Schneier on Security, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
I Want Better Reporting on AI Genie Behavior
Bruce Schneier argues 'rogue AI' headlines misplace responsibility and proposes 'genie behavior' for AI that fulfills prompts in harmful ways. more →
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Thursday’s Briefing · October 8
TechRadar, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Where to Draw the Line on AI: Lessons From Digital Forensics
SANS's Heather Barnhart says AI can speed forensic triage, but human investigators must own the conclusions. more →
The Register, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Jev Is Rapidly Rising to Challenge the LLM for Enterprise AI Supremacy
The Register's Kettle podcast discusses Jev, TypeSafe AI's cheap, fast model built for scoring and classification rather than chat. more →
Engineered for What's Next: Rubrik and AWS Cyber Resiliency for Enterprise Workloads
Join speakers from Rubrik and AWS to explore how leveraging Rubrik and AWS minimizes security blind spots, reduces blast radiuses, and enables rapid recovery. Discover how to turn your data into an advantage that lets you build and scale with certainty - no matter what comes next. more →
The Hacker News, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Why CISOs Struggle to Answer the Board's Three Hardest Questions, and How to Fix the Report
Boards want exposure, trend and financial impact, but siloed security tools leave CISOs unable to answer with confidence. more →
The Next Web, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Vayu Wants to Show CFOs Which AI Customers Lose Money
Vayu's Revenue Intelligence Hub shows CFOs customer by customer whether AI pricing covers the cost to serve. more →
VentureBeat, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
If You Are Not Truly Sovereign in 2027, You Might Not Make It Past 2028
EDB argues data sovereignty is becoming a board-level currency in 2027, with Postgres as the underlying platform. more →
CFO Dive, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Chief AI Officers Arrive in C-Suites
Crist Kolder finds 10.7% of large U.S. companies now have a chief AI officer, led by healthcare and financial services. more →
CIO, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Complexity Is the Biggest Barrier to Enterprise AI
A CIO who faced 1,500+ applications argues tech sprawl and debt, not models, are what block enterprise AI. more →
CIO, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
AI Skills Are Boosting IT Pay - But Mostly for Senior Roles
Indeed data shows a 5.7% post-ChatGPT pay premium for AI-exposed jobs, with gains concentrated in senior IT roles. more →
CNET, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Can AI Fix Your Chaotic Inbox? I Unleashed It on 200,000 Unread Emails
A CNET writer uses Google's Gemini to tame a Gmail inbox of more than 192,000 emails with AI-crafted search queries. more →
The Future of AI Infrastructure
Join Amin Vahdat and Google Cloud product leaders for an inside look at how we are meeting these new demands with co-designed infrastructure open at every layer. more →
Platform Engineering, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Governance as Code Is Becoming a Platform Requirement
Platform teams can automate objective AI governance controls but still need human review for high-risk decisions. more →
PlatformEngineering.com, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
The Platform Dependency Nobody Puts in the Architecture Diagram: Trust
Platforms can look healthy while workloads fail because identity and trust relationships drift, so trust needs reconciling too. more →
ET Edge Insights, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
91% Hit by Cyber Incidents, Yet Only 8% Prepared: Why
Cisco data shows 91% of firms suffered a disruptive cyber incident, but fewer than 1 in 10 feel able to keep pace with AI threats. more →
Professional Security, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Can Cyber Ever Stay Ahead of the Threat?
Dahua's Michael Lawrence says AI-driven bug discovery means security must stress resilience across the product lifecycle. more →
Solutions Review, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
State of Cybersecurity 2026: The AI-Native Security Landscape
Solutions Review's report says security is becoming AI-native, with tempo replacing tooling as the defining variable. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Cybersecurity Risk Management: Strategy, Checklist for 2026
A 2026 security strategy checklist: center business risk, secure identities and AI, and build for tested recovery. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Cybersecurity: The Complete Guide to Digital Security, Cyber Threats, Protection
Analytics Insight reviews David Sutton's cybersecurity guide, a solid foundation that needs updating for AI-era threats. more →
Analytics Insight, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Cybersecurity Emerges as Critical Layer of AI Infrastructure
Wall Street analysts see AI expanding attack surfaces and driving a cybersecurity spending upswing. more →
InfoQ, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap for Developers
OpenAI's DevDay 2026 brought GPT-6.1 Sol, computer use in the Agents API, cloud Codex and a new Decisions API. more →
InfoQ, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale
Ian Cooper explains how to govern asynchronous APIs in event-driven architectures using AsyncAPI, CloudEvents and schema registries. more →
Satisfice (James Bach), Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Software Engineers Are Becoming More Like Lawyers
James Bach finds testing an AI coding agent is mostly close reading and legalistic debate with other AI agents. more →
How to Harness your Security Operations Data for Enterprise Defense
In this webinar, experts discuss ways to effectively collect and analyze large amounts of security data, enabling you to surface the threat and quickly gather the necessary information to defend your enterprise. Learn how to automate data analysis to identify and block threats more quickly. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Modern Identity Governance and Clean Recovery Can Secure AI Agents
Commvault's Vidya Shankaran says securing AI agents starts with centralized identity governance and tested clean recovery. more →
2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools: Key Market Shifts and Vendor Insights
Join this Gartner webinar as an expert reviews the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools. Explore the latest vendor positioning, significant market developments, and emerging trends in pricing, licensing and AI capabilities. Gain practical insights to help navigate a changing vendor landscape and make more informed enterprise architecture tool decisions. more →
The Next Web, Sunday, September 27th, 2026
Why Measuring B2B Marketing by Leads Fails
Lead counts say little about revenue as B2B buyers take complex, digital paths, so marketing should be measured on outcomes. more →
TechRadar, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Should AI Write Your Marketing Emails? Where to Automate and Where to Step In
AI speeds email marketing, but 40% of consumers may trust AI-written emails less, so human oversight still matters. more →
AMD, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
AMD Brings the Power of Agentic AI to Embedded Design and Development Cycle
AMD launches AMD Ross, an agentic AI assistant spanning software, silicon and board design for embedded developers. more →
AMD, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
AMD Sampling Versal AI Core Adaptive SoC in Enhanced Space-Grade Package for the Most Demanding Missions
AMD is sampling the Versal AI Core XQRVC1902 in a new space-grade package built for missions lasting up to 15 years. more →
TechRadar, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
AMD's 256-Core Monster EPYC CPU Is Its Most Expensive Processor Ever Launched
AMD's 600W, 256-core EPYC 9996 'Venice' lists at $14,904, its priciest CPU yet, with 1 GB of L3 cache. more →
The Shadow AI Epidemic: Uncovering Hidden AI Agents And Components On The Endpoint
This webinar will explore how traditional endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions often miss the actions of agentic software, leaving critical blind spots in what tools AI agents can access and what actions they are permitted to take on the endpoint. more →
Barracuda Networks, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026: Turn Security Awareness into Cyber Resilience
Barracuda on building a year-round security culture as AI makes phishing and social engineering more convincing. more →
AI Can Code. Can It Run Production? Let's Build It Together
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll follow a Kubernetes incident from its first symptom through investigation, remediation, and recovery. Using a sandbox environment and open-source tooling, you’ll connect an agent to operational tools, automate root-cause investigation, inspect its execution, and introduce human approval gates before allowing it to make changes. more →
Broadcom, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Optimizing AI Deployments with VMware Cloud Foundation (Part 2)
Broadcom performance tests show methods for maximizing GPU utilization and lowering AI TCO on VMware Cloud Foundation. more →
Broadcom, Monday, September 28th, 2026
The Cost Case Is Clear: Infrastructure Economics with VMware vSphere Foundation 9.1
Broadcom makes the economic case for VMware vSphere Foundation 9.1 as a lower-cost path to modern infrastructure. more →
Broadcom, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Streamlining CI/CD on VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service with Harness, Wiz, Artifactory, Dynatrace and the VCF Secret Store
A production blueprint for secure CI/CD on VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service using Harness, Wiz, Artifactory, Dynatrace and VCF Secret Store. more →
Broadcom, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Navigating the AI Threat Era: Upgrading to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 and Applying Express Patches
Broadcom explains how VCF 9.1 and its Express Patching model enable monthly security updates with little or no downtime. more →
Broadcom, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Security Starts with Hardware
Broadcom's VCF team covers hardware and BIOS/UEFI choices, such as TPMs and M.2 boot devices, that underpin a secure hypervisor. more →
APIs At AI Speed And Scale: A 90-day Plan For Application Integrity
In this fireside chat, analyst Mitch Ashley (Futurum Group, host of DevOps Chats) and Justin Collier - Vice President, Product Management, SmartBear, explore how to keep application integrity intact as AI multiplies how much software you ship and how fast. more →
CoreWeave, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
CoreWeave ARIA: The Coding Agent That Drives Continuous Improvement Across the AI Loop
CoreWeave makes ARIA generally available: an agent that analyzes experiments, proposes next steps and launches them with user approval. more →
CoreWeave, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
CoreWeave Forge: Turn AI Iteration Into Compounding Improvement
CoreWeave launches Forge, one environment to serve, observe, curate, build and evaluate AI models and agents in a continuous improvement loop. more →
CoreWeave, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
CoreWeave Registry: The System of Record for Enterprise AI Assets
CoreWeave Registry offers versioning, aliases, lineage, permissions and discovery for models, agents, datasets and other AI assets. more →
CoreWeave, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Fully Connected 2026: Superintelligence Happens When Pioneers Connect
CEO Michael Intrator recaps CoreWeave's first Fully Connected conference and its new Forge platform announcements. more →
CoreWeave, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Introducing CoreWeave Notebooks for Interactive AI Development
CoreWeave Notebooks, built on marimo, bring reactive Python and SQL notebooks connected to experiments and evaluation data into Forge. more →
CoreWeave, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
What We Already Know, Waiting to Be Connected
CoreWeave's Brian Venturo argues AI can connect knowledge across disciplines, and the infrastructure stack decides who gets to build. more →
DataRobot, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
You Assembled the Stack. Who Owns Go-Live?
DataRobot explains why self-assembled AI agent stacks stall before production: governance, operational ownership and integration debt. more →
Tech Spotlight - What AI Means for Identity Security
In this session, Nathan O'Bryan (5x Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Solutions Master, 30+ year veteran Active Directory administrator) will cover how changes in technology have shaped the way IT departments do Identity and Access Management. more →
Elastic, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
When AI Agents Swarm, Can Banks Keep Up?
Elastic argues banks need visibility and context to detect autonomous AI agent attacks operating at machine speed. more →
Elastic, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Bring Your Own Key to Existing Elastic Cloud Deployments
Bring your own key for existing Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments is now GA, adding customer-managed keys without redeploying. more →
ExtraHop, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Anatomy of an Attack: TerminalFix: When a Workstation Becomes a Network Pivot
ExtraHop breaks down TerminalFix, a ClickFix variant that uses fake Cloudflare checks and Windows Terminal to pivot into networks. more →
ExtraHop, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Feeding the Monster: The New Cybersecurity Threat Hiding in Your Data Lakes
ExtraHop warns that implicit trust in enterprise data lakes feeding AI systems creates a new attack surface. more →
ExtraHop, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Why Network Detections Need an Identity Layer
ExtraHop argues agentic SOC platforms need identity as a core input alongside network data to deliver trustworthy automated verdicts. more →
5 Game-Changing AI and Innovation Trends for Global CIOs
This webinar explores five breakthrough AI and innovation trends emerging from China that are shaping the global technology landscape. By examining open-source models, outcome as agentic solution, agentic UX, commerce and ecosystem, AI-native business models, and AI-confidential computing, the session provides actionable insights for CIOs and AI leaders. more →
IBM, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
IBM Study: As AI Scales Enterprise-Wide, CFOs Play an Expanded Role in Transformation
An IBM IBV study of 1,500 CFOs finds 62% now help lead technology or AI strategy, yet only 6% say finance is transformation-ready. more →
IBM, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
IBM Introduces Self-Hosted Deployment for IBM Bob to Help Enterprises Advance AI Sovereignty and Governance
IBM adds self-hosted deployment for IBM Bob, bringing its agentic software development platform to on-prem and air-gapped sites. more →
IBM, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
IBM Bob Premium Package for Z Expands with On-Premises Deployment and New SaaS Capabilities
IBM Bob Premium Package for Z adds self-hosted deployment and deeper IBM Z application intelligence for mainframe modernization. more →
AIwire (HPCwire), Thursday, October 1st, 2026
IBM Introduces Self-Hosted Deployment for IBM Bob
IBM Bob can now run self-hosted on premises, in private or sovereign clouds, and in air-gapped environments. more →
Microsoft, Monday, September 28th, 2026
SQL Server on Azure Local Is Now Generally Available
SQL Server on Azure Local is GA for connected and disconnected operations, targeting sovereign and remote environments. more →
The Network Isn't What You Think It Is: Securing an Environment Built for Machines
This CISO Stories webcast will examine what network security looks like when the most consequential activity may no longer originate from a human user or a traditional endpoint. more →
MongoDB, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
How Atlas Agent Engine Powers MongoDB's Internal AI Strategy
MongoDB's CIO explains how the company uses the newly previewed Atlas Agent Engine to build and govern internal AI agents. more →
MongoDB, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Context Engineering Has a Retrieval Issue: Introducing rerank-3 and Native Reranking
MongoDB introduces the Voyage AI Rerank 3 series and a native $rerank aggregation stage to improve retrieved context for agents. more →
MongoDB, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
MongoDB Launches Atlas Agent Engine to Put AI Agents in Production Without a New Stack
MongoDB launches Atlas Agent Engine in public preview, a unified execution, memory and governance layer for production AI agents. more →
MongoDB, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
MongoDB Launches MongoDB 9.0, the Best Version Ever Built, and Atlas Infinite for AI-Scale Demand
MongoDB 9.0 is GA with up to 2x throughput, and Atlas Infinite enters public preview for extreme elasticity. more →
Blocks & Files, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
MongoDB Accelerates and Scales Out Database, Launches Atlas Agent Engine
MongoDB 9.0 boosts query speed and throughput, Atlas Infinite disaggregates compute and storage, and Agent Engine ships. more →
Fluid management in the AI era
As liquid cooling adoption accelerates, operators are learning what it takes to support performance and reliability across growing deployments. more →
NVIDIA, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast runs on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and delivers up to 8x faster token generation than Astra Standard. more →
NVIDIA, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives Developers More Ways to Build and Scale Local AI
A 64GB DGX Spark from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI runs local AI agents on-device, and two units can cluster. more →
NVIDIA, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Productive, Durable, Fungible: How NVIDIA AI Factories Maximize Return on Investment
NVIDIA frames AI factory ROI around earning capacity, useful hardware life and demand, with fungible workloads tying them together. more →
NVIDIA, Monday, September 28th, 2026
NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Secure Agents from Testing to Deployment
NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform pairs open-source OpenShell runtime software with the Sentry reference design to govern AI agents. more →
VentureBeat, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Nvidia's OpenShell Enforces Agent Permissions
Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform pairs OpenShell runtime with Sentry so infrastructure, not agents, enforces boundaries. more →
eWeek, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Nvidia Wants Hardware to Stop Rogue AI Agents
Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform pairs OpenShell sandboxing with BlueField-4 monitoring that can quarantine agents. more →
Red Hat, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Why Red Hat Is Building an Open Foundation for Enterprise Agents with OpenClaw Enterprise
Red Hat explains its contributions to OpenClaw Enterprise, an open source control plane for running persistent AI agents in the enterprise. more →
Red Hat, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Stay Ahead of Change: Proactive Email Reports for Red Hat Lightspeed Planning for RHEL
Red Hat Lightspeed now emails monthly RHEL lifecycle and roadmap reports flagging upcoming end-of-life and retirement dates. more →
RSA, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Every Agent Answers to Someone
RSA launches RSA Agent ID to discover, secure and govern AI agents for highly regulated and air-gapped environments. more →
Cloud Native: The AI Stack
The same stack. Infinite possibilities -- AI-native applications are built on the same technologies, practices, and platforms that cloud native pioneered. From infrastructure to intelligence, it's all cloud native. more →
SentinelOne, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Bring Your Own Vulnerable Device: The EDR Killer Economy
SentinelOne finds ransomware crews now sell versioned, supported 'EDR killer' tools to affiliates as a BYOVD service economy. more →
SentinelOne, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Building Agents Backwards from Evaluation
SentinelLABS argues security agents should be built from evaluations defined by domain experts, measuring every change before production. more →
SentinelOne, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 39 (2026)
SentinelOne's weekly roundup: a Ryuk access broker sentenced, TraderTraitor hits IT providers and a lone actor uses AI agents to skim cards. more →
Fast Isn't Enough: When Data Shows Daily Delivery Is Broken
In this session, we dig into the survey data to uncover how legacy CI/CD is failing high-velocity teams, and chart a path forward with the ultimate ambition of building a fully autonomous delivery process. more →
SUSE, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Clearing the Vulnerability Backlog Safely: Agentic SecOps on SUSE AI Factory with the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform
SUSE shows how agentic SecOps on SUSE AI Factory can triage container CVEs, build fixes and open reviewable pull requests. more →
SUSE, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Avoiding Vendor Lock-In Through an Open Source Approach: A Developer's Perspective
SUSE examines how vendor lock-in builds up through hard-to-reverse platform decisions and how open source keeps options open. more →
SUSE, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
The Rise of Agentic AI on Kubernetes: Unleashing the New Infrastructure Layer
SUSE explores how agentic AI can help manage multi-cluster Kubernetes if teams draw clear lines between observing, recommending and acting. more →
SUSE, Monday, September 28th, 2026
We Gave Our Agents Autonomy. Here's How We Kept Control.
SUSE explains how infrastructure controls, NVIDIA OpenShell sandboxing and egress proxies kept its autonomous SecOps agents in check. more →
UiPath, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Testing Has a Busywork Problem. UiPath Delegate Is Here to Fix It.
UiPath Delegate, an enterprise productivity agent, takes on post-run testing chores such as triage, ticket updates and status reports. more →
Seize the Moment: How CISOs Can Ensure Cybersecurity Success
Join this Gartner webinar to explore how security leaders can capitalize on these moments to advance cybersecurity outcomes while enabling business success. more →
