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For years, buying software meant trusting the vendor. The Cyber Resilience Act changes that relationship by codifying what vendors must do – auditing dependencies, confirming exploitable vulnerabilities, and enforcing security best practices – as legal obligations, not internal choices. For customers, that means software safety is no longer a matter of brand reputation. For vendors, it means governance gaps that were once internal concerns are now deal blockers.

In this episode, Leon explores some of the new features, functions, updates, and improvements in release 4.19, which includes a raft of AI-enabled features including the Cribl Apps, integrated MCP server, and the fact that AI features are now turned on by default. For more information, check out these links.

Data brokers have built profiles on you for years and sold them downstream, all without paying you a cent. This Tech in a Minute video looks at companies flipping that, actually paying people to track their own browsing. For more tech insights like this, visit ManageEngine Insights now.

On this episode of Masters of Data, we unpack what it actually means to expect AI to be the primary interface for everything we do. We dig into the pull toward centralizing work in a single hub like Claude versus staying spread across specialized tools like Slack, Asana and Zoom, and where the line sits between helpful automation and letting an agent speak on your behalf. We also get into the "chief of staff" agent workflow for daily roundups and why specialized, best-of-breed tools aren't going anywhere, even as hubs get smarter.

Webflow CEO Linda Tong pushes back on the narrative everyone’s been repeating this year.

Learn how to get instant observability into your Kubernetes cluster by installing the Speedscale operator and proxymock tool. In this step-by-step tutorial, we walk you through setting up the operator to capture live network traffic (including encrypted traffic, API calls, and database calls) without complex instrumentation or manual configuration.

Since Playwright 1.59, the new "trace" command makes your test traces fully accessible in the terminal. All plain text, and your agent will love it. And if you're running Playwright with Checkly, our AI agent, Rocky, already reads your traces and delivers root-cause analysis before you even start digging.

Vulnerability scanners tell you what's wrong with what you already pulled. They don't stop a malicious package from entering your environment in the first place. A private registry with minimum release age policies adds that missing layer – packages newer than two or three days don't reach developers until the industry has had time to identify and remove malicious ones from public registries. Active campaigns like TeamPCP are targeting npm, PyPI, and Maven Central right now. The gate has to come before the scan. Cloudsmith provides that gate.

Connect Spike to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible tool and manage incidents through natural language. Ask your AI what's critical. Tell it to acknowledge an outage. Have it build an on-call schedule. Spike is now wherever you work.

Coming into IT leadership can be a drastic change, with a multitude of different responsibilities, new skills to learn, and a whole organization looking to you to make decisions on the kind of technology that will keep them running. Unfortunately, it also means that even though you’re the most connected person in the company, you can also be the loneliest. IT leaders face unique issues that other leaders in the organization don’t.