Today: Chainguard's Dan Lorenc shares his thoughts on the state of open-source software and security challenges in the AI era, believe it or not, but OpenAI might be having trouble getting Project Stargate off the ground, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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Today: ServiceNow outlines an IT-centric plan for rolling AI agents out across enterprise tech, Broadcom puts the screws to VMware customers holding on to old licenses, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Tuesday's $32 billion acquisition of Wiz — a cloud security platform designed to work across all major cloud providers — will be a test of Google Cloud's commitment to work with its competitors and a signal of whether security trumps other considerations when it comes to buying cloud services.
Nobody has any idea when a real quantum computer will actually impact enterprise tech, but NIST wants companies to upgrade their security sooner rather than later.
A software update with one more variable than expected crashed 8.5 million Windows computers. Should Windows security vendors continue to have access to the kernel?
The shared-responsibility model is groaning under the weight of the modern security environment. Snowflake's ongoing nightmare should be a wake-up call for any infrastructure or SaaS provider that they need to do more to protect their customers, because the old model is no longer working.
Global teams across an enterprise are likely to speak different languages, of course, but also might be using different keyboard layouts with different characters. Those differences can lead to confusion about password requirements that could hinder collaboration and even compromise security.
"When you have way too many companies chasing way too few opportunities, you go through a cycle like this and only the best will survive." McKay thinks Snyk has found a path forward.
Improving cybersecurity is one of the most important challenges companies face on a day-to-day basis, according to enterprise technology vendors, who preach that mantra right up until they see a massive trend like generative AI come along and can't help but blurt out "squirrel!"
