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agentic sre best practicesJul 24, 20263 min

The CompTIA Path That Actually Builds Skills Employers Want

An article on the value of IT certifications for building practical skills in networking, cybersecurity, and cloud, especially through cost-effective resources.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 24, 20263 min

Actively Exploited Langflow RCE Flaw Forces CISA's Emergency Federal Patch Directive

CISA ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch CVE-2026-0770, an actively exploited remote code execution flaw in the Langflow AI agent framework that lets attackers gain root access without authentication.

agentic ai security risksJul 24, 20265 min

When Your AI Assistant Becomes a Ransomware Accelerant

How enterprise AI assistants and agents inherit identities and permissions that ransomware operators can exploit—and the six governance controls that actually reduce the risk.

ai ai chip competitorsJul 24, 20265 min

How Etched's Harvard Dropout Founders Turned AI Developer Tools Skepticism Into a $10.3B Chip Empire

Etched raised $300M at a $10.3B valuation led by Sequoia, doubling its value in seven months. Here's what three Harvard dropouts built — and why it doesn't need GPUs.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 24, 20266 min

ServiceNow's AI Platform Under Fire: How CVE-2026-6875 Became an Active Exploitation Target

Threat intelligence firm Defused has confirmed in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-6875, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in ServiceNow's AI Platform. Attackers are using a sandbox-escape gadget that reaches code-execution via a different route than the published proof-of-concept, raising urgent patching pressure on the 85% of Fortune 500 companies that run the platform.

agentic ai infrastructureJul 24, 20265 min

Google Cloud Revenue Surges 82% as AI Adoption Fuels Growth

Google's cloud business is thriving as enterprises adopt AI and AI infrastructure services, driving significant revenue growth.

ai driven ransomware operationsJul 24, 20266 min

EncForge Targets the AI Stack: Inside JadePuffer's Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Threat

JadePuffer's EncForge malware is the first ransomware deliberately engineered for AI/ML infrastructure — targeting model checkpoints, vector databases, training datasets, and embedding indices across ~180 file extensions. Sysdig documents the full autonomous LLM-driven attack chain: CVE-2025-3248 initial access, credential sweeps, lateral movement via Nacos, and destruction that costs organizations weeks of compute and $75K–$500K per model.

ai acquisitions m aJul 24, 20265 min

Where AI Developer Tools, India's Startup Bet, and Enterprise Infrastructure Collide

The race to build the most capable AI model is giving way to a more consequential competition: who builds the infrastructure that turns intelligence into reliable enterprise execution.

visual cortex sensory processing circuitsJul 24, 20263 min

Your Brain Generates Waves That Predict What You See Next

How neural traveling waves in the visual cortex function as a biological generative model—learning environmental regularities, predicting sensory input, and constructing perception from noisy data.

ai funding rounds valuationsJul 24, 20266 min

Dimension Capital's $800M Third Fund Bets the Science-Compute Crossover Is Only Getting Started

Dimension Capital closed an $800M third fund — 60% larger than its prior vehicle — doubling down on deep-tech startups that blur the line between biotech and software, with marquee wins in Chai Discovery, New Limit, and Anthropic already validating the thesis.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 24, 20264 min

InfraTrust: Why Infrastructure Vulnerabilities Deserve a Different Patching Priority

Eclypsium has launched InfraTrust, a new infrastructure cybersecurity knowledge base and monthly InfraTrust Pulse report designed to help organizations prioritize vulnerabilities affecting infrastructure, firmware, networking, and edge devices based on exploitability, exposure, and real-world risk rather than CVSS scores alone.

agentic ai infrastructureJul 24, 20265 min

Infinity's $100M Bet on AI Developer Tools to Break Nvidia's CUDA Lock-In — and What It Means for India

AI infrastructure startup Infinity raised $15M at a $100M valuation to build universal inference software that automates kernel development for non-Nvidia chips — a move with implications for India's growing AI developer tools and investment landscape.