Irwin Lazar

Wood in RF?

Excited for #ZohoDay26 kicking off shortly. Can't wait to hear about Zoho's initiatives for the rest of 2026 and beyond.

#SweetFancyMoses Thank you everyone!
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Your coverage will be missed @jessedougherty.bsky.social

Sorry to hear @andrewgolden.bsky.social , your Nats coverage will be sorely missed.

What could possibly go wrong?

This Is the Vaccine Story RFK Jr. Doesn’t Want You to Hear The Trump administration says we should learn from other countries. Maybe they should have looked someplace besides Denmark.

You want to read this: www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-th...

Agentic AI poised to transform workplace collaboration AI in workplace collaboration is rapidly moving beyond summarization and content generation.

My latest for No Jitter looks at how agentic AI will transform the way employees work with apps, data, and each other.

www.nojitter.com/digital-work...

Best of luck to you @markzuckerman.bsky.social ! And thanks for all the Nats news and insights that you have shared over the years. I look forward to many more!

Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credible

Another similarity of LLMs to humans: if you expose them to a lot of disinformation, they will believe it. Which you can exploit, apparently called "LLM grooming". So LLMs fail at three levels: /1 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

🚨Analyst News Roundup – 3rd Quarter 2025 🚨

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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.

@cloudflare.social blames a configuration file issue for yesterday's outage:

blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

It’s time for a Microsoft Teams reality check Microsoft dominates the UCaaS market, but challengers dog its heels.

As #MSIgnite ramps up today, here's what our latest Metrigy research says about Microsoft Teams, and more importantly, what customers are saying about it. #MicrosoftTeams

www.nojitter.com/digital-work...

Connected Workspace Apps Aim to Minimize Busywork The era of app-switching could soon be over once digital workspaces harness AI to add task management and workflows to a centralized viritual space.

My latest No Jitter post looks at the evolution of collaboration workspaces and whether or not AI will become the de facto user interface for work.

www.nojitter.com/digital-work...

43 years in the game and Donny Baseball finally makes it to the fall classic after multiple near-misses.

Larry Ellison at Oracle AIWorld

At #AIWorld Oracle's Larry Ellison talks about the impact of AI noting that the "biggest opportunity is the use of models to solve humanity's most difficult and enduring problems."

Kicking off the @cisco.com press and analyst meeting at #WebexOne 2025 in San Diego with Anurag Dhingra!

Spending a few days with Lumen at their annual analyst forum. This year's theme is "The Trusted Network for AI” #lumenAR

RHP Davey Johnson - the guy who got the Nationals over the hump and into the playoffs.

Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's ‘Nearly Unusable’ for Enterprise Independent red teams have jailbroken GPT-5 within 24 hours of release, exposing severe vulnerabilities in context handling and guardrail enforcement, warning model is not enterprise-ready.

Red teams quickly hack #GPT-5:

www.securityweek.com/red-teams-br...

You had mail: AOL finally discontinues dial-up Internet service More than 40 years after starting as a very early Apple service, AOL is finally ending its dial-up Internet service, shuttering a service that helped usher in the Internet age for tens of millions of ...

End of an era: AOL cancels dial-up Internet services.

appleinsider.com/articles/25/...

Great article. Thanks for sharing. Definitely tough to be optimistic right now.

MetriNote - NiCE Plans Cognigy Buy to Bolster Conversational AI, Agentics NiCE has announced plans to acquire industry-leading AI agent provider, Cognigy, for $955 million; regulatory approval is pending. Once the deal is finalized, NiCE plans to operate Cognigy as a separa...

As you probably have heard by now, NiCE has announced an intent to acquire Cognigy to expand its #Agentic #AI offerings. Metrigy's Robin Gareiss shares her take, and provides guidance for #CX leaders, in this complementary research note:
metrigy.com/product/metr...

Golden earring - Twilight zone YouTube video by I-Ascend

Been a rough week for music, lost in all the other news is the passing of George Kooymans, lead guitarist and co-vocalist for Golden Earring. He's credited with writing their iconic hit "Twilight Zone". RIP.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf...

Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman, dies at 76 Word of Osbourne’s demise came weeks after the ailing front man reunited with his original Black Sabbath bandmates.

RIP Ozzy. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Microsoft SharePoit vulnerability info: www.cnbc.com/2025/07/21/m...

any news on Crews?

Thinking critically about a new study on AI and cognition New results suggesting that the use of AI causes cognitive deficits have triggered widespread fear, but is this interpretation justified?

Great post by Dr. Peter Attia on what the recently hyped MIT study on cognition and AI may mean, and what it doesn't mean:
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peterattiamd.com/ai-and-cogni...

The 2025 #InfoComm wrapped with 39,579 registrants, 817 exhibitors and 30,998 verified attendees from 97 countries. And 35% of verified attendees were end users - a new record! 🎉

Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. See you in Vegas in 2026 and back in Orlando in 2027!