Sponsored How tech firms and automakers are breaking down siloes to fuel innovation "The true definition of partnership is taking shape – an alliance-led approach where the whole industry leans into the idea that we’re on this innovation journey together..."
Members only News Is it really different this time? Nvidia briefly more valuable than Amazon as markets salivate over AI
startups This former teenage hacker, turned CEO, is putting the spotlight on attack surface management "In Gartner's mind, everyone's moving away from VPNs; VPNs don't exist anymore. But this is not a ‘rip out an appliance, and then shove something else in' job..."
vmware VMware kills free ESXi stone dead "Along with the termination of perpetual licensing, Broadcom has also decided to discontinue..."
News NCSC vuln management guide details why to update by default - and why not to Business should own the risk - not the security team
Members only Bank of England Bank of England's tech overhaul: 'Open Sesame' or more friction? Proposed changes for account onboarding front-load compliance burden, even as technology gets slicker...
Members only CISA How secure is your package repo? CISA defines four levels of security maturity, starting at zero
infrastructure "(Almost) all of the decisions I endorse or regret after four years running startup infrastructure" "Unless you’re penny-pinching (and your time is free), there’s no reason to run your own control plane..."
News Shell says it's collecting “5 trillion rows of data” for AI – but CEO warns on IT cost cuts "We've reduced some 35% of our IT contractors since the middle of last year – and really getting much sharper on where we want to focus our scarce IT dollars."
Fortinet Fortinet patches MORE pre-auth RCEs, with exploits reported. Ivanti also slips out a fresh VPN fix... "Disable SSL VPN (disable webmode is NOT a valid workaround..."
Dynatrace Dynatrace hits $1.4 billion ARR, grabs logos from AppDynamics, aims to grow logs offering "The number of IT resources that are available to do manual processing of IT workloads is constrained and sophisticated observability and application security [is becoming] more critical..."
CIO IT’s inspiration must be astronauts, those champions of innovation and exploration If you think the past five years you spent rebuilding your entire IT stack means you can now relax, think again, says former divisional CTO at Worldpay and IT veteran David Walker.
Europe European cybersecurity labels are coming. Who's signed up? Scheme will pave the way for upcoming certification schemes: EUCS on cloud services and EU5G on 5G security
ransomware Ransomware earns scumbags $1 billion in 2023 "Invest in, understand and test your entire recovery strategy"
white house White House’s National Cybersecurity Strategy rapped over lack of “performance measures” "Traditional cybersecurity delivery metrics... have lost their relevance."
bruce perens Open Source pioneer Perens says it's time to contemplate a Post-Open world Open Source may have won, but it has also failed, says Open Source Initiative founder
Members only McDonalds Digital and data? We’re going large, says McDonalds’ CEO, as new CIO vows new OS, GenAI, "data highway" "The scale of incoming information from all corners of the globe will allow McDonald’s GenAI models to better understand the broadest range of patterns and nuances"
News Tech layoffs: 25,000 let go in January 2024 "The layoffs seem to be helping their stock prices, so these companies see no reason to stop..."
News Labour will wrap regulation around big tech, slice red tape for small innovators As current government looks to "upskill" existing regulators to police AI
juniper networks Two years after a security row over a Certificate Authority, Juniper issues a CVSS 9.8 bug alert Better late than never, as CISA issues warning to patch up SIEM bugs.
Members only Rust Google punts $1 million towards work on Rust and C++ interoperability The Carbon project also lives on...
SAP Deutsche Börse Group overcomes “hesitant stakeholders, cautious regulators” moves ERP to GCP "From adding new legal entities following M&A, through launching products such as swap types, to simple requests to improve our workflows, the system couldn’t keep up. Just a simple launch request would take as much as nine months"
Atos As French bureaucrats squabble, IT outsourcer Atos ditches rights offering, sinks to record lows Atos employs over 105,000 staff; handling tasks as eclectic as running 111 data centres in 43 countries, and building hardware for the French military.
people Home Office looks for new body to assess UK-bound global tech talent Tech Nation, the previous endorsement body, lost critical funding - but will continue to assess applications till next year.
AnyDesk AnyDesk confirms production systems were breached "We can confirm that the situation is under control" is not the world's greatest incident response report we've seen.