Computerworld, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
AI Inference Is Getting Cheaper, but Your Agents Are Getting More Expensive
Gartner expects token costs to fall 95% by 2030 while agentic workflow inference costs rise more than fivefold by 2028. more →
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CSO Online, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Why Data Quality Dictates Security Operations Success
Controlled experiments find enriched network telemetry outperforms basic logs across SOC investigation benchmarks. more →
Enterprise Times, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
5 Ways Businesses Can Curb AI Spending as Unit Costs Rise
Enterprise Times offers five controls covering real-time visibility, smarter GPU use and FinOps practice for AI spend. more →
No Jitter, Monday, August 17th, 2026
4 Ways Data Management Influences AI Outcomes
No Jitter argues agentic AI is only as effective as the data infrastructure beneath it. more →
Security Boulevard, Saturday, August 22nd, 2026
Why Your AI Project Will Probably Fail (and the 3 Warning Signs I Wish I'd Known)
MIT research finds 95% of generative AI pilots produce no measurable return, with organizational failures driving most collapses. more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, August 21st, 2026
Survey: Enterprise AI Analytics Faces Gap Between Testing and Deployment
A WisdomAI survey finds 93% of enterprise data leaders using or experimenting with AI for analytics, with deployment lagging. more →
Dark Reading, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Money and Mindset: The Two Biggest Roadblocks to Cyber Policing
Dark Reading argues law enforcement cyber training lags threats because of budget limits and lack of focus. more →
IT Brew, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
What CIO Mike Anderson Has Learned From Leading Companies Big and Small
Netskope's Mike Anderson explains why understanding agent use cases means hearing directly from the sales team. more →
ITPro, Friday, August 21st, 2026
The Key to a Successful IT Strategy
ITPro examines how IT leaders implement change, lead by example and deliver transformation projects that stick. more →
MSSP Alert, Saturday, August 15th, 2026
Citizen Developers Are Becoming a Security Problem
MSSP Alert argues AI turns employees into software builders, creating visibility, access and governance gaps. more →
InfoQ, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Will Agentic AI Bring Fantasia's Sorcerer's Apprentice to Life? A Conversation With Tracy Bannon
Tracy Bannon discusses security risk, cognitive overload and skill erosion from agentic AI systems. more →
SiliconANGLE, Monday, August 17th, 2026
On theCUBE Pod: AI Bubble Debate Heats Up and Neocloud Earnings Challenge Doubters
Analysts debate whether AI infrastructure spending is a bubble or a sustainable growth phase. more →
You've Been Heard, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Learn the Business to Lead Technology With Dr. Michael Barr (#447 34:29)
A veteran CIO explains why business acumen matters as much as technical depth in IT leadership. more →
You've Been Heard, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Why IT Leaders Should Not Lead With No, With Bret Henning (#446 33:42)
Saying no to unsanctioned tools drives shadow AI; listening first and offering alternatives works better. more →
CXOTalk, Friday, August 21st, 2026
Snap: Agentic AI Software Development at Scale
Snap's head of engineering discusses running agentic AI software development at large scale. more →
SC Media, Friday, August 21st, 2026
Surveillance, Murder Hornets, Portmantau, TrueConf, Siemens, N-Able and More - SWN #609
Security Weekly News covers TrueConf exploitation, AI-assisted attacks and a password vault key exposure. more →
It's FOSS, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Looking Beyond Tmux and Screen: 8 Terminal Multiplexers Worth Trying
It's FOSS surveys eight terminal multiplexers beyond tmux and GNU Screen for managing multiple sessions. more →
CodeMender: AI Code Security Agent
Discover how CodeMender autonomously scans, verifies, and fixes software vulnerabilities at machine speed-enabling rapid remediation with complete developer control. more →
LinuxSecurity, Monday, August 17th, 2026
LinuxSecurity HOWTO: The Modern Linux Security Operations Playbook
A consolidated Linux security operations guide covering hardening, logging, incident response and advisory handling. more →
ITPro, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
The CISO Now Owns Physical Security. Here's What That Means for the Channel
Physical security budgets have moved to CISOs, changing who partners sell to and what they must be able to discuss. more →
StorageReview, Sunday, August 16th, 2026
RAM, GPU, and Storage for Agentic AI: How Much You Actually Need
StorageReview provides a lab-verified sizing guide covering VRAM, system RAM, storage and KV cache math for local AI. more →
TechRadar, Sunday, August 16th, 2026
Kioxia's New 10M IOPS PCIe 6.0 SSD Is So Fast It Rivals Legacy DDR3 RAM
Kioxia unveils a PCIe 6.0 SSD hitting 10M IOPS with performance approaching legacy DDR3 memory. more →
TechTarget, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Energy-Efficient Storage Architecture in the AI Era
AI workloads make power the binding constraint, requiring energy-conscious storage design. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
7 Expert-Recommended Data Observability Tools
Commercial data observability tools help teams monitor data quality, security and pipelines with vendor support. more →
StorageReview, Saturday, August 15th, 2026
Best Enterprise SSDs in 2026: Lab-Tested Leaderboard
StorageReview ranks six data center drives across mixed-use, read-intensive, high-capacity and EDSFF categories on lab data. more →
StorageReview, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
Enterprise SSD Prices Run at 6.5x Last Year: VDURA Pegs a 30TB TLC Drive at $22,600
VDURA's Flash Volatility Index shows enterprise SSD prices holding at 6.5x year-ago levels, 18.6x HDD capacity cost. more →
theCUBE Research, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
PostgreSQL Is a Good, Strong Database, However Enterprise AI Has Changed the Game
PostgreSQL remains capable, but enterprise AI demands integrated governance that extensions may not deliver. more →
Your AI Needs a CI/CD Pipeline. Just Not the One You Think.
This session explores how principles from cloud architecture, AWS Well-Architected thinking, CI/CD, and resilient system design can be applied to modern AI quality. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
Fibre Channel Is the Bedrock of Modern AI Storage, Presented by Cisco MDS
A panel discussion on why Fibre Channel remains foundational to modern AI storage infrastructure. more →
HR Dive, Monday, August 17th, 2026
6 Questions the C-Suite and HR Must Align On
Survey data reveals wide gaps between HR leaders and executives on HR's strategic role. more →
ZDNET, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Why Replacing Staff With AI Backfires - and 5 Ways Smart Leaders Generate Real Value Instead
Leaders who cut headcount for AI destroy knowledge; the value comes from redesigning work instead. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
4 Common Challenges That Negatively Affect Employee Retention
CHROs must fix toxic environments, blocked advancement, below-market pay and low engagement to retain staff. more →
HR Dive, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
Rethinking RTO? Researchers Highlight the Positive Impact of Remote Work
Remote workers report the highest well-being, and retention tracks wellness rather than office proximity. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
The 4 Most Common HR Data Security Issues
HR faces four major data security threats, from remote work exposure to chatbot data leakage. more →
TechTarget, Friday, August 21st, 2026
6 Use Cases for Agentic AI in HR
Agentic AI can autonomously handle HR tasks from complex employee questions to candidate identification. more →
AWS, Friday, August 21st, 2026
Amazon Connect Customer Now Lets Managers Chat With Their Data
Amazon Connect Customer adds a plain-language interface that answers questions across 150+ contact centre metrics. more →
Why Your Observability Vendor Can't Solve Your P1s: Breaking the Ingestion Tax and Agent Silos
Join Techstrong and NeuBird AI to learn why the future of production-ops AI isn't another data store, but a virtualized context layer. Discover how querying live tools in place delivers accurate root cause analysis in minutes without data movement or security risks. more →
Broadcom, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
IDC White Paper: Self-Service Private Cloud as the Engine for In-House AI and Application Innovation
Broadcom publishes an IDC paper arguing ticket-driven infrastructure is the bottleneck blocking enterprise AI delivery. more →
Broadcom, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Choosing the Right Kubernetes Migration Path to VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service
Broadcom lays out migration paths for moving Kubernetes workloads onto VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service. more →
Broadcom, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
ESXCLI 9.1.0 GA: Simplified Installation, Modern Python Support, and Enhanced Security
Broadcom ships ESXCLI 9.1.0 with simplified installation, modern Python support and security improvements. more →
Broadcom, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
From Infrastructure to Agents: A Hands-On Guide to Secure Private AI With Broadcom - Part 3
Part three of Broadcom's private AI security series covers north-south L5-L7 protection using Avi WAF and Istio. more →
Broadcom, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Frontier AI and Security: Your Guide to Top Resources at VMware Explore 2026
Broadcom previews the VMware Cloud Foundation security sessions, labs and experts available at VMware Explore 2026. more →
Broadcom, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Putting Numbers Behind Encrypted vMotion Offload to Intel QAT in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1
Broadcom publishes measured results for offloading encrypted vMotion to Intel QuickAssist Technology in VCF 9.1. more →
Cohere, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
The Culture Funnel: You Can't Align What Isn't in the Data
Cohere argues cultural awareness must be built into AI models from the start, because language coverage alone fails users. more →
Give Your AI Investigator a Complete Case File
This session reframes the classic cost-versus-fidelity trade-off for the agentic era. When an AI investigator hits a sampled-out span, a rolled-up metric that no longer holds the dimension it needs, or a retention wall just short of the pattern it's chasing, it doesn't error out. It reaches a confident, wrong conclusion and you find out one incident at a time. We'll unpack that quiet failure mode and give you a vendor-neutral way to audit your own pipeline before you hand an agent the case. more →
CoreWeave, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Model Context Protocol in Action: When MCP Meets Real Infrastructure
CoreWeave examines the limitations that surface when Model Context Protocol agents move from chat into operational workflows. more →
CoreWeave, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
What Comes Next: Operating and Evolving the Production AI Factory
CoreWeave and NVIDIA cover the operational phase of the AI factory lifecycle after validation and build-out. more →
CoreWeave, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Why Agentic Inference Needs Prefix-Aware Routing Infrastructure
CoreWeave explains why agentic workloads, which reuse most of each request's context, need prefix-aware caching and routing. 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, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Cyber Resilience Testing: Why It Still Isn't Happening
Dell and Gartner argue recovery testing is skipped out of organizational fear, not budget, and needs a defined target to matter. more →
Dell, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
How the Internet Works: From Servers to Your Screen
Dell publishes an explainer covering TCP/IP, DNS, routers, fiber and CDNs, plus a simple connection self-test. more →
Dell, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Telecom Transformation Playbook: Mobile Operators Need a Blueprint
Dell argues validated blueprints built with network equipment providers are how operators modernize without pausing operations. more →
Dell, Friday, August 21st, 2026
Operationalizing GenAI Beyond Pilots
Dell positions its AI Data Platform as an Enterprise Data Factory that prepares, governs and serves AI-ready context at scale. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
Why People Remember Jaws but Forget Your Security Training
KnowBe4 argues engaging, high-production security content drives recall and behavior change where compliance training fails. more →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
North Korean Hackers Target LinkedIn Users With Fake Job Offers
KnowBe4 reports the North Korean actor Famous Chollima posing as LinkedIn recruiters to push ClickFix malware commands. more →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Ransomware Has Changed and Your Defenses Need to Change With It
KnowBe4's Erich Kron argues ransomware is now a business disruption model built on stolen identities and social engineering. more →
KnowBe4, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Report: One-Quarter of Breaches Are Enabled by AI-Driven Attacks
An IBM-commissioned study finds 25% of malicious breaches are now AI-driven, costing an average $6 million each. more →
KnowBe4, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
The Rise of the Non-Human Insider: When AI Agents Become the Threat
KnowBe4 argues machine identities now outnumber humans 82 to 1, making authenticated AI agents a serious insider risk. more →
KnowBe4, Friday, August 21st, 2026
Report: Americans Lose an Estimated $148 Billion to Scams Each Year
A Consumer Federation of America report puts annual US online scam losses at $148 billion, over seven times reported figures. more →
Micron, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Micron Unveils Micron Research Labs, a US-Based Long-Horizon Innovation Hub to Shape the Future of Memory and AI
Micron launched Micron Research Labs in Boise, backed by a planned $10 billion investment over the next decade. more →
Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault
This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Offering Zero Data Retention for Frontier Models
OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Stampli Cuts Launch Hours by 68% Using ChatGPT Work
Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days against a fixed deadline. more →
Palantir, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Securing Software at the Speed of AI
Palantir's product security team describes building an agentic multi-agent source-code review capability. more →
Vertiv's AI Roadshow - Powering AI Leadership - Calgary, AB
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 →
Salesforce, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Salesforce Turns Enterprise Applications Into Enterprise Capabilities
Salesforce expands Headless 360 so every Salesforce cloud becomes a reusable capability any authorized AI agent can call. more →
Salesforce, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Data 360 Headless: Extend the Power of Data 360 to Any Agent, App, or Dev Tool
Salesforce extends Data 360 through headless access so external agents, apps and developer tools can query governed data. more →
Salesforce, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
From Alliance to Apache: The Next Chapter for Open Semantics
The Open Semantic Interchange entered the Apache Incubator as Apache Ossie, backed by a coalition of 50+ data and AI leaders. more →
Salesforce, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Introducing Slack Code
Salesforce launches Slack Code, a dedicated code channel where teams and AI agents write, review and ship code together. more →
Salesforce, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Requirements Are Not Marching Orders: Read Them Like an Architect
Salesforce argues architects should decompose requirements into why, what and how rather than implementing them literally. more →
Salesforce, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Spy vs. Spy at Machine Speed: Inside the Agentic AI Arms Race
Salesforce examines JadePuffer, a ransomware attack in which an autonomous agent carried out the whole technical intrusion. more →
UiPath, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Build at Agent Speed. Run on One Operating Layer.
UiPath describes how UiPath for Coding Agents and Maestro Flow move agent-built automations into governed production. more →
UiPath, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Maestro Flow: A Developer Canvas That Keeps Agent-Built Work Legible
UiPath's Maestro Flow gives developers a canvas to build, test, govern and run agentic processes on a production runtime. more →
UiPath, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
The Future of Software Testing Isn't Bright. It's Dark.
UiPath argues autonomous testing frees human testers to focus on judgment, risk and quality strategy. more →
Seeing Is Believing: Observability as the Backbone of Trustworthy AI
This webinar explores the principles and practices of AI observability: what to monitor, how to measure it, and how to respond. We'll break down what meaningful observability looks like across the AI lifecycle - and why it's foundational for governance, risk mitigation, and long-term success. more →
Zscaler, Monday, August 17th, 2026
C2Looper: A New Backdoor Likely Tied to Ransomware With GitHub C2
Zscaler ThreatLabz details C2Looper, a Rust-based backdoor using GitHub for command and control and delivered via ClickFix. more →
Zscaler, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Securing the Unsecurable: OT, IoT, and the Factory Floor
Zscaler examines securing connected manufacturing where uptime and availability are the only metrics operators accept. more →
Zscaler, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Aligning ITAR Compliance to Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchanges
Zscaler maps ITAR compliance requirements across its Commercial, FedRAMP Moderate and FedRAMP High platform tiers. more →
Zscaler, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
The Fix Has Been Out for a Year. The Controller Is Still Exposed.
Zscaler finds thousands of refrigeration controllers still unpatched months after fixes shipped, because outages spoil product. more →
Zscaler, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Zero Trust Can't Stop at a Claim. You Need to Prove It.
Zscaler argues policies describing intent tell you nothing about behavior, using a bank executive's AI ban as the example. more →
The Dos and Don'ts of a Cybersecurity Awareness Month People Actually Remember
Join Dale Hackett, Systems Administrator and Information Security Administrator with EXP Services, and Javvad Malik, KnowBe4 CISO Advisor, for real dos and don'ts from teams who've run their own Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Plus, how KnowBe4's Kit can help you launch your campaign without starting from a blank page. more →
