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Tuesday’s Briefing · February 10

infoQ, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Why Most Machine Learning Projects Fail To Reach Production

This article is a summary of my talk at QCon San Francisco 2024. For the past decade, I have worked as an applied scientist and machine learning engineer across multiple domains, including social media, fintech, and productivity tools. more →

Why Most Machine Learning Projects Fail To Reach Production

SC Media, Thursday, February 5th, 2026

Five Control Domains That Make AI Frameworks Effective

Every major cloud and data platform now publishes guidance on how organizations should secure artificial intelligence (AI). From Google's Secure AI Framework (SAIF) and Amazon Web Services' CAF-AI and Generative AI best practices to Microsoft's Secure AI and Responsible AI standards, enterprises are surrounded by frameworks. more →

Five Control Domains That Make AI Frameworks Effective

SC Media, Friday, February 6th, 2026

Shadow AI Is The New Shadow IT, And Most Security Teams Are Flying Blind

Over 14,000 Ollama server instances are publicly accessible on the internet right now. According to a recent Cisco analysis, 20% of these actively host models susceptible to unauthorized access. BankInfoSecurity separately reported discovering more than 10,000 Ollama servers with no authentication layer - the result of hurried AI deployments by developers under pressure to deliver. more →

Shadow AI Is The New Shadow IT, And Most Security Teams Are Flying Blind

You've Been Heard, Friday, February 6th, 2026

Why Technical Skills Won't Get You Promoted W/Ken Widner - #392 (55:48)

Ken Widner has a psychology degree, not a computer science one. That's not a footnote. It's the whole story. He was supposed to do marriage counseling. Instead, he became CIO at Do It Best, running IT for 9,000+ retail locations while integrating True Value out of bankruptcy. more →

Why Technical Skills Won't Get You Promoted W/Ken Widner - #392 (55:48)

devops.com, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

4 Security Risks Of AI Code Assistants

AI coding assistants can be an efficient way to improve the coding process. They allow developers to automate many repetitive tasks so they can focus on the more grueling, detail-oriented aspects of coding. However, developers must watch out for potential security risks common among AI coding assistants. more →

4 Security Risks Of AI Code Assistants

devops.com, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Bot-Driven Development: Redefining DevOps Workflow

DevOps has a long history of automating handoffs between the developers and ops teams. The future of automation is rapidly evolving to include a bot-enabled development, where intelligent agents don't just get stuck into a task, but drive parts of the software life cycle. This new world is where DevOps merges human brainpower with AI-powered tools. more →

Bot-Driven Development: Redefining DevOps Workflow

DevOps, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Please Grow Up, Coder Launches AI Maturity Self-Assessment Tool

AI is growing up fast. This means we now need to both quantify and qualify the depth, breadth and scope of the AI components now being grafted onto (let's be realistic, AI-native hasn't happened yet) existing enterprise software structures and data management estates. Coder thinks it can help. more →

Please Grow Up, Coder Launches AI Maturity Self-Assessment Tool

devops.com, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

The Problem's Not Your Monitoring Tools, It's Your Workflow

The real cost of poor observability isn't just downtime; it's lost trust, wasted engineering hours, and the strain of constant firefighting. But most teams are still working across fragmented monitoring tools, juggling endless alerts, dashboards, and escalation systems that barely talk to one another, which acts like chaos disguised as control. more →

The Problem's Not Your Monitoring Tools, It's Your Workflow

How-To Geek, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

LibreOffice's First Big Update For 2026 Has Arrived

LibreOffice is one of the best alternatives to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, and now it's rolling out a major update. LibreOffice 26.2 has arrived with some new features, compatibility improvements with Microsoft Office, and faster performance. more →

LibreOffice's First Big Update For 2026 Has Arrived

Security Boulevard, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Why Deduplication Is The Most Underrated Security Control

Security teams face constant pressure from an overload of alerts and findings. Every new scanner or assessment adds to the pile, making it hard to focus on what matters. Instead of streamlining efforts, these tools often create more confusion by repeating the same issues across reports. more →

Why Deduplication Is The Most Underrated Security Control

Security Boulevard, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Why Identity Threat Detection & Response Matters In 2026?

In 2026, identity has firmly established itself as the new security perimeter. As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption, enable remote workforces, and integrate SaaS and third-party ecosystems, attackers are no longer trying to 'break in'; they are simply logging in. more →

Why Identity Threat Detection & Response Matters In 2026?

Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

Agentic AI: Taking Customer Service From 'Sorry' To Solved

Enough with 'Sorry, I didn't understand that.' AI is finally ready to deliver. Agentic AI is moving beyond chatbots to autonomously resolve customer issues, prevent problems before they happen, and reshape the $400 billion customer service industry. more →

Agentic AI: Taking Customer Service From 'Sorry' To Solved

Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

Survey Sees AI Confidence Rising Among IT Leaders

A survey of 200 CIOs, CTOs, and IT directors across the U.S., Canada, and Europe finds a quarter (25%) expect to reach full-scale orchestration of artificial intelligence (AI) this year, with AI providing the connective tissue between tools, teams and processes. more →

Survey Sees AI Confidence Rising Among IT Leaders

Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, January 28th, 2026

4 Deeper AI Truths An Analyst Distilled From Benedict Evans' Landmark Talk

The artificial intelligence news cycle is relentless, a constant barrage of product launches, breakthroughs, and hype that can feel overwhelming. In this environment, finding a clear, strategic signal is invaluable. Benedict Evans, a tech strategist with 20 years of experience analyzing major platform shifts, is one of the few people who reliably provide it. His job isn't to sell an AI product but to translate hype into strategic reality. more →

4 Deeper AI Truths An Analyst Distilled From Benedict Evans' Landmark Talk

Tech Field Day, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Billion-Dollar AI Headlines Obscure Real Business Value

The big headlines that we're seeing around the massive funding of large AI companies are a distraction from the reality that AI is being built and used in business applications. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Frederic Van Haren, Chris Grundemann, Brian Martin, and Alastair Cooke reflecting after AI Infrastructure Field Day in Santa Clara. more →

Billion-Dollar AI Headlines Obscure Real Business Value

Cisco, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Analytics Context Engineering For LLM

Machine data underpins observability and diagnosis in modern computing systems, including logs, metrics, telemetry traces, configuration snapshots, and API response payloads. more →

Analytics Context Engineering For LLM

Cisco, Thursday, February 5th, 2026

Cisco AI Summit 2026: From AI Possibility To AI Reality

I had the good fortune to attend the Cisco AI Summit 2026 in San Francisco this week. The event brought together policymakers, technologists, investors, and enterprise leaders to examine how artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation to large-scale operational impact. Unlike many AI-focused events centered on model performance or speculative futures, this summit emphasized execution, governance, infrastructure readiness, and workforce transformation. more →

Cisco AI Summit 2026: From AI Possibility To AI Reality

Cisco, Thursday, February 5th, 2026

Cisco Deep Network Model: Purpose Built Intelligence For Networking

Network operations are dominated by structured telemetry, long configuration states, time series at scale, and investigations that sprawl across devices, sites, and domains. The practical constraint is not whether an AI model can answer a networking question in isolation. more →

Cisco Deep Network Model: Purpose Built Intelligence For Networking

Cisco, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

Cloud, On-Premises, Hybrid Networks: How To Choose The Right Management Solution

Running a network today often means reacting to alerts, chasing issues across sites, and switching between tools just to understand what's happening. When visibility is fragmented, day-to-day operations suffer: mean time to resolution (MTTR) increases, more IT resources get pulled into investigations, and escalations rise as your IT teams spend valuable time stitching together context across environments. more →

Cloud, On-Premises, Hybrid Networks: How To Choose The Right Management Solution

Cloudflare, Thursday, February 5th, 2026

2025 Q4 DDoS Threat Report: A Record-Setting 31.4 Tbps Attack Caps A Year Of Massive DDoS Assaults

Welcome to the 24th edition of Cloudflare's Quarterly DDoS Threat Report. In this report, Cloudforce One offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on data from the Cloudflare network. In this edition, we focus on the fourth quarter of 2025, as well as share overall 2025 data. more →

2025 Q4 DDoS Threat Report: A Record-Setting 31.4 Tbps Attack Caps A Year Of Massive DDoS Assaults

Fortinet, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Fortinet Unifies Cloud Risk Management In FortiCNAPP

Fortinet has significantly expanded its FortiCNAPP cloud risk management platform by integrating network security posture, data security posture management, and runtime validation into a single, prioritized workflow, IT Brief Asia reports. more →

Fortinet Unifies Cloud Risk Management In FortiCNAPP

Oracle, Thursday, February 5th, 2026

The Evolution Of Exadata: Bridging Co-Managed Power And Autonomous Efficiency

For organizations running mission-critical workloads, the Oracle Exadata Database Service has long been the gold standard. It offers the performance and isolation of Exadata in the cloud. However, as business demands grow, the operational overhead of managing databases can become a bottleneck and increasingly slow innovation, even in cloud environments. more →

The Evolution Of Exadata: Bridging Co-Managed Power And Autonomous Efficiency

Red Hat, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

What's New In Post-Quantum Cryptography In RHEL 10.1

In May 2025, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) shipped with the first steps toward post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect against attacks by quantum computers, which will make attacks on existing classic cryptographic algorithms such as RSA and elliptic curves feasible. more →

What's New In Post-Quantum Cryptography In RHEL 10.1

Tenable, Thursday, February 5th, 2026

2025 SLG Cyber Trends: 5 Lessons To Build A 2026 Cyber Roadmap

From school districts to state agencies, 2025 cyber incidents were a wake-up call about asset visibility. Discover five actionable lessons state and local governments (SLGs) leaders can use to close the cyber exposure gap and move from reactive threat detection and response to proactive exposure management. more →

2025 SLG Cyber Trends: 5 Lessons To Build A 2026 Cyber Roadmap

Tenable, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Tenable Extends Exposure Management To AI Attack Surface

Tenable Holdings, Inc. makes Tenable One AI Exposure generally available. The launch makes Tenable One Exposure Management Platform unify AI protection, discovery and usage governance across SaaS platforms, cloud services, APIs and agents. more →

Tenable Extends Exposure Management To AI Attack Surface

Trend Micro, Friday, February 6th, 2026

Viral Ai, Invisible Risks: What OpenClaw Reveals About Agentic Assistants

OpenClaw (aka Clawdbot or Moltbot) represents a new frontier in agentic AI: powerful, highly autonomous, and surprisingly easy to use. In this research, we examine how its capabilities compare to its predecessors' and highlight the security risks inherent to the agentic AI paradigm. more →

Viral Ai, Invisible Risks: What OpenClaw Reveals About Agentic Assistants