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Your patch window just went from 30 days to hours

Sep 10, 2026 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
Thanks to AI, vulnerability disclosures are exploding. In mid 2026, we're seeing 130+ a day and climbing, with roughly a quarter already being exploited in the wild before they're even disclosed. The result: security teams that used to have 30 days to respond now feel pressure to issue patches in a few days or hours. This video covers why "are we safe?" isn't a question you get to answer once: That last drill is what separates teams that panic when a real incident hits from teams that already know the answer.
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Megaport Collaborates With NVIDIA to Boost AI in Australia

Sep 10, 2026 By Michael Reid In Megaport
Australia’s home-grown global automated infrastructure platform is part of a cohort of companies with Australian operations that will provide regional businesses and institutions access to NVIDIA accelerated computing and NVIDIA Nemotron open models. It’s a point of pride for all of us at Megaport that we’ve built a global automated infrastructure platform while maintaining our deep Australian roots.
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SBOMs are easy for one project, monumental at scale

Sep 9, 2026 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
Think of an SBOM as your ingredient list. A common language describing everything that goes into a piece of software, every dependency and version, in one place. This video covers why SBOMs have gone from niche to mandatory, and why they're harder to pull off than the concept suggests: The concept is simple. Operationalizing it across a large, diverse tech stack is where it gets hard.
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Using writable bind mounts with Icinga 2 in rootless Podman

Sep 9, 2026 By Johannes Schmidt In Icinga
Running Icinga 2 in a rootless Podman container is pretty straightforward, it works just the same as on Docker, so all the examples on our Docker Hub page work as expected. For example this one to generate certificates and initialize the master configuration: Same as with mounting some existing configuration into the container: But once you want to combine the two, for example to store the certificates on the host and mount them into the container, generating or renewing certificates will fail.
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The Essential Eight: Patching Applications and Operating Systems at Maturity Level Two

Sep 9, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Why do so many patching programs pass every internal check and still come back from an Essential Eight assessment rated at Maturity Level One? The answer is rarely speed. Teams that miss the mark are usually patching their servers, browsers, and office suites on schedule, then losing the rating on the fifty applications nobody put on a list. Maturity Level Two is where the Essential Eight stops asking how fast you patch and starts asking how much you can see.
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MSP Ticketing System: How to Evaluate and Choose the Right Platform

Sep 9, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Most managed service providers do not replace their ticketing tool because ticket volume got too high. They replace it because a client asked for a report the tool could not produce. That moment usually arrives between the third and tenth client. The shared inbox and the general help desk that carried you this far stop holding the accounts apart. Per-client reporting is usually the first thing to give way. An MSP ticketing system takes support requests from every client you serve.
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On a Network, an Agent Acts Where the Blast Radius Is Largest

Sep 9, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Every network engineer carries an instinct that outsiders mistake for caution: a change in one place can travel. Reroute a path, push a policy, drop an interface, and the effect can ripple across campus, data center, WAN, and cloud before the first alert is read. The blast radius of a network change is the reason operators move deliberately, and it is the single most important thing an AI agent takes on the moment it is allowed to act on the network instead of merely describe it.
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AI Norms & Values, Part 3 of 3: Things We Hold True

Sep 9, 2026 By Charity Majors In Honeycomb
Welcome to the third and final part of our series on AI norms and values. Parts of this doc were extracted and published separately on substack; as a whole, they describe the principles we hold pertaining to technology and AI, and the ethical commitments we make to each other and our customers. We set out to write about AI, and ended up writing about ourselves. These documents are not meant to be aspirational ones; they are derived from how we do our work every day in honeycomb.
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