Security Boulevard, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
AI Agents In Cybersecurity: A Practical Roadmap For Leaders
AI agents have gone from buzzword to boardroom priority in the world of cybersecurity. more →
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Techstrong.ai, Friday, August 8th, 2025
AI-Powered Field Service: Tackling Tariffs And Inventory Challenges
Zuper CEO Anand Subbaraj explains how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used by field service teams to navigate everything from increased prices caused by higher tariffs on equipment to offloading inventory costs to the companies that ship the equipment directly to the customer. more →
DevOps.dev, Friday, August 8th, 2025
AI: Do Or Don't Believe The Hype
If you've been anywhere near a tech conference, your LinkedIn feed, or a DevOps Slack channel lately, you've probably heard someone claim AI is either the greatest productivity weapon since version control. or the world's most overhyped autocomplete. more →
ZDNET, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
Gen AI Disillusionment Looms, According To Gartner's 2025 Hype Cycle Report
The report lays out the top 4 innovations of 2025, including what's in and what's on the way out. more →
Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
How AI Agents Are Transforming The Application User Experience
KJ Kusch, global field CTO for WalkMe, a unit of SAP, explains how the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) agents will transform the application user experience. more →
Cloud Native Now
OpenAI's GPT-5 is here
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, a new flagship AI model that will power the company's next generation of ChatGPT. more →
Analytics Insight, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
Is Your Compliance Strategy Ready For The Rise Of Real-Time Regulatory Enforcement?
As financial regulations tighten and technology advances, many regulatory agencies shift from reactive oversight to real-time monitoring and enforcement. more →
SC Media, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
PCI DSS Reality Check: Tools have emerged that really improve payment security
Organizations treat the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) standard as a checklist exercise, while missing the fundamental security improvements it was designed to achieve. more →
DevOps.dev, Monday, August 4th, 2025
The Evolution of DevOps Continues: How 2,000 Token-Per-Second AI Code Generation Changes Everything
The DevOps landscape has always been about speed, efficiency and streamlining development workflows. Today, we're witnessing a paradigm shift that promises to eliminate one of the most persistent bottlenecks in modern software development: Waiting for AI-generated code. more →
Cloud Native: The AI Stack
The same stack. Infinite possibilities -- AI-native applications are built on the same technologies, practices, and platforms that cloud native pioneered. From infrastructure to intelligence, it's all cloud native. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
5 Scenarios For How We Might Be Attacked In The Ongoing Cyber War
In October 2023, a coordinated cyberattack shut down parts of Denmark's railway network, delaying trains nationwide. more →
eWeek, Friday, August 8th, 2025
Black Hat 2025: What Keeps Cyber Experts Up At Night?
We asked a simple question to cybersecurity pros at Black Hat 25: What keeps you up at night? more →
ITProToday, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Cybersecurity Teams Are Wasting Time, Money, And Effort Dealing With Tool Sprawl And 'Multi-Vendor Ecosystems'
Tool sprawl is a problem that just won't go away for security teams more →
Cyber Defense Magazine, Monday, August 4th, 2025
Cybersecurity's Blind Spot: Why Human Behavior Is Every CISO's Business
When a major breach makes headlines, the impact ripples far beyond the individuals whose data has been compromised. more →
HelpNet Security, Friday, August 8th, 2025
From Fake CAPTCHAs To RATs: Inside 2025's Cyber Deception Threat Trends
Cybercriminals are getting better at lying. That's the takeaway from a new LevelBlue report, which outlines how attackers are using social engineering and legitimate tools to quietly move through environments before they're caught. more →
Cloud Native Now
Observations From Black Hat 2025: The Human Toll Behind The Headlines
After spending a few days walking around Mandalay Bay for Black Hat 2025, one theme stood out more than the others: the widening gap between the security industry's innovations and the well-being of its people. more →
StorageReview, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Backblaze Q2 2025 Drive Stats: New 20TB+ Deep Dive, Aging Models Hold Steady
Backblaze has released its Q2 2025 Drive Stats report, offering another detailed look into the health and performance of the hard drives powering its cloud storage infrastructure. more →
Blocks & Files, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Sandisk Unveils 256 Tb Ssd For AI Workloads, Shipping In 2026
The Sandisk UltraQLC SN670 drive comes in 256 TB and 128 TB capacities, and uses BiCS 218-layer 3D NAND with its CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) 2 Tb die design, and a PCIe gen5 NVMe interface. more →
SNIA, Monday, August 4th, 2025
SNIA Announces Storage.AI
Industry Leaders Combine Forces to Solve AI-Related Data Challenges more →
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
Unpacking Storage in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0
VCF 9.0 was released in mid-June and one important component in that portfolio is the storage stack. VMware's built-in storage solution VCF 9.0 had a new release of vSAN which we are going to explore further following TFD's session on this topic. more →
ZDNET, Monday, August 4th, 2025
5 Of My Favorite Linux System-Monitoring Tools - And Why I Use Them
When I want to monitor my Linux system's performance, I turn to these handy apps to collect more data than I'll probably ever need. more →
Linux Journal, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Guardians Of Privacy: How Security-Driven Linux Distributions Are Rising To Meet Growing Digital Fears
In the last decade, the digital landscape has shifted from a space of casual convenience to a battleground for personal information. more →
InfoQ, Monday, August 4th, 2025
Java News Roundup: EclipseStore, Gradle, Hibernate Release Candidates, Piranha Cloud, LangChain4j
This week's Java roundup for July 28th, 2025, features news highlighting: GA releases of EclipseStore 3.0 and Gradle 9.0; release candidates for Hibernate ORM, Hibernate Reactive and Hibernate Search; Piranha Cloud moves to the Eclipse Foundation; and a point releases for Eclipse JNoSQL, Quarkus, Micronaut, JHipster and JDKUpdater. 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 →
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Continuous Modernization: Why Modernization Never Really Finishes
Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →
Broadcom, Friday, August 8th, 2025
Look Before You Leap into VCF 9.0
With the introduction of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, Broadcom has brought significant changes to the way customers will deploy and adopt VMware's flagship private cloud suite. more →
TechStrong.IT, Monday, August 4th, 2025
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Evolution - A More Organized Hybrid Cloud
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 has arrived, bringing a fresh round of terminology updates, architectural diagrams, and the promise of making the hybrid cloud feel more manageable. more →
Broadcom, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Tackles the Configuration Drift Crisis
Configuration drift has become one of the most insidious problems plaguing modern technology infrastructure. more →
Modernization That Ships with AI
Most companies are adding AI agents to legacy systems rather than modernizing how the work actually gets done. That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business. more →
CrowdStrike, Monday, August 4th, 2025
AI Vs. AI: The Race Between Adversarial And Defensive Intelligence
The AI battleground is here. Adversaries are weaponizing AI to launch attacks with unprecedented scale, speed, and effectiveness. In response, defenders are turning to AI as an analyst force-multiplier, using it to offload repetitive tasks, accelerate decision-making, and scale expertise across the SOC. more →
CrowdStrike, Monday, August 4th, 2025
Cloud Breaches And Identity Hacks Explode In Crowdstrike's Latest Threat Report
A new report out today from CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. has revealed a dramatic escalation in adversary sophistication, with cloud-focused attacks, identity-driven intrusions and generative artificial intelligence adoption driving a major shift in the cybersecurity threat landscape. more →
CrowdStrike, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Crowdstrike Report Warns Of GenAI Driving Surge In Cyberattacks
CrowdStrike has released its 2025 Threat Hunting Report detailing how adversaries are using generative AI (GenAI) to enhance and scale cyberattacks, with a particular focus on emerging threats to autonomous AI systems within enterprises. more →
CrowdStrike, Friday, August 8th, 2025
Crowdstrike Report Warns Of Rising AI Exploits And Record Cloud Attacks
CrowdStrike's 2025 Threat Hunting Report warns that adversaries are no longer just using AI to enhance cyberattacks -- they are increasingly targeting the AI platforms organizations rely on in production. more →
Microsoft, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Microsoft Offers $5 Million At Zero Day Quest Hacking Contest
Research demonstrating high-impact cloud and AI security flaws will be rewarded at Microsoft's Zero Day Quest competition in spring 2026. 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 →
Proofpoint, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Insider Incident Of The Month: The Growing Risk Of Sensitive Data Sent To Unauthorized Email Accounts
The Insider Incident of the Month blog series sheds light on the growing problem of email exfiltration of sensitive data to unauthorized accounts. It also examines how Proofpoint helps protect against these serious data loss events. Stories in this blog series are anonymized.    more →
The State of Data and AI Governance
The State of Data and AI Governance webinar will examine the organizational, cultural, and technical foundations required to govern data while enabling AI effectively. This includes the frameworks, roles, processes, and technologies needed to ensure trust, compliance, and responsible use at scale. more →
Salesforce, Monday, August 4th, 2025
10 New Jobs Created By AI: Is One Right For You?
As AI transforms the workforce, being adaptable, open-minded, and open to learning could lead you to a new job - or a new career. more →
Salesforce, Monday, August 4th, 2025
Managing Work Is The New Must-Have AI Skill
AI can do incredible things, but we need to guide it with clear intent to get the best results. more →
Varonis, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Varonis Incident Response: Stopping Microsoft 365 Direct Send Abuse
Learn how Varonis Threat Labs uncovered a critical Microsoft 365 Direct Send exploit, and how organizations leveraged Varonis Incident Response to protect themselves from attack. more →
SASE Pivot and Trends 2026: A Gartner Keynote
Charanpal Bhogal, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, examines how SASE must expand to protect human and nonhuman identities, govern AI usage, secure agentic interactions and deliver flexible, sovereign security as data residency demands grow. He also breaks down the disruptions redefining the SASE market and what comes next. more →
Zscaler, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Securing Out-of-Band (OOB) Access with Zscaler Cellular
In an environment where uninterrupted access to critical infrastructure can define operational success or failure, Out-of-Band (OOB) access is a necessity, not a luxury. more →
Zscaler, Monday, August 4th, 2025
Tracking Updates To Raspberry Robin
Raspberry Robin, also known as Roshtyak, is a malicious downloader that has been actively targeting systems since 2021 and primarily spreads through infected USB devices. more →
Zscaler, Friday, August 8th, 2025
Zscaler Sharpens Zero-Trust Approach As Ransomware Threats Escalate
As ransomware attacks evolve from encrypting data to stealing it, a zero-trust framework becomes increasingly critical. This approach replaces traditional security models with a 'never trust, always verify' posture that treats every access request as a potential threat. 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 →
