Enterprise Technology News and Analysis
- Codeberg beset by AI bots that now bypass Anubis tarpitby Thomas Claburn on August 15, 2025 at 11:48 pm
Nowhere to hide Codeberg, a Berlin-based code hosting community, is struggling to cope with a deluge of AI bots that can now bypass previously effective defenses.…
- Oracle cuts cloud jobs with Seattle hit hard as AI spending soarsby Thomas Claburn on August 15, 2025 at 10:17 pm
AI will take your salary in capex before it can take your job Oracle issued layoff notices for more than 300 people in Washington State and California this week, according to state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filings in those states.…
- Typhoon-adjacent Chinese crew broke into Taiwanese web hostby Jessica Lyons on August 15, 2025 at 9:47 pm
Is that a JuicyPotato on your network? A suspected Chinese-government-backed cyber crew recently broke into a Taiwanese web hosting provider to steal credentials and plant backdoors for long-term access, using a mix of open-source and custom software tools, Cisco Talos reports.…
- No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockersby Thomas Claburn on August 15, 2025 at 8:31 pm
Could tinkering with a site’s code to hide ads count as infringement? A recent ruling by the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has reopened the possibility that using ad blocking software could violate copyright law in Germany.…
- Ethernet switch vendors like Cisco are riding high on AI network economicsby Tobias Mann on August 15, 2025 at 7:30 pm
When one GPU translates into three to five of the fastest switch ports money can buy, can you blame them? Nvidia is expected to ship somewhere north of 5 million Blackwell GPUs in 2025. But before those GPUs can train the next GPT, Gemini, or Llama, they need to be networked — and that's quickly becoming big business for Ethernet switch vendors like Cisco, Arista, HPE ... and Nvidia itself.…
- Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clashby Liam Proven on August 15, 2025 at 7:00 pm
A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway comment The first release candidate of Linux 6.17 is out, without any bcachefs changes… but not for any technical reasons. This is bad.…
- Cisco's Secure Firewall Management Center now not-so secure, springs a CVSS 10 RCE holeby Jessica Lyons on August 15, 2025 at 5:37 pm
Switchzilla's summer of perfect 10s Cisco has issued a patch for a maximum-severity bug in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands on vulnerable systems.…
- Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon?by Richard Speed on August 15, 2025 at 3:53 pm
You have until Thursday August 21 to respond if you do NASA's plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon have moved on – the agency has now put out a Request For Information (RFI) to gauge industry interest in the project.…
- Boy riding bubble realizes what he's on, asks for more airby Brandon Vigliarolo on August 15, 2025 at 2:57 pm
Sam Altman, busily planning to spend "trillions" more on datacenters, admitted yesterday that AI is a bit inflated Sam Altman admitted we're in the midst of an AI bubble Thursday, but don't let that fool you: He still intends to rule over whatever's left after it bursts. …
- Asmi Linux 13 Debian Edition debuts: Xfce desktop never looked so goodby Liam Proven on August 15, 2025 at 2:30 pm
TeejeeTech takes Trixie, adds considerably more polish, yet comes in lighter Teejeetech turns its attention from Ubuntu to its progenitor. The result is a refined and attractive spin of Debian with Xfce.…
- Microsoft kills volume rebates in name of 'transparency'by Richard Speed on August 15, 2025 at 1:32 pm
Online Services price changes start November 1, aligning with Microsoft.com rates and eliminating programmatic discounts Microsoft is updating its pricing approach for Online Services in Enterprise Agreements in the name of consistency and transparency, but could leave some customers paying more.…
- Little LLM on the RAM: Google's Gemma 270M hits the sceneby Gareth Halfacree on August 15, 2025 at 12:32 pm
A tiny model trained on trillions of tokens, ready for specialized tasks Google has unveiled a pint-sized new addition to its "open" large language model lineup: Gemma 3 270M.…
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