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Thursday’s Briefing · August 28

Cloud

Cloud Native Now, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025

Futurum Signal Is Live: Real-Time Market Intelligence For The Cloud-Native Era

The cloud-native world doesn't stand still. Kubernetes releases every quarter, new distributions popping up like mushrooms, service meshes evolving faster than you can deploy them, and now agentic AI reshaping how we build and run applications. In that kind of environment, a static analyst report-produced once a year and outdated before it's even published-simply doesn't cut it. more →

Futurum Signal Is Live: Real-Time Market Intelligence For The Cloud-Native Era
FOSS
Futurum Group

Techstrong.IT, Monday, August 18th, 2025

Futurum CIO Survey Surfaces Growing Mix Of Complex CIO Challenges

A survey of 203 enterprise CIOs conducted by the Futurum Group finds IT leaders are pursuing a nuanced approach to managing application workloads while simultaneously looking to safely drive more adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. more →

Futurum CIO Survey Surfaces Growing Mix Of Complex CIO Challenges
Security

HelpNet Security, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025

The Cybersecurity Myths Companies Can't Seem To Shake

Cybersecurity myths are like digital weeds: pull one out, and another quickly sprouts in its place. You've probably heard them before: Macs don't get viruses, we're too small to be a target, or changing passwords often keeps us safer. more →

The Cybersecurity Myths Companies Can't Seem To Shake

HelpNet Security, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025

The AI Security Crisis No One Is Preparing For

In this Help Net Security interview, Jacob Ideskog, CTO of Curity, discusses the risks AI agents pose to organizations. As these agents become embedded in enterprise systems, the potential for misuse, data leakage, and unauthorized access grows. more →

The AI Security Crisis No One Is Preparing For
Linux

Linux Magazine, Monday, August 18th, 2025

VirtualBox 7.2 Has Arrive

Okay, people, you know the drill: It's time to update. In this case, it's VirtualBox, and this time it's a major update with plenty of new additions, polish, and bug fixes. more →

VirtualBox 7.2 Has Arrive

Upcoming Event · Wed, Sep 30 · 11:00am

AI Is Ready. Is Your Data?

Justin Yan will bring a customer-inspired scenario to life through a demonstration - covering ETL pipeline construction, large-scale pipeline operations, and automated governance enforcement using AI agents. Participants are encouraged to question the approach and compare it against their own data challenges. This is not a conversation about doing the same work a little faster. It is a conversation about how the way enterprises deliver data is about to fundamentally change. more →

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AI Is Ready. Is Your Data? (Sept. 30th)
Call Centers

Contact Center Pipeline, Monday, August 18th, 2025

Evolution Of The Contact Center

In an industry racing toward Artificial Intelligence (AI), automation, and analytics, it is worth pausing to consider the legacy we have inherited-and the thinking we may need to leave behind. To understand where Contact Centers are going, it helps to remember where they have been and what we have stubbornly carried with us. more →

Evolution Of The Contact Center
Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Networks, Thursday, August 21st, 2025

Evil-GPT: The 'Enemy of ChatGPT'

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybercrime, one tool has emerged as a particularly insidious player: Evil-GPT. more →

Evil-GPT: The 'Enemy of ChatGPT'

Barracuda Networks, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025

Necessity is still mother of cybersecurity invention

Most cybersecurity teams are experiencing the same economic challenges as anyone else as it becomes more challenging to convince senior business leaders that now is the time to fund additional investments. more →

Necessity is still mother of cybersecurity invention
Bitdefender

Bitdefender, Friday, August 22nd, 2025

Your AI Browser Could Be Hijacked by a Simple Hidden Message, Researchers Warn

The next generation of AI-powered browsers is moving beyond simple summarization to performing real-world tasks such as booking flights or handling banking requests for users. While this ushers in a whole new world of convenience and efficiency, it also brings various drawbacks, especially concerning security. more →

Your AI Browser Could Be Hijacked by a Simple Hidden Message, Researchers Warn
Commvault
IBM
KnowBe4
Red Hat

Red Hat, Thursday, August 21st, 2025

Production AI success: From gen AI promise to business impact

Generative AI (gen AI) has the potential to significantly improve customer engagement, reduce costs, and boost productivity. However, many enterprises struggle to move beyond initial experiments to widespread and scalable implementations. more →

Production AI success: From gen AI promise to business impact
SentinelOne

SentinelOne, Friday, August 22nd, 2025

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 34

Noah Michael Urban, a key UNC3944 member, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy. Arrested in January 2024, he and four others were charged with stealing millions from cryptocurrency wallets using SMS phishing, SIM swaps, and stolen employee credentials. more →

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 34
Sophos

Upcoming Event · Mon, Sep 21 · 1:00pm

Kubernetes & AI: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure

Kubernetes has become the universal control plane for modern infrastructure - and now AI is accelerating that evolution. As organizations adopt AI native architectures, scale model training and inference, and push toward more autonomous operations, Kubernetes is emerging as the backbone for running intelligent, distributed systems at scale. more →

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Kubernetes & AI: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure (Sept. 21st)