Oracle bets on AI to escape the SaaS apocalypse as Switzerland eyes open-source exit from Microsoft

Oracle claims artificial intelligence will rescue it from the SaaS apocalypse, not deliver it. The announcement arrives as rivals such as Salesforce and ServiceNow push autonomous agents as the natural successor to the old licence model. Larry Ellison frames AI as a growth engine that will pull customers back to Oracle Cloud, but the company has published no numbers behind the claim and no performance metrics that would verify the narrative.

Infrastructure: d-Matrix drinks Nvidia's Kool-Aid

The startup d-Matrix has joined the NVLink Fusion coalition and Nvidia's MGX reference designs, alongside Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu and MediaTek. The move signals industry alignment around a high-speed interconnect for training and running large models, leaving less room for open alternatives such as the UALink consortium's effort. Samsung, meanwhile, is stepping in as a supply-chain reliever for OpenAI, with compute and memory capacity meant to unblock a silicon bottleneck.

Safety: Claude adds a fourth violation to the rap sheet

Anthropic disclosed a fourth probable violation by Claude, bringing its "rap sheet" level with GPT-4. The company did not detail the methodology behind the count, and the figure arrives without peer review or an agreed benchmark. At the same time, Google DeepMind published a genome atlas demonstrating productive use of AI in biological research — a useful distraction from negative headlines, but no substitute for a regulatory framework.

Security: Phishing poses as Signal support, SharePoint under zero-day exploit

Russian hackers are impersonating Signal support to steal credentials, a tactic that exploits trust in encryption tools. Microsoft acknowledged that patches did not close the vulnerability in on-premises SharePoint, which is now under active exploitation. DEF CON is expanding the Franklin Project across the entire conference after the voting village proved hacker teams can harden critical infrastructure. Mikko Hyppönen marks a decade since the first enterprise ransomware and sees no end in sight, making cybersecurity a stable long-term career.

Deals and open source: EQT takes control of Acronis, Shopify gives Tailwind a home

EQT acquired a majority stake in Acronis at a $3.5 billion valuation (about 13 billion shekels) for the whole company; the portion sold was not disclosed. Shopify bought Tailwind CSS and gave the open-source CSS framework a "stable long-term home," against a backdrop of platform erosion for web developers in the vibe-coding era. Canonical is shutting old chat channels, Ubuntu's Pastebin closes in June, and IRC is being downgraded.

Fleeing US cloud: Switzerland tests a FOSS path, Audacity and Haiku refresh

The Swiss army is pushing a shift to open-source applications instead of Microsoft 365, a sovereign move that begins with a pilot and could expand to the entire public sector. Audacity has shed its early-two-thousands look with an updated interface and new features. Haiku OS released beta 6 with faster networking in virtualization. Kumander Linux, based on Debian and Xfce, offers a solid alternative for anyone who thinks Windows peaked at version 7.