Explore weekly curated summaries and expert analyses highlighting the latest trends in cloud technology.

  • What Backblaze’s Q2 2026 drive stats say about buying big hard drives

    The quarter in numbers Backblaze published its Q2 2026 Drive Stats report on September 29, and the headline number moved the wrong way. The quarterly annualized failure rate hit 1.73%, up from 1.24% in Q1 and the highest the report has shown in a while. The lifetime figure barely budged, ticking up to 1.41% across…

  • NetScaler zero-days: check for compromise before you patch

    Two zero-days, already exploited, patch available Citrix NetScaler appliances are under active attack through two critical vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild before any patch existed. Citrix disclosed eight vulnerabilities on September 27 in bulletin CTX697096. The two headline flaws, CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772, both score 9.5 on the CVSS v4 scale and both lead…

  • SQL Server on Azure Local now runs without a cloud connection

    SQL Server, no internet required SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available in disconnected environments, per Microsoft’s September 29 update. The capability extends SQL Server support to Azure Local disconnected operations, where instances run with no connection to the Azure public cloud. Until now, running SQL Server on Azure Local assumed you could…

  • Jeff fine-tunes tiny models to make decisions in one forward pass

    Most LLM calls in production are not conversations. They are routing decisions: which support queue does this ticket belong in, is this comment abusive, which intent did the user just express. A new open-source project called Jeff targets exactly that workload with fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 (0.8B and 2B) and Gemma 4 E2B that return a…

  • Azure SQL Dev Hub opens one front door for building against Azure SQL

    Building an app against Azure SQL has always involved a small scavenger hunt: which service tier fits your workload, which connection library your language wants, which quickstart actually applies. Microsoft’s new Azure SQL Dev Hub, announced in public preview, tries to collapse that hunt into a single starting point in the Azure portal. Per the…

  • 80,000 organizations had AI logins stolen, and session cookies are the real problem

    SOCRadar’s AI Identity Exposure Report, covered by BleepingComputer, puts a number on something security teams have been quietly dreading: infostealer logs now contain employee logins for AI platforms at serious scale. More than a million records tied to AI services span over 80,000 corporate domains. The researchers narrowed that set to 482 major enterprises and…

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