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 →
Speed to Power: Building for Reliable Operations
Drawing on 25+ years of mission-critical commissioning and complex energy infrastructure experience, Veolia experts will share strategies for reducing risk, protecting uptime and maximizing the value of every available megawatt. A real-world case study of a 350 MW microgrid supporting a hyperscale AI data center campus will show these strategies in action. 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 →
Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing
Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs' value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations. 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 →
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 →
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 →
Building a Secure AI Strategy for the Enterprise
This virtual event explores the implications of this new world order of AI agents joining the business, including AI discovery, governance, identity, and how to put in place the proper guardrails. 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 →
Modernize for the AI Era
Join PwC and AWS for a discussion on how AI is redefining cloud modernization priorities. We'll share examples from leaders in their sectors, as well as practical recommendations for building modern cloud platforms that deliver measurable business value, while navigating evolving regulatory, risk, and operational considerations. 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 Threat Readiness: Deep Dive Workshop
Your AI Systems Are Already Under Attack. Is Your Team Ready to Respond? 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 →
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 →
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 →
The High Stakes Dilemma: Protection Strategies for 2026-27
Out-of-control data can cause cybersecurity breaches, privacy law violations, AI hallucinations, higher storage costs, and more. In this virtual event, learn why and how to begin to clean up shop. 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 →
Innovation at Speed, Security at Scale: Exposure Management for the Next Era of Growth
As AI, cloud, and connected technologies rapidly expand the attack surface, security teams must focus on the risks that matter most. Join CISO leaders to explore how exposure management strengthens visibility, prioritization, and resilience, thus enabling organizations to innovate confidently while reducing their most critical cyber risks. 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 →
Fortinet: Security Operations Summit: Modernize SecOps. Operate AI-Native
Modernize your SecOps with agentic AI. Join the SecOps Virtual Summit for insights on AI-powered threats, cyber defense best practices, and the latest Fortinet innovations. 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 →
What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets In the Age of AI
In this free, full-day virtual event entitled What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets in the Age of AI, you'll learn about the emerging threats and vulnerabilities in the cloud today, and how to ensure you have a comprehensive view and insight into your cloud infrastructure. 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 →
Continuous Modernization: Why Modernization Never Really Finishes
Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated changes land as pull requests, not recommendations. 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 →
Boston Official Cybersecurity Summit
The 12th Edition of the Boston Official Cybersecurity Summit is the must-attend event for CISOs and senior leaders looking to strengthen resilience, reduce risk, and align security with business goals. 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 →
The AI-Powered Modernization Playbook for Financial Services: Secure Migration, Modernization & the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle
Join PwC and AWS for a discussion on how AI is redefining cloud modernization priorities. We'll share examples from leaders in their sectors, as well as practical recommendations for building modern cloud platforms that deliver measurable business value, while navigating evolving regulatory, risk, and operational considerations. more →
