This Week — Vol 341 Issue 4

CIO, Thursday, August 27th, 2026

A Spreadsheet Is Not A Strategy

Cost-cutting that looks good on a spreadsheet can quietly erode the people, flexibility, and resilience that keep IT running. more →

CIO, Thursday, August 27th, 2026

Scaling Enterprise AI Without Breaking The Bank: A CIO's Guide To AI Unit Economics

A framework for measuring AI's economic value -- impact times adoption times reusability divided by cost -- rather than deployment volume. more →

CIO Dive, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026

CIOs Are Still Waiting For AI's Cost Savings

An Infosys survey finds enterprises keep investing in AI despite most struggling to measure or achieve returns. more →

Cyber Defense Magazine, Monday, August 24th, 2026

The Cyber Resilience Imperative: Why CISOs Must Shift From Prevention to Business Survival

Prevention alone no longer works; CISOs must measure whether the business can keep operating when defenses fail. more →

InformationWeek, Thursday, August 27th, 2026

Why CIOs Are Moving Their Workloads Back On-Prem

CIOs are repatriating workloads from public cloud for cost, security, and performance reasons. more →

IT Pro, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026

IT Leaders Need To Stop 'Pushing AI For The Sake Of AI'

Enterprises should let business needs drive AI adoption instead of deploying it because executives mandate it. more →

DevOps.com, Thursday, August 27th, 2026

When AI Coding Agents Become Malware Delivery Systems

Attackers are planting prompt-injection payloads in repos and READMEs to hijack AI coding agents into running malware. more →

DevOps.com, Monday, August 24th, 2026

Why 'Tokenmaxxing' Was Always the Wrong Way for Developers to Measure AI Productivity

Drew Thompson argues measuring AI coding tools by token consumption is as flawed as counting lines of code. more →

Analytics Insight, Thursday, August 27th, 2026

Best Email API Services Accelerating Growth in 2026

Five leading email API services compared for transactional and marketing message delivery. more →

Upcoming Event · Tue, Oct 20 · 1:00pm

Practitioner Perspective: Achieving Fine-Grained Control for Data and AI on the Endpoint

Join us for a practitioner-focused deep dive on what it takes to move beyond blind alerting and blunt blocking. {Person from Bold} sits down with Michael Roberts, Security Engineer at Cresta, a leading AI company, to explore an age-old question: How do you get the fine-grained control to stop real data loss without getting in the way of employee productivity? more →

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Practitioner Perspective: Achieving Fine-Grained Control for Data and AI on the Endpoint (Oct. 20th)

FOSS Force, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026

Beyond Syslog: Building a Tamper-Proof E-Commerce Audit Trail With immudb

A technical walkthrough of using the open-source immudb database to build cryptographically verifiable audit logs. more →

FOSS Force, Thursday, August 27th, 2026

Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Released With Bug Fixes, Curve Alias, and Faster Crypto

The GnuPG project's Libgcrypt 1.12.3 update brings bug fixes, a new curve alias, and cryptographic performance gains. more →

FOSS Force, Friday, August 28th, 2026

LibreOffice 26.8 Again Proves Open Source Is About More Than Code

Christine Hall examines how LibreOffice 26.8's release process reflects open source's community and governance side. more →

It's FOSS, Thursday, August 27th, 2026

LibreOffice 26.8 Doubles Down on No AI, Right After Collabora Welcomed It

The Document Foundation's LibreOffice 26.8 skips AI features entirely, sticking to core open source office basics. more →

It's FOSS, Monday, August 24th, 2026

Linux 7.3 Is Shaping Up to Be One of the Most Performance-Focused Kernel Releases in Years

Early Linux 7.3 kernel work points to major filesystem, scheduling, and latency performance improvements. more →

Open Source For You, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026

OpenSSL 4.0.2 Patches Multiple Security Flaws Across Core Components

OpenSSL 4.0.2 fixes a heap buffer overflow and memory exhaustion issues across core cryptographic components. more →

Analytics Insight, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026

Next-Gen Technologies Poised to Shape the Rest of 2026

Eight emerging technologies, from AI agents to post-quantum cryptography, expected to transform industries in 2026. more →

The Register, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026

Intel's 256-Core Xeon 7 CPUs Are a Diamond in the Rough

A deep dive on Intel's delayed Diamond Rapids Xeon 7, a 256-core chiplet design aimed squarely at HPC. more →

Tom's Hardware, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026

Hot Chips 2026: Arm Details AGI Server CPU With Two 70-Core N3P Chiplets

Arm disclosed its AGI server CPU design at Hot Chips 2026: two 70-core N3P chiplets linked by a 2 TB/s UCIe fabric. more →

Tom's Hardware, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026

Hot Chips 2026: NVIDIA Breaks Down 88-Core Vera CPU - Spatial Multithreading Benchmarked, 1.2 TB/s SOCAMM2 Memory

Nvidia detailed its 88-core, 176-thread Vera CPU at Hot Chips 2026, claiming 14-22% faster Linux kernel compiles than AMD EPYC. more →

InfoWorld, Friday, August 28th, 2026

Rust Language Adds Algebraic Floating-Point Methods

Rust 1.98 stabilizes algebraic float methods and buffered integer formatting for better compiler optimizations. more →

The Register, Friday, August 28th, 2026

CISA: Most Exploited Vulnerabilities Should Have Been Eradicated Decades Ago

CISA finds the most-exploited vulnerability classes are decades old and entirely preventable. more →

theCUBE Research, Monday, August 24th, 2026

The New Measure of Cyber Recovery: Can the Business Get Back to Work?

Cyber resilience should be measured by restored business operations, not restored infrastructure. more →

Upcoming Event · Wed, Sep 9 · 10:00am

Train Employees on Cost-Optimized Best Practices for GenAI

Gartner experts will discuss approaches for selecting the right models for the right tasks, establishing context-specific training programs, improving prompt design practices and creating accessible prompt repositories. The session also examines how usage monitoring and governance can help organizations identify key cost drivers, manage consumption and optimize GenAI investments as adoption grows. more →

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Train Employees on Cost-Optimized Best Practices for GenAI (Sept. 9th)

HR Dive, Friday, August 28th, 2026

Why HR Departments Run With AI Agents Will Still Require Humans

Despite predictions of steep HR headcount cuts, human oversight remains essential as AI agents take over routine tasks. more →

TechTarget, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026

CIOs Say Data Engineers, AI Architects Hardest Roles to Fill

CIOs report the toughest hiring gaps are in AI infrastructure and enterprise-scale data engineering. more →

Bitdefender, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026

Everyone Says Security Consolidation Saves Money. Four Organizations Did the Math

Bitdefender examines four organizations that quantified the savings from consolidating onto a unified security platform. more →

Upcoming Event · Thu, Sep 24 · 9:00am

Picking Your Winner in the Agentic AI Race

The biggest story in DevOps this year is the agentic AI revolution. Which platform will lead your pipeline? Join 3,000+ practitioners to evaluate, compare, and decide. more →

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Picking Your Winner in the Agentic AI Race (Sept. 24th)

Cisco, Thursday, August 27th, 2026

JavaScript Obfuscation: From Party Trick to Phishing Kit

Cisco Talos covers what JavaScript obfuscation is, why researchers reverse it, and several approaches to the problem. more →

Cisco, Friday, August 28th, 2026

From Isolated Agents to Collective Intelligence: Why A2A Is the Protocol the Agentic SOC Has Been Waiting For

Cisco argues the agentic SOC needs both MCP and A2A, as vertical and horizontal layers of multi-agent security operations. more →

Cisco, Friday, August 28th, 2026

The Patch Window Just Closed. Here's What Comes Next.

Cisco argues time-to-exploitation has gone negative and positions MSPs running the NOC to close the gap with VulnOps. more →

Upcoming Event · Tue, Sep 22 · 1:00pm

AI Observability Best Practices for Production-Ready AI

Join Dynatrace for a practical discussion on what AI observability looks like in production and the practices teams can use to make it work. We'll cover how engineering and operations teams can connect AI behavior to application performance, improve visibility across AI workflows, and reduce risk as adoption scales. more →

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AI Observability Best Practices for Production-Ready AI (Sept. 22nd)

Commvault, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026

Cloud Backup and Recovery Explained: From Threat Detection to Full Recovery

Commvault explains how cloud backup and recovery protects clean recovery points and restores operations after an attack. more →

Commvault, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026

Devs: Don't Kill My Vibe

Commvault's podcast recap examines vibe coding with Microsoft engineer Harald Kirschner and where speed outpaces oversight. more →

Commvault, Thursday, August 27th, 2026

Why Modern Cyber Risk Demands A-to-Z Cyber Resilience

Commvault argues ransomware targets the whole data lifecycle, so protection, detection and recovery must be unified. more →

Commvault, Friday, August 28th, 2026

Data: When Way Too Much Becomes Never Enough

Commvault's Ready. Or Not. finale examines why data preparation and governance matter more than data volume for AI. more →

CoreWeave, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026

5 Lessons From Building a Multi-Plane Network Fabric for Agentic AI

CoreWeave shares five lessons from building an east-west fabric for agentic inference rather than foundation model training. more →

CoreWeave, Friday, August 28th, 2026

Video Captioning at Scale: 600 TB in 95 Minutes With Anyscale on CoreWeave

CoreWeave and Anyscale captioned 600 TB of video in 95 minutes on CoreWeave infrastructure. more →

Databricks, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026

Introducing Governance Hub: Intelligent, Account-Level Governance Over Your Databricks Estate

Governance Hub gives Databricks administrators one account-level view of data health, AI usage and cost with actionable recommendations. more →