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Go from resource-level to business-level maintenance in Google Cloud

Managing planned maintenance is a critical part of running a reliable business. But as your cloud footprint grows into hundreds or even thousands of projects, keeping track of every individual update can feel like a full-time job. For many platform teams, the reality is a disjointed experience: jumping between dashboards to figure out which maintenance event affects which business service. At Google Cloud, we believe you shouldn’t have to think like an infrastructure manager when you’re trying t

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Agentic AI Isn't Risky; the Way Orgs Deploy It Is

AI agents aren't black boxes — they're models interacting with software tools. The risk lies in their overlap.

Threat Actors Exploit Critical FortiClient EMS Flaw to Deploy Credential Stealer

Threat actors are continuing to exploit a critical, now-patched security flaw impacting FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (EMS) deployments to deliver credential-stealing malware. "The campaign abused trusted endpoint management infrastructure to deliver malware across managed endpoints," Arctic Wolf said. "Threat actors disguised the credential stealer payload as a Fortinet endpoint

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Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents

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AI Paradigm Shift: Analytics Without SQL

The idea of “asking data questions in plain English” has been around for a while, but most implementations never made it into production in a serious way. The usual reason is not the language model itself but everything around it: security boundaries, schema ambiguity, cost control, and the fact that analytics systems are rarely clean enough for unconstrained natural language to work reliably. What has changed in the last couple of years is not that natural language is suddenly perfect, but that