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Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google monitors AI threats and advances AI defenses

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Sandra Joyce shares the latest details on Google’s visibility into how attackers are using AI, and how we’re using AI to stop them. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website and you’d like to receive the email version, you can subscribe here. aside_block <ListValue: [StructValue([('title', 'Get vital board insights

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M4N VM family, now GA: Highest per-core IOPS and throughput for I/O and memory-bound workloads

As enterprise organizations scale mission-critical applications, storage I/O and memory access can become severe operational bottlenecks. Whether its Oracle databases, in-memory databases like SAP HANA, or high-throughput SQL Server clusters, EHR systems, and real-time big data analytics, memory-bound databases often force enterprises to over-provision compute cores (vCPUs) to get the RAM capacity and storage bandwidth they need, driving up costly third-party software licensing fees. Today, we a

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Google Cloud Blog

How Orange built FinOps accountability, and why agents are next

At Orange, the leading France-based multinational telecom provider, there are days when engineering teams set aside their delivery backlogs and spend the day cleaning up cloud spend together. There's a leaderboard. There are goodies on the line. Experienced practitioners guide the newcomers, so people learn the work while doing it. By the end of the day, sponsors can see the results. Orange calls these FinOps Clean Days. Together with gamified hackathons, they've earned the company's 100-plus pe

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Android Developers Blog

Android Bench 2.0: Pushing the frontier with challenging long-horizon tasks

Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP, Product Management, Android Developer When we first launched Android Bench, we built a rigorous foundation for evaluating how large language models (LLMs) assist developers with real-world Android tasks. As AI models and agents rapidly evolve, we’ve been updating our methodology, such as aligning our benchmark framework with the Harbor framework. Today we’re releasing the first set of long-horizon tasks (LHT), which are tasks of great complexity that take

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The Hacker News

Attackers Exploit Issabel Framework Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated OS Command Execution

A critical security flaw in Issabel Framework, a web-based framework for the open-source unified communications PBX software, has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-89026 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4.0 score: 9.3), which can allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary operating system (OS) commands by taking advantage of a hard-coded

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Optimizing agent system prompts with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AgentCore optimization turns production traces into proposed configuration changes, then validates them before promotion. This technical companion to the launch post explains how the system prompt optimizer's reflector engine works and shares benchmark results for the Single Agent and Sub-Agent Reflectors.

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