In today’s 2-Minute Tech Briefing, Cisco debuts its powerful 51.2-terabit Silicon One router to supercharge distributed AI data centers, Google launches Gemini Enterprise to centralize workplace AI agents and data, and researchers reveal “Mic-E-Mouse,” a stealth technique that lets computer mice eavesdrop on nearby conversations using sound vibrations.
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Hello and welcome to your 2-Minute Tech Briefing from Computerworld. I'm your host, Arnold Davick, and here are the top it news stories you need to know for Wednesday, October 15. Let's dive in from NetworkWorld, Cisco is taking a major step forward in AI data center networking.
The company has unveiled its Cisco 8223 router, powered by the silicon 1p 200 chip capable of an incredible 51.2 terabits per second of throughput.
The system is aimed at hyperscalers and large data center operators, where distributed AI workloads demand secure, high capacity and energy efficient connections across Metro regions.
Cisco says the new router helps customers scale AI clusters more efficiently by supporting multiple optical formats, osfp and QSF PDD, that link geographically dispersed data centers, as Cisco fellow Rakesh Chopra put it the 8223 enables customers to build large scale, disaggregated fabrics for AI infrastructure with unmatched control and performance.
From Computerworld to Google has launched Gemini enterprise, a new platform for agentic AI access at work. The paid service replaces last year's agent space app, and lets users chat with their enterprise data, run AI powered searches and deploy agents that automate business tasks. Google Cloud.
CEO Thomas Kurian calls it the new front door for AI in the workplace, built on Google's Gemini large language models.
The system supports media tools like imagine VO and Gemini 2.5 flash, sometimes nicknamed nano banana, the chat based interface allows business users to find, build and interact with AI agents across their organization, all in one place and from CSL online news that might put you on edge, researchers have discovered that computer mice can eavesdrop on nearby conversations in a proof of concept called mic emails, a team from the University of California Irvine showed that some optical mice can detect tiny sound vibrations through a desk surface.
Those vibrations can be captured by software, even ordinary web browsers or game engines, and then enhanced with neural network filtering to reconstruct spoken words.
The researchers warned that the attack is stealthy, requires no special privileges and could make confidential conversations audible without users ever knowing that's today's 2-Minute tech briefing for more enterprise tech news. Visit Network World, Computerworld and CSO online, and don't forget to like and subscribe to TechTalk on YouTube.