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Online Scams Overtake Phishing: Akamai Report

A new report from Akamai, featuring threat intelligence from Bolster AI, reveals that online scams have surpassed traditional phishing in detected volume for the first time. Between July 2025 and June 2026, scam detections doubled from 3.2 million to 6.4 million, while the average phishing attack lifespan dropped from 48.3 days in Q4 2025 to 22 days in Q2 2026, a decline of over 50%. Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting brand trust to commit financial fraud through counterfeit storefronts, investment scams, and payment fraud across websites, social media, and advertisements. The report underscores the need for connected threat detection and disruption of coordinated fraud infrastructure.

• Online scam detections surpassed phishing for the first time in Q1 2026.
• Scam detections doubled from 3.2 million to 6.4 million in the reporting period.
• Average phishing attack lifespan fell from 48.3 days (Q4 2025) to 22 days (Q2 2026).

Akamai Technologies To Hold Third Quarter 2026 Investor Conference Call

Akamai Technologies announced today that the company will hold a conference call for investors on November 5.

a16z Leads Series A in Private Network Startup doxxnet

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced it is leading a Series A investment in doxxnet, a startup building a private, parallel internet infrastructure for individuals and AI agents. doxxnet offers a software-defined global network with non-Internet domains, encrypted peer-to-peer communication, and DNS-level threat protection, all without requiring personal information like email or phone. The company is founded by Barrett Lyon, known for Prolexic (acquired by Akamai), BitGravity, and Defense.net. The funding will support the development of its 'Agentic Defined Networking' concept, which allows users and their agents to configure and control the network. The announcement highlights growing privacy needs driven by AI agents that operate with access to user data.

• a16z is leading a Series A investment in doxxnet.
• doxxnet provides a private, parallel internet infrastructure for users and AI agents.
• doxxnet was founded by Barrett Lyon, who previously founded Prolexic, BitGravity, and Defense.net.

Canonical announces Zephyr 26.04 LTS, delivering up to 15 years of support for MCU-grade devices

Canonical today announced the upcoming release of Zephyr 26.04 LTS, an enterprise distribution providing a trusted Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) to solve critical Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance and developer experience challenges. Also announced: Ubuntu coming soon to Snapdragon X2 Series platforms, and a new kernel release strategy for faster CVE fixes.

Migrate Cloud TPU API Workloads to Compute Engine

This technical migration guide explains moving TPU workloads from Google Cloud's deprecated Cloud TPU API to Compute Engine instances. The Cloud TPU API is no longer under active development and future TPU hardware generations (starting with TPU7x) are supported only through Compute Engine or Google Kubernetes Engine. Migration requires flag and command mapping (e.g., accelerator-type -> machine-type, tpu-vm ssh -> compute ssh), checking different quota metrics (preemptible vs family quota) and provisioning models (FLEX_START, SPOT, STANDARD, RESERVATION_BOUND), and adjusting startup scripts and images (some Compute Engine accelerator images lack tools like docker). The guide documents practical troubleshooting: using SPOT to probe capacity, checking both quota metrics via the Cloud Quotas API, handling silent failures where RUNNING != ready, and other pitfalls encountered during real migrations.

• Google's Cloud TPU API is no longer under active development; new hardware generations starting with TPU7x are supported only via Compute Engine or GKE.
• Compute Engine uses different flags and flows (e.g., --machine-type=ct6e-standard-1t, --image-family, --request-valid-for-duration, --provisioning-model=FLEX_START) compared with the Cloud TPU API.
• Flex-start provisioning on Compute Engine consumes preemptible quota (PREEMPTIBLE-TPU-V6E-per-project-region) and falls back to the family quota; quota and capacity are separate and reported by different APIs.