InfoWorld, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
How to Get Better Results From Local LLMs With Ollama
Laptop-class models have improved sharply, and this walks through model choice, parameters and runtime tuning in Ollama. more → · 120 clicks
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Most Popular IT This Week · September 26
The Register, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
AI Model Watermarking Changes Agent Behavior
Lasso Security finds SynthID-Text watermarking alters tool calling and safety refusals, especially under prompt injection. more → · 119 clicks
Help Net Security, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
AI Is Adding to the Review Load on Open-Source Projects, Many of Them Thinly Funded
ACM authors warn that AI-generated contributions are outpacing the volunteer maintainers who must vet them. more → · 115 clicks
InfoWorld, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Stop Tuning Your Models and Fix Your Data
Dropping an LLM into a chaotic warehouse produces a confident idiot; model gains were marginal next to data-foundation work. more → · 101 clicks
CIO, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Enterprise AI Desperately Needs a Lifecycle for Context
Business definitions drift after launch, leaving AI applications answering with policies legal replaced last week. more → · 56 clicks
CIO, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
AI-Smart, Not AI-First
AI-first mandates repeat the cloud-first mistake; organizations must be AI-enabled before they can responsibly be AI-first. more → · 55 clicks
CIO, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
AI Agents Should Retrieve Facts, Not Define Them
Connecting an agent straight to the database produced untrustworthy numbers; the fix was removing its authority to define facts. more → · 52 clicks
InfoWorld, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Your AI Testing Dashboards Are Green. That's the Problem
Self-healing test repair can turn a dashboard into a collection of green opinions rather than evidence. more → · 50 clicks
CIO, Friday, September 18th, 2026
What the McDonald's AI Failure Reveals About AI Agent Mistakes
Three years of drive-thru voice AI failed on accents, dialects and ambient noise, and never beat the cost of a person. more → · 50 clicks
CIO, Friday, September 18th, 2026
16 Governance Tools for Securing Your AI Fleet
A comparison roundup of guardrail, governance and trust platforms for keeping production LLMs in check. more → · 46 clicks
InformationWeek, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
AI Panic Is Giving CIOs a New Trust Problem
When frontier labs publicly disagree about AI risk, CIOs should promise process and diligence, never outcomes. more → · 28 clicks
CSO Online, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
AI Agent Authorization Risks Remain a Gap in New NIST-CISA Token Security Guidance
NIST IR 8587 covers token forgery and theft but leaves agent actions out of scope, with delegation chains unaddressed. more → · 27 clicks
InfoQ, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Architecting Secure and Scalable Facial Verification Systems
A distributed-systems treatment of biometric verification, covering decoupled scaling, async queues and zero-trust tokenization. more → · 48 clicks
TechRadar Pro, Monday, September 14th, 2026
Why CIOs Are Paying Closer Attention to Physical Security
Cloud-connected physical security systems are moving onto the CIO's agenda alongside cyber security. more → · 47 clicks
SecurityWeek, Monday, September 14th, 2026
CISOs Race to Control AI Agents Without Destroying Their Value
Security leaders struggle to balance AI agent utility with controls preventing unintended harm. more → · 46 clicks
Help Net Security, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
A Flat Cybersecurity Budget Doesn't Have to Mean Weaker Coverage
A vCISO's method for a flat or cut budget: sort every security expense into four buckets instead of trimming across the board. more → · 42 clicks
Help Net Security, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Hardcoded MCP Credentials Found in Public GitHub Files
Twelve percent of credential slots in 82,000 public MCP config files contained a hardcoded secret. more → · 38 clicks
Help Net Security, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Zero-Click RCE Vulnerability Hit Four Major AI Coding Agents, Two Remain Unpatched
Plugin4Shell breaks SHA pinning in Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot and Gemini CLI, and auto-update makes it zero-click. more → · 34 clicks
InformationWeek, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
The Cybersecurity Skills Gap Is About More Than Head Count
ISC2 shifted from sizing the workforce gap to measuring the capability gap, and 88% report a consequence from it. more → · 26 clicks
Help Net Security, Sunday, September 13th, 2026
Week in Review: Linux Rootkit Deployed on F5 BIG-IP APM Devices, Cisco FMC Bugs Exploited
Major security incidents including F5 rootkit, Cisco vulnerabilities, and AI agent exploitation reported. more → · 26 clicks
CSO Online, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Security Spending Is Growing - Except for the Typical CISO
Average budgets rose 5% but median growth was 0%, and 55% of CISOs saw budgets flat or cut. more → · 25 clicks
The Register, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Microsoft Agentically Ports Copilot Runtime to Rust for $120K
Agents converted 430,000 lines of TypeScript into 800,000 lines of Rust for $120K in tokens plus three weeks of developer time. more → · 24 clicks
CSO Online, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Strong Fundamentals Make Next-Gen Security Possible
A former Hyatt and United security leader argues asset inventory and identity beat cycling through new tools each quarter. more → · 24 clicks
Agentic Security Needs to Operationalize Threat Intel
Agentic AI has changed attacks for both adversaries and defenders, but AI has not changed the fundamentals of security. Triage is not the end goal for defenders; prevention is. This means hyperfast AI-powered triage is still not a solution, just one more (very necessary) tool. more →
Help Net Security, Friday, September 18th, 2026
Abandoned IoT Apps Keep Sending Sensitive Data to Broken Servers
Nearly three in four of 61,500 abandoned Android IoT companion apps carry dependencies with documented vulnerabilities. more → · 44 clicks
IoT Now, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
IoT in Transition: Device Security Has Officially Become a Governance Problem
EU Cyber Resilience Act reporting obligations take effect, making device security a governance challenge. more → · 40 clicks
You've Been Heard, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Healthcare AI Needs A Reality Check W/Mikkel Finsen #450
IT leader Mikkel Finsen discusses rebuilding core technology systems at Open Door Family Medical Center, emphasizing that healthcare organizations must prioritize simplified infrastructure, business resilience, and strict governance over market hype when implementing AI. more → · 48 clicks
Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing
Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs' value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations. more →
CIO, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
The ERP Reckoning: Decades of Customization Could Block AI Value
Clean-core ERP is being reframed as the price of admission to AI, but only about half of organizations are moving. more → · 44 clicks
Agentic AI: The Urgent Opportunity
Join this virtual event and discover how you can move beyond experimentation and strategically harness agentic AI to secure your competitive future. more →
DevOps.com, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Why MLOps Pipelines Need Security Audits
SecMLOps applies DevSecOps controls to ML pipelines for auditable security evidence. more → · 26 clicks
Data & AI Leaders Summit (Sept. 21-23)
This three-day summit is designed for enterprise technology and business leaders responsible for turning AI potential into operational reality. It brings together leaders and practitioners to build modern data foundations, operationalize AI, and govern it for trust. more →
OrionX, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
@HPCpodcast-110: John Gustafson on AI, HPC, Making Every Bit Count - In Depth
HPC pioneer John Gustafson discusses posit arithmetic and optimizing computing efficiency through better precision. more → · 26 clicks
AI Observability Best Practices for Production-Ready AI
Join Dynatrace for a practical discussion on what AI observability looks like in production and the practices teams can use to make it work. We'll cover how engineering and operations teams can connect AI behavior to application performance, improve visibility across AI workflows, and reduce risk as adoption scales. more →
Memeburn, Sunday, September 13th, 2026
10 Best Smart Glasses in 2026: Camera, AI & AR Features Compared
Comprehensive guide comparing 10 leading smart glasses models across AI, camera, and display capabilities for 2026. more → · 25 clicks
AI-Augmented Code Modernization: From Framework Migrations to Autonomous Agents
What it takes to modernize a large repository portfolio with AI agents, and what that actually costs to run. more →
