Salesforce adds AI to everything, jacks up prices by 6% Little agents everywhere Salesforce is raising prices for a bunch of its products and claims that increasing integration with AI justifies the increased bills, even after one of its own researchers recently said that AI agents are often underdelivered on basic CRM tasks.… #theregister #IT
AWS locks down cloud security, hits 100% MFA enforcement for root users Plus adds a ton more security capabilities for cloud customers at re:Inforce Amazon Web Services hit a major multi-factor authentication milestone, achieving 100 percent MFA enforcement for root users across all types of AWS accounts.… #theregister #IT
Dems hyperventilate about Palantir's work with the IRS in letter to CEO Karp They're taking the data from IRSengard, claim Dems; officials tell us that's not true A coalition of House and Senate Democrats has sent an aggressive letter to Palantir CEO Alex Karp questioning whether the controversial data intelligence biz is breaking federal law by allegedly helping the IRS build … #theregister #IT
Taiwan thumbs its nose at Beijing by blocking chip exports to SMIC and Huawei A symbolic political move Taiwan has added China's leading foundry operator Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC) and IT giant Huawei to its export control list. The move effectively blacklists the duo from doing business with the chip manufacturing mecca.… #theregister #IT
MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms MiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open-source reasoning model that challenges Chinese rival DeepSeek and US-based Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google in terms of performance and cost.… #theregister #IT
Apple dodges Optis patent payout for now as judge orders a do-over Third time's a charm? Apple has escaped a $300 million patent infringement damages penalty – for now – due to what a trio of judges said comes down to faulty jury instructions.… #theregister #IT
Atlas V glitch delays second Project Kuiper launch Amazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad A hardware glitch on United Launch Alliance's (ULA) workhorse Atlas V rocket delayed the launch of the second batch of Project Kuiper satellites.… #theregister #IT
Sitecore CMS flaw let attackers brute-force 'b' for backdoor Hardcoded passwords and path traversals keeping bug hunters in work Security researchers have issued a warning about a pre-authentication exploit chain affecting a CMS used by some of the biggest companies in the world.… #theregister #IT
Intel reportedly chips away at fab workforce – but hey, maybe there's a tax break coming Layoffs loom at Foundry biz despite CHIPS Act relief on the horizon Intel is reportedly set to shed 15 to 20 percent of its fabrication plant staff from next month, blaming company finances for the move, but the chip giant may get a boost from increased tax credits in a draft bill passing through the US… #theregister #IT
Broadcom delivers VMware Cloud Foundation 9 – the release that realizes its private cloud vision Promises silos for VMs, storage, and networks are out. Happy cloud-like days are in, without hyperscale complications 573 days after closing the acquisition of VMware, Broadcom has released the product that expresses its vision for the virtualization giant's future and what it claims … #theregister #IT