This Monday, let's think about how will you take action on your data strategy this week. Leaders are acutely aware that business results matter, and their data strategies should reflect this reality.

Data storytelling matters: Context adds clarity Empathy drives engagement Action follows understanding In my book, Artificial Intelligence With Microsoft Power BI, I share strategies for making analytics accessible How are you using #dataviz to create business impact? zurl.co/bDxhJ

Why 60% of #AI initiatives fail: Data matters. #MakeYourDataWork zurl.co/bRrxs

Google hires Windsurf execs in $2.4 billion deal to advance AI coding ambitions zurl.co/smw4a

Game changers: The players saving money by going retro zurl.co/bEUmb

AI web browsers are the new trend, but will ChatGPT and Perplexity Chrome competitors turn out to be a fad? zurl.co/dvpe2

How This Hollywood Producer Turned Brad Pitt Into A $40 Million ‘F1’ human billboard. Mercedes, IWC, Expensify and other brands paid millions to sponsor a fictional #F1 team in Apple’s new movie, which blurs the line between cinema and commerce. zurl.co/vcrNW

Nvidia’s $4 Trillion Market Cap Highlights Extreme Concentration in #AI Market zurl.co/WMP0s

Hacker, Wanted By US For Stealing COVID-19 Data, Arrested In Italy, The US believes the he was linked to a state-sponsored hacking group known as Hafnium that was accused of penetrating Microsoft email software in 2021 in a mass espionage campaign. zurl.co/fo6Si

Australia’s largest airline Qantas has confirmed that the recent data breach impacted 5.7 million individuals. zurl.co/VGRmO

DoNot APT, a cyberespionage group, targets European foreign ministries with LoptikMod malware. zurl.co/hyKQ8

Microsoft Outlook Down — Email Outage Confirmed, What We Know So Far zurl.co/LiY5j

Palantir accuses UK doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row. Tech firm’s chief, Louis Mosley, dismisses fears that contract ‘threatens to undermine public trust in NHS data systems’ zurl.co/nBOYC

Four arrested in connection with M&S and Co-op cyber-attacks zurl.co/V2SBi

Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, say scientists. Discovering we're living alone could solve one of the biggest problems in space science zurl.co/sgaeN

Microsoft Makes AI Mandatory For Employees: What It Means For Your Career zurl.co/H8NIY

Nvidia becomes world's first $4tn company zurl.co/m5VPo

European heatwave caused 2,300 deaths in 10 days, study finds. Researchers find human-caused climate change raised temperatures by up to 4C, with 1,500 deaths linked directly to it. #climatechange zurl.co/6WtVO

ChatGPT is no match for a 40-year-old digital Pocket Chess game, and I bet Garry Kasparov would be pleased zurl.co/SXAyh << my uncle had this game!!!

Iranian hackers threaten to release treasure trove of White House emails zurl.co/vplRW

Microsoft cuts another 4% of its workforce, about 9,000 jobs, in continued efficiency push zurl.co/6waCX << I hope they are not replacing them because of their #AI technology. Even the chatbot on their Azure calculator is poor. I wonder when they will start to rehire. smh

NCSC Warns of SHOE RACK Malware Abusing DOH and SSH to Attack Fortinet Firewalls zurl.co/qpEjN

Do Not Use These Networks On Your Smartphone, Warns Google. Scam detection is one of the new security features leveraging on-device AI processing but users need to opt-in to use it. It should be part of the setup zurl.co/GUzlF

Russian billionaire and Putin critic launches AI data centres in the UK. Dutch tech company to invest £200m in UK as Government aims to boost tech sector zurl.co/9IpSm

British ‘hacker’ accused of £18m cybercrime plot by US zurl.co/MfVfz

How to get free software from yesteryear's IT crowd – trick code into thinking it's running on a rival PC..... oh no, not again! zurl.co/7wSLa

How an 'AI bodyguard' could help to keep women safe on the streets of London. How did we get to this point? zurl.co/80Xbl

Google's AlphaGenome AI Makes DNA Readable—And It's on GitHub AlphaGenome, accessible via API, cracks the “junk DNA” code, outperforms top rivals in key tests, and puts advanced genomics tools within reach of labs around the world. zurl.co/dlXyr

Google Debuts Gemini AI Coding Tool in Bid to Entice Developers zurl.co/RovMw

Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books zurl.co/tu5OO #AI

What to do if your tablet is lost or stolen: tips to help ease your concerns zurl.co/40czX

Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices zurl.co/dNm3j

Ransomware attack contributed to patient's death zurl.co/LXafH

North Face and Cartier customer data stolen in cyber attacks zurl.co/jdjyc

Researchers discovered a massive 631GB unsecured database containing around 4 billion records, mainly involving Chinese users. The supermassive data leak likely exposed hundreds of millions of users, primarily from China. The database was left without a password. zurl.co/uqJVc

New UK #AI #datacentre could cause five times emissions of Birmingham airport Exclusive: emissions from power-hungry warehouses at Lincolnshire facility expected to be 850,000 tonnes a year zurl.co/H4S11

What if the Big Bang wasn't the beginning? Research suggests it may have taken place inside a black hole. zurl.co/CLWZ7

This is #AI in action, and I'm sure people can get behind an AI email tool that can ‘answer in your style’. Demis Hassabis, head of Google DeepMind, says he wants AI to clear inboxes by making ‘some of the easier decisions’ zurl.co/9fBSg

How to handle the AI manager. zurl.co/UP08S #podcast

Risk of a star destroying the solar system is higher than expected. Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into space zurl.co/MLRog

Co-op narrowly avoided an even worse cyber attack zurl.co/6bORQ

Student's robot obliterates 4x4 Rubik's cube world record zurl.co/3ssiL #robotics

Spotify’s AI DJ now takes requests! Voice commands allow users to change the vibe or play specific artists and genres. I like the #AI DJ feature and I've been using it more frequently. I'm looking forward to trying it out. zurl.co/c0sBI

Exceptionally low river flows forecast across UK as drought threat grows. Predicted dry, warm weather likely to increase pressure on rivers, whose flows are already far below normal. zurl.co/PM7Ub #climate

Excited to see '#Python for #Mathematics' by @drvinceknight publish later this month from @CRC_MathStats. The book has the reader using and understanding the tools that are going to be helpful to them as mathematicians. routledge.com/Python-for-M...

M&S admits customers' personal data was stolen by hackers in cyber attack www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/m-an... #cybercrime

Book Review: Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core blog.greglow.com/2025/05/14/b...

Chinese games and esports drive cultural momentum on the global stage. Myth reimagined! zurl.co/QfgYm

How Lost Radar and Silent Radios Have Upended Newark Air Travel. A technical outage in Philadelphia last week terrified air traffic controllers and stranded passengers. As the summer travel season looms, the F.A.A. is racing to address the problems. zurl.co/MsLrl

Aviation industry is ‘failing dramatically’ on climate, insiders say. Professionals call for a fundamental transition including controlling flight numbers. zurl.co/DpxDK