The CIO Authority
By The CIO Authority
Categories: Technology
The CIO Authority — news, opinions, IT leadership unfiltered. Real talk about running IT for a living: budgets that get cut without explanation, vendor contracts that bury what matters, breaches that make headlines and the boring failures that don't. New episodes Monday–Friday, hosted by an IT leader with 20+ years across enterprise and MSP roles. Full episodes on YouTube — audio here for your commute. For general informational purposes only — not professional, legal, financial, or IT/cybersecurity consulting advice. Opinions are the host's own, not any employer's.
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Recent episodes
- The CIO Authority: AI Wednesday, Wednesday November 11th 2026
AI Wednesday: Over 1,000 bugs patched in one day, Google ties AI to school Search, Australia weighs criminal penalties for unsafe AI, and Anthropic launches its IPO roadshow.More than 1,000 security bugs fixed in a single day. Thirty of them wormable. One Outlook flaw already exploited. Google is…
- The CIO Authority: November 3rd 2026, AI Tuesday
AI Tuesday: When connected operations get attacked, and AI gets wired into operations.2 a.m. Monday. Freezers at 50°C across Europe, from Stockholm to Brussels. A Belgian cyber official says AI can now be used to exploit these weaknesses. A Belarus-aligned group goes destructive in Ukraine. And…
- The CIO Authority — Sector Thursday (Employment): October 29, 2026
Apple finally put a touchscreen on a Mac. GitHub is adding four million CPU cores because AI is writing code faster than anyone can review it. An Anthropic engineer says the coding interview is dead. And the federal government just froze Microsoft's green card pipeline, the same week Microsoft…
- The CIO Authority — AI Tuesday: October 27, 2026
Microsoft just offered 60,000 people a way out. Anthropic just filed to go public. And an AI bot got itself a digital key nobody told it to get, and used it on a state website. Three stories, one question: who pays for AI, who profits from it, and who's watching what it does when no one's…
- The CIO Authority — Sector Thursday: October 22, 2026
Seventy percent of the web runs on one programming language. This week, researchers found a flaw in it that let a stranger run code on a server in seconds. Governments told organizations to consider taking sites offline. And an AI found it first. That's the good news. The bad news is the same AI…
- The CIO Authority: The Numbers, Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Eight TLS certificates with keys so weak they could mint trusted credentials for any website. A Google Cloud zone down for about eight hours. Meta keeping 11% of a GPU cluster idle on purpose. Today’s number: Certificate Inventory Coverage.The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8…
- The CIO Authority: AI Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Hackers heated French supermarket fridges to as much as 50C. A consulting firm says AI models it tested in a lab went from a network foothold to a moving robotic arm in minutes. Today we ask what AI does to the old, unpatched equipment nobody’s watching.Hackers force French supermarket fridges to…
- The CIO Authority: Seeing the Big Picture, Friday, October 9, 2026
The government says it’s suspending Microsoft from a permanent residency program. Google’s new agents can have their own email addresses. A drone took out a Russian cloud region. Apple has a touch-screen Mac on the way. The question underneath all of it: who does the work, and where does it run?US…
- The CIO Authority: Sector Spotlight, Thursday, October 8, 2026
Microsoft's agent demo found tax documents and emailed them to an accountant. AWS shipped a rule engine that limits what agents can do. A $6,000 box runs big models locally, and Anthropic cut small-model prices. Today's sector is professional services, and the question is whose files the agent is…
- The CIO Authority: The Numbers, Wednesday, October 7, 2026
A national ID register exposed, a critical Atlassian flaw, and KPMG's £100 offer to departing staff. Then we build out cost per accepted outcome, the AI number every IT team should be tracking.Denmark's ID register spills more people's details than the country has residentsPublication: The…
- The CIO Authority — Sector Spotlight: Thursday, October 1, 2026
A 16-year-old found a bug worth 17.3 trillion database rows. Microsoft's own cloud broke itself. Reddit killed RSS because of AI bots. Google released a model built for defenders. And the FCC just handed Starlink more spectrum aimed straight at rural America. Today we cover it all, then land on…
- The CIO Authority: Friday September 25th 2026
An AI agent autonomously hacked a government website. It took OpenAI weeks to say anything. Nobody's talking about that part 👇🏛️ Oracle just filed force majeure on its $500B-adjacent Stargate data center in New Mexico — even the marquee AI infrastructure bets aren't immune to permitting delays…
- The CIO Authority — The Numbers: Wednesday, September 16, 2026
The CIO Authority — The Numbers: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 🕵️ Iranian state hackers are running a sophisticated social-engineering campaign to plant "Chosen Brick" spyware on Windows devices. The FBI, UK's NCSC, and the Netherlands' AIVD jointly warned that Iranian operatives are messaging…
- The CIO Authority; News of the Day: Tuesday September 15th 2026
The CIO Authority — AI Tuesday September 15th, 2026 🌠 A cyberattack takes down the International Meteor Organization. The Belgium-based nonprofit — which coordinates meteor observations from amateur and professional astronomers worldwide — says a cyberattack dealt a serious blow to its aging…
- The CIO Authority: News of the Day; Monday September 14th, 2026
The CIO Authority — News of the Day: Friday, September 11, 2026 💰 Anthropic tells investors it's on track for a second straight profitable quarter. Building on the milestone reported earlier this year — its first-ever profitable quarter, on roughly $10.9 billion in revenue — Anthropic has…
- The CIO Authority — Seeing the Big Picture: Friday, September 11, 2026
🏥 AI as a Core Enterprise Capability: The Rise of the "Business Subconscious." Dr. Luis E. Taveras — Executive VP and Chief Digital & Information Officer at Jefferson Health, and author of The 90 Day CIO — argues AI is moving past being a tool employees consciously open and use, toward operating…
- The CIO Authority: News of the Day 9-10-2026
Today's rundown, plus a Sector Spotlight dive into K-12: 🤖 Gemini's "Daily Brief" rolls out to all eligible US users. Google's AI-generated morning digest — pulling from Gmail, Calendar, and past Gemini chats to surface what needs attention each day — is now available beyond the early access…
- The CIO Authority — News You Can Use: September 9, 2026
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