CIO, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
A Spreadsheet Is Not A Strategy
Cost-cutting that looks good on a spreadsheet can quietly erode the people, flexibility, and resilience that keep IT running. more →
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CIO, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Scaling Enterprise AI Without Breaking The Bank: A CIO's Guide To AI Unit Economics
A framework for measuring AI's economic value -- impact times adoption times reusability divided by cost -- rather than deployment volume. more →
CIO Dive, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
CIOs Are Still Waiting For AI's Cost Savings
An Infosys survey finds enterprises keep investing in AI despite most struggling to measure or achieve returns. more →
Cyber Defense Magazine, Monday, August 24th, 2026
The Cyber Resilience Imperative: Why CISOs Must Shift From Prevention to Business Survival
Prevention alone no longer works; CISOs must measure whether the business can keep operating when defenses fail. more →
InformationWeek, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Why CIOs Are Moving Their Workloads Back On-Prem
CIOs are repatriating workloads from public cloud for cost, security, and performance reasons. more →
IT Pro, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
IT Leaders Need To Stop 'Pushing AI For The Sake Of AI'
Enterprises should let business needs drive AI adoption instead of deploying it because executives mandate it. more →
DevOps.com, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
When AI Coding Agents Become Malware Delivery Systems
Attackers are planting prompt-injection payloads in repos and READMEs to hijack AI coding agents into running malware. more →
DevOps.com, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Why 'Tokenmaxxing' Was Always the Wrong Way for Developers to Measure AI Productivity
Drew Thompson argues measuring AI coding tools by token consumption is as flawed as counting lines of code. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Best Email API Services Accelerating Growth in 2026
Five leading email API services compared for transactional and marketing message delivery. more →
AI Observability Best Practices for Production-Ready AI
Join Dynatrace for a practical discussion on what AI observability looks like in production and the practices teams can use to make it work. We'll cover how engineering and operations teams can connect AI behavior to application performance, improve visibility across AI workflows, and reduce risk as adoption scales. more →
FOSS Force, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Beyond Syslog: Building a Tamper-Proof E-Commerce Audit Trail With immudb
A technical walkthrough of using the open-source immudb database to build cryptographically verifiable audit logs. more →
FOSS Force, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Released With Bug Fixes, Curve Alias, and Faster Crypto
The GnuPG project's Libgcrypt 1.12.3 update brings bug fixes, a new curve alias, and cryptographic performance gains. more →
FOSS Force, Friday, August 28th, 2026
LibreOffice 26.8 Again Proves Open Source Is About More Than Code
Christine Hall examines how LibreOffice 26.8's release process reflects open source's community and governance side. more →
It's FOSS, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
LibreOffice 26.8 Doubles Down on No AI, Right After Collabora Welcomed It
The Document Foundation's LibreOffice 26.8 skips AI features entirely, sticking to core open source office basics. more →
It's FOSS, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Linux 7.3 Is Shaping Up to Be One of the Most Performance-Focused Kernel Releases in Years
Early Linux 7.3 kernel work points to major filesystem, scheduling, and latency performance improvements. more →
Open Source For You, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
OpenSSL 4.0.2 Patches Multiple Security Flaws Across Core Components
OpenSSL 4.0.2 fixes a heap buffer overflow and memory exhaustion issues across core cryptographic components. more →
Analytics Insight, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Next-Gen Technologies Poised to Shape the Rest of 2026
Eight emerging technologies, from AI agents to post-quantum cryptography, expected to transform industries in 2026. more →
The Register, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Intel's 256-Core Xeon 7 CPUs Are a Diamond in the Rough
A deep dive on Intel's delayed Diamond Rapids Xeon 7, a 256-core chiplet design aimed squarely at HPC. more →
Tom's Hardware, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Hot Chips 2026: Arm Details AGI Server CPU With Two 70-Core N3P Chiplets
Arm disclosed its AGI server CPU design at Hot Chips 2026: two 70-core N3P chiplets linked by a 2 TB/s UCIe fabric. more →
Tom's Hardware, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Hot Chips 2026: NVIDIA Breaks Down 88-Core Vera CPU - Spatial Multithreading Benchmarked, 1.2 TB/s SOCAMM2 Memory
Nvidia detailed its 88-core, 176-thread Vera CPU at Hot Chips 2026, claiming 14-22% faster Linux kernel compiles than AMD EPYC. more →
InfoWorld, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Rust Language Adds Algebraic Floating-Point Methods
Rust 1.98 stabilizes algebraic float methods and buffered integer formatting for better compiler optimizations. more →
The Register, Friday, August 28th, 2026
CISA: Most Exploited Vulnerabilities Should Have Been Eradicated Decades Ago
CISA finds the most-exploited vulnerability classes are decades old and entirely preventable. more →
theCUBE Research, Monday, August 24th, 2026
The New Measure of Cyber Recovery: Can the Business Get Back to Work?
Cyber resilience should be measured by restored business operations, not restored infrastructure. more →
The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating AI at Scale
This webinar is a dialogue between BMC and AWS that sits at the center of how enterprises are navigating this challenge, drawing on real patterns they are seeing across shared customers today. more →
HR Dive, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Why HR Departments Run With AI Agents Will Still Require Humans
Despite predictions of steep HR headcount cuts, human oversight remains essential as AI agents take over routine tasks. more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
CIOs Say Data Engineers, AI Architects Hardest Roles to Fill
CIOs report the toughest hiring gaps are in AI infrastructure and enterprise-scale data engineering. more →
Bitdefender, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Everyone Says Security Consolidation Saves Money. Four Organizations Did the Math
Bitdefender examines four organizations that quantified the savings from consolidating onto a unified security platform. more →
Securing The Intelligent Edge: AI, IoT, And The New Front Lines Of Operational Risk
In this executive briefing, Forrester Senior Analyst Paddy Harrington draws on his latest research to help technology leaders navigate the critical intersection of AI-driven threats and operational resilience. more →
Cisco, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
JavaScript Obfuscation: From Party Trick to Phishing Kit
Cisco Talos covers what JavaScript obfuscation is, why researchers reverse it, and several approaches to the problem. more →
Cisco, Friday, August 28th, 2026
From Isolated Agents to Collective Intelligence: Why A2A Is the Protocol the Agentic SOC Has Been Waiting For
Cisco argues the agentic SOC needs both MCP and A2A, as vertical and horizontal layers of multi-agent security operations. more →
Cisco, Friday, August 28th, 2026
The Patch Window Just Closed. Here's What Comes Next.
Cisco argues time-to-exploitation has gone negative and positions MSPs running the NOC to close the gap with VulnOps. more →
IDC State of the Market: The New AI Economy Takes Shape
IT spending has remained strong in 2026, with businesses continuing to invest in aggressive AI roll-outs. While the Middle East War has disrupted the global economy and IT price inflation is a growing challenge, IT budgets continue to expand. more →
Commvault, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Cloud Backup and Recovery Explained: From Threat Detection to Full Recovery
Commvault explains how cloud backup and recovery protects clean recovery points and restores operations after an attack. more →
Commvault, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Devs: Don't Kill My Vibe
Commvault's podcast recap examines vibe coding with Microsoft engineer Harald Kirschner and where speed outpaces oversight. more →
Commvault, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Why Modern Cyber Risk Demands A-to-Z Cyber Resilience
Commvault argues ransomware targets the whole data lifecycle, so protection, detection and recovery must be unified. more →
Commvault, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Data: When Way Too Much Becomes Never Enough
Commvault's Ready. Or Not. finale examines why data preparation and governance matter more than data volume for AI. more →
CoreWeave, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
5 Lessons From Building a Multi-Plane Network Fabric for Agentic AI
CoreWeave shares five lessons from building an east-west fabric for agentic inference rather than foundation model training. more →
CoreWeave, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Video Captioning at Scale: 600 TB in 95 Minutes With Anyscale on CoreWeave
CoreWeave and Anyscale captioned 600 TB of video in 95 minutes on CoreWeave infrastructure. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Introducing Governance Hub: Intelligent, Account-Level Governance Over Your Databricks Estate
Governance Hub gives Databricks administrators one account-level view of data health, AI usage and cost with actionable recommendations. more →
Databricks, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Building for the AI Era: Lakebase, Streaming and Lakehouse Innovations at VLDB 2026
Databricks previews its VLDB 2026 contributions on Lakebase, Structured Streaming and lakehouse optimizations. more →
Databricks, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
What QSR Reports Miss About the Decisions That Matter Most
Databricks and Lovelytics connect QSR performance signals so leaders can trace a missed promotion to its actual cause. more →
Databricks, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Enhancing Agent Retrieval With Structured Chart Extraction
Databricks tests making charts machine-readable so agents can answer questions requiring values read from figures. more →
Databricks, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Vertical Advantage: Transforming Industries With Lakebase and Agentic AI
Databricks surveys production Lakebase solutions built by consulting and SI partners across regulated and operational industries. more →
Databricks, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Object Storage + WAL: Lakebase Postgres for the Agentic Era
Lakebase Postgres treats the write-ahead log on object storage as source of truth, enabling instant branching and time travel. more →
KnowBe4, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Report: AI Chatbots Are More Effective at Building Trust Than Human Scammers
KnowBe4 covers research finding AI chatbots outperform human scammers at building trust in pig-butchering scams. more →
KnowBe4, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Human Error Remains at the Core of AI-Enabled Social Engineering
KnowBe4 relays Resilience data showing AI-enabled social engineering drove 85% of cyber insurance losses in H1 2026. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Report: Phishing Remains the Primary Initial Access Vector
KnowBe4 relays Cisco Talos data showing phishing accounted for over half of attacks observed in Q2 2026. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
CyberheistNews Vol 16 #34 Microsoft Observed 7.6 Billion Phishing Emails in Q2 2026
KnowBe4's newsletter leads with Microsoft detecting roughly 7.6 billion phishing emails in Q2 2026. more →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Attackers Use Vishing Attacks to Distribute New Android Malware
KnowBe4 covers Group-IB research on WindRelay Android malware delivered through impersonated bank phone calls. more →
KnowBe4, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Voice Phishing Attacks Target Hedge Fund Employees
KnowBe4 relays Google GTIG reporting on UNC6671 vishing campaigns against hedge funds to bypass MFA. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
How Loveholidays Is Making Everyone a Builder With Codex
Online travel company loveholidays uses OpenAI Codex to extend software development beyond its engineering team. more →
OpenAI, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Our Decision on Cursor Following Its Acquisition by SpaceX
OpenAI will wind down its contract supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX's acquisition, with a proposed November 12 shutoff. more →
Red Hat, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Managing Enterprise AI at Scale: Hosting, Deployment Patterns and Day 2 Operations
Red Hat covers who operates each AI architecture layer, where workloads run, and Day 2 operational considerations. more →
Red Hat, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Learning While Building: How Red Hat Training Accelerates Technical Growth
A Red Hat intern describes moving from minimal Linux experience to operational confidence through hands-on training. more →
Red Hat, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Friday Five - August 28, 2026
Red Hat's weekly roundup covers Hardened Images in AWS Inspector and the Ansible automation orchestrator GA. more →
Red Hat, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Celebrating Excellence: Honoring the Red Hat Academy APAC Award Winners
Red Hat honors its Academy award winners across APAC for bridging education and industry skills demand. more →
Salesforce, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Don't DIY Build Your Comp Management Tool With AI. There's a Better Way.
Salesforce warns that AI-built DIY incentive compensation tools fail on auditability, accuracy and security. more →
Salesforce, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Design Dynamic Approvals That Can Scale
Salesforce presents a metadata-driven approvals pattern using custom metadata, Apex, Flow and Flow Orchestration. more →
Salesforce, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
B2C Commerce August Release: Custom Apps and Omnichannel Innovations
Salesforce's August 2026 B2C Commerce release adds Business Manager updates, custom apps and real-time anomaly detection. more →
Salesforce, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
What Does Salesforce Do?
Salesforce explains its agentic CRM positioning and how it aims to turn businesses into agentic enterprises. more →
Salesforce, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
What 2,000 Leaders Told Us About Winning With Agentic AI
Salesforce research on 2,000 leaders finds agentic AI success is determined by preparation before launch, not speed. more →
Salesforce, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
From Documents to Context: Designing Effective Chunking in Data 360
Salesforce explains how chunking and Intelligent Context in Data 360 shape retrieval quality and traceability. more →
SAP, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Customer Industry Solutions Shape the Future of Autonomous Enterprises
SAP's Sindhu Gangadharan argues customer co-innovation in industry solutions is what advances Industry AI. more →
SAP, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Digital Transformation Is Complex, But We Often Make It Harder Than It Needs to Be
SAP argues most transformation complexity is self-created and unmanaged rather than inherent to the program. more →
SAP, Friday, August 28th, 2026
How People Analytics Is Powering the Future of Workforce Decision-Making
SAP describes people analytics maturing from reporting into a strategic capability supported by Autonomous HCM. more →
Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault
This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →
Trellix, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC): The Next Cybersecurity Shift for Saudi Enterprises
Trellix examines what the shift to post-quantum cryptography means for Saudi enterprises securing banking, VPN and cloud workloads. more →
Trellix, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
No Privileges, No Lockout, No Trace: Kerberoasting With SPN Misconfigurations
Trellix details a stealthy Kerberoasting variant abusing service principal names assigned to ordinary user accounts. more →
Ubuntu, Friday, August 28th, 2026
AI Harnesses for Telco Autonomous Networks
Canonical examines how to bridge probabilistic AI reasoning with deterministic carrier-grade network execution. more →
Why Your Observability Vendor Can't Solve Your P1s: Breaking the Ingestion Tax and Agent Silos
Join Techstrong and NeuBird AI to learn why the future of production-ops AI isn't another data store, but a virtualized context layer. Discover how querying live tools in place delivers accurate root cause analysis in minutes without data movement or security risks. more →
