TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
How We Cut Kubernetes Deployment Validation From 45 Minutes to 2 Minutes
A payments SRE team automated the manual health checks engineers already trusted, not new tooling. more →
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TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
The 17 Best Cloud Cost Governance Tools and Software for 2026
Annual roundup of 17 cloud cost governance platforms selected by user sentiment and inclusion criteria. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
InfoQ Cloud and DevOps Trends Report 2026
Enterprise AI platforms, cloud reliability, and platform engineering reshape cloud strategy for 2026. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
How CIOs Can Avoid Integration Hell as They Leverage Multi-Cloud AI
Multi-cloud AI fragmentation is an organizational problem disguised as an architecture problem. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Cloud Ops Is Different in a Neocloud
Neoclouds like CoreWeave and Lambda offer cheap GPUs but shift security and resilience work onto you. more →
How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Cloud Security
This webinar explores the AI-accelerated threat landscape from both sides of the fence: from frontier models chaining low-severity vulnerabilities into critical exploits, to threat actors compressing time to exploit from days to hours. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
From Chief Technology Officer to Chief AI Officer: The Startup C-Suite Is Changing
Organizations increasingly add dedicated Chief AI Officers alongside CTOs to manage AI strategy and business impact. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
7 Mistakes IT Leaders Make When Deploying AI Agents
CIOs must avoid pitfalls such as poor planning and weak governance when deploying AI agents to production. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
The Modern CIO: From Technology Expert to Business Leader
CIOs must evolve from technical experts to business leaders who build teams and drive transformation. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Why Enterprise IT Environments Get More Complex as Companies Grow
Enterprise IT complexity grows from years of reasonable decisions that become difficult to untangle. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Why the CIO Is Becoming the Most Commercial Role in the Boardroom
CIOs now act as strategy architects, turning technology into revenue and competitive advantage. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
That Shiny New AI Feature? Your Customers Won't Use It
Software makers struggle with low adoption of AI features despite adding them to existing products. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Why Standardized Developer Environments Still Break DevOps Workflows
Standardized environments alone cannot eliminate inconsistencies across host systems, CI, and external services. more →
AI Trust & Governance Summit
In this expert-led virtual summit, we'll explore practical approaches for establishing governance that can help accelerate innovation while protecting your business. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Platform Engineering Isn't the Bottleneck - Developer Trust Is
Developer trust, not platform adoption, determines whether platform engineering investments deliver productivity gains. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Agentic Development Platforms and the Agentic Enterprise
Agentic platforms consolidate security, FinOps, and AI into unified enterprise infrastructure. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Beyond the Password
Organizations must adopt passwordless authentication such as passkeys to defend against AI-driven identity threats. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Container Security Is Moving From Detection to Attack Surface Reduction
Container security strategy shifts from vulnerability scanning to eliminating unnecessary components before deployment. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
What Black Hat 2026 Revealed About the Future of Security Operations
AI is transforming security operations by automating investigation while humans retain consequential decisions. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
5 Key Takeaways From Black Hat USA 2026
Malicious AI 'skills' hit 1.7 million downloads, and reactive patching is losing to AI-speed bug discovery. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Black Hat USA 2026: Field Report and Cybersecurity Findings
A reporter's field notes from Black Hat USA 2026 on AI messaging, exploitability, and supply-chain security. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Cyber Risk Is Business Risk: The Three Pillars of Cyber Risk
Quantifying cyber risk across direct loss, opportunity cost, and reputation aligns security with executive decisions. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library
ML-KEM and ML-DSA are now pip-installable through Python's cryptography library. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Preparing for Post-Quantum Cryptography: Building a Practical Roadmap
Quantum readiness starts with cryptographic discovery, since most organizations lack a usable inventory. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Java News Roundup: Shenandoah GC, TeamCity CVE, A2A Java SDK, Camel, Gradle, GlassFish, Groovy
Weekly Java updates covering JDK releases, security vulnerabilities, and new framework versions. more →
Consistency Is a Sales Skill — and Your Newsletter Proves It
Buyers choosing a vendor are betting on a multi-year relationship, and the trait they most want to verify is reliability — so they read your present behavior as a preview of how you'll act once they've signed. Most of a rep's diligence is invisible, but a newsletter arriving every week is consistency made public and timestamped, demonstrating follow-through rather than claiming it. The trap is symmetrical: a newsletter that launches loudly and fades proves the opposite. The answer is making consistency structural instead of dependent on willpower that a brutal quarter will beat. more →
Anysphere, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Cloud Agents Start 3x Faster With Builds
Cursor's new builds feature pre-prepares development environments so cloud agents boot up to 3x faster. more →
Anysphere, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Introducing Grok 4.6
Cursor and SpaceXAI release Grok 4.6, targeting long-running agents and matching GPT-5.6 Sol on a composite index. more →
AWS, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
AWS IAM Now Provides Role Manager to Set up IAM Roles Automatically
AWS IAM role manager reaches general availability, creating default service roles automatically in the console. more →
AWS, Monday, August 10th, 2026
AWS Marketplace Now Supports Category-Based Notification Subscriptions and Multi-Channel Delivery for Buyers
AWS Marketplace buyers can now pick notification categories and route them through AWS User Notifications. more →
AWS, Monday, August 10th, 2026
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and More (August 10, 2026)
AWS weekly roundup covers the AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood and Kiro Crew. more →
The Strategic Imperative: Embracing Agentic B2B Selling
This webinar is designed to help business leaders navigate the evolving B2B sales landscape, establish a practical framework for adopting agentic AI, and address common challenges related to deployment, integration, user adoption, and organizational readiness. more →
Databricks, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
What Are AI Hallucinations?
Databricks explains what AI hallucinations are, why they occur and how organisations can reduce them. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
The Future of Data Analytics: Why AI Is Rewriting the Analyst's Job Description
Databricks argues AI automating SQL and dashboards shifts analysts toward judgment rather than query writing. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Modern Risk Demands a Real-Time Foundation: The CRO's Mandate
Databricks argues chief risk officers need a real-time unified data foundation to manage systemic risk. more →
Databricks, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Smart Routing in Unity AI Gateway: Match Frontier Quality With 30%+ Lower Cost Per Task
Databricks' Smart Routing in Unity AI Gateway matches frontier quality at over 30% lower cost per coding task. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Taking AUTO CDC to the Next Level: Solving the Hardest Real-World Use Cases
Databricks extends AUTO CDC with bitemporal support and partial updates, contributing to Apache Spark 4.2. more →
Databricks, Friday, August 14th, 2026
Using AI_Functions in Your Data Warehouse: Top Use Cases
Databricks outlines six AI use cases that run in pure SQL inside the data warehouse. more →
F5, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Capability Is Closing the Open-Closed Gap; Security Is Not
F5 Labs' August CASI evaluation adds 16 models, with Anthropic's Claude Fable topping security and capability. more →
You Can't Scale Software Testing with Fragile Automation
In this exclusive webinar, Guy Currier, Analyst at Futurum Group, and Josh Duke, Test Cloud Specialist, at UiPath discuss how teams currently approach software testing and test automation, where they are experiencing the greatest friction, and how they are evaluating AI-powered and agentic approaches. more →
Microsoft, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
The Economics of Agent Optimization: From Pilots to Measurable Returns
Microsoft argues AI cost management is what moves organisations from agent pilots to measurable returns. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Microsoft Wants You to Rethink Your Approach to Cyber Defense
Microsoft says an exploit now costs $3.61 and 21 minutes to build, and MSRC volume is up ninefold. more →
Red Hat, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
What Is Metal to Agents? Navigating the Architecture of Enterprise AI
Red Hat argues escalating token costs make enterprise AI an architecture question from bare metal to agents. more →
Stop Collecting Business Cards. Build an Audience.
Business cards, badge scans, purchased lists, and paid advertising share one flaw: none of them compound. Contacts decay the moment they're filed, and ad reach vanishes when the spend stops - you rented the audience and own nothing afterward. A newsletter audience behaves in the opposite way, accumulating subscribers who persist and deepen their relationship with you issue after issue. For an individual seller this is close to career-defining, because it replaces total dependence on channels you don't control with owned, permission-based distribution that appreciates the longer you hold it. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Rubrik's Lessons From One Month With Mythos Preview
AI found vulnerability chains humans missed, then buried the security team in findings it could not triage. more →
Rubrik, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Rubrik's First Month in Project Glasswing: High Fidelity and Humans in the Loop
Rubrik's CTO reports on its first month using Anthropic's Mythos Preview for internal threat discovery. more →
Rubrik, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
When the Incident Hits: How Autonomous Business Recovery Executes Your M365 Plan
Rubrik's Autonomous Business Recovery targets a minimum viable Microsoft 365 business state in under three hours. more →
AI Has Moved Your Competitive Moat: How Leaders Can Turn Threat Into Advantage
In this session, Gartner experts explore three archetypes of moat disruption and examine how AI is changing the competitive landscape across industries. more →
Varonis, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
WS-Trust Autologon Endpoint: Password Spray Without Smart Lockout Blocking
Varonis details a legacy Entra ID WS-Trust endpoint that lets attackers password spray past Smart Lockout. more →
Let Me Show You Something: Developer Meetup
Let Me Show You Something (LMSYS) is a fast-paced, community-driven developer meetup in South Florida! more →
vertiv, Friday, August 14th, 2026
Precise Battery Management for AI Infrastructure With Accurate State of Charge (SOC) and State of Health (SOH)
Vertiv argues accurate battery SOC and SOH reporting is the prerequisite for smoothing volatile AI power draw. more →
vertiv, Monday, August 10th, 2026
From Legacy to Global Standard: The 415 V Power Shift Data Centers Need
Vertiv makes the case for North American data centres to move from 480 V three-wire to 415 V four-wire distribution. more →
Zscaler, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
The Hidden Threat in Your Software Development Lifecycle: Why Self-Hosted Runners Need Zero Trust
Zscaler argues self-hosted GitHub Actions runners create a privileged outbound risk that firewalls do not address. more →
Zscaler, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Introducing Zscaler Zero Trust Gateway for Google Cloud
Zscaler launches a Zero Trust Gateway integrating with Google Cloud's Network Security Integration. more →
Zscaler, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Project Glasswing and the Coming Inversion of Vulnerability Management
Zscaler argues Project Glasswing signals a shift where vulnerability discovery becomes abundant and remediation the constraint. more →
Zscaler, Monday, August 10th, 2026
Zero Trust Connectivity for Private AI Apps/Models: Who Can Actually Reach Them?
Zscaler warns that VPN access to self-hosted AI models grants reachability to entire network segments. more →
Zscaler, Monday, August 10th, 2026
Abyssos: Technical Analysis of a New Modular RAT
Zscaler ThreatLabz analyses Abyssos, a modular C++ RAT using LLVM-based obfuscation and a custom TCP protocol. more →
Zscaler, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
CaptiveCrunch: Midnight Blizzard Weaponizes Hotel Wi-Fi Captive Portals to Steal Microsoft 365 Credentials
Zscaler covers a Midnight Blizzard sub-cluster hijacking hotel captive portals for Microsoft 365 credential theft. more →