Enterprise Technology News and Analysis
- AST just got a small boost in its D2C battle against Elon Musk's Starlinkby Brandon Vigliarolo on June 13, 2025 at 7:59 pm
But the five-satellite upstart has a short time window A messy legal fight between Ligado and Inmarsat over direct-to-cellular (D2C) spectrum has been settled, giving upstart AST a chance to gain ground on Starlink.…
- Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report saysby Jessica Lyons on June 13, 2025 at 6:20 pm
Some trace back to an outfit under US export controls for alleged PLA links Both Apple's and Google's online stores offer free virtual private network (VPN) apps owned by Chinese companies, according to researchers at the Tech Transparency Project, and they don't make this fact readily known to people downloading the apps.…
- Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest personby Lindsay Clark on June 13, 2025 at 5:58 pm
Oracle’s 80-year-old co-founder pulls off a $25 billion cloud day to leapfrog Zuck and Bezos into the No. 2 spot Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has reclaimed the No. 2 spot on Forbes's real-time billionaire list, trailing only Elon Musk after leapfrogging Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.…
- Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customersby Dan Robinson on June 13, 2025 at 5:25 pm
Please insert another million dollars to continue Broader AI adoption by enterprise customers is being hindered by the complexity of trying to forecast inferencing costs amid a fear being saddled with excessive bills for cloud services.…
- Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join upby Thomas Claburn on June 13, 2025 at 4:47 pm
Mark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directly Exclusive Meta has made lavish and lucrative offers to a select set of AI researchers in an effort to develop superintelligent AI.…
- PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth, PCIe 8.0 in the pipelineby Dan Robinson on June 13, 2025 at 4:33 pm
Work on next gen already underway, while bandwidth needs for datacenters just keep rising The PCI Special Interest Group (PIC-SIG) just released official specs for PCIe 7.0, doubling the bandwidth again for high-performance kit such as network cards, while hinting that PCIe 8.0 may not achieve the same.…
- Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacksby Connor Jones on June 13, 2025 at 3:24 pm
Zero-day potentially tied to around 100 suspected infections in 2025 and a spyware scandal on the continent Apple has updated its iOS/iPadOS 18.3.1 documentation, confirming it introduced fixes for the zero-click vulnerability used to infect journalists with Paragon's Graphite spyware.…
- The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drivesby Simon Sharwood on June 13, 2025 at 2:29 pm
Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts Feature In early May, independent digital storage analyst Thomas Coughlin shared news of falling sales and revenue in the first quarter of 2025, continuing a trend that started in around 2010. Coughlin cites data from that year showing around 600 million annual hard disk shipments.…
- Wanted: Junior cybersecurity staff with 10 years' experience and a PhDby Connor Jones on June 13, 2025 at 1:36 pm
Infosec employers demanding too much from early-career recruits, says ISC2 Cybersecurity hiring managers need a reality check when it comes to hiring junior staff, with job adverts littered with unfair expectations that are hampering recruitment efforts, says industry training and cert issuer ISC2.…
- Friday the 13th strikes for Barclays' corporate customersby Paul Kunert on June 13, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Superstitions stoked by blackout of iPortal centralized platform when no maintenance was scheduled Barclays Bank is wrestling with some digital gremlins affecting its corporate banking services this Friday the 13th of June – the final day of the working week for many of us, but perhaps not the poor techies beavering away to restore normal play.…
- Danish department determined to dump Microsoftby Liam Proven on June 13, 2025 at 12:32 pm
Jutes revolt against Redmond: Minister for Digital Affairs aims the longboats away from Vinland Comment The boss of Denmark's Ministry for Digitalization says her department will move away from Microsoft – starting with LibreOffice.…
- UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backsby Lindsay Clark on June 13, 2025 at 11:32 am
Deal includes 'waiver of historic fees' UK universities and colleges have signed a framework worth up to £9.86 million ($13.33 million) with Oracle to use its controversial Java SE Universal Subscription model, in exchange for a "waiver of historic fees due for any institutions who have used Oracle Java since 2023."…
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