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Oracle fumbles denial as 6 million user records leak
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SSO breach pretty obvious

Oracle is in full-blown damage control mode after hacker “rose87168” claimed to breach its Oracle Cloud login servers.

Oracle denies cloud breach
Published in Cloud
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 11:27

Oracle denies cloud breach


However, not many are buying it

Oracle is doing its best impression of a brick wall after a hacker going by “rose87168” claimed to have waltzed through their cloud infrastructure and walked off with six million records.

Oracle buys 30,000 AMD AI chips
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Monday, 24 March 2025 12:17

Oracle buys 30,000 AMD AI chips


Suddenly has an open relationship with Nvidia   

Oracle has announced it's buying 30,000 of AMD’s new Instinct MI355X AI accelerators.

Oracle seeks dismissal of fraud claim in JavaScript trademark dispute
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Attempting to stall the case

Database licence seller Oracle has filed a motion with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to partially dismiss a legal challenge to its JavaScript trademark.

Council flogs off assets to fund Oracle project
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Getting rather expensive

West Sussex County Council is selling $31 million of capital assets to fund an Oracle-based transformation project, which has caused a cost overrun of biblical proportions.

Tech oligarchs consider buying TikTok
Published in News
Monday, 27 January 2025 09:53

Tech oligarchs consider buying TikTok


Bytedance still involved 

A new plan which would keep TikTok available in the US, but under the control of a group of companies including Oracle and Microsoft is being negotiated by the White House.

Musk appears to be trying to kill Stargate
Published in AI
Thursday, 23 January 2025 09:05

Musk appears to be trying to kill Stargate


Vested interest

Elon [Roman salute] Musk appears to be using his position as Donald Trump’s budget advisor to sabotage his rival’s mega AI plans, Stargate.

OpenAI shares the Volish cloud as Stargate Project launches
Published in Cloud


Microsoft to share

OpenAI is widening its cloud structure to include OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, along with its old chum, Microsoft.

Hyperscalers spending $292 Billion on AI Infrastructure
Published in AI


Still not got customers

The race to scale artificial intelligence infrastructure is accelerating, with hyperscalers, alongside Meta and Oracle, planning to invest $292 billion by 2025 — an 88 per cent increase since 2023.

US is making consumers pay for corporate data centre plans
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It is the American way

The US has a novel way of funding big IT company data centres and AI plans: it hikes ordinary people's power bills.