November 12, 2026

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In today’s edition:

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🏥 Patched up

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—Caroline Nihill, Eoin Higgins

SOFTWARE

Do we vibe?

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Let’s say you spend days vibe-coding a software tool. You prompt the code, tweak the features, incorporate feedback from your audience, and, finally, figure out how to launch it into the wild.

But do you actually own the result? For development teams everywhere, the rise of vibe coding has led to intense conversations around copyright and ownership.

Adam Aft, global head of tech transactions at law firm Baker McKenzie, told IT Brew that current copyright law does require some amount of human contribution and authorship to give a work copyright protection. That means companies using AI tools to code need to have a discussion about some key points.

“One of which is copyright authorship, documentation of authorship, and how they’re thinking holistically about protecting the output from AI and protecting what they are using, inventing, and creating as their proprietary technology,” Aft said.

Checking in.—CN

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IT OPERATIONS

Patch 22

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Niv Bavarsky

The life of an IT pro is filled with problems to fix—and sometimes prioritizing which one to tackle first can present complicated challenges.

When OpenAI researchers in October reported they had discovered a vulnerability in open-source scripting language PHP, which powers around 70% of the world’s websites, panic set in across the globe.

To its credit, PHP Foundation quickly pushed out a patch for the vulnerability, which went undetected since 2014. But some organizations, including federal agencies, have been slow to put the patch in place.

Put ’em on.—EH

SNAP POLL

Does your organization think we’re going to see “thinking” AI (i.e., artificial general intelligence) within the next year?

🤖 Yes
💥 No

IT STRATEGY

More with less

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IT teams everywhere face a cascade of challenges, from ransomware attacks, to rogue agents, to building out infrastructure to meet business objectives. For those teams with only a handful of people (and often limited resources), the challenges are that much harder.

How can small IT teams do more with far less than larger companies?

Mark Christie, field CTO in a five-person IT department for StorMagic, told IT Brew that he believes “every business must be experiencing some level of stretch and transition at the moment,” which Christie attributed to rising costs of both hardware and software.

Line goes up.—CN

patch notes

Francis Scialabba

Today’s top IT reads.

Stat: $1.4 trillion. That’s Anthropic’s target valuation as the AI behemoth prepares to go public. (the New York Times)

Quote: “People are getting rich off of this.”—Matthew Lenhard, Vectoral co-founder, on token hacking (the Wall Street Journal)

Read: Tackling the AI safety debate with 10 experts. (Wired)

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