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#340, Issue 1 Part 9: Articles Posted Week: 2026-06-29 - 2026-07-05
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Sysadmin Broke Hardware Worth More Than He Made in a Month - and Lied His Way Out of the Mess
Hackers Shoveled Snow for Company, Were Rewarded With Network Admin Access
This Linux Storage Feature Feels Like Cheating Once You Understand It
I Finally Understand Why Arch Linux Isn't for Me - and Probably Isn't for You Either
Microsoft Just Made a Huge Linux Move That Developers and Container Fans Everywhere Will Love
Cybersecurity Professionals Cite Agentic AI, LLMs, and Infrastructure Breaches as Top Concerns
10 Best Cyber Security Management Solutions for Enterprise Protection in 2026
XenServer 9 Is Here. You Already Own It. Now It's Time to Put It to Work.
Citrix Says It's Back as a Mainstream Server Virtualization Player That Won't Send Scary Bills
From Monolith to Lakebase to LTAP: Rethinking the Database From Storage Up
Granular Usage Attribution for dbt Pipelines With Query Tags
The 3 Questions to Answer to Take AI From Experimentation to Impact
Scale-Up, Scale-Out, Scale-Across - Building AI-Era Network Fabrics (July 21st)
SecureWorld Artificial Intelligence Virtual Conference (July 22nd)
The AI and Human Risk Landscape: Securing Collaboration in the Age of AI (July 30th)
Humor
Sysadmin Broke Hardware Worth More Than He Made in a Month - and Lied His Way Out of the Mess
A junior sysadmin dropped an expensive SCSI drive and fabricated a fault story to avoid consequences. more →
Hackers Shoveled Snow for Company, Were Rewarded With Network Admin Access
Red teamers gained network admin access via social engineering and physical security gaps at a client site. more →
User Swore Hacker Called General Failure Had Invaded His PC
A VP mistook a disk error message for a hacker named General Failure infiltrating his computer. more →
Linux
This Linux Storage Feature Feels Like Cheating Once You Understand It
Copy-on-write filesystems enable efficient snapshots and clones by writing changes to new blocks. more →
I Finally Understand Why Arch Linux Isn't for Me - and Probably Isn't for You Either
Arch Linux demands constant update vigilance and manual setup, making it unsuitable for most casual users. more →
Microsoft Previews Linux Containers That Run in Windows
Microsoft's WSL containers public preview lets developers run Linux containers natively on Windows without extra tools. more →
Microsoft Just Made a Huge Linux Move That Developers and Container Fans Everywhere Will Love
Microsoft's WSL containers preview lets developers create and run Linux containers directly on Windows. more →
Security
The API Security Expert You Don't Have to Hire
Cequence Platform 9.0 adds AI-native API security with an embedded assistant and MCP accessibility for enterprise teams. more →
Why Security Leaders Demand Human-Readable Logic
Security leaders reject opaque AI, demanding transparent, explainable detection logic they can audit and control. more →
Infosec Professionals Sour on Automated Pentesting Tools
Support for fully automated pentesting collapsed to 9 percent as tools miss critical AI-related vulnerabilities. more →
Cybersecurity Professionals Cite Agentic AI, LLMs, and Infrastructure Breaches as Top Concerns
Security pros rank AI systems and cloud breaches as top threats, with over 40 percent hit by infrastructure compromises. more →
Why Organizations Keep Failing the Same OWASP Top 10 Risks
Organizations keep failing the same OWASP Top 10 risks because they prioritize speed over security. more →
10 Best Cyber Security Management Solutions for Enterprise Protection in 2026
A roundup of ten leading enterprise cybersecurity platforms unifying threat detection, identity, and cloud security. more →
Citrix
XenServer 9 Is Here. You Already Own It. Now It's Time to Put It to Work.
Citrix announces XenServer 9 general availability, bundled into existing licenses at no extra cost. more →
How a Futurist Reads AI News (Hint: Ignore Most of It)
A futurist explains how to separate meaningful AI trends from daily noise by narrowing uncertainty. more →
Citrix Says It's Back as a Mainstream Server Virtualization Player That Won't Send Scary Bills
Citrix launches XenServer 9 to compete in mainstream virtualization as a cost-conscious VMware alternative. more →
Cost, Risk, and Resilience Are Reshaping End-User Computing
Citrix argues that centralizing data off endpoints cuts cost and risk while boosting resilience in end-user computing. more →
Databricks
From Monolith to Lakebase to LTAP: Rethinking the Database From Storage Up
Databricks explains how Lakebase separates storage from compute and introduces LTAP to unify transactional and analytical data. more →
How We Keep GPUs Reliable Across Databricks AI
Databricks describes its gpu-monitor health system for keeping GPUs reliable during large-scale distributed AI training. more →
Beyond Dashboards: Introducing Decision Execution Platforms
Databricks introduces Decision Execution Platforms that automate the full executive decision-making cycle beyond dashboards. more →
Granular Usage Attribution for dbt Pipelines With Query Tags
Databricks shows how Query Tags enable model-level cost tracking and performance monitoring for dbt pipelines. more →
Forecasting at the Speed of Modern Retail
Databricks introduces MMF Agent, an AI workflow that democratizes enterprise demand forecasting for retail. more →
The 3 Questions to Answer to Take AI From Experimentation to Impact
Databricks outlines three questions enterprises must answer to move AI from experiments to business impact. more →
Harness-News
Harness Adds Autonomous AI Agents to Automate DevOps Workflows
Harness launches autonomous AI agents that automate DevOps workflows with governance and cost controls. more →
SAP
OMV's Approach to Data-Driven Workforce Decisions
OMV adopted SAP Business Data Cloud to centralize fragmented HR data and enable data-driven workforce decisions. more →
Customer Retention Over Acquisition: What the Advanced Success Plan for SAP CX Offers Utilities Customers
SAP details how its Advanced Success Plan helps utilities maximize SAP CX investments amid sector transformation. more →
Sophos
Vect and TeamPCP Partner for Ransomware Campaigns
Sophos warns that Vect and TeamPCP have combined credential theft and ransomware into an industrialized attack model. more →
AI Events
AI Is Live. Is Your Data Ready? (July 14th)
Join us to learn how security leaders can build a foundation for secure AI adoption through continuous visibility into sensitive data, access paths, permissions, and exposure risks. We'll discuss practical approaches to reducing data risk while enabling the business to move faster with AI. more →
Scale-Up, Scale-Out, Scale-Across - Building AI-Era Network Fabrics (July 21st)
This webinar explores how operators, hyperscalers, and technology vendors are evolving architectures, interconnects, and automation to support AI at scale, highlighting innovations that ensure low-latency, reliable, and interoperable network fabrics for next-generation AI workloads. more →
SecureWorld Artificial Intelligence Virtual Conference (July 22nd)
As enterprise AI transitions from simple pilot programs to fully autonomous workflows, this year’s conference moves past the initial "innovation theater" to focus heavily on practical governance, architectural trust, and immediate risk mitigation. more →
Agentic Software Delivery in 2026: How To Bridge The Gap Between AI Ambition and Delivery Confidence (July 22nd)
In this executive panel, George Mironescu (Associate Research Director at IDC), joins JFrog experts Yuval Fernbach and Asaf Barkan to map the realistic path from AI-assisted delivery to trusted autonomous pipelines in today's enterprise environments, where every release carries real business and compliance consequences. more →
Architecting AI Data Foundations: Object Storage Patterns for Scale, Access, and Longevity (July 29th)
In this webinar we will examine the architectural patterns shaping modern AI-ready object storage. We will explore how object storage is designed to support emerging AI data types alongside traditional unstructured data, while remaining scalable, durable, and cost efficient at cloud scale. more →
The AI and Human Risk Landscape: Securing Collaboration in the Age of AI (July 30th)
Join us for a 60-minute discussion as our experts explore emerging risks across modern collaboration ecosystems and discuss practical strategies for strengthening security. You'll gain insight into where organizations are focusing their investments, the challenges they are working to solve, and how to build a collaboration security approach that supports the realities of AI-driven work. more →
Upcoming Webinars
Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Federated Learning & Differential Privacy: Architects for Secure AI Collaboration
From AI Adoption to AI ROI: Measuring What Coding Agents Actually Produce (July 15th)
The Zero-Friction SDLC: Leveraging Intent to Drive Autonomous Software Delivery (July 15th)
Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
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