, manage, and scale technology. Drawing from his experience across IBM eBusiness, Walmart Labs, Salesforce, and AppDirect, Andy explores the journey from traditional enterprise software sales to SaaS subscriptions, digital marketplaces, and emerging AI-driven productivity. Andy explains how SaaS transformed software buying by replacing large upfront investments, lengthy sales cycles, on-premise deployments, and complex upgrades with cloud-based subscriptions and continuous product improvements. He also highlights the rise of user-led adoption, where employees and teams increasingly discover and adopt software before formal enterprise procurement begins. As software stacks become more complex, marketplaces and ecosystems have become increasingly important, hel...
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