Enterprise Technology News and Analysis
- ServiceNow unworried by Salesforce firing shots across its bow
by O'Ryan Johnson on December 17, 2025 at 11:52 pmBelieves it can translate workflow smarts into AI ROI In October, Salesforce debuted Agentforce IT in a direct challenge to ServiceNow’s ITSM product, and analyst firm Forrester’s vice president and principal analyst Charles Betz rated it the “most credible threat” ServiceNow has ever faced.…
- Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirementby Thomas Claburn on December 17, 2025 at 11:28 pm
GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their heads Purdue University last week said it will require incoming undergraduate students to meet an "AI working competency" requirement in order to graduate.…
- Attacks pummeling Cisco AsyncOS 0-day since late Novemberby Jessica Lyons on December 17, 2025 at 10:51 pm
No timeline for a patch Suspected Chinese-government-linked threat actors have been battering a maximum-severity Cisco AsyncOS zero-day vulnerability in some Secure Email Gateway (SEG) and Secure Email and Web Manager (SEWM) appliances for nearly a month, and there's no timeline for a fix.…
- CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaignsby Jessica Lyons on December 17, 2025 at 10:29 pm
Plus: automated SBOMs, $250,000 bounties ahead interview No good idea - like rewarding open source software developers and maintainers for their contributions - goes unabused by cybercriminals, and this was the case with the Tea Protocol and two token farming campaigns.…
- Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that existsby Corey Quinn on December 17, 2025 at 9:54 pm
Amazon bets that by making AI its own group, it can outpace Microsoft and Google In today's episode of "Amazon Kremlinology," AWS has put out a press release that shows a significant shuffle of one of AWS's most storied leaders.…
- Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pauseby Brandon Vigliarolo on December 17, 2025 at 9:17 pm
Vermont lawmaker proposes DC moratorium to give Congress time to rein in the AI boom US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is calling for a nationwide moratorium on datacenter construction, saying it would "give democracy a chance to catch up … and make sure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the wealthiest people on Earth."…
- All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startupby Tobias Mann on December 17, 2025 at 7:18 pm
Startup expects its first Kaleidos reactor to power on at Idaho National Lab next year Amid the AI boom, nuclear power is in vogue, with venture capitalists lining up to plow hundreds of millions into small modular reactor (SMR) startups to make their datacenter energy headaches go away.…
- GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runnersby Brandon Vigliarolo on December 17, 2025 at 5:26 pm
Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min. updated Following publication of our original article, GitHub reversed its decision. The Microsoft-owned developer site has taken to X to admit it might have made a mistake by unilaterally announcing plans to charge people for using their own hardware to host runners.…
- NASA tries savin' MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earthby Richard Speed on December 17, 2025 at 4:42 pm
Spacecraft was 'rotating in an unexpected manner' and might have shifted orbit NASA is still trying to recontact the MAVEN Mars orbiter after it stopped responding earlier this month, with fragmentary tracking data hinting the craft may be tumbling and off its predicted trajectory.…
- Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattackby Connor Jones on December 17, 2025 at 4:03 pm
Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings In proposing a settlement agreement, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that Illusory Systems must repay users funds lost in a 2022 cyberattack.…
- AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humansby Thomas Claburn on December 17, 2025 at 4:00 pm
CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankers Generating code using AI increases the number of issues that need to be reviewed and the severity of those issues.…
- NATO's battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existentialby Joe Fay on December 17, 2025 at 2:54 pm
Build a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evolve or lose the information war NATO is in an existential race to develop sovereign cloud-based technologies to underpin its mission, the alliance's Assistant Secretary General for Cyber and Digital Transformation told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) last week.…
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