MGM
Rebuilding MGM's IT will be a $100/hour Red Hat sysadmin with strong arms, on long shifts.
Willingness to stack racks with 30 pounds of kit and get a Red Hat Certified System Administrator certification welcomed.
Cisco
Cisco’s Splunk acquisition is risky as peers jostle, bills mount, users eye open source opportunities
Splunk has a big target on its back and both established application performance monitoring rivals and upstarts are nipping at its heels.
Salesforce
Salesforce faces incredulity over “net zero” claims
"We believe that companies should be able to claim they’re net zero if they’re fully committed to decarbonization..."
News
Signal aims to stop a quantum computer sliding into your DMs
"We are augmenting our existing cryptosystems such that an attacker must break both systems..."
Hashicorp
Terraform fork finds a home at the Linux Foundation -- and a new name.
"OpenTofu will be everything legacy Terraform should have been: community-first and impartial...."
Cybersecurity
Las Vegas casino ransomware attacks: Okta in the spotlight as MGM slowly recovers
"I think our biggest challenge was, and this is something we learned the hard way, was the password reset..."
Microsoft
Microsoft exposed 38TB of private AI data, including passwords and secret keys
Microsoft itself warns that it is "not possible to audit the generation of SAS tokens"
CI/CD
CloudBees says it’s fixed janky Jenkins issues for scalability, reveals new Tekton-based cloud platform
We could be in Jenkins, Kentucky...
Databricks
Databricks just raised a fresh $500 million from investors. Why?
"We haven’t disclosed a specific timeline to reaching profitability, and we are continuing to invest aggressively"
Arm
Arm's $52 billion IPO: As sales fall, RISC-V rises, will the fizz last?
"SoftBank, you know, is not known as a poster child for good corporate governance"
Cybersecurity
MGM Resorts’ ransomware attack started with a single phone call
Social engineering allegedly led to MGM attack: $13 billion firm's cybersecurity "defeated by a 10-minute conversation"?
Oracle
Larry Ellison: We’re rewriting $28 billion Cerner “a piece at a time”
Comments come after a Veterans Affairs audit found that a $16 billion Cerner deployment had caused "patient harm"