Microsoft’s cloud blog has a way of announcing the future with the calm confidence of someone who just watched your production cluster survive Black Friday. In “Beyond boundaries: The future of Azure Storage in 2026”, Azure Storage leaders Aung Oo (Vice President, Azure Storage) and Maneesh Sah (Corporate Vice President, Azure Storage) sketch the priorities…
Hetzner Phishing Alert: Emails Stealing Logins and Credit Card Data—How to Spot Them, Lock Down Accounts, and Protect Your Organization
On July 5, 2024 (06:00 UTC), hosting provider Hetzner published a blunt warning on its status page: phishing emails are circulating “in the name of Hetzner,” and they’re aiming for the two things criminals never get tired of monetizing—account logins and credit card details. The incident post is still listed as Status: Identified, and Hetzner’s…
Everything in Voice AI Just Changed: What Enterprise Builders Can Do Next (and What Could Go Wrong)
Voice AI has always had a small PR problem: it’s been marketed like the future, but behaved like a bad conference call. You say something. A server far away thinks about it. A synthetic voice replies after a pause long enough for you to question your life choices. If you interrupt, it keeps talking like…
Microsoft, IDC MarketScape, and the New Job Title Nobody Asked For: Unified AI Governance
On January 14, 2026, Microsoft published a post on the Microsoft Security Blog announcing it had been named a Leader in the 2025–2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Unified AI Governance Platforms (Vendor Assessment #US53514825, December 2025). The post is credited to Microsoft Security (the blog’s byline rather than an individual author) and positions Microsoft’s approach…
One Year Into Trump 2.0: How Big Tech Outmaneuvered MAGA Populists (and Why AI Was the Wedge)
When Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term on January 20, 2025, the photo-op of Silicon Valley royalty in the Capitol rotunda looked like the closing scene of a corporate hostage video. Mark Zuckerberg. Jeff Bezos. Sundar Pichai. Everyone standing close enough to be in the shot, far enough to deny they were friends.…
The Download: America’s New Digital-Rights Muscle Flex, and Why AI Companions Are About to Get Regulated Like a Nightclub
On January 19, 2026, MIT Technology Review’s The Download newsletter bundled two stories that look unrelated at first glance: a US government move against prominent European digital-rights figures, and the rapid rise of “AI companions” (chatbots people treat as friends, therapists, lovers, or all three at once). The connective tissue is power—who gets to shape…
Retailers Bring Conversational AI and Analytics Closer to the User: Why “Dialogue, Not Dashboards” Is the New Retail Operating System
Retail has always loved a good dashboard. It’s comforting: neat charts, tidy KPIs, and enough color gradients to make a PowerPoint feel like a work of art. But dashboards also come with an inconvenient truth: they’re often where insights go to… wait. Wait for a specialist. Wait for the next refresh. Wait for someone to…
Cutting Through the AI Coding Hype (Without Cutting Corners): What Developers and Biotech Teams Should Actually Watch in 2026
AI coding is now everywhere. If you can open an IDE, you can probably also open a dropdown full of copilots, agents, “plan modes,” and chat panes that promise to turn your backlog into a vaguely working demo before lunch. And yet, for all the hype, a stubborn reality remains: software engineering is still an…
Retailers Bring Conversational AI and Analytics Closer to the User: Why “Chat With Your Data” Is Suddenly Retail’s Most Profitable Interface
Retail has a long-standing love affair with dashboards. Beautiful, colorful dashboards. Dashboards with just enough filters to make you feel powerful and just enough dropdown menus to make you question your career choices. But as anyone who has tried to make a pricing or assortment call at 5:47 p.m. on a Friday can tell you:…
Kubernetes v1.35 locks down kubeconfig exec plugins with a kuberc allowlist — and that’s a big deal for supply-chain security
Kubernetes has a long history of making the hard things possible and the dangerous things… also possible. Sometimes in the same feature. On January 9, 2026, Kubernetes published a v1.35 blog post titled “Kubernetes v1.35: Restricting executables invoked by kubeconfigs via exec plugin allowList added to kuberc” by Peter Engelbert and Ben Petersen (both at…