Thought Leadership
Acquisition Without Customers
Schwarz Digits has agreed to sell the intellectual property of XM Cyber, including more than 45 patents and its proprietary source code, to CrowdStrike.
Suspension of Microsoft Accounts
After a cyberattack, Microsoft has permanently suspended a user’s account. The deletion affects Xbox licenses as well as all OneDrive cloud data.
Routing system failure
A routing failure in AWS CloudFront caused global outages, impacting thousands of services across North America, Europe, and Asia for over three hours.
VMware Pricing Dispute
The dispute over VMware pricing is escalating. What began as a complaint from a single cloud industry association has now grown into a coordinated effort by five organizations calling on the European Commission to take immediate action against Broadcom.
Codex Micro
OpenAI is making its first move into the hardware market with the launch of a backlit keyboard designed specifically for its AI coding assistant, Codex. The new device, called Codex Micro, is priced at $230 USD.
Discrimination against workers on protected leave
26 employees sue Meta, alleging the company used AI systems to decide layoffs and systematically discriminated against workers on protected leave.
Verify New-Hire Identity
Specops Secure Onboarding helps organizations verify new employees from the first login onward, reducing risks from deepfakes, fake workers and AI-driven identity fraud.
Third party breach exposes data
The ransomware group D1R is threatening Bosch with the release of sensitive engineering data allegedly stolen in a breach involving Synopsys.
Forecast
A financial analysis warns that OpenAI could become insolvent by mid-2027 as soaring AI infrastructure costs continue to outpace revenue growth.
Transition in September 2026
Mozilla halves the Firefox update cycle to two weeks. Starting September 2026, new versions of the browser will launch twice as often as before.
