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By Greg Nowak , 26 July, 2026

Shorter TLS certificates expose every renewal you never automated

Shorter TLS lifetimes leave less room for manual handoffs and faulty deploy hooks. Build a renewal path that protects service availability.

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By Greg Nowak , 20 June, 2026

Shorter TLS Certificates Make Renewal Monitoring a Server Job

Public TLS lifetimes are moving from 200 days toward 47. Manual renewal is now a reliability risk across ACME, reloads, monitoring, and rollback.

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By Greg Nowak , 16 May, 2026

Let's Encrypt Profiles Put Renewal Assumptions Under the Microscope

Let's Encrypt's May 2026 profile rollout left classic certificates at 90 days, but made ACME profile choice, challenge paths, hooks, and monitoring harder to ignore.

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By Greg Nowak , 15 May, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Raises the TLS Floor: How to Test Legacy Integrations

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS retires legacy TLS defaults. Learn how to inventory dependencies, test certificates and stage a rollback-ready upgrade.

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Illustrated infographic summarizing: Should publishers add Google’s new Preferred Sources button?

Should publishers add Google’s new Preferred Sources button?

2026-08-24

Google’s Preferred Sources button is worth a controlled test for eligible publishers, with careful choices around placement, performance and measurement.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Search Console Can See TikTok Now. Your Reporting Has to Catch Up

Search Console Can See TikTok Now. Your Reporting Has to Catch Up

2026-08-23

Google can now report how social profiles appear in Search. Here is how to measure cross-channel discovery without mistaking visibility for business results.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Your AI workflow has logs. Can they explain one bad decision?

Your AI workflow has logs. Can they explain one bad decision?

2026-08-22

Logs can show that every service worked while leaving a bad AI decision unexplained. See how connected traces and careful redaction close the gap.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Security Questionnaires Eat Into Selling Time—Let AI Find the Evidence

Security Questionnaires Eat Into Selling Time—Let AI Find the Evidence

2026-08-21

NIS 2 is generating more supplier questionnaires. A controlled AI assistant can find approved answers and sources—and route uncertain cases for review.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Locked out of your Apple developer account? Fix it before October 1

Locked out of your Apple developer account? Fix it before October 1

2026-08-20

Apple's updated developer agreement must be accepted by October 1, 2026, and many small app owners cannot even log in. Here is where Apple's two-factor codes really go, and how to fix your access before the deadline.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Cloudflare Workflows Now Charges by the Step—Price the Outcome

Cloudflare Workflows Now Charges by the Step—Price the Outcome

2026-08-20

Cloudflare Workflows now bills paid plans for steps and stored state. Here is how to track cost per completed outcome without weakening reliability.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Google’s AI Search Toggle Is a Publishing Decision, Not an SEO Setting

Google’s AI Search Toggle Is a Publishing Decision, Not an SEO Setting

2026-08-19

Google’s AI Search toggle forces a commercial choice about visibility, attribution and content use. Here’s how to make that choice responsibly.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: From Supplier Invoice to Bookkeeping: AI with a Control Checkpoint

From Supplier Invoice to Bookkeeping: AI with a Control Checkpoint

2026-08-18

AI can reduce the work involved in processing supplier invoices, but reliable bookkeeping requires validation, duplicate checks, approval and a clear audit trail.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: Nginx 1.30 Changed the Upstream Defaults—Test Before You Upgrade

Nginx 1.30 Changed the Upstream Defaults—Test Before You Upgrade

2026-08-17

Nginx 1.30 defaults upstream proxying to HTTP/1.1 with keepalive enabled. Here is what to inspect, model and test before upgrading.

Illustrated infographic summarizing: OpenAI’s Assistants API Shuts Down in Ten Days. Is Your App Ready?

OpenAI’s Assistants API Shuts Down in Ten Days. Is Your App Ready?

2026-08-16

OpenAI’s Assistants API shuts down on August 26, 2026. Learn what to inventory, how to preserve state and how to cut over without breaking the product.