Harness has bought the products and the team of Augment Code, the AI coding startup that came out of stealth in 2024 with $252m at a valuation just under $1bn. Neither side disclosed a price, and the deal does not appear to cover the whole company.
Atlassian disclosed a critical file-read flaw in eight self-hosted products on Monday. On Tuesday a research firm explained how it turns into Jira administrator access in some setups, and honeypots saw attacks within two hours.
The Netherlands' tax and customs administration has dropped its move to Microsoft 365. Mail and calendars go to its own servers in 2027, and European open-source tools follow for storage and collaboration.
Oracle learned of the theft of patient data from old Cerner servers in February 2025 and told hospitals that notifying patients was their job. On Friday a filing under Cerner's name appeared on the Texas attorney general's breach list: 2,992,244 Texans, Social Security numbers included, letters sent by mail.
Schneider Electric is paying $205 a share in cash for PTC, the largest deal in its history. PTC's shares rose by a third. Schneider's fell by a tenth, and on Tuesday J.P. Morgan downgraded it.
GitLab has fixed a 9.9-rated flaw that let users of its self-hosted AI Gateway break out of the sandbox for prompt templates and run commands. The patch shows where the gap was: one form of an instruction in the Jinja templating library, plus a memory bug in Python itself.
Microsoft has folded chat, coding and long-running agents into a single Copilot app and priced it in two halves: a per-user licence for everyday work, a credit meter for everything expensive. The number that matters is not the $30 seat. It is the $43 Microsoft says an Anthropic model costs inside its bundle against the $129 it says the same model costs outside it.
Low-orbit connectivity stopped being a last resort for remote sites and became a line item that carriers now resell alongside fibre.
Self-serve signup built the last generation of software companies. The current one is being built on a handful of contracts signed before the product exists.
Per-seat models built for human users fit poorly when software does the work, and vendors are experimenting their way toward outcome-based alternatives.
Finance chiefs are consolidating vendors, demanding measurable returns on AI projects, and treating software portfolios like balance sheets.
Verifiable credentials are being deployed for supplier onboarding and workforce verification, where the cost of manual checks is easiest to measure.
Employees are routing work through unsanctioned AI tools faster than policies can name them, and enterprises are choosing between control and visibility.
Payments, lending, and insurance inside industry-specific platforms are outperforming standalone fintech, and the platforms know their pricing power.
Recurring-revenue loans, data-driven monitoring, and fund structures built for scale are turning software lending into an asset class of its own.
Telemetry costs growing faster than the systems they watch have made data pipelines a budget line worth re-architecting.
Managed browsers with built-in policy, logging, and data controls are displacing a stack of security tools, one deployment at a time.
Mid-sized companies are skipping the pilot phase, buying packaged AI inside software they already use, and seeing returns their larger rivals struggle to match.
Mid-sized banks are finally replacing decades-old cores, driven less by ambition than by the retirement of the people who understand the old ones.
Billions of agents, sensors, and services are exhausting the workarounds that kept legacy addressing alive, and enterprise networks are rebuilding.
Point solutions for visibility, planning, and logistics are merging into platforms, and shippers are trading best-of-breed for one throat to choke.
CISOs are consolidating dozens of point products onto platforms, trading marginal capability for integration and one renewal fight.
Security mandates and supply chain rules are converting free-rider dependence into maintenance contracts, and a small industry is forming to broker them.
New plants are landing in regions whose supplier and labor systems run on spreadsheets, and the digital retrofit is its own industrial policy.
Internal developer platforms with paved paths and self-service infrastructure have moved from big-tech pattern to mainstream expectation.
The proliferation of corporate chains is reversing as networks merge onto shared infrastructure with common tooling.