IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent, Making Real Time Data the Engine of Enterprise AI and Agents

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today completed its acquisition of Confluent, Inc., the data streaming platform that more than 6,500 enterprises, including 40% of the Fortune 500, rely on to power real-time ...

Everpure smashes AI infrastructure bottlenecks with Data Stream, Evergreen//One for AI, and the world's fastest storage systems

Enterprise AI may be booming but the reality inside many organisations is far less glamorous: stalled pilots, overwhelmed ...
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Cancelled or renewed? Marshals, The Night Agent and more!

Which series are coming to an end or are being cancelled? Is your favorite show returning for a new season? Discover all the cancelled, finished, or renewed series in 2026.

When It Comes to Prediction Markets, Nobody Knows Anything

Legal experts say no one can confidently predict how courts or regulators will ultimately rule on prediction markets, leaving plenty of uncertainty.
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SepJoin: A Distributed Stream Join System with Low Latency and High Throughput

Abstract: In the field of real-time analytics, stream joins are the basis for complex queries and greatly affect system performance. In order to satisfy the real-time requirements of streaming ...
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A Russian schoolteacher smuggled footage abroad and made an award-winning documentary about wartime propaganda. Here’s how his hometown reacted.

Karabash used to be called “the most polluted city in the world,” but then, in 2025, it achieved fame thanks instead to the documentary film Mr. Nobody against Putin. Now the film is up for an Oscar.