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Why Was an OpenAI Engineer Hiding a Recording Device?

Oct 21, 2026 By Harness In Harness
An OpenAI engineer was arrested after a hidden recording device was discovered inside an executive conference room. Who was he trying to record, and who was the information intended for? Martin Reynolds and Adam Arellano break down one of the strangest AI security stories of the year, along with three major cybersecurity headlines. Microsoft just released more than 1,400 security fixes in a record-breaking Patch Tuesday. Is AI finding vulnerabilities faster than companies can actually fix them?
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Why 76% of AI agent pilots stall, and how your Agentic ITOps pilot can avoid the same fate

Oct 21, 2026 By Sam Osborn In BigPanda
The debate is no longer whether AI belongs in ITOps; it’s about how quickly it can be implemented, how to measure it, and who’s accountable when it acts. And although IT leaders across industries are scrambling to integrate agentic AI into their operations, those deployments are facing serious challenges. A new Harris Poll survey of more than 300 U.S. data and AI decision-makers puts a number on the problem.
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CertKit now has 86 built-in deployment templates

Oct 21, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In CertKit
There are lots of ways to get a certificate. Getting it onto your Cisco ISE, IBM i, or WatchGuard VPN is the hard part. We keep making that easier. Since July, CertKit has added 51 new deployment templates, more than doubling the library to 86. Each platform has a built-in deployment template, and most have a deployment guide for the setup details. Setup is just picking a certificate and setting a few variables.
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Monitoring the Monitor: When One of Our Uptime Vendors Went Quiet for 27 Hours

Oct 21, 2026 By Matt Rideout In DNS Check
DNS Check watches its own infrastructure with several layers of monitoring, including DNS Check itself and third-party uptime monitoring services. One of those vendors polls a private health endpoint on our servers every five minutes, from probes around the world. That endpoint runs a set of internal checks (disk space, mail delivery, background job queues, DNS resolvers, and more) and returns an error if any of them fail. If it errors or stops responding, the vendor alerts us.
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Cloud Outage Tracker: Major AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Cloudflare Outages Since 2020

Oct 21, 2026 By Noah Grinstein In Control Plane
Last updated: October 21, 2026. This tracker lists every major AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Cloudflare outage since January 2020, with each provider’s own stated duration, root cause, and source. It covers 62 major incidents. The median outage lasted 6h 12m, and the most common cause was a configuration or deployment change (20 of 62, 32%), not hardware failure. We add new incidents as providers publish their post-incident reports. Control Plane publishes this tracker.
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How to Let AI Agents Operate Production Infrastructure Safely

Oct 21, 2026 By Noah Grinstein In Control Plane
Yes, it can be safe to let an AI agent change production infrastructure, if the agent works through the same controls you would demand of a new engineer: scoped permissions, short-lived credentials, a tamper-proof audit trail, changes that roll out gradually behind health checks, and a fast rollback. The infrastructure also has to be built so that one bad change cannot take everything down.
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