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International Data Corp.

IDC is a global market research and advisory firm providing data, forecasts, and analysis on technology markets, including IT, software, and emerging tech.

Known aliases

  • IDC
  • IDC Asia Pacific
  • idc.com
  • International Data Corp.
  • International Data Corporation

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Current stories

security12 publishers

Attackers reach admin on Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager by encoding one URL character

Cisco says attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-76504, a 9.8-rated flaw that gives unauthenticated requests admin access to the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API. Every configuration is affected, leaving exposed on-premises Managers needing an out-of-cycle upgrade and a check for earlier intrusion.

Perspective Coverage

12 publishers
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Builder 14%
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Operator 76%
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Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence85
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives40
Confidence80
security2 publishers

Sophos starts selling an agentic AI service that ranks and prices security fixes for boards

Sophos made CISO Advantage generally available, an agentic AI service that turns a security assessment into a ranked, costed fix list for leadership to fund. The pitch puts a vendor-ranked spending plan in front of boards, either directly or through MSPs that already act as a customer's stand-in security chief.

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption10
Hype gap+45
Incentives85
Confidence65
build3 publishers

Huawei reserves the Kirin 9050 Pro for its top Mate 90 models

Huawei's Mate 90 launch gives the Kirin 9050 Pro only to its top editions, with a Kirin 9035 in the Pro and a Kirin 9030 in the standard model. Richard Yu said smartphone chip capacity remains tight and is shared with Huawei's Ascend AI chips.

Publishers:d2233.cms.socastsrm.comeconomictimes.indiatimes.comen.prnasia.commezha.net

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
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Builder 40%
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Operator 29%
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Investor 31%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption30
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence60
build11 publishers

Meta gave Muse Charm its own 5G modem so its AI agent can work without Wi-Fi

Meta's new pocket device opens its Muse agent with one tap and reaches the network over a 5G modem of its own. The modem is what lets an assistant stop inheriting Apple's and Google's app rules.

Perspective Coverage

11 publishers
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Builder 27%
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Operator 40%
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Investor 33%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption25
Hype gap+35
Incentives60
Confidence60
product5 publishers

Micron expects much tighter memory supply in 2027 and 2028

Micron's latest guidance says memory and storage supply will be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than in 2026. Teams buying hardware for those years should plan without relief, since the company says it cannot see when supply and demand will balance again.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
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Builder 24%
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Operator 41%
Investor
Investor 35%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption75
Hype gap+15
Incentives70
Confidence70
product1 publisher

Omnissa pitches Elara at the unapproved AI assistants employees run on work devices

Omnissa launched Elara for AI governance, citing its own report that AI-assistant use on work devices grew nearly 1,000% in 2025, mostly via unapproved tools. For endpoint teams it is a new category to assess, and the controls Omnissa described attach most clearly to agents IT has already granted access.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+40
Incentives75
Confidence40
leadership7 publishers

Meta launches camera-free Ray-Ban Audio glasses as venues continue banning camera-equipped models over privacy concerns

Nightclubs, restaurants and DEFCON banned Meta glasses because they film. The new audio pair drops the camera, keeps the microphones and the Muse agent, and from the front it looks like an ordinary Ray-Ban.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
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Builder 39%
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Investor 29%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
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Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence65
product9 publishers

Apple reportedly plans to split iPhone launches, with base models arriving next spring

The foldable will take the attention on Wednesday, but for teams that maintain a device matrix the consequential item is duller, a launch calendar that reportedly breaks into an autumn half and a spring half.

Perspective Coverage

12 publishers
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Builder 18%
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Operator 56%
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Investor 26%

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
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Hype gap+20
Incentives45
Confidence55
invest11 publishers

Apple charges up to 1.6 million won more than Samsung's top foldable for a 2.8 per cent chip lead

Apple's first foldable leads the Galaxy Z Fold8 by 102 Geekbench points and costs up to 1.6 million won more than Samsung's Ultra, a premium industry analysts attribute partly to memory supply disruption.

Perspective Coverage

11 publishers
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Builder 23%
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Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
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Hype gap+40
Incentives45
Confidence60
build3 publishers

The 1.2 TB/s Mac Studio asks you to pick your model size before you buy it

Tom's Hardware puts the M5 Ultra at up to 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth over as much as 256GB of soldered unified memory, so the capacity that decides which weights stay resident is settled at checkout.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
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Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
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Hype gap+30
Incentives55
Confidence55

Earlier coverage

  1. Agentic deployments drive European AI spending toward $470 billion by 2030, IDC forecasts

    Security · September 21, 2026 · 1 publisher

  2. Insta360 spent more on memory chips in six months than Starman is paying for GoPro

    Product · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  3. OpenAI's six new incident reports detail model misbehavior, including two cases of writing instructions into their own summaries

    Science · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher

  4. BigBasket delivered more than 300 launch-day iPhone 18 Pros in its first hour

    Product · September 18, 2026 · 1 publisher

  5. Fitbit Air and Garmin Cirqa undercut Whoop by dropping the $199 subscription

    Product · September 18, 2026 · 1 publisher

  6. Snap launches Specs into a glasses market where Meta already holds 70 percent

    Product · September 17, 2026 · 1 publisher

  7. Meta took 68.7% of head-worn shipments in a quarter dominated by glasses without displays

    Leadership · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher

  8. Oracle's post-quantum backport reaches JDK 8 and 11 last, in the second half of 2027

    Product · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  9. Nvidia's $20 billion license-and-hire left Groq refitting its data centers with Nvidia hardware

    Leadership · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  10. Samsung weighs adding roughly the same 145,000 won to all three Galaxy S26 tiers

    Invest · September 13, 2026 · 1 publisher

  11. A20 Pro's memory bandwidth gets a 50% boost, Apple says, to help handle larger AI models

    Build · September 9, 2026 · 7 publishers

  12. Madrona finds 83% of enterprise AI buyers shipping under half their pilots

    Invest · September 5, 2026 · 2 publishers

  13. Check Point pulled Gmail data across ChatGPT accounts through a shared package-metadata store

    Build · September 12, 2026 · 1 publisher

  14. Retail orders for 6,000 times the shares available took Enflame up 206 per cent in Shanghai

    Invest · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher

  15. Session cookies outnumber plaintext passwords four to one in BigBear 2.0's panel

    Leadership · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher

  16. Apple's cheapest new autumn iPhone jumps 50 per cent to $1,199

    Invest · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher

  17. Ternus takes over an iPhone line with 35 points of premium mix left in it

    Invest · September 6, 2026 · 1 publisher

  18. A month in the iOS 27 beta shrank Siri AI down to a search bar

    Product · September 6, 2026 · 1 publisher

  19. Unit 42's ten-hour intrusion forces a choice about who may disable an account without asking

    Leadership · September 5, 2026 · 1 publisher

  20. Amid AI threats, qualified CISOs land seven-figure pay packages as cyber budgets rise 6%

    Invest · September 5, 2026 · 1 publisher

  21. Block pays 10% cash back for a year to wire 30,000 Square sellers into Cash App

    Invest · September 2, 2026 · 1 publisher

  22. Jio opens its cloud PC to every Indian internet user at $11 for two months

    Product · September 2, 2026 · 1 publisher

  23. Cheap tokens are hiding the cost of trusting an AI answer

    Leadership · August 31, 2026 · 1 publisher

  24. A judge voids Anthropic's supply-chain-risk label for lack of any described mechanism

    Science · August 28, 2026 · 1 publisher

  25. Repatriation's 30% floor has to cover the operator the cloud invoice bundled

    Build · August 28, 2026 · 1 publisher

  26. Cohere is selling insurance against export controls at a $20bn mark

    Invest · August 28, 2026 · 1 publisher

  27. Memory at 300% ends the cheap phone: IDC cuts units 16.7% while market value keeps climbing

    Leadership · August 26, 2026 · 1 publisher

  28. A humanoid costs $46,000 to build, or $131,000 without China. That is the de-risking bill.

    Leadership · August 26, 2026 · 1 publisher

  29. Apple's $2,550 foldable is a margin bet on a market IDC says will shrink 16.7%

    Invest · August 26, 2026 · 1 publisher

  30. Basware buys Trustpair because approving the invoice no longer tells you who gets the money

    Invest · August 26, 2026 · 1 publisher

  31. AMD's 6.5 points of x86 share bought it roughly zero extra CPUs

    Product · August 25, 2026 · 1 publisher

  32. China's AI displacement is showing up in rate cards, not just layoff notices

    Invest · August 24, 2026 · 1 publisher

  33. A 2.85x bill of materials: what the FCC's robot ban does to an automation budget

    Leadership · August 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  34. Amazon puts the memory crunch on the shelf: Echo Dot up 60%, Kindle up $40

    Invest · August 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  35. The cheap-token era is over, and consumption bills are outrunning the AI business case

    Leadership · August 21, 2026 · 1 publisher

  36. CrowdStrike buys SGNL, and standing privilege becomes a line item you have to defend

    Leadership · August 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  37. Microsoft puts AI agents in Entra, which makes agent sprawl an identity team problem

    Leadership · August 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  38. The Memory Reset You Budgeted For In 2026 Is Not Coming

    Leadership · August 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  39. APIs built for human judgment now answer to agents that have none

    Product · August 14, 2026 · 1 publisher