This Week — Vol 344 Issue 1

InformationWeek, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026

InformationWeek Podcast: Getting Buy-In for Enterprise Resilience

Equifax's CISO and Digital Commerce Bank's CTO discuss how tech leaders win stakeholder buy-in for enterprise resilience plans. more →

SC Media, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

It's the Trickery While Empowering Employees and Redesigning Work for AI

Business Security Weekly 472: author Frank Riccardi on the psychological tricks behind hacks, plus leadership news on AI and work. more →

Futurum Group, Monday, November 2nd, 2026

Want Better MFA Adoption? Look at How Game Studios Do It.

A Futurum Group podcast panel discusses what enterprise security can learn from gaming, including MFA incentives and account recovery risks. more →

SC Media, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

That's Not Supposed to Happen (2 hr 4 mn)

Paul's Security Weekly 951 news segment covers the Binance heist, Ivanti zero-days, supermarket fridge attacks and the XCPE botnet. more →

DevOps.com, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

AI Coding Hits the Context Window Wall

Blitzy Field CTO Neeraj Deshmukh tells Mike Vizard why AI coding tools need structured codebase context, not just bigger prompts. more →

SC Media, Friday, November 6th, 2026

AI Hates Us All, Binance, OpenSSH, Apple, WordPress, DNS, Scams, Josh Marpet and More

Security Weekly News 631 covers the Binance theft, an OpenSSH login flaw, Apple and WordPress bugs on CISA's exploited list and scams. more →

DevOps.com, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026

Fast Code, Slow Feedback: Fixing CI for the Age of AI Agents

A Harness engineer explains five ways to speed up CI as AI coding agents multiply pull requests, pipeline runs and compute costs. more →

DevOps.com, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026

The New Frontier: Managing Human+AI Agent Software Development Teams

SmartBear's Alex Zavorski says hybrid human and AI development teams need stronger testing, governance and human accountability. more →

DevOps.com, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026

Your CI Retries Are Hiding Real Bugs

An experiment shows two CI test retries let 99.2% of builds with an intermittent bug pass, and proposes a quarantine policy. more →

DevOps.com, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

The Hidden Productivity Trap in an Engineer's Workday

Meetings and constant interruptions erode developers' deep focus, and AI coding tools make protected focus time more important. more →

DevOps.com, Friday, November 6th, 2026

The Agent Did Exactly What We Let It Do

AI agent failures come from excess permissions, not rogue intelligence, and need technically enforced controls, this DevOps.com piece argues. more →

Upcoming Event · Tue, Nov 24 · 7:00am

Your IoT Devices Are Talking. Do You Know Who To?

IoT Now webinar with Aeris, Orange Business, Transforma Insights and ZF SCALAR on managed IoT connectivity, roaming, eSIM and NIS2. more →

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Your IoT Devices Are Talking. Do You Know Who To? (Nov. 24th)

The Register, Monday, November 2nd, 2026

Manager Threatened to Fire a Colleague, Then Gave Them a Critical Task - Which They Flubbed

A Register Who, Me? reader recounts assigning a key chipset backup to an underperforming engineer who never did it, discovered six years later. more →

The Register, Saturday, November 7th, 2026

Hospital Gave Very Sick Doctor a Special PC for His Personal, Erm, Pleasure

A Register On Call reader says a hospital gave a star doctor a dedicated PC for adult content after his browsing caused a damaging worm. more →

Techstrong.ai, Monday, November 2nd, 2026

AI Delivers Speed, but Enterprise Transformation and Cost Visibility Lag Behind, Deloitte Finds

Deloitte survey of 3,500 executives finds AI speeds decisions for 81%, but only 25% use it to redesign their organizations. more →

Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

The 5 Decisions Every Executive Must Make to Create AI Value at Scale

Five interconnected leadership decisions determine whether AI pilots and productivity gains turn into real enterprise value at scale. more →

Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

How to Stop Runaway AI Agent Costs Before They Hit Your Cloud Bill

Four operational shifts to track AI agent spend, govern autonomous workflows and catch token cost spikes before the cloud bill arrives. more →

Techstrong.ai, Friday, November 6th, 2026

As Holiday Shopping Season Gets Into Full Swing, AI Is Changing How Retailers Detect Fraudulent Returns

Retailers and returns processors such as Happy Returns are using AI and computer vision to catch fraudulent returns during the holidays. more →

The New Stack, Monday, November 2nd, 2026

A Step-By-Step Guide for How to Kill the Line-By-Line Code Review

Aviator-sponsored guide argues AI agents should verify code changes against criteria and invariants while people make the decisions. more →

The Register, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026

British Fintech Revolut Slashes AI Coding Costs 10x by Cutting Out Claude and Going Self-Hosted

Revolut says it cut AI coding inference costs about 90 percent by making self-hosted GLM models its default instead of services like Claude. more →

TechRadar, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

Why Coding Agents Aren't Delivering the Promised Gains for Engineering - Yet

Coding agents generate code quickly, but the bottleneck has shifted to understanding, debugging and investigating incidents in that code. more →

InfoQ, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

The App Is Just the Tip: What It Takes to Build Mobile Infrastructure at Scale

A former Android developer explains how a server-side mobile gateway and server-driven UI made a large e-commerce app faster and quicker to ship. more →

DataCenter Knowledge, Monday, November 2nd, 2026

Liquid Cooling Is Changing What Data Centers Need to Measure

Liquid cooling for dense AI workloads makes precise, real-time measurement across both liquid and air systems essential. more →

Upcoming Event · Tue, Dec 1 · 3:00pm

AI Security: Machine-Speed Threats, Multi-Layered Defense

In this webinar, two experts break down both sides: what these AI-driven threats mean, and how to defend against them. You'll learn a practical framework spanning platform foundations, patching at scale, hardening and virtual patching, lateral security with microsegmentation, and recovery - so your organization is ready before an incident, not during one. more →

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AI Security: Machine-Speed Threats, Multi-Layered Defense (Dec. 1st)

TechZone360, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026

Contact Center AI Data: The Call Sounded Perfect, the Account Was Wrong

Contact center AI training data needs each transcript linked to its case, action and outcome, because a good call can hide a failed fix. more →

Upcoming Event · Tue, Nov 17 · 1:00pm

The Autonomous SDLC: Moving from Point Tools to a Unified DevSecOps Platform

This session will explore how organizations transition to a unified platform approach to build the foundation for the Autonomous SDLC, replacing manual approval gates with intelligent, automated guardrails. more →

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The Autonomous SDLC: Moving from Point Tools to a Unified DevSecOps Platform (Nov. 17th)

IoT Now, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

Is Your IoT Connectivity Ready for Critical Operations?

Transforma Insights and CSL handbook argues IoT connectivity is now business-critical and must be treated as a strategic capability. more →

Upcoming Event · Tue, Nov 17 · 12:00pm

DLP in the AI Era: How Much Data Loss Does DLP Actually Prevent?

In this live session, CSA and Jazz take the findings from DLP in the AI Era and turn them into actionable advice for the program you're running today. more →

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DLP in the AI Era: How Much Data Loss Does DLP Actually Prevent? (Nov. 17th)

Arm, Monday, November 2nd, 2026

Top Arm-Based Innovations Advancing On-Device AI, Cloud Infrastructure, and Physical AI in October 2026

Arm rounds up October 2026 ecosystem news, from the Tensor RoboCar and PSYONIC Ability Hand to Qwen Glasses and Alexa tablets. more →

Arm, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

From Photon to Actuation: How Physical AI Is Redefining Embedded Compute

Arm and STMicroelectronics describe how Cortex-M and Arm compute subsystems support safer, more responsive physical AI systems. more →

AWS, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

Amazon S3 Tables Now Provide a Simple, Cost-Effective Path for Data Lake Modernization

Amazon S3 Tables now offer managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg while production workloads keep running. more →

AWS, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

RHEL 10, Rocky 10 and Ubuntu 26.04 Bundles for WorkSpaces

AWS adds Rocky Linux 10, RHEL 10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal. more →

AWS, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

New Features for Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager

Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager adds real-time supportability checks and capacity fulfillment metrics for planning across instance types and zones. more →

AWS, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

Amazon OpenSearch Service Optimized Engine Now Supports Agent Traces

Amazon OpenSearch Service optimized engine now supports agent traces, including OpenTelemetry traces, alongside logs. more →

AWS, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

Amazon FSx for Lustre Delivers 16x Higher Metadata IOPS on Intelligent-Tiering File Systems

Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports up to 192,000 metadata IOPS on Intelligent-Tiering file systems, 16x the previous maximum. more →

AWS, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Kerberos Authentication with Self-Managed Active Directory

Amazon RDS for Oracle instances can now join self-managed Active Directory domains directly for Kerberos authentication. more →

ClickHouse, Friday, November 6th, 2026

ClickHouse Release 26.10

ClickHouse 26.10 adds function composition, more flexible joins, faster GROUP BY, disk spilling for IN subqueries and a columns cache. more →

Upcoming Event · Mon, Nov 16 · 1:00pm

Platform Engineering Meets AI: The New Developer Experience

Techstrong Learning webinar on how AI is reshaping platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and developer experience. more →

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Platform Engineering Meets AI: The New Developer Experience (Nov. 16th)

Blocks & Files, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

Commvault Looking to Identify Identity Attack Risks and Get Them Fixed

Commvault's IDRecover moves beyond identity recovery to finding risky changes across AD, Entra ID and Okta and guiding fixes. more →

Commvault, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

Strengthening Cyber Resilience for Azure Managed Redis Workloads

Commvault offers full backups for Azure Managed Redis, with recovery to the same or another instance within the same Azure region. more →

Commvault, Friday, November 6th, 2026

Sovereignty Is Not a Destination - It's an Operating Capability

Commvault's STRIVE discussion frames digital sovereignty as an operating capability built on dependency mapping and resilience. more →

Upcoming Event · Thu, Dec 3 · 10:00am

The Gartner CISO Agenda for 2027: 5 Actions to Seize the AI Moment

Gartner's Christine Lee sets out the 2027 CISO agenda, covering AI ROI, higher risk appetites, resilience and postquantum readiness. more →

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The Gartner CISO Agenda for 2027: 5 Actions to Seize the AI Moment (Dec. 3rd)

Databricks, Monday, November 2nd, 2026

Lakebase Postgres Is Now Generally Available on Google Cloud

Databricks announces general availability of Lakebase Postgres, its serverless Postgres database, on Google Cloud. more →

Databricks, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026

Claude Platform Now Supports Native OpenTelemetry Observability in Databricks MLflow

Databricks MLflow is now a supported destination for native OpenTelemetry trace export from the Claude Platform. more →

Databricks, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026

Declare and Optimize with UNIQUE Constraints on Databricks

Databricks added UNIQUE constraints in Public Preview, letting tables declare multiple nullable or composite uniqueness guarantees. more →

Databricks, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

Introducing Apache Spark 4.3 - Now Available in Databricks Runtime 19

Databricks announced Apache Spark 4.3 in Databricks Runtime 19, adding stateful processing to Structured Streaming's Real-Time Mode. more →

Databricks, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026

The Enterprise Case for Open-Weight Models on Databricks

Databricks field engineers make the case for open-weight models, citing cost, shifting model rankings, guardrails, retention and governance. more →

Databricks, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

Real-Time Fraud Detection with Feature Views

Databricks shows how Feature Views define fraud detection features once for both point-in-time training and real-time scoring. more →

Google, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

Building an Agent Skill Optimizer with AlphaEvolve, Harbor and Gemini 4 Argon

Google shows how AlphaEvolve and Harbor can evolve a coding agent's skill file by scoring versions on real benchmark tasks. more →

Google, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

Semantic Aggregation Over Millions of Rows in BigQuery with AI.AGG

BigQuery's AI.AGG, in preview, runs natural-language semantic aggregation over millions of rows in a single SQL query. more →

Google, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast, Cost-Effective, and Reliable Video Generation and Editing Now Generally Available

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is generally available on Google Cloud for fast, lower-cost video generation and editing via API. more →

Google, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

Powering Open Infrastructure for Autonomous Agents

Google donated Agent Substrate, gVisor and OpenRL to the CNCF and made Agent Substrate 1.0 generally available on GKE. more →

Google, Thursday, November 5th, 2026

Generate Longer AI Videos with Omni 1.2 Flash in Google Vids at No Cost

Google Vids now uses Omni 1.2 Flash and lets anyone with a Google account generate three 15-second videos per month at no cost. more →

Google, Friday, November 6th, 2026

The Blueprint: Orchestrating 5,000+ AI Assets for a World Cup TV Spot

AI video company Mito used Google Cloud to generate more than 5,000 assets for a World Cup TV spot for Movistar Plus+. more →

Lenovo, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026

From Drone Data to the Fireline: How Lenovo Legion Technology Supports Wildfire Mapping

The UAS Wildland Fire Collaborative uses Lenovo Legion laptops to turn overnight thermal drone imagery into standardized wildfire maps. more →

Lenovo, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026

From AI Adoption to AI Growth: Indasys Builds New Business Opportunities with Lenovo TruScale Infrastructure as a Service

German IT firm indasys deployed a private-cloud AI platform on Lenovo TruScale IaaS with NVIDIA to power sovereign AI services for customers. more →