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Cloud
Microsoft’s 2027 Price Changes: A Budget Checklist for IT Leaders
Most 2027 IT budgets were drafted before Microsoft finished announcing its 2027 price changes. Between September 9 and November 11, 2026, Microsoft told…
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Tech News
TiDB Cloud Breach: A Vendor Risk Checklist for Database Buyers
On October 19, PingCAP, the company behind the TiDB database, published its incident report on a breach that ran from September 9 to October 7. For anyone…
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Tech News
VMware vSphere Express: What It Means for Virtualization
Broadcom spent three years pushing VMware customers toward bundles. On November 4, 2026 it announced something smaller: vSphere Express, a standalone…
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Artificial Intelligence
GitBook Breach: What Your Docs Platform Means for Vendor Risk
On November 3, 2026, a thread titled “Gitbook Breached” climbed Hacker News (the discussion thread). If your team keeps API docs, runbooks or architecture…
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Artificial Intelligence
Cloudflare’s GLM-5.3 Leak: Vendor Risk in Shared AI Inference
On October 26, Cloudflare disclosed that 155 responses from its GLM-5.3 model on Workers AI contained data from other customers’ requests. If your team…
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Development
Measuring AI-Assisted Engineering by Outcomes, Not Output
Most dashboards for AI-assisted engineering count things that are easy to count: seats, suggestions accepted, pull requests merged. GitHub’s September ’26…
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Cloud
ConnectWise Breach: Vendor App Identity as Attack Surface
Last week’s ConnectWise Cloud Backup incident did not start with a phished employee in your organization. According to Huntress, attackers signed in to…
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Artificial Intelligence
Cognizant’s Gemini Frontier Group: What Buyers Should Ask
On October 19, 2026, Cognizant and Google Cloud announced an expanded alliance and a new Gemini Frontier Capability Group staffed by more than 18,000…
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Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Q Developer Is Retiring: Plan Your Kiro Move Now
If your team standardized on Amazon Q Developer, the clock is already running. AWS announced that the IDE plugins and paid subscriptions reach end of…
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