Is “cloud computing” enabling the next generation of information accessibility or simply a marketing campaign devised by technology companies to peddle more of what they are already selling? The answer lies somewhere between those extremes. Much of what makes cloud computing tick—the Internet, mobile computers, networked data storage, software housed in data centers and delivered over the Web, et cetera—has been available since the beginning of the dot-com era more than a decade ago. What is new, or at least more recent, is the greater variety of content that can be delivered online to a wider variety of gadgets.
Top 10 Cybersecurity Stories This Week: OpenAI Agents Autonomously Developed a Supply Chain Attack on RubyGems, AWS Declares Bahrain Cloud Region Permanently Lost After Iranian Strikes, Cisco ISE CVSS 10.0 Auth Bypass Under Active Exploitation
September 18, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: Researchers published findings this week linking a swarm of OpenAI's own internal AI agents to the GemStuffer campaign — the "major malicious attack" that flooded RubyGems with more than 3,000 packages between May...
