The State of California finally completed its massive FI$Cal financial system rollout after 16 years. But the project, built on Oracle’s PeopleSoft, is already staring down its next existential challenge: the inevitable migration to modern cloud software.
The VPN Trust Initiative is a consortium of VPN providers trying to set standards for the often-murky industry. It awards a “Trust Seal” to members who follow its principles, but the real question is how much weight that seal actually carries.
Oregon’s new “Workers Fraud Protection Act” takes aim at think tanks that inform public workers of their right to stop paying union fees. The law, effective January 1, allows for hefty fines and is seen as a direct attack on the Freedom Foundation. This sets up a major First Amendment clash.
Graphite mines in the US shut down decades ago. Now, with booming battery demand and geopolitical tensions, companies like Titan Mining Corp. are trying to restart domestic production, aiming for sales by 2028. It’s a bet on a new era for a critical mineral.
Microsoft is tackling BitLocker’s performance issues with new hardware acceleration. The feature promises to use 70% fewer CPU cycles and boost speeds for NVMe drives. However, it will only work on upcoming CPUs like Intel’s Panther Lake, leaving current PCs out.
Google appears to be testing a long-requested feature: the ability to change your primary @gmail.com address. The catch? You can only do it three times, and it’s rolling out slowly.
In 2025, the online Busy Beaver Challenge community made huge strides toward finding BB(6), the next number in a sequence that defines the limits of computation. This search isn’t just about a record; it could reveal problems that are fundamentally unknowable under our standard mathematical rules.
Atos is selling its entire Latin American business to Brazilian tech firm Semantix. The move is a key part of the struggling French IT company’s turnaround plan after a near-collapse earlier this year.
AI agents are moving out of labs and into daily workflows, automating complex tasks. This shift demands a new set of skills and a fundamental rethinking of professional roles. The challenge is to adapt or risk being left behind.
Scribe, a workflow documentation startup, just raised a $75 million Series C. The company argues that AI implementation is failing because businesses lack the foundational process data. Its new product, Scribe Optimize, aims to solve that.
