Evan Schuman

Contributor

Evan Schuman has covered IT issues for a lot longer than he'll ever admit. The founding editor of retail technology site StorefrontBacktalk, he's been a columnist for CBSNews.com, RetailWeek, Computerworld, and eWeek, and his byline has appeared in titles ranging from BusinessWeek, VentureBeat, and Fortune to The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Detroit News, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Evan is a frequent contributor to CIO, CSO, Network World and InfoWorld.

Evan won a gold 2025 AZBEE award in the Enterprise News category for this story: Design flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out

He can be reached at eschuman@thecontentfirm.com and he can be followed on LinkedIn.

Articles by Evan Schuman

Nvidia releases Open Agent Safety Platform to monitor and govern agentic AI

Analysts applaud the controls, but point out that the vast majority of agent-generated problems are outside the scope of Nvidia’s offering, and it also creates vendor lock-in concerns.

By Evan Schuman

Sep 28, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Security

Hundreds of OpenAI agents attack RubyGems platform

By Evan Schuman

Sep 15, 2026 6 mins

Cyberattacks Cybercrime Ruby

What Nvidia’s $13B acquisition of Hugging Face means for AI model choice

By Evan Schuman

Sep 3, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development

Oracle simplifies migrating legacy databases off IBM mainframes with support for EBCDIC

Consultants say the functionality looks strong and it should be effective, but at the possible price of trading one vendor lock-in for another.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 29, 2026 6 mins

Databases Oracle Database Relational Databases

China’s trillion-parameter AI models may help enterprises with some applications

The speed and cost-effectiveness of the new extra-large language models from Alibaba and Moonshot make them attractive, but political and reliability issues are proving problematic.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 21, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Security

OpenClaw becomes a nonprofit foundation as it seeks to be ‘the Switzerland of AI’

Analysts and consultants applaud the move as potentially delivering the development consistency that the current offerings lack, but some worry that treating the company as neutral is a mistake.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 13, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

AI coding tool hole illustrates a big problem with human in the loop

The flaw, which impacted Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Cursor and others, let the agent give the human false information on which to make decisions.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 9, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Vulnerabilities

OpenAI to release delayed models Thursday amidst a sea of regulatory confusion

After the administration initially requested restriction of access to the models, a US government statement now says that no permission for their release was ever required.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 8, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI IT Strategy

AI agents fall for indirect prompt injection traps

Hidden instructions on websites con agents into falling for scams that a human would see through, says Zscaler.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 6, 2026 5 mins

Cybercrime Fraud Vulnerabilities

SpaceX’s planned $60 billion deal for Cursor raises questions for CIOs

Analysts differ on the likely impact, some arguing that the deal gives Cursor the compute expansion it needs, while others worry that Cursor’s trustworthiness could be threatened.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 16, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development