The Next Web, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Why Businesses Need Clearer Limits Before AI Agents Are Authorized to Act
Companies need behavioral profiling and explicit authorization limits before letting AI agents act on their behalf. more →
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Virtualization Review, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Global Survey Links Cloud-Based Physical Security to 2.6x AI Adoption
Verkada survey of 2,741 leaders finds fully cloud-managed security operations use AI at 2.6 times on-prem rates. more →
Virtualization Review, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Agentic AI Pushes Enterprise Infrastructure Toward an Upgrade Cycle, Google Report Says
Google Cloud survey finds 83% of organizations need infrastructure upgrades to run production agentic AI. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
10 Real-World Loop Engineering Examples Powering Modern AI Agents
Loop engineering lets AI agents plan, act, evaluate, and improve repeatedly across enterprise workflows. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Top AI Agent Frameworks for Building Loop-Driven Applications in 2026
Eight AI agent frameworks compared for building reliable loop-driven applications with planning and tool use. more →
Architecture & Governance Magazine, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Designing Decision Rights For Agentic AI
A five-tier authority framework helps organizations define which actions AI agents are actually allowed to take on their own. more →
CIO Influence, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Cloud Repatriation Won't Solve Your Workload Problems
Modernization and correct workload placement matter more than moving applications between cloud and on-premises. more →
Cloud Native Now, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Cloud-Native Complexity Is a Cost: When More Platform Layers Stop Adding Value
An argument for auditing cloud-native platform layers against a five-point value framework before adding more. more →
TechTarget, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Why Multi-Cloud Should Be Your Default Deployment Model
Multi-cloud deployment reduces vendor lock-in and improves financial control versus single-cloud strategies. more →
Signal vs Noise: A comparison of AI Code Review Tools
This session takes a data-driven look at what actually works. We'll share head-to-head results from independent testing of five leading AI code review tools across 60 real bugs and six languages, and show why both precision and critical bug detection matter. more →
SecurityWeek, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
CISO Conversations: Chris Wheeler - Trust Is the Job, From the Navy to the C-Suite
Chris Wheeler on how Navy leadership training shaped his approach to building trust-based security programs. more →
TechRadar, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Why the Next Technology Conversation Shouldn't Start With AI
An argument that technology discussions should broaden beyond AI as the automatic starting point. more →
TechTarget, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Enterprise Software Management Expands From Apps to Capabilities
Organizations must now track embedded AI capabilities inside applications, not just the applications themselves. more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
AI Alignment, Not Replacement: How CIOs Are Rebuilding IT Value
CIOs are restructuring teams to work alongside AI rather than replacing roles with automation. more →
TechTarget, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Where Should CIOs Invest Next? IT Leaders Weigh In
Six CIOs name AI as the top priority for new budget, but only alongside supporting infrastructure. more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
6 Questions Every CIO Should Ask Before Workforce Reductions
CIOs should pressure-test AI-driven layoff proposals on economics, evidence, and reversibility before approving them. more →
Open Source For You, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
The Engineering Blueprint: Transitioning From Enterprise Code to Open Source
Siemens describes its decade-long path from proprietary enterprise code to a successful open source project. more →
The Register, Friday, August 28th, 2026
LibreOffice 26.8 Is Out - Local First, and With No AI
LibreOffice 26.8 doubles down on local-first computing and explicitly declines to add AI features. more →
Platform Engineering, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Least Privilege Doesn't Survive an Agent Chain. Your Platform Is Where You Fix It
Agent chains ratchet permissions upward because credentials lack built-in attenuation; platforms must enforce it. more →
Vertiv's AI Roadshow - Powering AI Leadership - Los Angels, CA
Join us at the Vertiv AI Roadshow to discover cutting-edge infrastructure solutions designed to power and cool next-generation AI workloads. Connect with industry experts and explore high-density power and thermal management strategies that will future-proof your data center. more →
Cloud Native Now, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Prompt Injection in Cloud-Native AI Is Now an Access Control Problem
As AI agents gain the power to act on production systems, prompt injection becomes an infrastructure security issue. more →
Cloud Security Alliance, Monday, August 24th, 2026
State of AI Cybersecurity 2026: 77% of Security Stacks Include AI, But Trust Is Lagging
CSA research finds 77% of security stacks now use generative AI, but most teams still block autonomous fixes. more →
Cloud Security Alliance, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Mind Viruses: A New Contagion Vector for AI Agents
Anthropic and EPFL researchers show self-propagating 'mind virus' prompts can spread between AI agents. more →
Cybersecurity Insiders, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
How Subtractive Security Is Gaining Momentum in Cybersecurity in 2026
A growing security philosophy asks 'what can we remove?' instead of what tools to add next. more →
Help Net Security, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Hottest Cybersecurity Open-Source Tools of the Month: August 2026
Five notable open source security tools for AI agents, supply chain evidence, and penetration testing. more →
Schneier on Security, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Black Hat State of Security Vendors
A Black Hat 2026 vendor survey finds security tools skew toward detection over ones that actually fix problems. more →
How-To Geek, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
5 Reasons Linux Is the Most Valuable Software in the World (Even Though It's Free)
Linux costs nothing yet underpins servers, cloud, Android, supercomputing, and countless commercial devices. more →
Open Source For You, Monday, August 24th, 2026
OpenZFS 2.4.4 Adds Linux 7.2 Support
OpenZFS 2.4.4 adds Linux 7.2 kernel compatibility while keeping support for older platforms. more →
InfoQ, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Java News Roundup: JDK 27-RC1, OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE, BellSoft, Helidon, Micrometer, Tika 4.0
JDK 27 reaches release candidate with nine features ahead of its September general availability. more →
How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Cloud Security
This webinar explores the AI-accelerated threat landscape from both sides of the fence: from frontier models chaining low-severity vulnerabilities into critical exploits, to threat actors compressing time to exploit from days to hours. more →
12touches.com, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
To Ask Permission Is to Seek Denial
Sellers at large firms routinely stall on a personal newsletter because they haven't been approved to run one - and Scott McNealy's Sun-era mantra explains why asking is the wrong move: the person receiving an unprecedented request has no upside for yes and all the downside, so the safe answer is defer or decline, and a "no" on the record is far harder to reverse than a question nobody formally raised. more →
12touches.com, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Being Interesting Is Not the Same as Being Present
Advisors, speakers and fractional CIOs don't have a lead generation problem, they have a recall problem - and their visibility is event-shaped, producing four tall spikes and forty-eight flat weeks, with the moment that mattered almost certainly landing in the flat part. more →
12touches.com, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
You're Not in Sales. You Still Need to Be Known.
Enterprise IT is a few thousand people per specialty, and a dozen professions orbit them with the same dependency and the same structural problem: the only contact their job naturally supplies is the contact that asks for something. more →
12touches.com, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Your Top Performers Don't Want Another Plaque
Top sellers are the hardest people in the company to reward - cash is already maxed, the incentive trip ends, and promotion into management is often unwanted - while the independent streak that makes them outperform is exactly what makes corporate advocacy mandates slide off them. more →
12touches.com, Wednesday, August 25th, 2026
Your Customer Today Is Your Colleague Tomorrow
In most enterprise deals the most trusted person isn't the account executive but the sales engineer, precisely because they'll say what won't work - yet that credibility is invisible outside the few accounts they're staffed on, living in the memories of a few dozen people and a CRM someone else owns. Enterprise IT is a small, circulating world: vendor people become customers, skilled customers get recruited into field roles by the engineers who worked with them, and the boundary between customers and network dissolves over a career. Publishing isn't self-promotion - it's the filtering you already do, done in public. more →
12touches.com, Thursday, August 25th, 2026
Your Best Distribution Channel Is Already on Your Payroll
Alan Shimel's argument that Google's AI Overviews are engineered to make the click unnecessary - his "Google Zero" - lands as hard on technology vendors as on publishers, because organic search was always rented distribution that merely felt owned. The largest untapped alternative is already on staff: a few hundred customer-facing employees, each publishing a weekly newsletter carrying the company's news section, is hundreds of trusted channels reaching the market with no algorithm in between. It succeeds where employee advocacy usually fails because the employee owns the asset, and the resulting traffic is attributable and rewardable per person. Enterprise IT is a small, circulating world: vendor people become customers, skilled customers get recruited into field roles by the engineers who worked with them, and the boundary between customers and network dissolves over a career. Publishing isn't self-promotion - it's the filtering you already do, done in public. more →
Akamai Technologies, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Zero-Day Dominance: How Akamai Defends Before the Industry Discloses
Akamai explains how staged rollouts and shared intelligence let it mitigate zero-days before public disclosure. more →
Converged Analytics: Copy Once, Query Everything
In this session, we show a different approach and prove it live on EDB Postgres AI: copy once, query everywhere. Transactional and analytical engines query the same governed data in place, so there's less data moving and fewer pipelines to build and maintain between systems. more →
Cloudflare, Monday, August 24th, 2026
The Cloudflare Blog - Brought to You by EmDash
Cloudflare migrated its blog to EmDash to prove the stack at scale, covering load testing, traffic routing and a redesign. more →
Cloudflare, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
How We Saved 100 Terabytes of Memory by Optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS Cache
Five Rust-level cache layout optimizations cut per-entry memory 56%, freeing roughly 100 TB across Cloudflare's fleet. more →
Cloudflare, Friday, August 28th, 2026
BotBase for Operators: A Clearer Path to Joining Cloudflare's Directory of Bots and Agents
Cloudflare gives bot operators a dashboard to track and edit submissions and declare how their bots use content. more →
Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System
This session explores why observability is emerging as a foundational capability for trustworthy AI. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure health, modern observability provides the transparency and context needed to understand how AI systems behave, why they produce specific outcomes, and whether they continue to perform as intended over time. more →
DataRobot, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Agentic AI Guardrails: What Enterprise Leaders Are Accountable For
DataRobot examines executive accountability when agents overspend, exceed scope or expose data within their granted permissions. more →
Autonomous Operations Starts with Resilience
In this session, we'll explore how organizations are evolving from reactive operations to autonomous operational resilience: systems that continuously observe application health, understand dependencies, anticipate operational risk, and take intelligent action before users and the business feel the impact. more →
Dell, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
OTel 2.0: Dell Technologies, AT&T and AMD Bring Open Telco AI to Scale
Dell, AT&T and AMD take OTel 2.0, the largest open-source telecom model, from release to production deployment. more →
Dell, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Why Endpoint Strategy Is Now AI Strategy
Dell argues federal AI adoption depends on endpoint readiness, with NPU-equipped AI PCs central to Zero Trust and productivity. more →
Dell, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
The Storage Efficiency Question: Why Purpose-Built Still Matters
Dell argues hyperconverged infrastructure carries a hidden architectural tax and pitches PowerStore's purpose-built design instead. more →
Dell, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Activate More Data. Spend Less.
Dell introduces ObjectScale X7700 with release 4.4, an ultra-dense storage engine for the Dell AI Data Platform. more →
Dell, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Powering AI: Modular Data Centers Can Unlock Stranded Power
Dell proposes modular data centers to tap stranded grid power, speeding AI deployment while reducing water use and local impact. more →
Dell, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
The Best Dell Systems for OpenClaw
Dell's AI marketing lead maps its systems to OpenClaw use cases from cloud exploration to enterprise agentic deployments. more →
Huntress, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Next-Gen Phishing Tactics Users Aren't Ready For
Huntress covers ClickFix, browser-in-the-browser and OAuth consent phishing, tactics standard awareness training misses. more →
Huntress, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Teach Yourself to Phish
Huntress explains the strategy behind phishing simulations and how they build organizational resilience. more →
Huntress, Friday, August 28th, 2026
A Beginner's Guide to Phishing Simulation Training for Employees
Huntress covers the essentials of running phishing simulation training for employees. more →
Huntress, Friday, August 28th, 2026
PaperCut Zero-Day: Active Exploitation and Pre-Auth RCE
Huntress reproduced a pre-authentication RCE chain in PaperCut NG/MF now under active exploitation, with patching guidance. more →
Microsoft, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
The Patch Window Is Collapsing: Why Security Needs a New Control Plane
Microsoft argues organizations need protection covering the gap between vulnerability discovery and remediation. more →
Microsoft, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four Ways to Lower the Cost
Microsoft Foundry offers four runtime levers that cut AI agent cost without changing agent logic. more →
Microsoft, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
When AI Infrastructure Becomes the Target: Securing Gateways and Control Points
Microsoft Threat Intelligence documents attacks on exposed AI workloads including LiteLLM gateway exploitation and cryptomining. more →
Microsoft, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Managed PostgreSQL vs. Self-Hosted PostgreSQL: Key Benefits and Trade-Offs
Microsoft compares managed and self-hosted PostgreSQL across cost, control, security, resilience, scalability and operational effort. more →
Microsoft, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
What's New in Microsoft Security: August 2026
Microsoft's August security update adds agent activity insights, broader environment coverage and management improvements. more →
Microsoft, Saturday, August 29th, 2026
TerminalFix Campaign Deploys a Reverse Tunnel Through Multistage Intrusion
Microsoft Threat Intelligence analyzes a ClickFix campaign using fake CAPTCHAs, DLL sideloading and a reverse tunnel. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
The State of AI-Enabled Malware August 2026: From Brand Abuse to Agentic Execution
Unit 42 surveys AI-enabled malware and argues existing behavioral detection stops AI-authored code before execution. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Perturbation Probing: A New Diagnostic for the Fragility of LLM Safety
Unit 42 research finds LLM safety refusal behavior lives in a thin neural layer, arguing for external security controls. more →
Rubrik, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Salesforce Was Built for Data. Now It's Ground Zero for AI.
Rubrik extends protection, archiving, masking and AI-driven governance across the full Salesforce data lifecycle. more →
Rubrik, Monday, August 24th, 2026
How to Safely Deploy AI Agents in Healthcare
Rubrik positions Agent Cloud as a digital immune system for autonomous clinical AI agents in healthcare. more →
Rubrik, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Your Backups, Encrypted Before They Ever Leave for the Cloud
Rubrik adds client-side encryption to Cloud Native Protection, encrypting backups before they reach object storage. more →
Rubrik, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Stop Backing Up by Hand: A Day 0 to Day 2 Guide to Automating Cloud Protection
Rubrik gives a code-first framework for automating cloud data protection via Terraform, pipeline gates and event-driven response. more →
Salesforce, Friday, August 28th, 2026
How to Scale a Sales Team in One Quarter: Top Tips
Salesforce offers practical strategies for scaling a sales team within a quarter using automation and AI tools. more →
The Future of AI Pricing: What Every CIO Needs to Know
This session explores the evolution of AI pricing models and what they mean for enterprise decision making. Gartner experts examine the challenges emerging pricing approaches create for budgeting, governance and financial planning, and discuss how organizations can adapt. more →
SentinelOne, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
The Path to the Autonomous SOC: The Early Returns of AI and What It Means for Cybersecurity
SentinelOne examines early AI returns in the SOC, including platform consolidation and reduced analyst burnout. more →
SentinelOne, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Edge Infrastructure Under Siege: What Two Independent Datasets Reveal About Who's Exploiting Your Perimeter
A joint Tenable-SentinelOne study finds state and criminal groups converge independently on the same vulnerable edge infrastructure. more →
SentinelOne, Friday, August 28th, 2026
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 35
SentinelOne's weekly roundup covers cybercrime takedowns, DocuSign abuse in NovaCookies phishing and Spark RAT in Cambodia. more →
Vertiv's AI Roadshow - Powering AI Leadership - Los Angeles, CA
Join us at the Vertiv AI Roadshow to discover cutting-edge infrastructure solutions designed to power and cool next-generation AI workloads. Connect with industry experts and explore high-density power and thermal management strategies that will future-proof your data center. more →
Veeam, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Protection That Moves With Your Workloads
Veeam adds a portable backup format, cross-hypervisor restore and licensing that follows the workload. more →
Cloud Incident Response: Forensics in Distributed Environments
This webinar addresses the unique challenges of cloud forensics, including ephemeral resources, limited access to underlying infrastructure, and multi-tenant considerations. more →
Zscaler, Monday, August 24th, 2026
How Deception Helps Amex Global Business Travel Trap Autonomous AI Attacks
Zscaler describes how Amex Global Business Travel uses deception to catch machine-speed autonomous AI attacks. more →
Zscaler, Monday, August 24th, 2026
No Contradiction Here: Frontier AI Requires More Digital Sovereignty, Not Less
Zscaler argues frontier AI capability strengthens rather than weakens the case for digital sovereignty. more →
Zscaler, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Zero Trust or Bust: Winning Compliance in an AI-Driven Multicloud World
Zscaler argues AI and multicloud have broken the annual documentation model of regulatory compliance. more →
Zscaler, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Human + AI: How Our Product Managers Innovate With AI
A Zscaler product manager describes using custom agents and AI as a daily co-pilot in Global Business Systems Support. more →
Zscaler, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
What to Look for in a Deception Technology Solution
Zscaler sets out evaluation criteria for deception technology given credential-driven breaches and alert fatigue. more →
Zscaler, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
It No Longer Takes an Expert to Attack a Factory
Zscaler argues AI has removed the specialist barrier to writing exploits for industrial controllers on the factory floor. more →