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#339, Issue 4 Part 4: Articles Posted Week: 2026-06-22 - 2026-06-28
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Platform Engineering's Shift From Infrastructure To Influence
Your Newest Platform User Is An AI Agent - Build It A Golden Path
Platform Teams Have An SLO Problem, With Agentic Systems Making It Worse
Embedding Chaos Engineering Into Internal Developer Platforms: Resilience As A CI/CD Gate
Report Preview Details Impact AI Coding Has On Software Engineering
SOC Threat Radar June 2026: LemonDuck, GoldBrute and VPN Attacks
BarracudaONE Named Best Unified Cybersecurity Platform by The Hacker News
Maximizing Uptime: The Power of AI Troubleshooting for Industrial Networks
SoftBank Corp.'s SOC Triaging Workflow Automated With Cisco Foundation AI's Open-Source Model
Engineering Resilience: Lessons From the Front Lines of Cisco's SSE Deployment
Improving AI Efficiency: How Fast Model Loading Slashes GPU Costs
DDN Becomes the First Storage Vendor Natively Integrated Into NVIDIA KV Cache Management
AI
The Corporate Graveyard of AI Invisibility
AI-mediated buyer journeys leave 95-97% of US companies invisible unless explicitly named by buyers. more →
How to Write AI Prompts: The Ultimate Framework for 2026
A 2026 framework for writing effective AI prompts using role, context, task, and constraints. more →
Phishing the Agent: Why AI Guardrails Aren't Enough
AI agents should be managed as privileged identities because model guardrails are easily bypassed. more →
How to Automate Workflows Using Open-Source AI Agents
A guide to automating business workflows with open-source AI agents like OpenClaw and Hermes Agent. more →
Shadow AI Is Already Inside Your Company: How to Govern It Without Killing Productivity
Organizations need governance frameworks for unauthorized AI tools that balance innovation with security. more →
12 Rules of Agentic AI
A set of twelve practical rules for deploying agentic AI systems safely and effectively in the enterprise. more →
IoT
NIST Opens Updated IoT Security Guidance to Public Review
NIST released a draft update of its IoT security guidance for federal systems and is taking public comment until August 24. more →
Easier IoT Management Through Commercial SGP.32 Solutions
Vendors are rolling out commercial SGP.32 eSIM solutions to simplify IoT connectivity across multiple sectors. more →
Linux
5 Linux Distros That Are Perfect for Running in a VM
A guide to Linux distributions optimized for virtual machines based on resource needs and use case. more →
AlmaLinux 9.2 Achieves International Common Criteria Security Certification in Japan
AlmaLinux 9.2 earned Common Criteria security certification in Japan, independently verifying its security functions. more →
Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering's Shift From Infrastructure To Influence
Platform engineering is evolving from technical infrastructure into a product discipline focused on developer adoption. more →
Your Newest Platform User Is An AI Agent - Build It A Golden Path
AI agents are now first-class users of internal developer platforms and need golden paths, governance, and credentials. more →
Platform Teams Have An SLO Problem, With Agentic Systems Making It Worse
Traditional SLOs assume deterministic behavior and fail to measure agentic system reliability, forcing new models. more →
Embedding Chaos Engineering Into Internal Developer Platforms: Resilience As A CI/CD Gate
Embedding chaos experiments as CI/CD resilience gates catches systemic weaknesses before they reach production. more →
Report Preview Details Impact AI Coding Has On Software Engineering
A DX report finds AI now writes half of production code but pull requests have doubled and failure rates are rising. more →
Barracuda Networks
SOC Threat Radar June 2026: LemonDuck, GoldBrute and VPN Attacks
Barracuda's June threat report flags LemonDuck mining, GoldBrute RDP attacks, and a surge in VPN password spraying. more →
BarracudaONE Named Best Unified Cybersecurity Platform by The Hacker News
Barracuda's BarracudaONE platform won Best Unified Cybersecurity Platform in The Hacker News 2026 awards. more →
Cisco
Maximizing Uptime: The Power of AI Troubleshooting for Industrial Networks
Cisco introduced an AI troubleshooting agent for industrial networks that diagnoses root causes to cut factory-floor downtime. more →
Uplevelling Black Hat Threat Hunters
Cisco's threat-hunting team upgraded its Black Hat Asia NOC malware workflow, shifting to Splunk Attack Analyzer for sharper detection. more →
SoftBank Corp.'s SOC Triaging Workflow Automated With Cisco Foundation AI's Open-Source Model
SoftBank automated SOC triage using Cisco Foundation AI's open-source model, reaching 90% workflow accuracy on-premises. more →
Engineering Resilience: Lessons From the Front Lines of Cisco's SSE Deployment
Cisco IT shares lessons from consolidating fragmented security into a unified SSE platform as customer zero. more →
Cohere
Automating Fork Maintenance With AI Agents
Cohere applies control-theory principles and AI coding agents to automate keeping software forks in sync with upstream. more →
Creating a Security Agent With Cohere North and Wiz
Cohere built an automated security incident-response agent using its North platform and Wiz via a custom MCP server. more →
Why Cultural Awareness Is Essential for Global AI
Cohere Labs research finds AI systems consistently underserve non-English speaking and non-Western users. more →
DDN
DDN Unveils Next-Generation AI and HPC Data Intelligence Innovations at ISC 2026, Redefining Performance, Efficiency, Security, and Scale for Enterprise AI Factories
At ISC 2026, DDN unveiled the AI400X3M appliance and distributed KV Cache acceleration for AI and HPC data pipelines. more →
NVIDIA and DDN Target the Economics of AI Infrastructure
NVIDIA and DDN are collaborating to make GPUs more productive and lower AI infrastructure cost per token. more →
Why Is Inference Efficiency Harder Than It Looks?
DDN argues measuring AI inference efficiency now requires accounting for reasoning depth, disaggregation, and caching. more →
Improving AI Efficiency: How Fast Model Loading Slashes GPU Costs
DDN shows how fast model loading enables just-in-time GPU provisioning and lower infrastructure costs. more →
DDN Launches Faster Array HW and KV Cache SW for AI
DDN unveiled the A1400X3M array and NVIDIA Dynamo-integrated KV Cache software to accelerate AI inference. more →
DDN Becomes the First Storage Vendor Natively Integrated Into NVIDIA KV Cache Management
DDN's Infinia plugin ships natively in NVIDIA's NIXL package, simplifying KV cache acceleration for inference. more →
Oracle
How Oracle Became the Operational Brain of Agentic AI
Oracle embeds agentic AI capabilities directly in its database to cut complexity and risk for autonomous agents. more →
TrueNAS
TrueNAS Head Honcho Talks
TrueNAS CEO discusses storage cost pressures, AI workload demands, and the platform's open, flexible positioning. more →
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