Enterprise Technology News and Analysis

- Atlassian tweaks licenses to reward those who buy more, but gets its sums wrongby Simon Sharwood on June 3, 2025 at 4:28 am
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.…
- IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnightby Simon Sharwood on June 3, 2025 at 12:32 am
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.…
- More layoffs at Microsoft as axe falls in Washington and Californiaby Iain Thomson on June 3, 2025 at 12:06 am
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.…
- IBM Watson zombie brand shuffles forward with new AI lab in NYCby Thomas Claburn on June 2, 2025 at 10:35 pm
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.…
- CoreWeave signs megalease at Applied Digital's not-so-little house on the prairieby Tobias Mann on June 2, 2025 at 8:46 pm
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.…
- Ukrainians smuggle drones hidden in cabins on trucks to strike Russian airfieldsby John E Dunn on June 2, 2025 at 8:04 pm
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."…
- Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheatedby Thomas Claburn on June 2, 2025 at 7:31 pm
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.…
- Dem senators pen stern letter urging Noem to reinstate cyber review boardby Jessica Lyons on June 2, 2025 at 6:55 pm
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.…
- Musk's smog-belching Colossus datacenter slammed by civil rights groupby Tobias Mann on June 2, 2025 at 6:18 pm
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.…
- Snowflake finance veep says big corps migrate at a glacial paceby Lindsay Clark on June 2, 2025 at 4:56 pm
$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.…
- Best pricing model for AI? Work in progress, says Salesforceby Lindsay Clark on June 2, 2025 at 3:32 pm
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.…
- NASA boss-to-be gets spaced as proposed budget cuts detailedby Richard Speed on June 2, 2025 at 2:33 pm
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.…
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