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InformationWeek Podcast: Getting Buy-In for Enterprise Resilience
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SC Media, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
It's the Trickery While Empowering Employees and Redesigning Work for AI
Business Security Weekly 472: author Frank Riccardi on the psychological tricks behind hacks, plus leadership news on AI and work. more →
Futurum Group, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
Want Better MFA Adoption? Look at How Game Studios Do It.
A Futurum Group podcast panel discusses what enterprise security can learn from gaming, including MFA incentives and account recovery risks. more →
SC Media, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
That's Not Supposed to Happen (2 hr 4 mn)
Paul's Security Weekly 951 news segment covers the Binance heist, Ivanti zero-days, supermarket fridge attacks and the XCPE botnet. more →
DevOps.com, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
AI Coding Hits the Context Window Wall
Blitzy Field CTO Neeraj Deshmukh tells Mike Vizard why AI coding tools need structured codebase context, not just bigger prompts. more →
SC Media, Friday, November 6th, 2026
AI Hates Us All, Binance, OpenSSH, Apple, WordPress, DNS, Scams, Josh Marpet and More
Security Weekly News 631 covers the Binance theft, an OpenSSH login flaw, Apple and WordPress bugs on CISA's exploited list and scams. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Fast Code, Slow Feedback: Fixing CI for the Age of AI Agents
A Harness engineer explains five ways to speed up CI as AI coding agents multiply pull requests, pipeline runs and compute costs. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
The New Frontier: Managing Human+AI Agent Software Development Teams
SmartBear's Alex Zavorski says hybrid human and AI development teams need stronger testing, governance and human accountability. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Your CI Retries Are Hiding Real Bugs
An experiment shows two CI test retries let 99.2% of builds with an intermittent bug pass, and proposes a quarantine policy. more →
DevOps.com, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
The Hidden Productivity Trap in an Engineer's Workday
Meetings and constant interruptions erode developers' deep focus, and AI coding tools make protected focus time more important. more →
DevOps.com, Friday, November 6th, 2026
The Agent Did Exactly What We Let It Do
AI agent failures come from excess permissions, not rogue intelligence, and need technically enforced controls, this DevOps.com piece argues. more →
7 AI Themes Every C-Suite Leader Needs to Know
Gartner's Mary Mesaglio presents the seven strategic AI themes every C-suite leader needs to understand and act on in the next year. more →
The Register, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
Manager Threatened to Fire a Colleague, Then Gave Them a Critical Task - Which They Flubbed
A Register Who, Me? reader recounts assigning a key chipset backup to an underperforming engineer who never did it, discovered six years later. more →
The Register, Saturday, November 7th, 2026
Hospital Gave Very Sick Doctor a Special PC for His Personal, Erm, Pleasure
A Register On Call reader says a hospital gave a star doctor a dedicated PC for adult content after his browsing caused a damaging worm. more →
Techstrong.ai, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
AI Delivers Speed, but Enterprise Transformation and Cost Visibility Lag Behind, Deloitte Finds
Deloitte survey of 3,500 executives finds AI speeds decisions for 81%, but only 25% use it to redesign their organizations. more →
Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
The 5 Decisions Every Executive Must Make to Create AI Value at Scale
Five interconnected leadership decisions determine whether AI pilots and productivity gains turn into real enterprise value at scale. more →
Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
How to Stop Runaway AI Agent Costs Before They Hit Your Cloud Bill
Four operational shifts to track AI agent spend, govern autonomous workflows and catch token cost spikes before the cloud bill arrives. more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, November 6th, 2026
As Holiday Shopping Season Gets Into Full Swing, AI Is Changing How Retailers Detect Fraudulent Returns
Retailers and returns processors such as Happy Returns are using AI and computer vision to catch fraudulent returns during the holidays. more →
The New Stack, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
A Step-By-Step Guide for How to Kill the Line-By-Line Code Review
Aviator-sponsored guide argues AI agents should verify code changes against criteria and invariants while people make the decisions. more →
The Register, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
British Fintech Revolut Slashes AI Coding Costs 10x by Cutting Out Claude and Going Self-Hosted
Revolut says it cut AI coding inference costs about 90 percent by making self-hosted GLM models its default instead of services like Claude. more →
TechRadar, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Why Coding Agents Aren't Delivering the Promised Gains for Engineering - Yet
Coding agents generate code quickly, but the bottleneck has shifted to understanding, debugging and investigating incidents in that code. more →
InfoQ, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
The App Is Just the Tip: What It Takes to Build Mobile Infrastructure at Scale
A former Android developer explains how a server-side mobile gateway and server-driven UI made a large e-commerce app faster and quicker to ship. more →
DataCenter Knowledge, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
Liquid Cooling Is Changing What Data Centers Need to Measure
Liquid cooling for dense AI workloads makes precise, real-time measurement across both liquid and air systems essential. 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 →
TechZone360, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Contact Center AI Data: The Call Sounded Perfect, the Account Was Wrong
Contact center AI training data needs each transcript linked to its case, action and outcome, because a good call can hide a failed fix. more →
How Much Should AI Automate Between Finding and Fixing?
Xint-sponsored webinar on how much AI should automate between finding and fixing vulnerabilities, arguing for human review of patches. more →
IoT Now, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Is Your IoT Connectivity Ready for Critical Operations?
Transforma Insights and CSL handbook argues IoT connectivity is now business-critical and must be treated as a strategic capability. more →
Unlocking AI Value at Scale: Tokenomics, Edge Inference and Strategic Partnerships
AI is shifting from training to inference, and two pressures now define the business: the end-user experience and the return on investment. more →
Arm, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
Top Arm-Based Innovations Advancing On-Device AI, Cloud Infrastructure, and Physical AI in October 2026
Arm rounds up October 2026 ecosystem news, from the Tensor RoboCar and PSYONIC Ability Hand to Qwen Glasses and Alexa tablets. more →
Arm, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
From Photon to Actuation: How Physical AI Is Redefining Embedded Compute
Arm and STMicroelectronics describe how Cortex-M and Arm compute subsystems support safer, more responsive physical AI systems. more →
AWS, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Amazon S3 Tables Now Provide a Simple, Cost-Effective Path for Data Lake Modernization
Amazon S3 Tables now offer managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg while production workloads keep running. more →
AWS, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
RHEL 10, Rocky 10 and Ubuntu 26.04 Bundles for WorkSpaces
AWS adds Rocky Linux 10, RHEL 10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal. more →
AWS, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
New Features for Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager
Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager adds real-time supportability checks and capacity fulfillment metrics for planning across instance types and zones. more →
AWS, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Amazon OpenSearch Service Optimized Engine Now Supports Agent Traces
Amazon OpenSearch Service optimized engine now supports agent traces, including OpenTelemetry traces, alongside logs. more →
AWS, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Amazon FSx for Lustre Delivers 16x Higher Metadata IOPS on Intelligent-Tiering File Systems
Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports up to 192,000 metadata IOPS on Intelligent-Tiering file systems, 16x the previous maximum. more →
AWS, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Kerberos Authentication with Self-Managed Active Directory
Amazon RDS for Oracle instances can now join self-managed Active Directory domains directly for Kerberos authentication. more →
ClickHouse, Friday, November 6th, 2026
ClickHouse Release 26.10
ClickHouse 26.10 adds function composition, more flexible joins, faster GROUP BY, disk spilling for IN subqueries and a columns cache. more →
The Frontier AI Threat: Closing the Mobile Gap in Your Exposure Management Strategy
Join Lookout's Chief Technology Officer, David Richardson, to explore how the mobile attack surface has evolved in the AI era. We will discuss how to protect the modern workforce by addressing the three core pillars of mobile AI security, heavily focusing on continuous exposure management and governance. more →
Blocks & Files, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Commvault Looking to Identify Identity Attack Risks and Get Them Fixed
Commvault's IDRecover moves beyond identity recovery to finding risky changes across AD, Entra ID and Okta and guiding fixes. more →
Commvault, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Strengthening Cyber Resilience for Azure Managed Redis Workloads
Commvault offers full backups for Azure Managed Redis, with recovery to the same or another instance within the same Azure region. more →
Commvault, Friday, November 6th, 2026
Sovereignty Is Not a Destination - It's an Operating Capability
Commvault's STRIVE discussion frames digital sovereignty as an operating capability built on dependency mapping and resilience. more →
The AI Audit Trail: Proving AI-Generated Code Is Safe to Ship
This session gets above the daily cycle of model and tool announcements and turns practical. Futurum analyst Mitch Ashley and Veracode's Chris Wysopal separate what is real from what is noise, then walk through what proof actually looks like for AI-generated code. We cover the audit trail security leaders need, the controls that hold up under scrutiny, and the steps AppSec teams can take today. more →
Databricks, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
Lakebase Postgres Is Now Generally Available on Google Cloud
Databricks announces general availability of Lakebase Postgres, its serverless Postgres database, on Google Cloud. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Claude Platform Now Supports Native OpenTelemetry Observability in Databricks MLflow
Databricks MLflow is now a supported destination for native OpenTelemetry trace export from the Claude Platform. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Declare and Optimize with UNIQUE Constraints on Databricks
Databricks added UNIQUE constraints in Public Preview, letting tables declare multiple nullable or composite uniqueness guarantees. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Introducing Apache Spark 4.3 - Now Available in Databricks Runtime 19
Databricks announced Apache Spark 4.3 in Databricks Runtime 19, adding stateful processing to Structured Streaming's Real-Time Mode. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
The Enterprise Case for Open-Weight Models on Databricks
Databricks field engineers make the case for open-weight models, citing cost, shifting model rankings, guardrails, retention and governance. more →
Databricks, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Real-Time Fraud Detection with Feature Views
Databricks shows how Feature Views define fraud detection features once for both point-in-time training and real-time scoring. more →
Google, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Building an Agent Skill Optimizer with AlphaEvolve, Harbor and Gemini 4 Argon
Google shows how AlphaEvolve and Harbor can evolve a coding agent's skill file by scoring versions on real benchmark tasks. more →
Google, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Semantic Aggregation Over Millions of Rows in BigQuery with AI.AGG
BigQuery's AI.AGG, in preview, runs natural-language semantic aggregation over millions of rows in a single SQL query. more →
Google, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast, Cost-Effective, and Reliable Video Generation and Editing Now Generally Available
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is generally available on Google Cloud for fast, lower-cost video generation and editing via API. more →
Google, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Powering Open Infrastructure for Autonomous Agents
Google donated Agent Substrate, gVisor and OpenRL to the CNCF and made Agent Substrate 1.0 generally available on GKE. more →
Google, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Generate Longer AI Videos with Omni 1.2 Flash in Google Vids at No Cost
Google Vids now uses Omni 1.2 Flash and lets anyone with a Google account generate three 15-second videos per month at no cost. more →
Google, Friday, November 6th, 2026
The Blueprint: Orchestrating 5,000+ AI Assets for a World Cup TV Spot
AI video company Mito used Google Cloud to generate more than 5,000 assets for a World Cup TV spot for Movistar Plus+. more →
Lenovo, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
From Drone Data to the Fireline: How Lenovo Legion Technology Supports Wildfire Mapping
The UAS Wildland Fire Collaborative uses Lenovo Legion laptops to turn overnight thermal drone imagery into standardized wildfire maps. more →
Lenovo, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
From AI Adoption to AI Growth: Indasys Builds New Business Opportunities with Lenovo TruScale Infrastructure as a Service
German IT firm indasys deployed a private-cloud AI platform on Lenovo TruScale IaaS with NVIDIA to power sovereign AI services for customers. more →
MongoDB, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Secure MongoDB Atlas with Automated IP Access List Policies
MongoDB explains how Atlas Resource Policies enforce approved IP access lists to prevent overly permissive database network access. more →
MongoDB, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Financial Crime Mitigation with MongoDB / Series Overview
MongoDB launches a five-part series on building anti-financial crime platforms for fraud and AML with MongoDB. more →
MongoDB, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Enforce Data Sovereignty with MongoDB Atlas Resource Policies
MongoDB explains how Atlas Resource Policies can restrict which cloud providers and regions are used for clusters to enforce data sovereignty. more →
MongoDB, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
AI-Powered Customer Retention with MongoDB: Real-Time Behavioral Triggers for Retail IT Leaders
MongoDB describes using real-time behavioral triggers and AI on its platform to help retailers reduce cart abandonment and improve retention. more →
MongoDB, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Simplifying Enterprise Security Management: MongoDB Atlas Logs in Microsoft Sentinel
MongoDB Atlas now integrates with Microsoft Sentinel through a data connector that streams Atlas logs into the SIEM. more →
MongoDB, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Unlocking AI Search: Introducing Automated Embedding in MongoDB Vector Search
MongoDB introduced Automated Embedding in MongoDB Vector Search, generating embeddings natively with Voyage AI models. more →
NVIDIA, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
AI Is Changing How Semiconductor Fabs Work - And Engineers Are Moving Faster Because of It
NVIDIA describes the AI-defined fab, where accelerated simulation, physics AI, agents and digital twins speed semiconductor engineering. more →
NVIDIA, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
Cities Worldwide Build and Scale AI Services with NVIDIA Physical and Agentic AI
NVIDIA highlights cities worldwide using its physical and agentic AI for resident services, vision agents and infrastructure planning. more →
NVIDIA, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Vera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents
NVIDIA says its Vera CPU delivers both fast agent performance and high capacity per watt, outperforming leading x86 CPUs for agentic AI. more →
NVIDIA, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
More Performance from Every Byte: How Full-Stack Codesign Solves AI's Memory Challenge
NVIDIA explains how full-stack codesign of GPUs, CPUs, networking, storage and software gets more useful work from scarce AI memory. more →
NVIDIA, Friday, November 6th, 2026
How NVIDIA Open Source Tools Are Helping Researchers Build Next-Generation 6G Networks
NVIDIA says its open source Aerial and Sionna 5G/6G tools passed 1 million downloads and are used by over 8,000 research institutions. more →
The Future of Cloud in 2031: Harnessing the Combination of AI and Cloud
Gartner's David Mitchell Smith looks at how the convergence of AI and cloud will shape technology strategy through 2031. more →
OpenAI, Friday, November 6th, 2026
Measuring How AI Agents Handle Everyday Wet-Lab Science
OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, 100 routine wet-lab tasks testing whether AI agents can interpret raw experimental data. more →
AI Can Code. Can It Run Production? Let's Build It Together
In this hands-on workshop, you'll follow a Kubernetes incident from its first symptom through investigation, remediation, and recovery. Using a sandbox environment and open-source tooling, you'll connect an agent to operational tools, automate root-cause investigation, inspect its execution, and introduce human approval gates before allowing it to make changes. more →
Red Hat, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Red Hat OpenShift Is Now Generally Available in Google Cloud's Sovereign Regions
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22.16 and later is now generally available in Google Cloud Dedicated sovereign regions. more →
Red Hat, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Bridging the Open Source Remediation Gap: Introducing Two New Lessons on Lightwell
Red Hat added two Lightwell lessons to its Learning Subscription on fixing open source vulnerabilities without breaking version upgrades. more →
Red Hat, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
5-Minute Demo: How to Build Modern Applications with Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat shows how OpenShift supports building modern applications with Dev Spaces, OpenShift Virtualization, certified operators and Service Mesh. more →
Red Hat, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
3 Recent Enhancements to Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console
Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console added a persistent help panel, theming controls including dark mode, and customizable multiple dashboards. more →
Red Hat, Friday, November 6th, 2026
Friday Five - November 6, 2026
Red Hat's Friday Five covers Project Lightwell, AI sovereignty, post-quantum cryptography in Red Hat AI and the Fedora Linux 45 release. more →
Red Hat, Friday, November 6th, 2026
5-Minute Demo: How to Manage Applications at Scale with Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat demonstrates how OpenShift manages applications across many clusters with GitOps, centralized security and declarative compliance policies. more →
Computer Weekly, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
SailPoint: Anarchy Reigns Over Enterprise Agentic AI
SailPoint research finds 89% of EMEA enterprises deploy AI agents but 99% lack the identity security tools to govern them. more →
Governing Emerging and Diverse Data in the Age of AI - Insights from TDWI's Q4 Blueprint Report
TDWI webinar on extending data governance to non-tabular and AI-derived data, based on its Q4 Blueprint Report. more →
SAP, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
SAP Business One: 30 Years of Growing Together
SAP Business One marks 30 years serving small and midsize businesses, citing near-zero churn, a partner-only model and new AI features. more →
SAP, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Three Skills That Define the New Entry-Level Job in the AI Era
SAP says judgment, trustworthy verification of AI output and rapid learning are the skills that set early-career workers apart in the AI era. more →
SAP, Friday, November 6th, 2026
New Research Finds AI Is Moving Faster Than Organizations Can Adapt
Economist Enterprise research sponsored by SAP finds AI adoption at midsize firms is outpacing the workforce, processes and skills needed to use it. more →
The Gartner CISO Agenda for 2027: 5 Actions to Seize the AI Moment
Gartner's Christine Lee sets out the 2027 CISO agenda, covering AI ROI, higher risk appetites, resilience and postquantum readiness. more →
Trend Micro, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
The Fake Azim Premji Foundation Gift That Ends with a Bank Transfer Request
Trend Micro explains an advance-fee scam that impersonates the Azim Premji Foundation, promising a $1 million gift and then demanding a transfer fee. more →
Trend Micro, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Scammers Are Sending Phishing Emails Through Real DocuSign, Google, and Meta Servers
Trend Micro describes phishing campaigns sent through genuine DocuSign, Google, Calendly and Meta features that pass email authentication. more →
TrueNAS, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
How to Evaluate S3-Compatible Object Storage
TrueNAS explains how to evaluate S3-compatible object storage by testing S3 features, security, performance and cost against an organization's own workloads. more →
Your IoT Devices Are Talking. Do You Know Who To?
IoT Now webinar with Aeris, Orange Business, Transforma Insights and ZF SCALAR on managed IoT connectivity, roaming, eSIM and NIS2. more →
Veeam, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
One Year as the Only Platinum Microsoft 365 Backup Provider
Veeam marks a year as Microsoft's only Platinum Microsoft 365 Backup Storage partner, citing median restores of 2TB per hour. more →
Veeam, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Operational Resilience Is Becoming the New Standard for Financial Services Technology Leaders
Veeam says APJ financial regulators now expect evidence that critical services can recover within tolerance, not just successful backups. more →
Veeam, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Backup from Storage Snapshots: How It Works and When to Use It
Veeam Backup from Storage Snapshots reads VMware VM data from array snapshots, shortening VMware snapshot windows and production impact. more →
Veeam, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
When Everything Else Fails: Why Your Backup Platform Is Your Last Line of Defense
Veeam argues prevention will eventually fail, making a hardened, immutable, monitored backup platform the last line of defense. more →
Veeam, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Resilience by Design: Protecting Enterprise RAG on Red Hat OpenShift AI
A new Red Hat AI QuickStart shows how Veeam Kasten protects and recovers a RAG application on OpenShift AI as a coordinated system. more →
Veeam, Friday, November 6th, 2026
Data Doesn't Retire, It Just Gets Cheaper to Keep
Veeam argues that decade-long data retention rules in Asia Pacific require automated tiering rather than static tape or cold-storage decisions. more →