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Articles Posted Week: Feb. 2nd, 2026 — Feb. 8th, 2026 (335/1/1)
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CxO
Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending To Grow 10.8% In 2026, Totaling $6.15T
What Hyperscalers’ Hyper-Spending On Data Centers Tells CIOs
Tech Field Day
Humor
Techstrong.ai
DR
Encryption
Developer
The Rising Importance Of Prompt Engineering As A Core Developer Skill
Step-By-Step Guide To Becoming A Full-Stack Developer In 2026
Fortinet News
Citrix News
OpenClaw And Moltbook Preview The Changes Needed With Corporate AI Governance
A Leader Again - Here’s What We Feel That Recognition Means For You
Cloudflare News
Cloudflare Demonstrates Moltworker, Bringing Self-Hosted AI Agents To The Edge
2025 Q4 DDoS Threat Report: A Record-Setting 31.4 Tbps Attack Caps A Year Of Massive DDoS Assaults
TechTalk Summits - Live
TechTalk: Technology Executive Dinner - Boston, MA (Feb. 11th)
TechTalk: Technology Executive Summit - Detroit, MI (Feb: 18th)
TechTalk: Technology Executive Dinner - Washington D.C. (Feb. 19th)
CxO
5 IT Shifts Every CIO Must Master This Year
This year’s IT playbook is clear: Hybrid everywhere, AI guarding security, data treated like a product, automation doing the heavy lifting and compute moving to the edge....more
Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending To Grow 10.8% In 2026, Totaling $6.15T
Worldwide IT spending is expected to reach $6.15 trillion in 2026, up 10.8% from 2025, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company....more
Are CIOs The New CEOs In The Making?
With the levers CIOs have at their disposal now, it’s expectation, not just ambition, to eventually secure the top spot in the organization. But the path isn’t always evenly paved....more
The Hidden Costs Of A ‘Just Fix It’ Approach
Implementing quick short-term solutions without a long-term systemwide view can open the door to increased complexities and operational chaos....more
What Hyperscalers’ Hyper-Spending On Data Centers Tells CIOs
Capital expenditure and not new features could now become the clearest signal of cloud resilience, analysts say. As Microsoft, Google, and, on Thursday night, Amazon reported earnings for the final quarter of 2025, many were watching the bottom line - but the real story lurks behind the hyperscalers’ cloud revenue and capital expenditure (capex)....more
Tech Field Day
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
Humor
Techie’s One Ring Brought Darkness By Shorting A Server
Monday brings the shock of a return to work, a transition The Register always tries to ease by bringing you a new instalment of Who, Me?, the reader-contributed column in which your fellow readers admit to errors and disclose how they dodged the consequences....more
New Hire Fixed A Problem So Fast, Their Boss Left To Become A Yoga Instructor
Poking around in deep menus found a fault that flummoxed old hands...more
Techstrong.ai
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
What’s Going To Change About AI In The Enterprise In 2026
Much of 2025’s AI news chased the latest generative model releases. As the foundation model market matures, that hype will matter less in 2026, but will there still be noticeable shifts?...more
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
DR
Why Network Modernization Is Crucial For Business Continuity
Network modernization is a business continuity imperative, reducing risks from legacy systems while boosting performance, security and operational resilience....more
Encryption
Encrypt It Already’ Campaign Pushes Big Tech To Prioritize E2E Encryption
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging major technology companies to follow through on their promises to implement end-to-end encryption (E2E) by default across their services, as privacy concerns mount amid increased AI use....more
Developer
AI-Generated Code Is Fast Becoming The Biggest Enterprise Security Risk As Teams Struggle With The ‘Illusion Of Correctness’
Security teams are scrambling to catch AI-generated flaws that appear correct before disaster strikes...more
The Rising Importance Of Prompt Engineering As A Core Developer Skill
Writing code is getting cheaper. Fast. The bottleneck is shifting from ‘how do we implement this?’ to ‘what exactly are we building, under what constraints, and how do we know it’s correct?’...more
Step-By-Step Guide To Becoming A Full-Stack Developer In 2026
The role of a full-stack developer has become increasingly significant, as most businesses now rely heavily on digital platforms to run their operations....more
Fortinet News
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
Citrix News
OpenClaw And Moltbook Preview The Changes Needed With Corporate AI Governance
If you’ve been following the tech news over the past few weeks, you’ve probably seen OpenClaw everywhere. OpenClaw is an open source, locally-running AI digital assistant & agent that connects to messaging platforms, executes real actions on your system, and has even spawned an entire AI-only social network (Moltbook) where agents interact on their own without human prompts. It’s weird and fascinating and was not on my 2026 bingo card....more
A Leader Again - Here’s What We Feel That Recognition Means For You
For the third year in a row, Citrix has received recognition across all five Use Cases in the 2025 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) report. That’s more than an honor to Citrix. In our opinion, it’s a signal to enterprises that proven, enterprise-grade digital workspace is here....more
Cloudflare News
Cloudflare Demonstrates Moltworker, Bringing Self-Hosted AI Agents To The Edge
2025 Q4 DDoS Threat Report: A Record-Setting 31.4 Tbps Attack Caps A Year Of Massive DDoS Assaults
TechTalk Summits - Live
TechTalk: Technology Executive Dinner - Boston, MA (Feb. 11th)
TechTalk: Technology Executive Summit - Detroit, MI (Feb: 18th)
TechTalk: SUSE in the Stadium - Chicago, IL (February 19th)
TechTalk: Technology Executive Dinner - Washington D.C. (Feb. 19th)a
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