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Best AI Research Tools in 2026: Which One Is Right for You?

A comparison of seven AI research tools, arguing that tool choice should follow the task, not brand loyalty. more →

Best AI Browser Assistants for Daily Work in 2026

Seven AI browser assistants compared on research quality, automation, privacy and ecosystem integration. more →

Rogue AI Aren't Science Fiction Anymore

A string of sandbox escapes by frontier AI agents has moved loss-of-control risk from theory to incident report. more →

Tokenmaxxing: Why AI Consumption Needs Control

Unchecked token consumption is becoming a real cost and efficiency problem for AI deployments. more →

Beyond Pilot Purgatory: What Does It Take to Build AI That Works?

Examines why AI pilots stall and what organizations need to move them into working production systems. more →

Sovereignty Is Not a Checkbox

Data sovereignty demands continuous, documented risk management rather than binary compliance checkboxes. more →

Backup Security Best Practices: What a Red Teamer Taught Us About Getting Hacked

Red teamers routinely exploit backup systems via default passwords and over-privileged service accounts. more →

How Code in the Age of AI Becomes Write-Only and Disposable

AI-generated code is write-only and disposable, making tests the documentation and automation the reviewer. more →

7 AI Coding Features That Are Changing How Developers Work in 2026

AI coding agents now handle complete development tasks while developers focus on direction and review. more →

Docker Hub vs. Private Registries: Security Tradeoffs

Cloud Native Now compares Docker Hub and private registries, arguing public sources still have a validated role. more →

AI Can Find Zero-Days but Still Can't Reliably Write Secure Code

CSO Online examines a widening asymmetry between AI's offensive vulnerability discovery and its defensive code quality. more →

AI Code Review: If AI Writes the Code, How Do We Review It at Scale?

A practitioner guide to what AI code review is, how it differs from generation, and how to evaluate tools for production. more →

How Code in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Becomes Write-Only and Disposable

InfoQ argues AI-generated code is too dense to read, so tests define behavior and rewriting beats maintaining. more →

Is the Rise of Agentic AI Threatening Cybersecurity Readiness?

Futurum argues Taiwan's confirmed near-autonomous AI attack moves agentic threats from theoretical to operational. more →

The Pricing Split: Why Core Software and AI Can't Share One Commercial Model

Futurum finds buyers reject per-seat pricing for core software but demand it for AI, forcing vendors to split architectures. more →

AWS and the End of the Naive Agent: Collapsing the Semantic Divide

Futurum analyzes AWS Context and Context Ontology as a governed knowledge graph that ends the semantically naive agent. more →

Fragmented Multi-Cloud Visibility Is a Financial Risk, Not Just an Ops Problem

Futurum argues fragmented observability inflates MTTR and hides cloud spend until an outage or budget shock exposes it. more →

Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith

Futurum argues enterprises are shifting from costly cloud AI APIs to localized, quantized open-weights models. more →

The 1.6TbE Transition Will Reshape Data Center Architecture From the Ground Up

Futurum's Tom Hollingsworth argues 1.6 Terabit Ethernet forces simultaneous rethinking of topology, power and cooling. more →

Part Didn't Fit So Techie Got Out His Screwdriver. Then Something Flew Off the Motherboard

A technician forcing a heatsink onto a CPU knocked a surface-mounted component clean off the board. more →

BOFH: How Our COVID Ransomware Protocol's Y2K Blockchain Lowered Uptime

IT staff fabricate uptime statistics using invented jargon that management never questions. more →

Take Your VCF Upgrade Further: Meet the Hyperscalers at VMware Explore 2026

Broadcom will bring major hyperscalers to VMware Explore 2026 to discuss VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 readiness. more →

17th August - Threat Intelligence Report

Check Point's weekly threat intelligence bulletin covers a ransomware attack on Colombia's Ministry of Justice and other incidents. more →

Reading the Signals in the OWASP LLM Top 10 2026

Check Point reads the 2026 OWASP GenAI LLM Top 10 and finds AI security priorities shifting toward agency and consequences. more →

The Mistake That Exposed a Global Cyber Crime Operation

Check Point Research says OPSEC failures by the StopAndProtect operation exposed its own infrastructure and 5,000+ victims. more →

Thousands of Hacked WordPress Sites, One Operation: Unmasking StopAndProtect

Check Point traces the StopAndProtect ransomware family to a ClickFix chain running through thousands of hacked WordPress sites. more →

The Approved-App Blind Spot: When Sanctioned AI Becomes Shadow AI

Check Point shows how approved AI tools drift into shadow AI through personal accounts, SaaS updates and browser extensions. more →

How Databricks Feature Store Serves Features With Sub-Second Freshness

Databricks Feature Store now reaches 200ms p99 latency for streaming features using Spark Real-Time Mode. more →

The Prototyping Tax Is Killing Your AI Roadmap

Databricks argues fragmented context and API boundaries stall AI projects, and platform-native agents remove that overhead. more →

Databricks Document Intelligence: Pushing the Frontier for Complex Document Extraction

Databricks adds Precision Mode to its ai_extract API, pairing fine-tuned models with an agentic harness for hard documents. more →

Evaluating AI Agents Live at the Grounded Reasoning Cup

Eleven academic teams tested agents live on OfficeQA Pro V2, built from about 120,000 pages of US Treasury documents. more →

When It Comes to Governance, Retailers Need a Control Plane for Context

Databricks argues retail AI's next bottleneck is trusted context, given how sensitive the customer data behind it is. more →

Designing Effective Genie Agents From a Single Prompt

Databricks explains how Genie Agents build domain-specific agents from one prompt by grounding them in governed context. more →

Stop Managing Infrastructure: A New Way to Deploy AI Agents and Models

DataRobot's Workload API replaces Kubernetes YAML and tickets with one spec file and one command to reach a live URL. more →

Do You Need Enterprise AI Orchestration? A 3-Question Readiness Framework

DataRobot offers three questions for deciding how much orchestration an AI agent needs, based on consequence rather than scale. more →

Agentic Search: More Accurate and Efficient Results From Your AI Systems

Mistral launched Agentic Search, a retrieval layer that improves accuracy while cutting turns, token use and latency. more →

Threat Brief: Mitigating Large-Scale Credential Attacks (Updated August 18)

Unit 42 updates guidance after an actor claimed to have stolen large volumes of credentials from Microsoft Entra tenants. more →

Identity Abuse Through Trusted Communication Channels

Unit 42 details how attackers exploit enterprise collaboration tools for identity phishing and credential theft. more →

Connecting the Dots: Securing the Overlooked Corners of the Software Development Lifecycle Supply Chain

Unit 42 argues attackers now target CI/CD pipelines and developer tools rather than application code itself. more →

Unit 42 Defends Organizations Against Next-Gen Frontier AI Risks With Anthropic's Mythos 5

Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 describes using Anthropic's Mythos 5 to defend at machine speed as attack timelines compress. more →

How to Scale AI Agents Without Losing Control (Sept. 30th)

This webinar explores practical approaches for governing AI agents at scale. Learn how to embed governance into workflows, define accountability, and establish the oversight needed to maintain control as AI capabilities evolve. more →

AI-augmented code modernization: from framework migrations to autonomous agents (Oct. 7th)

What it takes to modernize a large repository portfolio with AI agents, and what that actually costs to run. more →

Migrating Apache Solr Workloads to Amazon OpenSearch Service

This session is ideal for engineering leaders, search architects, and platform teams currently operating Apache Solr who want to understand the benefits, trade-offs, and practical steps involved in migrating to a fully managed search service on AWS. more →

M-Trends 2026: The Cascading Impact of Third-Party SaaS, Cloud, and Software Compromises (Aug. 25th)

In the latest installment of the M-Trends Virtual Series, Mandiant teams up with Wiz to tackle the technical realities of defending a decentralized cloud architecture more →

The Strategic Imperative: Embracing Agentic B2B Selling (Sept. 8th)

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 →

Build and Automate Your Infrastructure with Red Hat on Microsoft Azure (Sept. 23rd)

This webinar focuses on deploying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) within Microsoft Azure, utilizing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for scalable, cross-domain infrastructure automation. more →

Closing the Loop on AI Coders: 3,200 Vulns Fixed with Zero Human Triage (Oct. 1st)

If you're an engineering leader trying to figure out whether 'AI fixes vulnerabilities automatically' is a real operating model or a demo, this is the mechanism and the data, not the pitch. more →

Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault (Oct. 1st)

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 →

Expert Panel: Driving Business Impact with Real-Time Data (Aug. 31st)

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