Research Curation Daemon

Curating and analyzing cross-cutting research across cloud computing, AI infrastructure, security, and emerging technologies.

Research Curation Daemon is a technology podcast hosted by Billy Glenn, with 72 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Billy Glenn hosts Research Curation Daemon, a technology show with 72 episodes published.

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  Episode #73

  Episode 073: FERC holds ComEd to $20B Joliet data center deal

  Sep 27, 202618 min

  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected Commonwealth Edison's bid to cancel a transmission security agreement underpinning the one-point-eight-gigawatt PowerHouse data center campus in Joliet, Illinois — a roughly twenty-billion-dollar development by Hillwood. The ruling, reported September twenty-third, signals that FERC will enforce large-load interconnection obligations rather than permit unilateral utility exits, arriving after the commission's June eighteenth show-cause orders to all six grid operators. Also this week, NIST released the initial public draft of SP 800-82 Revision 4 for OT security with a public comment window closing November thirtieth, and Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 carrying a CB-1 weapons classification and its strongest-ever disclosed cyber capabilities. Developers, utilities, and security teams all have concrete deadlines and regulatory signals to act on now.

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  Episode #72

  Episode 072: CERT Polska maps a 30-site energy intrusion in detail

  Sep 25, 202616 min

  Poland's national incident response team published a rare, technically granular account of a multi-stage cyberattack that began in December 2025 and compromised roughly thirty energy facilities, including renewable installations and a combined heat-and-power plant. Investigators traced a chain from VPN compromise through private APN abuse to OT network tunneling across segments many operators still treat as isolated — no threat actor was named. Also this week, AWS disclosed it cannot restore customer data from its Bahrain region or one UAE availability zone after war-related destruction of physical infrastructure, making cross-region replication a hard requirement rather than a best practice. U.S. battery storage additions are on track for a record 24 gigawatts in 2026, nearly double last year's pace. Energy defenders and cloud architects alike have concrete, specific findings to act on this week.

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  Episode #71

  Episode 071: Google Merges Wiz Into Agentic Defense Platform

  Sep 21, 202615 min

  Google Cloud's biggest announcement from Next '26 is Agentic Defense, a unified security platform combining Google Threat Intelligence, Google Security Operations, and the Wiz cloud security stack into a single offering — and the first tangible enterprise product to emerge from the Wiz acquisition. Alongside it, Cloud Fraud Defense launched to classify traffic by humans, bots, and AI agents, addressing the challenge of distinguishing authorized automation from adversarial automation. Separately, EU AI Act enforcement activated on August second with the AI Office already questioning dozens of companies, and the Electrum threat group struck roughly thirty distributed energy sites in Poland in a coordinated cyberattack. Security and compliance leaders have concrete decisions to act on this week.

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  Episode #70

  Episode 070: OpenAI Ships GPT-6 Astra and Flags Its Own Alignment Risks

  Sep 20, 202619 min

  OpenAI rolled out GPT-6 Astra on September 3 and 4, 2026, deploying a model it described as having "ethereal alien mind" qualities with AGI-like characteristics — while simultaneously cautioning about alignment challenges in its own release language. The launch was uneven enough that CEO Sam Altman issued a public apology after Pro and Plus subscribers could not access the model, and Forbes analyst Ron Schmelzer questioned whether limited access qualified as a real product launch. Elsewhere, PJM Interconnection proposed rules requiring data centers drawing 50 megawatts or more to bring dedicated generation capacity or face curtailment, and a cloud security index found 83 percent of surveyed AWS deployments had IAM policies that could allow privilege escalation. Enterprise teams evaluating any of these developments face concrete near-term decisions, not just horizon planning.

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  Episode #68

  Episode 068: AWS Steers Customers Off Classic Bedrock Agents

  Sep 7, 202619 min

  AWS has placed its original Bedrock Agents in maintenance mode and closed it to new customers, pushing organizations already running production workloads onto Bedrock AgentCore — a departure from the company's historic posture of near-permanent backward compatibility. AgentCore brings a unified runtime with memory, gateway, identity controls, and observability, on consumption-based pricing, but the migration signal means teams that built against classic Bedrock Agents now face a governance and testing program, not a routine update. Also this week, EU AI Act enforcement went live on August 2 with the AI Office empowered to impose fines up to three percent of global annual turnover, and roughly three gigawatts of data center load disconnected abruptly from PJM on July 22, producing a measurable voltage disturbance. Both stories carry direct operational implications for enterprises managing cloud infrastructure and power dependencies.

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