Network World, Monday, September 14th, 2026
AI Inferencing Is Headed for the Network Edge
Gartner expects two-thirds of enterprises to deploy edge AI by 2029, up from 10% in 2025, driven by data gravity and sovereignty. more →
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The Observation Deck, Sunday, September 13th, 2026
The Contagion of Fear
Bryan Cantrill argues that AI extinction fears spread irresponsibly despite lacking substantive evidence. more →
Memeburn, Monday, September 14th, 2026
22 Best AI Tools in 2026: Complete Directory by Category
Comprehensive guide comparing 22 AI tools across seven categories for writing, coding, content creation, and productivity. more →
TechTarget, Monday, September 14th, 2026
AI Harnesses Bring Coordination and Guardrails to Enterprise AI Agents
AI harnesses coordinate multiple agents and provide guardrails for enterprise system interactions. more →
Cybersecurity Dive, Monday, September 14th, 2026
Security Teams Increasingly Outflanked by AI Agents
Non-human AI identities now outnumber human identities by 75:1 in some environments, outpacing security systems. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Why Enterprise AI Fails at the Org Chart, Not the Model Layer
Enterprise AI failures stem from organizational dysfunction and unclear accountability, not technology limitations. more →
RedMonk, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Agents: The New, New Kingmakers
AI agents are reshaping software development's power dynamics, displacing human developers as decision-makers. more →
CIO, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
How Roche Drives AI Outcomes in a Changing World
Roche's chief digital officer explains how trusted data, governance, and outcome focus drive AI success. more →
CIO, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
The Agentic AI Transition Is Underway
Enterprises increasingly adopt AI agents to automate complex business processes, with 75% already using them. more →
CIO, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
The Internet of Cognition: AI's Next Big Coordination Problem
AI agents need shared understanding and coordinated reasoning, not just communication links. more →
FutureCIO, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
PodChats for FutureCIO: How CIOs Are Embedding Sustainability Into AI Infrastructure
CIOs must embed real-time sustainability metrics into AI infrastructure amid power and sovereignty constraints. 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 →
CXOTalk, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Occidental Petroleum's Chief AI Officer: AI at Scale in the Physical World
Oxy's Chief AI Officer on running hundreds of AI systems across physical oil and gas operations. more →
SC Media (Security Weekly News), Friday, September 18th, 2026
Bacteria, Spartans, AI Gone Wild, Cisco, WordPress, Settra, Plugin4Shell, Josh Marpet - SWN #617
Security news roundup covering agentic AI incidents, a Cisco ISE zero-day, and the Plugin4Shell flaw. more →
SC Media (CISO Stories), Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Beyond the CVE Count: The Real State of Vulnerability Management - Charles Loring - CSP #228
Public sector CISO on risk-based vulnerability prioritisation and the limits of AI in patch management. more →
SC Media (Enterprise Security Weekly), Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Safely Exploiting Vulnerabilities at Scale, TVs Attack Privacy, and the News - Snehal Antani - ESW #476
Horizon3 CEO on automated pentesting for exposure management, plus smart TV privacy and security news. more →
You've Been Heard, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Earn Your Seat Beyond Technology w/Scott Holleran #454
Scott Holleran, CIO of Altus Fire & Life Safety, joins Phil Howard to discuss what gives technology leaders real influence inside the business. more →
You've Been Heard, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Influence Matters More Than Technology w/Jeff Hobbs #455
Jeff Hobbs, Director of IT at SV Labs Corporation, joins Mike Kelley to discuss the leadership skills that matter beyond technical expertise. more →
Blocks & Files, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
CTERA Finds 95% of Enterprise File Data Rarely Used
Cloud file system supplier CTERA reports that only 4.4% of enterprise file data is actively used. more →
Outlook for Data Security: Going From Reactive to Resilient
In this complimentary Gartner webinar, Gartner experts will explore the evolution to data-centric security, the role of AI-driven adaptive controls and the importance of aligning incident response with business continuity. more →
CSO Online, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
AI Made Software Development Unrecognizable. Is Cybersecurity Next?
Agent-run SOCs and machine-speed containment could reshape security roles the way AI reshaped development. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, September 14th, 2026
What Is Vibe Coding and How Does It Help Build Apps With AI?
Vibe coding lets non-programmers build functional apps by describing ideas in natural language for AI. more →
Memeburn, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
9 Best AI Coding Tools in 2026: IDEs, Agents, and Copilots Compared
Comprehensive review of nine leading AI coding assistants, with GitHub Copilot rated best overall. more →
InfoQ, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Complexity and Creativity in Software Engineering
AI-generated code requires rethinking code review and testing practices while unlocking developer creativity. more →
The Register, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Java 27 Grows Up, Makes Better Choices
JDK 27 turns on good defaults rather than asking developers to opt in, led by 64-bit compact object headers. more →
InfoWorld, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
JDK 27: The New Features of Java 27
Nine features in the now-GA release, including G1 as universal default collector and structured concurrency. more →
InfoQ, Monday, September 14th, 2026
Java News Roundup: New OpenJDK JEPs, CDI 5.0, Spring, Open Liberty, RefactorFirst, ADK for Kotlin
Java ecosystem updates featuring new OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta CDI 5.0 GA, and ADK for Kotlin 1.0. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Java 27 Tackles Post-Quantum Security and a Faster Patch Cadence
Java 27 introduces post-quantum cryptography and accelerates security patch cycles to combat AI-driven threats. more →
InfoQ, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Java 27 Delivers Post-Quantum Cryptography, Future Language Innovation, Helidon 27, JavaFX 27
Java 27 released with post-quantum cryptography support and nine JEPs focusing on security and performance. 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 →
Heller Search Associates, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Don't Use AI's Productivity Gains to Shrink Your Team
Organizations should reinvest AI productivity gains into growth rather than cutting staff. more →
Help Net Security, Friday, September 18th, 2026
98% of Fraudulent Hires Have Company Credentials by the Time They're Caught
Most fraudulent employees receive corporate access before organizations detect the fraud. more →
TechRepublic, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Best Conversation Intelligence Software for Sales Teams in 2026
Comparison of seven conversation intelligence platforms, with ZoomInfo rated best overall for B2B teams. more →
LinkedIn (The Daily Sales), Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Why Your Prospects Are Ghosting You (And How to Prevent It)
Sales professionals can reduce prospect ghosting through qualification, urgency, and stakeholder engagement. more →
TechnologyAdvice, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Best Buyer Intent Data Providers for B2B Sales Teams 2026
Comparison of seven B2B intent data providers, with ZoomInfo rated best overall for buyer intent. more →
TechnologyAdvice, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Sales Performance Metrics Every Revenue Team Should Track
Ten rep and team performance metrics that reveal what actually drives revenue outcomes. more →
Akto, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Secure Your AI Infrastructure with Akto AI Agent Gateway
Akto introduces an AI Agent Gateway to discover AI usage and enforce runtime guardrails across LLM and MCP traffic. 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 →
VentureBeat, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Anthropic Launches Claude Code Projects, an Always-On Conversation that Remembers and Delegates Your Long-Running Dev Work
VentureBeat reports that Anthropic's Claude Code Projects adds a persistent, always-on coordination layer for long-running dev work. more →
TechCrunch, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Anthropic Merges Claude Chat and Cowork in One Interface
Anthropic unifies Claude chat, Cowork, and Artifacts into a single interface to simplify navigation. more →
Arctic Wolf Networks, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
CVE-2026-76461: Active Exploitation of Cisco Secure Email Gateway Critical Zero-Day Vulnerability
Arctic Wolf warns of active exploitation of a critical Cisco Secure Email Gateway zero-day and urges immediate mitigation. more →
Arctic Wolf Networks, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Engineered for Trust: How We Built the AI Trust Engine
Arctic Wolf explains the engineering behind its AI Trust Engine and how it validates AI-driven security decisions. more →
Arctic Wolf Networks, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Introducing Aurora MDR Connect: A New Way for MSPs to Deliver Modern Security Operations
Arctic Wolf launches Aurora MDR Connect, bringing its agentic SOC capabilities to MSP-delivered security operations. more →
Arctic Wolf Networks, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
We Need to Pace AI Development. We Can't Pace AI Defense
Arctic Wolf argues defenders cannot slow down even if AI development pace is deliberately moderated. more →
Arctic Wolf Networks, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Your Security Team Is Stretched Thin. Can AI Return the Hours?
Arctic Wolf examines whether AI in the SOC genuinely returns analyst hours or simply shifts the workload. more →
Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt: Why the AI Era Demands an Agentic Data Cloud
Enterprise data leaders face an aggressive mandate: deploy generative AI and autonomous agents that drive real operational efficiency. Yet, as teams move past isolated pilots into production, they run into a hard architectural barrier. That barrier? Data gravity. more →
Barracuda Networks, Monday, September 14th, 2026
The Fake Worker Threat and the Rise of Human Infiltration
Barracuda details the growing threat of fraudulent remote employees infiltrating organizations for access and theft. more →
Barracuda Networks, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Can AI-Generated Code Ever Be Secure? How Zero Trust Reduces Vibe Coding Risks
Barracuda examines the security risk in AI-generated code and how zero trust controls limit vibe coding exposure. more →
Barracuda Networks, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
The Missing Piece in the AI Safety Debate
Barracuda argues the AI safety conversation overlooks the operational security realities facing ordinary organizations. more →
Barracuda Networks, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
What the NATO Threat Landscape Report 2026 Reveals About Trusted Access and Cyber Risk
Barracuda analyzes the NATO Threat Landscape Report 2026 for what it says about trusted access and cyber risk. more →
datadog, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
From Alert to Resolution: Manage Incidents with Bits Chat in Slack
Datadog's Bits Chat brings incident investigation, collaboration and code fixes into Slack. more →
datadog, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Manage Cursor Costs with Datadog Cloud Cost Management
Datadog Cloud Cost Management now breaks down Cursor AI coding spend by user and model. more →
datadog, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Enforce Custom Rules in Datadog IaC Security Scanning
Datadog adds custom rule authoring to its infrastructure-as-code security scanning. more →
datadog, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Monitor TAS and Gang Scheduling for AI Training in Kubernetes
Datadog correlates Kueue, coscheduling, GPU and framework signals to validate Kubernetes AI training scheduling. more →
datadog, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Transform and Route Security Logs to Microsoft Sentinel Tables Using Observability Pipelines
Datadog Observability Pipelines Packs map security logs to Microsoft Sentinel schemas and control ingest volume. more →
datadog, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
How to Operate Shared Platforms Safely at Agent Scale
Datadog explains modeling agent demand and allocating capacity as AI agent workloads scale on shared platforms. more →
DDN, Monday, September 14th, 2026
DDN AI400X3M Doubles Read IOPS Without Adding a Watt
DDN says its AI400X3M appliance doubles read IOPS with no increase in power draw. more →
Agentic Security Needs to Operationalize Threat Intel
Agentic AI has changed attacks for both adversaries and defenders, but AI has not changed the fundamentals of security. Triage is not the end goal for defenders; prevention is. This means hyperfast AI-powered triage is still not a solution, just one more (very necessary) tool. more →
Google, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for natural real-time dialogue. more →
Google, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Making Global Data Easier to Explore
Google and the UN launch the UN System Data Commons, an open platform for global statistics. more →
Google, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Build Real-Time Voice Applications with Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.5 Transcribe
Google shows developers how to build real-time voice apps with Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.5 Transcribe. more →
Google, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
3 New Ways We're Improving Search Profiles for Publishers
Google updates Search profiles to help publishers highlight content and reach their audiences. more →
Mistral AI, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Mistral and Mozilla Are Bringing Open, Private and Multilingual AI to Your Web Browser
Mistral and Mozilla are integrating open, privacy-preserving multilingual AI capabilities directly into the web browser. more →
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. 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 →
NVIDIA, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
AI Infra Summit: NVIDIA Vera Rubin and DSX Platform Advancements Showcase Energy Efficiencies of Optimizing Tokens per Watt for AI Factories
NVIDIA pitches tokens per watt as the key AI factory metric, showcasing Vera Rubin and DSX efficiency gains. more →
NVIDIA, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
From Megawatts to Tokens: How NVIDIA Maximizes AI Factory Production
NVIDIA explains how AI factories convert electrical power into token throughput and where efficiency is won or lost. more →
NVIDIA, Monday, September 14th, 2026
Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX
Perplexity's portable computing experience arrives on Windows PCs with local acceleration from NVIDIA RTX GPUs. more →
NVIDIA, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference V6.1 Debut
Vera Rubin NVL72 posts leading results in its MLPerf Inference v6.1 debut submission. more →
StorageReview, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
NVIDIA CUDA-Q Logical Debuts with a 7x Fermilab Speedup and a 10x Cut in Diraq's Qubit Estimate
StorageReview reports NVIDIA's new CUDA-Q Logical layer cut a Fermilab fault-tolerant design cycle from five months to three weeks. more →
NVIDIA, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
NVIDIA Goes Green to Keep Grid Capacity from Zapping Its Revenues
The Register reports NVIDIA is pushing efficiency and grid-aware data center design because power availability now caps GPU sales. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Monday, September 14th, 2026
Unmasking Cloud Identities: From Behavioral Clustering to Automated Detection
Unit 42 applies behavioral clustering to cloud identity activity to automate detection of anomalous principals. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Friday, September 18th, 2026
A Vault with a Heap-View: The Uncomfortable Space Between AgentCore Harness and Identity
Unit 42 research on credential exposure risks in AWS AgentCore's harness and identity boundary. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Inside the Modern SOC: Defending the Cross-Environment Pivot
Unit 42 walks through how attackers pivot across endpoint, identity and cloud, and how a SOC can catch it. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Defining the Standard for AI Security
Palo Alto Networks lays out its view of what a security standard for enterprise AI adoption must cover. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Monday, September 14th, 2026
FedRAMP Moderate Authorization for Palo Alto Networks Quantum-Safe Security
Palo Alto Networks' quantum-safe security offering achieves FedRAMP Moderate authorization for US federal use. 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 →
The New Stack, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Perplexity's AI Agents Helped Build a Database. They Weren't Allowed to Run It.
The New Stack examines CobbleDB, the Rust key-value store Perplexity built with AI agents but would not let them operate. more →
The New Stack, Monday, September 14th, 2026
Perplexity's New Agent Runs Entirely on Your GPU - with One Expensive Catch
The New Stack covers Perplexity's Portable Computer on Windows, a local AI agent needing a 24GB+ RTX GPU. more →
Salesforce, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Why We Post-Trained Our Own Reasoning Model
Salesforce explains its decision to post-train a proprietary reasoning model for enterprise agent workloads. more →
Salesforce, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Salesforce Staggers Back to Feet After Global Outage
The Register reports an hours-long global Salesforce outage hit customers with severe delays mid-Dreamforce. more →
CIO, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Salesforce's Massive Outage Exposes the Hidden Risks of Cloud Dependencies
A seven-and-a-half-hour outage during Dreamforce traced to an internal legacy login service, not third-party infrastructure. more →
Expert Panel: Data Observability and Reliability at Scale
Join TDWI's Research Fellow, Donald Farmer, together with industry experts as they discuss how organizations are building data observability and reliability across modern data ecosystems and the practices that support trusted data for AI and analytics. more →
Diginomica, Friday, September 18th, 2026
ServiceNow's Answer to AI-Speed Attacks Will Sound Familiar - Consolidate the Mess
diginomica examines ServiceNow's security pitch: consolidate fragmented tooling to answer AI-speed autonomous attacks. more →
AI Threat Readiness: Deep Dive Workshop
Your AI Systems Are Already Under Attack. Is Your Team Ready to Respond? more →
Sysdig, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Closing the Cloud Security Gap with Runtime Security
Sysdig makes the case that runtime telemetry closes the gap left by posture and scanning tools. more →
Sysdig, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Every Regulatory Disclosure Rule Asks the Same Question. Each Calls It Something Else
Sysdig maps overlapping breach disclosure regimes back to the single underlying question they all ask. more →
Sysdig, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Getting Started with Runtime Security and Falco
An introductory guide to runtime security concepts and deploying Falco for Kubernetes threat detection. more →
Sysdig, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Why Runtime Security Should Be a Top Priority for CISOs
Sysdig outlines the business and risk arguments CISOs can use to prioritize runtime security investment. more →