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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
GitHub Logged Six Outages in June as AI Traffic Strained Its Platform
GitHub's own availability report shows six service incidents in June 2026 tied to AI-driven load, the same month Google Cloud's doubled peering egress prices took full effect on enterprise bills.
Bhavika J
FTC's Child-Privacy Deadline Meets Trade Desk's Push Into Curated Deals
A federal deadline requiring separate consent before children's data reaches ad-tech partners collided this spring with The Trade Desk's push toward pre-negotiated, API-managed ad buys, and both changes push marketing teams toward the same fix: fewer black-box data flows, more documented ones.
Bhavika J
Ivanti Sentry Hit by Two Max-Severity Flaws, One Exploited Within a Day
Ivanti disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in its Sentry gateway on June 9, 2026, and CISA added one to its known-exploited list within 48 hours after evidence of active attacks.
Bhavika J
OpenAI Files Confidential IPO Paperwork, Following Anthropic by a Week
OpenAI confidentially filed IPO paperwork with the SEC on June 8, one week after Anthropic did the same, moving both companies from record-setting private funding rounds toward public markets.
Bhavika J
Thoma Bravo's C$650 Million Kneat Deal Tests a Locked-In Buyer Base
Thoma Bravo's agreement to take life sciences validation software maker Kneat private for roughly C$650 million shows what happens when a mission-critical, hard-to-switch SaaS vendor changes ownership.
Bhavika J
Retailers Are Frontloading Imports While Refusing to Restock
Import volumes into US ports rose again in June 2026 as retailers raced ahead of new tariffs, even as the same retailers kept inventory levels lean rather than rebuilding stock, a split that says more about where retail tech spending is headed than either number alone.
Bhavika J
Dynamic Discounting: How Buyers Turn Early Payment Into Yield
A look at how dynamic discounting lets companies use their own cash to pay suppliers early for a return, how it differs from bank-funded supply chain finance, and what to check before adopting it.
Bhavika J
Uncovr Raises $7M Seed to Automate Surgical Documentation
Uncovr closed a $7 million seed round led by Index Ventures to build software that drafts operative reports and billing codes from surgical video before the surgeon leaves the room.
Bhavika J
H-1B's New Wage-Weighted Lottery Just Ran Its First Cycle
USCIS completed the first H-1B lottery under its wage-weighted selection rule in March 2026, and talent teams are now filing petitions through a June 30 deadline while a separate lawsuit over the program's $100,000 fee remains unresolved.
Bhavika J
Why Voice AI Latency Is the Metric That Predicts Hang-Ups
Contact centers keep buying voice AI on how human it sounds, but the number that actually determines whether a caller stays on the line is a latency measurement most vendors don't publish.
Bhavika J
Stablecoins Go Mainstream at Money20/20 as RBI Holds Rates on Oil Shock
Money20/20 Europe produced a wave of stablecoin and embedded finance launches in Amsterdam this week, while India's central bank held rates steady and turned more cautious on growth as a West Asia oil shock works through its lending market.
Bhavika J
MotherDuck Quietly Rewrote Its Pricing for the DuckDB Era
MotherDuck rebuilt its pricing page with no announcement, a small signal of a bigger shift as DuckDB moves from a developer tool into a genuine, cheaper alternative to parts of the cloud warehouse.
Bhavika J