Below are the latest news stories from our industry, covering SAP, Salesforce, DevOps and CyberSecurity.
Industry News
SAP
- Damen Steers Toward Faster, Smarter Shipbuilding with SAP Business AIby Bettina Wunderle on July 20, 2026 at 11:15 am
The Netherlands-based, family-owned maritime group is charting a course toward a more intelligent, sustainable future.
- SAP Business AI: Release Highlights Q2 2026by Jonathan von Rueden on July 20, 2026 at 10:15 am
Every business wants to move faster, make better decisions, and empower its people to focus on what matters most.
Salesforce
- 2026 Holiday Predictions: A Unified Yet Fractured Journeyby Caila Schwartz on July 20, 2026 at 9:19 pm
Holiday retail planning used to follow a predictable playbook: Optimize the checkout funnel. Launch the campaigns. Stock the shelves. Brace for Cyber Week. But in today’s market, that playbook is obsolete. Data from…
- Slack Hacks for Founders: Stop the Meeting Madnessby Jenn Sei on July 20, 2026 at 1:00 pm
Having a meeting about a meeting? Try Slack.
AWS
- AWS Weekly Roundup: One-click Lambda setup prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Bedrock, and more (July 20, 2026)by Channy Yun (윤석찬) on July 20, 2026 at 4:37 pm
Last week, my team visited Seoul to meet AWS Korea User Group (AWSKRUG) leaders. AWSKRUG is the largest cloud developer community in Korea, with 20 meetup groups organized by topic and area that collectively host over 100 events each year, primarily in Seoul. My team regularly visits countries across the Asia-Pacific region, listens to feedback
- Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scaleby Esra Kayabali on July 13, 2026 at 6:13 pm
On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and
threatPost
- Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Recordsby Nate Nelson on August 31, 2022 at 12:57 pm
2.5 million people were affected, in a breach that could spell more trouble down the line.
- Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keyloggerby Nate Nelson on August 30, 2022 at 4:00 pm
Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.
DevOps
- Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunitiesby Mike Vizard on July 20, 2026 at 2:08 pm
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of
- xAI Open-Sources Grok Build Coding Agent After Cloud Upload Exposes SSH Keys, Reposby Tom Smith on July 20, 2026 at 8:29 am
xAI has published the full source code for Grok Build, its terminal-based AI coding agent, on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license. The release lands three days after a security researcher showed the tool quietly shipping entire developer repositories — SSH keys and password databases included — to a Google Cloud bucket xAI controls. The
Azure
- Azure Databricks delivers proven business valueby Jason Pereira and Anavi Nahar on July 15, 2026 at 3:00 pm
Microsoft Azure Databricks delivers the first-party advantage of Databricks on Microsoft—and for customers, that advantage shows up as real, measurable value. It is the same Databricks platform your teams already know, co-engineered with Microsoft and delivered as a native Azure service, so it fits naturally into the Microsoft tools, identity, and governance your organization already runs. The post Azure Databricks delivers proven business value appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
- Frontier models and production agents: Advancing Microsoft Foundry for the agentic eraby Tina Schuchman on July 9, 2026 at 5:00 pm
Introducing OpenAI's latest frontier model series, the Asia Pacific Data Zone, and product agent capabilities, all generally available in Microsoft Foundry. The post Frontier models and production agents: Advancing Microsoft Foundry for the agentic era appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.