October 2026
Google targets AI agents’ idle-time costs with new compute service
As enterprises scale AI agents, Google is betting that idle infrastructure costs could become a major barrier to adoption. To address that challenge, the company on Thursday launched Agent Compute…
Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the ‘drive-by’ patches
Linus Torvalds is embracing AI to write Linux kernel code, and some people are having fits. He has a message for them. So do I. Roy Schestowitz, editor of Tux…
CA shutdown puts Java, containers, and security appliances in the certificate crosshairs
A certificate authority’s decision to abandon the global SSL/TLS market is exposing a weakness many organizations rarely examine: their dependence on complex PKI trust chains. Following the compromise of private…
UK threatens subsea cable saboteurs with 14 years behind bars
Britain is threatening subsea cable saboteurs with up to 14 years in prison and unlimited fines, having apparently decided that Victorian-era laws aren’t quite up to the job of keeping…
Don’t assume resilience from your cloud provider
The recent Google Cloud incident in London is the kind of event that should force enterprises to rethink what cloud resilience really means. Google said the disruption was caused by…
When resilience is out of your control
The recent Google Cloud incident in London is the kind of event that should force enterprises to rethink what cloud resilience really means. Google said the disruption was caused by…
