Enterprise Technology News and Analysis

Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye Atlassian has notified its customers of a new “maximum quantity billing” scheme that is good news for those who want more of its wares, but less fun for others.…

Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’ IBM’s Cloud has experienced a second Severity One incident in a fortnight. Both meant users could not log in to the Big Blue Cloud, and therefore were prevented from controlling or creating resources.…

One possible solution - go join a union like recently-acquired-by-Redmond ZeniMax UPDATED  Less than a month after Microsoft announced it was axing three percent of its staff, regulatory filings indicate new cuts at the tech behemoth.…

Unsurprisingly, it's all about agents, the buzzword du jour IBM on Monday unveiled watsonx AI Labs, a New York City hub where startups, researchers, and IBM engineers are expected to co-create agentic AI tools for enterprise use.…

A big win for North Dakota CoreWeave is headed to North Dakota, where the rent-a-GPU outfit has signed two roughly 15-year lease agreements with Applied Digital for 250 megawatts of capacity, which the datacenter builder expects will generate around $7 billion in revenue.…

A real-world Trojan Horse attack Ukraine claims it launched a cunning drone strike on Sunday against multiple Russian airbases, hitting over 40 military aircraft and inflicting an estimated $7 billion in damage, in an operation dubbed "Spiderweb."…

Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them Computer scientists have developed a way for an AI system to rewrite its own code to improve itself.…

Remember Salt Typhoon? Anyone? A group of Democratic senators has urged Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to reestablish the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), which had been investigating how China's Salt Typhoon hacked US government and telecommunications networks.…

NAACP claims that 'temporary' gas turbines were an attempt to get around environmental laws Elon Musk's smog-belching Colossus AI datacenter in Memphis, Tennessee, is once again catching heat, this time from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which urges local authorities to halt operations and fine the startup for what it sees as a "clear" violation of the Clean Air Act.…

$100 million+ deals are beholden to enterprises' on-prem upgrade cycles Snowflake's ability to grow in the market for larger enterprise customers is hampered by the renewal cycle for older, on-prem data warehouse and analytics tech.…

Is that 'best' for customers or for shareholders? Any vendors that think they've got this 'all figured out is kidding themselves' A senior Salesforce exec says users need to be flexible about AI pricing models while vendors determine which one works best.…

White House withdraws Isaacman pick amid potential $6B funding drop More details are emerging about potential NASA budget cuts alongside the abrupt withdrawal of the nomination of Jared Isaacman as the agency's new administrator.…