Storage Vendor Offers a Real Guarantee — but Check Out Those Fine-Print Exceptions
Scality announced a $100,000 cyber guarantee for its Artesca storage line, promising payment if an external attack destroys or encrypts data. The company markets the guarantee as simple and accessible, but the fine‑print limits coverage to external incidents, requires a 48‑hour notification, and applies only to customers with at least 50 TB licenses. The payout is defined as the sole remedy, excluding other damages. The announcement highlights the tension between headline‑grabbing guarantees and the restrictive clauses hidden in vendor contracts.
It’s an AI Boom, Not a Bubble…, but Is that True at Microsoft?
Recent Menlo Ventures research shows AI enterprise spending surged to $13.8 billion in 2025, a six‑fold increase from 2023, indicating a shift from pilot projects to core business execution. Adoption now spans coding, sales, HR and verticals, with 76% of solutions...
OpenAI Robotics Chief Quits over Pentagon Deal
OpenAI’s head of robotics, Caitlin Kalinowski, resigned citing inadequate safeguards in the company’s new Pentagon contract. She warned that the agreement lacked sufficient deliberation on domestic surveillance and autonomous weapon controls. OpenAI later revised the deal to ban domestic surveillance...
Gov’t IT Spending Seen as Key to Building Europe’s Tech Ecosystem
European public‑sector IT spending is pivoting away from U.S. vendors as governments seek digital sovereignty. Germany, Denmark and France are replacing Microsoft Office, Windows, Teams and Zoom with open‑source or home‑grown alternatives, citing cost savings and strategic independence. The German...
What Is Digital Employee Experience — and Why Is It More Important than Ever?
Digital employee experience (DEX) measures how workers interact with the myriad digital tools they rely on, from devices to cloud services. By aggregating telemetry, sentiment data, and AI‑driven analytics, DEX platforms identify and remediate digital friction that hampers productivity. Gartner...
Anthropic Buys Vercept, Deepening Push Into AI Task Automation
Anthropic announced the acquisition of Seattle‑based AI startup Vercept, adding cloud‑based agents that can control remote MacBooks to its portfolio. The move follows Anthropic’s earlier purchase of coding‑agent engine Bun, signaling a broader push into AI‑driven task automation beyond chat....
Windows 11: A Guide to the Updates
Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2 update consolidates a year’s worth of incremental features and security patches, delivering enhancements such as AI‑driven File Explorer actions, Quick Machine Recovery, and enterprise‑grade Wi‑Fi 7 support. Recent out‑of‑band builds address critical bugs, from Remote Desktop sign‑in...
New Phishing Campaign Tricks Employees Into Bypassing Microsoft 365 MFA
A new phishing campaign is leveraging the OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant to sidestep Microsoft 365 multi‑factor authentication. Attackers send emails that appear to reference payments, bonuses or voicemails, then direct recipients to a genuine Microsoft login page where a...
