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The Tech Field Day News Rundown is a weekly look at the IT news of the week. Hosted by Tom Hollingsworth, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Enterprise technology headlines become practical conversations about architecture, security, AI guardrails, and the operational consequences behind vendor announcements.
Tech Field Day News Rundown turns a crowded batch of enterprise technology stories into brisk discussion. Tom Hollingsworth, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett host, with co-hosts sometimes changing, and the format moves from compact news summaries to pointed questions about…
Clam chowder day, then AI agent guardrails: Tom Hollingsworth has your Wednesday IT catch-up covered.
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A Claude Code oopsie opens a brisk, practical tour of AI data, containers, Linux networking, and bare-metal Kubernetes.
Anthropic's Claude Code oopsie gives this Tech Field Day Rundown a sharp opening, but the episode is less about one mishap than about AI's steady move into the infrastructure layer.
A brisk AI news roundup that ties IPO ambition to storage costs and supply pressure.
Tech Field Day News Rundown frames the AI boom as a financial and infrastructure stress test. Alistair Cook and Gina Rosenthal move from possible OpenAI and Anthropic public offerings to the cost of building superintelligence, including OpenAI's potential $121 billion computing…
A lively IT news roundup where agentic AI meets cloud spending, botnets, account access, and messy enterprise data.
AI urgency runs into the operational work required to support it in this Tech Field Day News Rundown, moving from StarCloud's $170 million raise and Cisco's push to protect AI agents to email attacks, botnets, and SAP's planned acquisition of Relteo.
A brisk IT roundup where SAP's AI pricing shift meets router policy and software supply-chain defense.
AI's arrival in enterprise software gives this PlayNext review its main tension. SAP, under Christian Klein, is shifting from per-user pricing toward charges tied to finished finance work or managed supply chains, while leaning on its business data as a way to compete with newer…
A loose but useful enterprise-tech scan centered on NVIDIA GTC, with Nutanix cast as the quiet contender.
NVIDIA GTC gives this PlayNext episode its main pull, as the Tech Field Day Rundown moves through AI-linked updates from Dell, CrowdStrike, and Nutanix before turning to Zscaler's broader data sovereignty work for global compliance.
A brisk look at how AI is shortening the gap between scanning and exploitation across enterprise infrastructure and security.
The episode keeps returning to the same pressure point: enterprise infrastructure and security are moving at once, with Dell, Cisco, VMware, and Check Point all in the frame.
Apple details, software habits, and everyday technical friction.
Jason Snell and Myke Hurley debate Apple's product roadmap, leadership, and rumors weekly.
Apple decisions, examined down to the window corner.
Tom Hollingsworth and Allister Cook cover seven enterprise IT and security stories in this February 18, 2026 Tech Field Day Rundown: Dell expands its private cloud portfolio to support Nutanix alongside VMware and Red Hat; AI-driven ransomware-as-a-service platforms are growing 30% per year with attackers automating up to 90% of intrusions; Cisco launches NFVIS for UC as a VMware alternative for collaboration workloads; Checkpoint unveils a prevention-first AI security strategy after acquiring Cyclops Security, Sciata, and Rotate; Google signs two 15-year solar PPAs totalling 1 GW in Texas to power AI data centers; Ukraine's 256th Cyber Assault Division used a fake Starlink registration service to geolocate and destroy Russian communications sites; and in the closer look, the open-source Claw Bands project attempts to add human-in-the-loop controls to the rapidly adopted OpenClaw agentic AI tool.
Tech Field Day News Rundown hosts Tom Hollingsworth and Alistair Cook examine Anthropic exposing roughly half a million lines of Claude Code after a packaging error.
Tech Field Day News Rundown examines OpenAI and Anthropic's potential public offerings alongside OpenAI's projected $121 billion computing spend and $1.5 billion loss by 2028.
Tom Hollingsworth and Alistair Cook examine StarCloud's $170 million plan for orbital data centers, including a proposed five-gigawatt system with four-square-kilometer solar panels.
Tech Field Day News Rundown examines SAP CEO Christian Klein’s shift toward charging for AI-completed tasks instead of software users.
A weekly roundup of IT news covering cloud, AI, and cybersecurity developments.
A weekly roundup of IT news covering security tools, AI developments, and tech industry updates.
Weekly roundup of IT news covering NVIDIA's investments, security flaws, and tech industry updates.
A weekly roundup of IT news covering AI, data centers, cloud services, and privacy regulations.
A weekly roundup of IT news covering topics like Atlassian's cloud migration, T-Mobile's Wi-Fi, and Salesforce's hack.
A weekly roundtable discussion of the latest IT news, including Docker's policy changes, Apple's AI push, and Cisco-NVIDIA networking.
The Gestalt IT Rundown on January 8, 2025 covers Anthropic's proposed $2 billion funding round and NVIDIA's CES Cosmos model trained on 20 million hours of video.
The Gestalt IT Rundown's December 18, 2024 special revisits Intel's leadership crisis, Broadcom's VMware changes, and HPE's proposed Juniper acquisition.
The Gestalt IT Rundown on May 22, 2024 connects Dell Tech World announcements with GitHub security flaws and Microsoft Copilot Plus PCs.