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AIOps Is so Powerful, Vendors Are Building Tools to Clean up After Agents Break Your Infrastructure
Cohesity, together with ServiceNow and Datadog, is launching a recoverability service that can detect and roll back damage caused by agentic AI in enterprise environments. The solution leverages immutable snapshots and API‑driven restorations to return files, databases, vector stores, and AI model states to a trusted point‑in‑time. Competitors such as Rubrik and Cisco already offer similar rollback capabilities, signaling a nascent market for AI‑focused disaster recovery. Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise applications will embed task‑specific agents by 2026, underscoring the growing need for such safety nets.
Crooks Compromise WordPress Sites to Push Infostealers via Fake CAPTCHA Prompts
Researchers at Rapid7 discovered a campaign where attackers compromise WordPress sites, including a US Senate candidate’s page, to serve fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA prompts that trick users into running commands that download infostealer malware. The malicious code is injected into legitimate...
Vulture Rediscovers RSS to Dull the Pain of the Modern Web
RSS is experiencing a quiet resurgence as users seek to escape the cluttered, ad‑laden modern web. Recent blog posts by Caroline Crampton and Cory Doctorow highlighted how aggregating thousands of feeds can make the internet more bearable. The author revisited...
EV Charger Biz ELECQ Zapped by Ransomware Crooks, Customer Contact Data Stolen
ELECQ, a maker of smart EV chargers, disclosed a ransomware attack on its AWS cloud platform on March 7 that encrypted and exfiltrated customer contact data. The breach exposed names, email addresses, phone numbers and home addresses, but no payment information...
MariaDB Backs Down on Galera Removal After Community Outcry
MariaDB Corp initially announced that Galera clustering libraries would be removed from future Community Server releases, sparking immediate backlash from developers and users who rely on high‑availability features. After intense community pressure, the company reversed course, confirming that Galera will...
Accenture Down to Buy Downdetector as Part of $1.2 Billion Deal
Accenture announced a $1.2 billion acquisition of Ookla, the parent of Downdetector, from Ziff Davis, bringing Speedtest, Ekahau and RootMetrics into its portfolio. The deal expands Accenture’s intelligence and analytics capabilities for telecom operators, hyperscalers and enterprise networks. Ziff Davis will apply the...
AWS Middle East Disrupted After ‘Objects Struck Datacenter’ Amid Iran War
Amazon Web Services reported a power outage in its UAE ME‑CENTRAL‑1 availability zone after unknown objects struck the datacenter, sparking a fire that temporarily halted EC2 APIs. Meanwhile, Australian software firm WiseTech Global announced up to 2,000 job cuts as...
Top Cloud Providers to Outspend Ireland's GDP on AI in 2026
Eight of the world’s largest cloud providers will collectively invest about $710 billion in AI servers and data‑center infrastructure in 2026, a spend that eclipses Ireland’s entire GDP. The capex represents a 61 percent year‑over‑year increase, underscoring the rapid scaling of AI...
Anthropic: No, Absolutely Not, You May Not Use Third-Party Harnesses with Claude Subs
Anthropic has updated its Consumer Terms of Service to explicitly forbid the use of third‑party harnesses with Claude subscription accounts. The move targets token arbitrage where users accessed Claude models through cheaper subscription keys via external wrappers, undermining Anthropic’s subscription‑based...
Oracle Vows 'New Era' For MySQL as Users Sharpen Their Forks
Oracle announced a decisive new approach to MySQL, installing fresh engineering leadership and unveiling a public development roadmap. The vendor pledged to shift key commercial‑only features, such as vector functions for AI workloads, into the open‑source Community Edition. Greater transparency,...
DVSA Seeks £95K Digital Chief to Steer Test Booking System Out of the Ditch
The UK Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is recruiting a chief digital and information officer with a £95,000 salary to overhaul its 18‑year‑old practical test booking platform, which has been plagued by bots and resale schemes. A National Audit...
Cisco Set to Release Home-Brew Hypervisor as a VMware Alternative
Cisco is preparing to launch NFVIS‑for‑UC, a purpose‑built hypervisor that runs only its Unified Communications applications, offering a lightweight alternative to VMware. VMware, now owned by Broadcom, has shifted focus to its expensive Cloud Foundation suite, leaving low‑end vSphere customers...
Cisco Looses Splunk to Probe and Tame Its Growing Agentic Menagerie
Cisco announced an AI Agent Monitoring tool for Splunk Observability Cloud, visualising LLM and agent workflows while tracking performance, cost, and behaviour. The tool integrates with Cisco's AI Defense suite, which just became generally available and now includes Model Context...
Salesforce Puts Heroku Out to PaaSture
Salesforce announced it will cease developing new features for its Heroku platform-as-a-service, moving the product to a sustaining‑engineering model that emphasizes stability, security and support. Existing customers can keep using and renewing Heroku, but the company will no longer sell...
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach Clocks Out Amid Job Cuts and Market Jitters
Carl Eschenbach has resigned as CEO of Workday, handing the reins back to co‑founder Aneel Bhusri. The transition follows a series of cost‑cutting moves, including an 8.5% staff reduction and a recent 2% layoff, as the firm grapples with AI‑driven market...
AI Framework Flaws Put Enterprise Clouds at Risk of Takeover
Two critical flaws were discovered in the open‑source AI framework Chainlit, allowing arbitrary file reads (CVE‑2026‑22218) and server‑side request forgery (CVE‑2026‑22219). The vulnerabilities can expose environment variables, API keys and cloud credentials, and enable attackers to forge authentication tokens for...
Anthropic Quietly Fixed Flaws in Its Git MCP Server that Allowed for Remote Code Execution
Anthropic has patched three critical flaws in its Git MCP server that could be chained with the Filesystem MCP server to achieve remote code execution via prompt injection. The vulnerabilities – CVE‑2025‑68145 (path‑validation bypass), CVE‑2025‑68143 (unrestricted git_init), and CVE‑2025‑68144 (git_diff...
ERP Isn't Dead yet – but Most Execs Are Planning the Wake
A new Censuswide survey of 4,295 C‑suite leaders shows 70 percent believe traditional ERP’s heyday is over, yet opinions diverge on the next evolution. Thirty‑six percent favor a composable, API‑driven, best‑of‑breed model, while 33 percent back an AI‑agentic ERP that embeds autonomous...
Hiring at India’s Big Four Outsourcers Stalls, as AI Seemingly Makes an Impact
India’s four largest IT outsourcers – HCL, Infosys, TCS and Wipro – have essentially halted hiring in the latest quarter, adding only 3,910 staff year‑to‑date, a stark contrast to their usual 10,000‑plus quarterly hires. Revenue growth remains modest, with HCL...
Experiment Suggests AI Chatbot Would Save Insurance Agents a Whopping 3 Minutes a Day
Researchers at Dakota State University and Safety Insurance built Axlerod, a Gemini‑2.5‑Pro powered chatbot for independent auto‑insurance agents. In controlled tests the tool cut average search‑oriented task time from 7.55 seconds to 5.13 seconds, a 2.42‑second gain per query. Each...
AWS Flips Switch on Euro Cloud as Customers Fret About Digital Sovereignty
Amazon Web Services launched its European Sovereign Cloud to general availability, promising a fully EU‑located environment that is physically and logically separate from other AWS regions. The offering initially includes 90 services spanning compute, storage, networking, security, and AI, and...
CrowdStrike Shareholders Lose Battle to Recoup Losses From 2024 Outage
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman dismissed a class‑action lawsuit by CrowdStrike shareholders alleging securities fraud over the July 2024 outage. While the court found two statements plausibly misleading, it ruled the plaintiffs did not sufficiently allege scienter, a required element...
Birmingham Pauses Oracle Relaunch to Get Staff on Board
Birmingham City Council has delayed the relaunch of its Oracle Fusion ERP system until at least summer, citing the need for staff to adapt to standard processes. The 2022 go‑live disaster left the council unable to produce auditable accounts and...
Accenture Bets AI Will Ring up Retail Sales with Profitmind Investment
Accenture Ventures has invested in Profitmind, an agent‑based AI platform that automates pricing, inventory and merchandising decisions for retailers. The startup’s technology also creates GEO‑optimized product copy to improve visibility in AI‑driven search. Salesforce research shows AI agents generated $262 billion,...
Bank of England's Oracle Cloud Migration Bill Triples as Project Grinds On
The Bank of England has tripled its spend on Oracle systems integrator Version 1, raising the contract to £21.5 million from an original £7 million tender. The increase reflects a shift from a two‑phase to a multi‑phase Oracle Cloud migration covering finance, procurement,...
Why Colos Are City Slickers and Hyperscalers Are Country Bumpkins
Datacenter location strategies diverge: colocation providers cluster in urban centers to serve latency‑sensitive customers, while hyperscale giants such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft concentrate massive facilities in low‑density regions with cheaper power and land. A Rice University and Harvard Business...
IBM's AI Agent Bob Easily Duped to Run Malware, Researchers Show
IBM's AI coding assistant Bob, released in a closed‑beta, was shown to be vulnerable to prompt‑injection attacks that let it execute malicious commands. Researchers from PromptArmor demonstrated that both the command‑line interface and the IDE could be tricked into running...
Microsoft Scraps Exchange Online Spam Clamp After Customers Cry Foul
Microsoft has abandoned its planned 2,000‑per‑day external recipient limit for Exchange Online after strong customer pushback. The original 2024 policy aimed to curb spam and compromised accounts by capping outbound emails for new tenants, with a phased rollout to existing...
HSBC App Takes a Dim View of Sideloaded Bitwarden Installations
HSBC’s UK mobile banking app is refusing to run on devices where the open‑source password manager Bitwarden is installed via the F‑Droid sideloading catalog. Customers who installed Bitwarden outside Google Play reported being locked out of the HSBC app. HSBC...
Ring Embraces the End of the World, Starts Using Home Cameras to Track Wildfires
Ring announced Fire Watch, an AI‑driven feature that turns compatible outdoor cameras into wildfire detectors. The service partners with the nonprofit Watch Duty to push real‑time fire alerts to nearby users, with a nationwide rollout planned for spring 2026. Ring...
HackerOne 'Ghosted' Me for Months over $8,500 Bug Bounty, Says Researcher
Researcher Jakub Ciolek disclosed two critical denial‑of‑service vulnerabilities in Argo CD through HackerOne's Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) program, earning an $8,500 reward. Despite CVEs being issued and patches released, HackerOne failed to acknowledge the reports for months, only responding after media...
Claude Devs Complain About Surprise Usage Limits, Anthropic Blames Expiring Bonus
Developers using Anthropic's Claude Code have reported a sudden 60% drop in token usage limits after a holiday‑season bonus expired. Users say the new limits cause accounts to max out within minutes, disrupting development workflows. Anthropic attributes the change to...
AWS Raises GPU Prices 15% on a Saturday, Hopes You Weren't Paying Attention
AWS announced a roughly 15% price increase for its EC2 Capacity Blocks that guarantee GPU capacity for machine‑learning workloads. The p5e.48xlarge instance with eight NVIDIA H200 accelerators rose from $34.61 to $39.80 per hour, and the p5en.48xlarge climbed similarly, with...
Gmail Preparing to Drop POP3 Mail Fetching
Google announced that, starting January 2026, Gmail will discontinue support for POP3 mail fetching and the Gmailify feature that applied Gmail’s spam protection and organization tools to third‑party accounts. The change removes the ability to consolidate external email accounts directly within...
Capita Tells Civil Servants to Wait for Chatbots to Fix Pension Portal Woes
Capita secured a £239 million contract to operate the UK Civil Service Pension Scheme, serving 1.7 million members and managing £189 billion in future benefits. The new pension portal, launched on 1 December 2025, immediately suffered widespread errors, broken links, and placeholder text, prompting user...
New Zealand Orders Review Into ManageMyHealth Cyberattack
New Zealand Health Minister Simeon Brown has ordered a comprehensive review of the cyberattack on private health‑record platform ManageMyHealth, which may have exposed data of 6‑7% of the nation’s 1.85 million users. The breach, claimed by a hacker known as Kazu,...
Safe CEO: AI Is an Assistant, Not a Replacement
Safe Software CEO Don Murray argues that artificial intelligence should be treated as an assistant rather than an authority, especially in high‑stakes fields like engineering. He stresses the necessity of a human‑in‑the‑loop for safety‑critical decisions, noting that current AI accuracy...
ServiceNow Lays Out Possible Co-CEO Structure, but Says No Change Imminent
ServiceNow has amended CEO Bill McDermott’s employment contract, extending his tenure through December 31 2030 and adding the possibility of serving as co‑CEO, executive chairman or non‑executive chairman. The SEC filing emphasizes that no leadership change is imminent and that any role shift...
Tis the Season when Tech Leaders Rub Their Crystal Balls
Leading tech firms Dell, Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Snowflake released 2026 AI workplace predictions, emphasizing AI governance, on‑prem deployment, and measurable ROI. Dell forecasts a shift toward private, on‑prem AI factories to ensure security and resilience, while ServiceNow stresses turning...
Oracle's New AI-Enhanced Support Portal Leaves Users Fuming
Oracle launched an AI‑enhanced My Oracle Support (MOS) portal in early December, promising streamlined navigation, AI‑driven search and better knowledge access. Within weeks, customers and support engineers reported missing tickets, broken links, and an inability to locate critical patch notes...
EU Offers UK Early Gift: Data Adequacy Until 2031
The European Commission has renewed its GDPR adequacy decision for the United Kingdom, extending frictionless data transfers until 27 December 2031. The six‑year extension, subject to a review after four years, follows a brief technical extension that prevented a lapse at the...
Europe Gets Serious About Cutting Digital Umbilical Cord with Uncle Sam's Big Tech
Europe remains 90% dependent on U.S. cloud providers, a vulnerability exposed by the CLOUD Act, which can compel American firms to hand over data despite GDPR protections. The legal clash forces European public bodies to reassess their IT strategies, prompting...
Workers Should Control the Means of Agentic Production, Suggests WorkBeaver Boss
WorkBeaver CEO Bars Juhasz argues AI agents should be adopted from the worker’s perspective, not top‑down mandates, to prevent premature layoffs. The no‑code platform lets non‑technical staff automate tasks through a menu‑driven interface and an upcoming version that learns by...
Snowflake Update Caused a Blizzard of Failures Worldwide
Snowflake’s latest release introduced a backwards‑incompatible schema change, causing a major outage that affected 10 of its 23 global regions for about 13 hours. The failure prevented users from executing queries and ingesting data across Azure and AWS data centres...
NHS Tech Supplier Probes Cyberattack on Internal Systems
DXS International, a supplier of NHS digital tools, disclosed a cyber‑attack that targeted its office servers early Sunday. The breach was quickly contained by the company’s IT team, and frontline clinical services, including the ExpertCare platform used by roughly 2,000...
