Oracle has patched 1295 security vulnerabilities with its October Critical Patch Update Advisory; six of them scored the highest vulnerability rating of 10.0 on the CVSS version 3.1 scale. The company’s flagship Oracle E-Business Suite was home to one of the vulnerabiltiies, tracked as CVE-2026-101809. This enables any unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP…
The insider threat model rests on a simple premise: legitimate access to business systems is used in ways you didn’t intend. When an employee is onboarded, there is typically an access review, a background check, and least-privilege provisioning. Trust is extended, and occasionally that trust can create risk to business systems and data. This process…
SAP professionals can now renew their certifications through AI-based roleplays. The new service builds on SAP’s revamp of its certification program last year, shifting the focus from rote learning of facts towards real-world use cases. “The evolution of Stay Certified reflects a broader shift already taking place across SAP Certification: moving beyond assessing what someone…
According to a quartet of Accenture intellectual heavyweights, what CIOs need now to account for and control AI costs is tokenomics, sweet tokenomics. The idea of linking AI spend to business outcomes may be a noble one, but “Tokenomics” only pretends to do so, unless you think tallying costs and measuring business outcomes are one…
For years, enterprise AI strategy has been dependent on a small set of proprietary, closed model providers, a limitation that has carried cost, lock-in and opacity. Now, open-weight models from Meta, Google and other global competitors are challenging that default. As of July 2026, open-weight models accounted for 36% of Vercel’s AI Gateway token volume,…
AI has a cross-cutting impact on businesses. It’s changing operations, management, and even decision-making processes. But it’s also modifying what they expect from their teams and how they’re organized. This has a direct impact on the decisions of both HR departments and CIOs, who must now consider issues that, until now, have flown somewhat under…
When an AI workload is not performing as expected, the obvious place to look is the GPU. Do we have enough compute capacity? Would adding more GPUs solve the problem? Not necessarily. The GPUs may be perfectly capable of handling the workload, but if the network is not able to move data quickly and consistently,…