CIO, Friday, September 25th, 2026
AI Governance Is Fast Becoming an Unmanageable Chore
IT leaders' governance workload has surged even as AI itself saves employees time, straining oversight capacity. more →
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InformationWeek, Friday, September 25th, 2026
AI Governance Lags Behind Deployment. CIOs Need to Fix That
CIOs face shadow AI, embedded vendor AI and autonomous agents outpacing governance frameworks, the piece warns. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Why Data Governance Fails at Compliance and How to Fix It
Data governance policies often fail to translate into real compliance, and the article details why and how to fix it. more →
North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) 98 Miami
NANOG is, and always has been, dedicated to the people who make up our community. Meet with hundreds of individuals from network engineering, operations, and architecture, who gather in major cities across North America. more →
CIO, Friday, September 25th, 2026
I Stopped Asking My Team to Use AI. I Asked Them to Manage It
A leader describes shifting his team from casually using AI to formally managing AI agents as teammates. more →
CIO Influence, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Invisible CIO Leadership: Embedding Intelligence Into Every Business Process Without Disruption
CIOs are embedding AI and automation invisibly into workflows instead of running visible transformation projects. more →
CIO, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Should AI Have the Same Data Access Restrictions as Employees?
AI systems often bypass the data access restrictions that apply to the employees who query them. more →
CIO, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
The Accidental CIO Is Disappearing, and That Might Be a Problem
Structured, credential-focused career paths may be producing narrow specialists instead of well-rounded CIOs. more →
Diginomica, Friday, September 25th, 2026
The Diginomica Network - An Inside View of a CIO Replacing Tools With In-House AI Builds
An anonymized Group CIO describes retraining developers as AI orchestrators, cutting an 18-month project to four months. more →
Diginomica, Friday, September 25th, 2026
The Diginomica Network - An Inside View of How One CIO Rebuilt Software Development Around AI and People
A CIO retrained 100+ engineers through hackathons and built an AI governance portal instead of restrictive rules. more →
The Next Platform, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Accelerated Server Sales Are Themselves Accelerating
Q2 2026 server revenue hit $166.3 billion, up 52% year-over-year, as GPU and XPU systems capture most of the spend. more →
ScienceDaily, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Quantum Computing's Dark Horse Just Proved It Can Go Universal
Physicists showed non-Abelian anyons can perform all operations needed for universal quantum computing. more →
Open Source For You, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Lock Up Your Data: A Guide to Open Source Encryption
A guide to open source tools for encrypting data at rest and in transit, plus key management best practices. 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 →
The Register, Saturday, September 19th, 2026
AI Boom Could Leave an E-Waste Trail That Wraps 6 Times Around Earth
A Basel Action Network report warns AI infrastructure could generate 395-617 million tonnes of e-waste by 2050. more →
Blocks & Files, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Gartner Rates Storage and Compute-as-a-Service Infrastructure Vendors
Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant ranks Everpure, HPE, and Huawei as leaders in consumption-based infrastructure services. more →
The Register, Sunday, September 20th, 2026
How Windows Turned Months of Inactivity Into a 7-Hour Update Hostage Situation
A Register columnist recounts a seven-hour Windows 11 update ordeal after months of laptop inactivity. more →
InformationWeek, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
The CIO's Maintenance Backlog Is Now a Business Risk
Deferred IT maintenance has become a compounding business risk that AI adoption accelerates rather than solves. more →
IEEE Spectrum, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
The Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid-Cooled AI Servers
As AI racks exceed 250kW, near-total liquid heat capture is turning fanless server cooling from niche to standard. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Top 8 Customer Support Knowledge Base Software Platforms
TechTarget reviews eight customer support knowledge base platforms, from Document360 to Zoho Desk, with pricing and features. more →
Redmond Magazine, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Strategies for Ensuring Long-Term Backup Survivability
Brien Posey explains how recoverability horizons, open data formats and regular restoration testing can help keep backups usable for years or decades. 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 →
TechTarget, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Capability Risks Rise With Layoffs: What CIOs Should Know
Layoffs create hidden 'capability risk' by wiping out undocumented expertise and institutional knowledge. more →
HR Dive, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
HR Leaders Worry About the Loss of Critical Leadership Skill Development
78% of HR leaders fear AI automating entry-level work is eroding the pipeline for developing future managers. more →
HR Dive, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Should Workers Be Paid for AI Skills?
A pay gap is emerging as workers want compensation for AI skills that many employers still treat as a baseline expectation. more →
Analytics Insight, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Why HR Data Should Move Automatically Across Every System
HR teams should automate employee data flows across systems instead of manually re-entering data at every step. more →
Bitdefender, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Your Employees Are Adopting AI Faster Than You Can See It
Bitdefender warns that shadow AI use is expanding attack surfaces faster than security teams can gain visibility into it. more →
Same Curve, Twice the Speed: Why AI Cost Management Isn't Cloud FinOps 2.0
In this session, we'll break down what actually separates AI cost management from cloud cost management: different unit economics, different owners, different attribution models, and a waste rate of 25% of cloud and AI spend, which took cloud a decade to reach and AI hit almost overnight. more →
Cloudflare, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Agents Can Now Set Up Your Website's Security with Turnstile Spin
Cloudflare launched Turnstile Spin, an AI-agent-driven tool that automatically wires up correct server-side bot verification. more →
Cloudflare, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
How Cloudflare Addressed a Cross-Tenant Data Exposure Vulnerability in Containers
Cloudflare fixed a Containers vulnerability that let a customer recover residual disk data from other tenants' past workloads. more →
Cloudflare, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Python Workers Are Now Generally Available
Cloudflare's Python Workers are now generally available, with native bindings and support for FastAPI, Django, and Flask. more →
Cloudflare, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
We Just Shipped Support for the Ugliest Part of HTTP: Vary
Cloudflare added Vary header support to Cache Rules on every plan, letting customers control how cached responses vary. more →
Cohesity, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Cohesity Data Cloud Introduces Deferred Execution for Quorum
Cohesity added deferred execution for quorum, letting approved changes wait for a maintenance window without re-approval. more →
Cohesity, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Cohesity FortKnox Integrates Clean Room Recovery
Cohesity's FortKnox cyber vaulting service now offers clean room recovery to validate backups before restoring production systems. more →
Darktrace, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Agent Hijacks: How Conversation History Poisoning Can Turn AI Agents Into Attackers
Darktrace researchers showed conversation history poisoning can hijack AI coding agents into performing offensive cyber operations. more →
Darktrace, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Darktrace / SECURE AI: Behavioral Security for the AI Enterprise
Darktrace launched SECURE AI, extending its behavioral security approach to AI usage, prompts, agents, and development. more →
Darktrace, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Detecting Rogue AI Agents: When Enterprise Agents Turn to Hacking
Darktrace found AI agents given impossible tasks resorted to hacking techniques on their own, and its platform detected the behavior. 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 →
Databricks, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Deploy and Manage Coding Agents at Scale with the Unity Gateway CLI
Databricks launched Unity Gateway CLI so admins can centrally govern coding agents while developers switch between them with one command. more →
Databricks, Friday, September 25th, 2026
From Data to Dialogue: How S&P Global Energy Made Its Structured Data Estate Conversational with Databricks Genie Agents and MCP
S&P Global Energy used Databricks Genie Agents exposed as managed MCP servers to make its structured data conversational for AI agents. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Genie One MCP: Give Any AI Agent the Right Business Context
Databricks introduced Genie One MCP so any MCP-compatible AI agent can get governed business context from Genie Ontology. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
How Concurrence Governs Clinical AI at a Trillion-Token Scale with Unity Gateway
Healthcare AI company Concurrence uses Databricks Unity Gateway to govern roughly 1.2 trillion tokens a year of clinical agent traffic. more →
Databricks, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
How I Built Agent-Based Security Reviews on Databricks
A Databricks security engineer built an agent-based layer that automates routine security reviews while escalating high-risk cases to humans. more →
Databricks, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Running Open-Jev in SQL on Databricks
Databricks showed how to run open-weight 'decision model' Jev variants like SemIf-OpenJev directly from SQL using serverless GPUs. more →
Google, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Power Your Agents: Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar Is Now Generally Available
Google made Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar generally available in Gemini Enterprise, adding lip-synced video avatars to voice AI agents. more →
Google, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Proactive Defense: Hardening Code Pipelines and CI/CD Infrastructure
Google's threat intel team warns attackers increasingly compromise trusted CI/CD tools, IDEs, and pipeline credentials to attack builds. more →
Google, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Scale Your Own Way, Using HPA with Built-In Support for PromQL Metrics Queries in GKE
GKE's Horizontal Pod Autoscaler now natively supports PromQL queries against Cloud Monitoring/Prometheus, no third-party adapters needed. more →
Google, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Scribd, Inc. Classifies More Than 400 Million Documents with Gemini Batch Inference on Gemini Enterprise
Scribd used Gemini's PDF understanding and Gemini Enterprise batch inference to classify over 400 million user-uploaded documents. more →
Google, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Secure, Intelligent Experiences Across Every Endpoint
Google pitches its Intelligent Endpoints portfolio, spanning its enterprise browser, ChromeOS, and hardware, as secure ground for agentic AI. more →
Google, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Storage Intelligence Advisor: Know What Changed in Your Storage Estate and Act on It
Google Cloud made Storage Intelligence advisor generally available with expanded batch operations to flag storage changes and act on them. more →
Harness, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
How Harness Orchestrates LLM Security Scanning
Harness describes how its Security Testing Orchestration incrementally scans code with LLMs, cutting scanning costs by 83%. more →
Harness, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Jev's Auditable Decision Primitive at Harness
Harness describes Jev, an internal tool that turns AI agent judgment into a typed, auditable decision primitive tested across evals and routing. more →
Harness, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
The Ladders Just Got Taller
Harness warns that AI-accelerated attacks are raising the bar for identity security, vulnerability remediation, and threat detection. more →
Harness, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Vulnerability Remediation vs Mitigation: The Difference
Harness explains the difference between vulnerability remediation and mitigation, and when to use each in a risk-based program. more →
Harness, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Why Cloud Cost Optimization for Engineers Fails
Harness argues cloud cost optimization efforts fail when they aren't developer-centric, and outlines FinOps practices engineers will actually adopt. more →
AI Threat Readiness: Deep Dive Workshop
Your AI Systems Are Already Under Attack. Is Your Team Ready to Respond? more →
HP, Monday, September 21st, 2026
HP Googlebook 14 Brings Premium Craftsmanship to Google's Newest Connected Platform
HP unveiled the Googlebook 14 laptop with a Snapdragon X Elite chip and deep Android phone integration. 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 →
OpenAI, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Two Years of OpenAI Academy
OpenAI Academy marks two years, having hosted 250+ events reaching 4 million people, and is launching a new trainer program. more →
Computerworld, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
OpenAI's New Priorities for Third-Party Assessments Are a Fine Start, but They Lack Teeth
Analysts say OpenAI's new principles for third-party model assessors sound good but include no enforcement mechanism. more →
Perplexity, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Photon: Building a Retrieval and Ranking Engine From Scratch
Perplexity built Photon, a Rust-based retrieval and ranking engine that returns 95% of search results in under 230ms. more →
Couchbase CATALYST - The Agent Era Is Here. Is Your Data Ready? (Oct. 20-22)
Couchbase Catalyst 2026 is the first Couchbase customer conference: three days where technology leaders, architects, and the engineers building on Couchbase meet to advance next-generation data solutions for the Agent Era. more →
SAP, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Can Agentic AI Bridge the Gap with Trusted Enterprise Data?
Reltio's CEO says 94% of firms are exploring agentic AI, but only 15% believe their data is truly ready. more →
SAP, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Eyes on the Future - From Eyewear to Smart Wearables
EssilorLuxottica is piloting SAP Joule-powered smart glasses to give retail staff hands-free access to store data. more →
SAP, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
The AI Governance Gap: Why Responsible AI Drives Adoption
SAP updated its Global AI Ethics policy to version 3.0 after interviews with more than 50 international experts. more →
SAP, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
The Autonomous Enterprise, Unfiltered: Lessons from 16 Executive Conversations
SAP's Autonomous Enterprise podcast has released 16 episodes of executives discussing real AI adoption challenges. more →
SAP, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
The Future of Service Delivery in the AI-Driven Enterprise
SAP describes how a life sciences customer uses AI agents to triage tens of thousands of daily customer emails. more →
SAP, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
The Operational Backbone of the Autonomous Enterprise
SAP unveiled new AI features across Signavio, LeanIX, WalkMe and Cloud ALM at its Transformation Excellence Summit. more →
Sophos, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
The Rising Threat of Deepfakes: Why Organizations Must Rethink Trust
Sophos warns deepfake attacks are up 2,100% and says organizations must move beyond trusting human judgment. 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 change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →
Trellix, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Dark Web Roast: August 2026 Edition
Trellix's monthly roundup mocks cybercriminals whose sloppy operational security exposed their own schemes. more →
Trellix, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
The Hidden Risk: How Attackers Target Your Active Directory (and How to Stop Them)
Trellix breaks down the five-phase attack chain used to steal Active Directory's NTDS.dit password database. more →
Trellix, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
The Industrialization of Deception: AI-Driven Threats
Trellix details five 2026 case studies of AI-driven attacks exploiting trust rather than technical flaws. more →
Trellix, Monday, September 21st, 2026
When the Directory Becomes the Weapon: Understanding NTDS.dit Theft
Trellix research shows attackers use consistent techniques across tools to steal NTDS.dit credential files. more →
Ubuntu, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Fine Tune Your Own Custom LLM with Canonical Charmed Kubeflow and Feast
Canonical published an end-to-end guide to fine-tuning a custom LLM chatbot using Charmed Kubeflow and Feast. 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 →
UiPath, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Agentic Testing Evolves Again: The Next Chapter for UiPath Test Cloud
UiPath detailed new agentic testing capabilities at FUSION aimed at enterprise-scale software quality and governance. more →
UiPath, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Every Company Already Has a Map of Work. Most Can't See It.
UiPath argues enterprises need a living 'Map of Work' to give AI agents the context and judgment human experts hold. more →
UiPath, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
The Biggest Product Announcements from UiPath FUSION 2026
UiPath unveiled Cartographer, Coding Agents and a preview 'dark testing factory' for automated software quality at FUSION. more →
SASE Pivot and Trends 2026: A Gartner Keynote
Charanpal Bhogal, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, examines how SASE must expand to protect human and nonhuman identities, govern AI usage, secure agentic interactions and deliver flexible, sovereign security as data residency demands grow. He also breaks down the disruptions redefining the SASE market and what comes next. more →
