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NB597: Extreme Announces Autonomous AI Agent; Cisco Debuts OT Security Cert Oct 26, 2026

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Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert sounds for HPE wireless OS vulnerabilities and for serious vulnerabilities in PHP and node.js. Security alerts carry us into the news as Fortinet releases a tranche of software updates to address vulnerabilities the company discovered using frontier AI. Speaking of AI, Extreme Networks announces a new autonomous option... Read more »

NB596: Cisco, NVIDIA Plug New Optical Form Factor; TSMC Etches Another Record Quarter Oct 19, 2026

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Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert sounds for Nutanix Prism Gateway. Our news discussion covers a new pluggable optical form factor being pushed by Cisco and Nvidia, ORCA Computing launching a new quantum computer to run alongside GPUs, and New York University and New York City partnering to build a quantum fabrication facility in... Read more »

NB595: Arista Racks Up New AI Infrastructure Options; Arelion Expands Existing Fiber Optics Capacity Oct 13, 2026

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Take a Network Break! We startup with follow-up on global tech news coverage and pronunciations, then pivot to Red Alerts about Dell Container Storage and SonicWall. This week’s news includes a quantum networking controller prototype from Cisco, new rack-scale AI architecture options from Arista, and Cloudflare applying to become a Certificate Authority. Three country-level TLDs... Read more »

NB594: Visa Offers AI Security Software Free of Charge; Meta’s 1Pb Subsea Cable Puts Petal to the Metal Oct 05, 2026

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Take a Network Break! We discuss listener follow-up on orbital data centers, and hit the Red Alert for a string of Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities. Visa releases its homegrown agentic AI harness for finding and remediating vulnerabilities as open source software, a bad change borks Azure networking services in 19 regions around the world, and Gluware... Read more »

NB593: AI Agents Come for Your Network; Google to Send TPUs Into Orbit Sep 28, 2026

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Take a Network Break! We sound a red alert for active exploits against Check Point’s Secure Gateway. On the news front, a Cisco survey says 51% of organizations run agentic AI in production, Selector announces agentic AI additions to its AI network observability platform, and NetBrain rolls out new AI agents to evaluate changes and... Read more »

NB592: AWS Recommends UAE Migration; FCC Wants More Spectrum for Satellite Broadband Sep 21, 2026

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Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on Arista’s vulnerability reporting, and Cisco ISE takes center stage for our Red Alert. Then we dive into EVA Networks, a startup touting ephemeral network connectivity to minimize risks of persistent network access, why AWS is recommending customers relocate workloads away from its data centers in... Read more »

NB591: Altera Adds PQC to FPGAs; Europe Spend Billions to Boost Satellite Broadband Sep 14, 2026

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Take a Network Break! Ivanti takes center stage with a red alert on four critical CVEs in its Neuron platform, and MikroTik also gets a mention for an actively exploited flaw in its OS. On the news front, BackBox announces new AI capabilities for its OS backup and config management platform, Amazon selects from Qualcomm’s... Read more »

NB590: Blue Origin Wins NASA Bid for Mars Telecoms; Fortinet Offers High School Hackers Curriculum Sep 08, 2026

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Take a Network Break! We begin with follow-up on the Cisco/Teleport deal and Chinese models on US public clouds. Our Red Alert warns of two critical vulnerabilities in HPE’s Aruba Networking Fabric Composer, and we offer a quick heads-up on OpenAI and Anthropic outages and forthcoming security disclosures from Arista. On the news front, Broadcom... Read more »

NB589: OpenAI Makes Cyber Mess, Wants World to Clean It Up; Cisco Strategizes Infrastructure Identity Aug 31, 2026

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Take a Network Break! We start with listener followup about how Device Bound Session Credentials could thwart session cookie theft, and then highlight a string of critical vulnerabilities in IBM’s AIX. On the news front, Nvidia has reportedly bought Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, Nvidia and AWS team up on GPUs and physical AI, and... Read more »

NB588: Active Threats Target Siemens PLCs; IBM Chills Qubits With Modular Cryogenics Aug 24, 2026

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Take a Network Break! It’s a Red Alert double feature for Oracle’s Internet Directory LDAP server and Cisco’s Secure Workload Software. In tech news, US law enforcement and intelligence agencies release a joint advisory warning of active threats against Siemens PLCs, Marvell wins a deal to make chips for Google that could bring billions in... Read more »

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