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IT SPARC Cast

John Barger

IT SPARC Cast is a digest of the Enterprise IT news over the last week, with insights, opinions, and a little sarcasm from 2 experts each with over 20 years of experience working in IT or for IT vendors.

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In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – News Bytes, John Barger & Lou Schmidt unpack three stories that expose the real friction points in enterprise IT: AI ethics in defense contracts, looming hardware shortages, and data governance risks in Microsoft Co... more

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – CVE of the Week, John Barger and Lou Schmidt examine a critical Apple security vulnerability patched in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS 26.3.

The focus: CVE-2026-20700, a memory corruption flaw in A... more

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – News Bytes, John Barger & Lou Schmidt break down a week where enterprise IT collided with energy policy, nuclear power, and outer space. UniFi Network 10.1 pushes further into enterprise territory with improved scal... more

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – CVE of the Week, John Barger and Lou Schmidt break down a shocking vulnerability: CVE-2026-2841, a Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw in the modern Windows 11 Notepad application distributed via the Microsoft Store.

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In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – News Bytes, John Barger and Lou Schmidt explore three stories reshaping enterprise IT strategy. From a quantum cooling breakthrough that could accelerate real-world quantum computing, to Oracle’s plan to raise $50 b... more

Agentic AI systems like OpenClaw represent the future of automation, productivity, and intelligent workflows — but today, they also represent a serious and underappreciated enterprise security risk.

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – CVE of the Week... more

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – News Bytes, John Barger & Lou Schmidt break down three stories that reveal how enterprise IT is being reshaped by workforce realities, infrastructure constraints, and custom silicon. From mounting evidence that work... more

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – CVE of the Week, John Barger and Lou Schmidt break format to examine two high-impact security and privacy stories that every enterprise IT and security leader should be paying attention to.

First, we dive into a ne... more

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