A startling announcement went out earlier this week: Due to recently discovered vulnerabilities in the open-source programming language PHP, website owners had to immediately patch their sites, or if they couldn’t update right away, they should take the sites down to be safe. Sean called this “a real reckoning moment” that highlights how “when you get down to the bone level of the internet,” everything seems to be “held together by glue and dreams.” And with widespread access to large language
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How to explain agentic AI to your leadership team, from Ashley Nicholson[1]:
It's not one, single tool. It's layers of capability.
Here are 5 levels that will determine who wins in 2026:
- Machine Learning:
- Turns data into decisions.
- Forecasts sales, detects fraud, and can predict churn.
- It can optimize pricing automatically.
- Tools: AWS SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, Azure ML.
- Neural Networks & Deep Learning:
- Complex pattern detection at scale.
- Inspects quality with computer vision.
- Powers v
Quorum Cyber has published its 2026 Global Cyber Risk Outlook report[1], detailing a significant evolution in cyber threats driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platforms. The analysis, based on incidents across more than 350 organizations worldwide in 2025, indicates that cybercrime has entered a more industrialized phase. This development allows even poorly skilled attackers to launch sophisticated operations, with nation-state actors automating up to 90%
