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hard drive reliability check
A hard drive reliability check on 341,263 drives, from 4TB to past 20TB

Large cloud storage operators track their hard drives every day, recording which units keep running and which ones drop off the racks. Backblaze does this at scale, and its Q1 …

Infosec products of the week
New infosec products of the week: July 17, 2026

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Cloudflare, Lineation.ai, Nudge Security, and Polygraf AI. Polygraf AI Meeting Guard …

Windows
Microsoft makes Windows SSO prompts easier to manage

Microsoft is introducing a new registry-based policy that lets IT administrators automatically accept Windows SSO permissions on Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 devices …

Visual Studio Code
VS Code agent host runs Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process

Developers who lean on AI coding agents often keep several editor windows open at once, each tied to its own session. The 1.129 release of Visual Studio Code reworks that …

email
Finance phishing works because it sounds boringly normal

Finance departments process a constant stream of invoices, contracts, payment notices, and procurement emails, making email one of the most common initial access vectors for …

AWS
AWS retools Security Hub for AI and multicloud threats

AWS added AI workload protection and Microsoft Azure security monitoring to Security Hub, its centralized security platform for collecting and prioritizing security findings …

FreeRDP
FreeRDP 3.29.0 security update resolves 22 advisories

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol, released under the Apache license, and it runs on a large share of workstations and servers through the many …

Strike Graph Trust Chain
Product showcase: Trust Chain TPRM turns vendor compliance evidence into verified assurance

Trust Chain is an AI-native third-party risk management (TPRM) solution by Strike Graph that replaces the security questionnaire model with validated evidence of compliance. …

SingGuard-NSFA
SingGuard-NSFA: Open-source guardrails for agentic AI

SingGuard-NSFA is an open-source guardrail framework aimed at operational threats in agent workflows. Four models ship at 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters, all built on Qwen3.5 …

Robot
An AI overthinking attack can tie a robot up for over a minute

Robots that read the world through cameras now lean on large vision-language models to interpret what they see and decide what to do next. These models handle images and text …

AI
AI used to help plan the break-in, now it’s doing the break-in

Over the past twelve months, researchers documented intrusions in which AI ran exploitation workflows autonomously, generating thousands of commands across dozens of sessions …

Tines The ultimate guide to network operations management
Download: The ultimate guide to network operations management

Modern network operations are too manual. Today’s IT and security teams are managing growing complexity across networks, infrastructure, tools, and workflows. The result? …

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