Enterprise Technology News and Analysis

Startup slots into CI/CD pipelines to warn engineers when a change could wreck production Exclusive  How big could the blast radius be if that change you're about to push to production goes catastrophically wrong? Overmind is the latest company to come up with ways to stop the explosion before it happens.…

Devs sketch plans for two more releases this year, blending Debian foundations with modern display tech The Linux Mint team plans to speed up its release cycle and get two more versions out in the next few months.…

Cyberspace watchdog tightens reporting regime, leaving little time to hide incidents Beijing will soon expect Chinese network operators to 'fess up to serious cyber incidents within an hour of spotting them – or risk penalties for dragging their feet.…

Microsoft reminds holdouts they've got less than a month before the update tap runs dry Start the countdown! For any administrators living under a rock, Microsoft has posted another warning that Windows 10 22H2 will reach end of servicing on October 14.…

Study that used actual input to OpenAI’s chatbot finds personal use surging Users of individual accounts for OpenAI’s ChatGPT mostly use it for research and to help with writing, according to a new study into the kind of queries fed into the service.…

Did you hear the one about the thin-skinned barrister? The High Court of the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh has stopped live-streaming hearings to protect local lawyers from ridicule on social media.…

Nice plans for US manufacturing you had there, shame if something was to happen to them Analysis  On Sunday, President Trump took to his personal social media channel to calm a growing diplomatic storm with one of America's closest allies, South Korea.…

Regional internet registry faces numerous critics and isn’t out of the legal woods The African Network Information Center (AFRINIC) last week held elections and announced the appointment of eight directors, which means it has a chance to convene a board for the first time since 2022.…

Secretive app + unreliable tech + Trump administration policies = ANGRY LETTER A group of senators has penned a sternly-worded letter to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) saying that they're very worried about the agency's use of facial recognition in its mission to cleanse the nation of immigrants with improper documents. …

Cautionary tale from the recent SonicWall attacks Failing to encrypt sensitive data leaves you wide open to attack. During the recent SonicWall attack spree, intruders bypassed multi-factor authentication (MFA) in at least one case, because a user's recovery codes were left sitting in a plaintext file on their desktop.…

Breathe deep on internet fumes Discarded vapes are becoming the new cigarette butts in pollution terms, but a hacker has found a novel way to repurpose the chips they contain to build a web server.…

Study also finds M&A and changes to operating model on the way for sector More than half of tech companies are considering a complete restructure or changing their operating model in response to AI, according to research from the consulting sector.…