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AI finds vulnerabilities faster than you can fix them

If an AI model can find a vulnerability for an attacker, the same model should help a defender fix it. In practice, the math doesn't favor the defender. This quick video digs into the real asymmetry AI-powered vulnerability discovery creates: The goal is models acting as tools for defenders, not weapons for attackers. Getting there means rethinking how much ground your team can realistically cover on its own.

GitHub outage on August 17, 2026: seven hours of Unicorn errors and Copilot failures

GitHub was hit by a major global outage on August 17, 2026 that began with its infamous “Unicorn” error page and ended with a long tail of Copilot failures, lasting about seven and a half hours in total. StatusGator sent an Early Warning Signal at 13:35 UTC, five minutes before GitHub confirmed the incident on its status page at 13:40 UTC. User reports kept flowing until 20:12 UTC, well after the main site had recovered, because Copilot stayed broken for hours.
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Connecting Ticketing Systems to Microsoft SCOM

As enterprises continue to modernize their IT operations, integrating Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) with ticketing and IT service management (ITSM) platforms has become essential for reducing alert noise, improving incident response, and streamlining operations. This whitepaper provides a comprehensive overview of available integration options, categorized by complexity and supported features. It also highlights common challenges, best practices, and strategic recommendations for selecting and maintaining an effective integration architecture.

Why AURA Scratchpad Is Rad: Bound the AI SRE Agent Context Window

A big tool result does not have to be a big context cost. AURA moves it to disk and hands the model a pointer plus the tools to navigate what is there. A large MCP tool result can consume or overflow an agent's context window, and on a third-party server you do not control how much comes back. Scratchpad breaks the link between how big a tool result is and how much context it costs: the full output goes to disk, and only the slice the model asks for ever enters the window. Errors always pass through inline, so the model can react to them.

Signal vs. Spend: Building Cost-Aware Observability at Slack - O11yCon 2026

It started with a single log line taking up a massive amount of volume: 500 million emissions per hour. Pulling that thread led Emma and Steven into Slack's broader logging pipeline: 311 billion logs per day at 4.4M/sec peak, with no volume limits, no per-service attribution, and no feedback to the teams generating the noise.

Suppressing OnPage Notifications During Maintenance

Learn how to suppress OnPage notifications during a scheduled maintenance window so your on-call team isn’t unnecessarily alerted while planned work is underway. OnPage’s Suppress Notifications option temporarily prevents notifications from being sent during a defined period. This is especially useful during scheduled maintenance, planned downtime, testing, or other known activities that could otherwise generate unnecessary alert noise.

Creating Message Templates in OnPage

Learn how to create and configure a message template in OnPage to make critical communication faster, more consistent, and easier for your team. OnPage message templates are predefined message formats that help teams standardize frequently used communications without having to compose every alert or message from scratch, and can be pulled up on both web message dispatcher and OnPage's phone app. In this step-by-step tutorial, we show you how to navigate to Settings then Template, create a new message template, and configure the information users will see when that template is selected.

How task containers give AI agents real infrastructure without idle cost

Infrastructure for AI agents usually forces a choice between two bad options. A sandbox is safe but blind, cut off from the data and services that would make the agent's output useful. Full access means paying to keep a container idle between runs, waiting on a prompt that might not arrive for hours. Task containers, which Upsun released on August 12, 2026, are built to avoid that choice. A task container is a single-purpose container defined in a project's.upsun/config.yaml file.

Turn every branch into a production-like environment, automatically

You push a branch. If your team is like most, that branch now waits: for the shared staging server to free up, for someone to remember to refresh the seed data, for whoever broke staging last to fix it. By the time you actually test your change, you're testing it in an environment that's drifted from production in ways nobody fully tracked. The alternative isn't a better staging server. It doesn't need one.

Pain Killer, Not a Vitamin: What Actually Triggers a DCIM Vendor Switch

Organizations replace their DCIM vendor when an unresolved pain point becomes urgent enough to act on — not because a competing platform has a longer feature list. Understanding what those pain points actually are, for each type of stakeholder in the data center ecosystem, is the clearest way to predict where DCIM displacement is happening now and where vendor stickiness will hold.

Autonomous IT and the Five Forces Reshaping IT in 2026

Autonomous IT is the focus of this LogicMonitor fireside chat with CMO Brooke Cunningham and CPO Garth Fort, built for enterprise IT leaders, IT operations, and observability and AIOps teams. Brooke and Garth break down the 2026 Observability and AI Outlook for IT Leaders report, based on a survey of 100+ VP-level IT leaders who own observability budgets across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.

Why latency is important when choosing an IP backbone provider

As businesses rely on cloud computing, AI, real-time communications and globally distributed applications, network latency has become a defining factor in overall network performance. While bandwidth determines how much data can be transferred, latency determines how quickly that data reaches its destination. Even a high-bandwidth connection can deliver poor application performance if latency is too high or inconsistent.