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.
ShinyHunters says it broke into the FBI's jobs portal with an unknown PeopleSoft flaw. The PeopleSoft flaw it is known to use has been on the federal must-patch list since 12 June, with a deadline three days later. Either answer is awkward, and the FBI has not yet said whose server it was.
Federal buying requirements bind on signature. Legislation does not, and vendors are already rewriting products to match the contract terms.
Legal and procurement teams are converging on a common set of demands: usage transparency, model-change notice, and indemnification that actually means something.
Finance chiefs are consolidating vendors, demanding measurable returns on AI projects, and treating software portfolios like balance sheets.