GitHub has flagged npm malware since March 2026. Anyone pulling in a bad PyPI, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, Go, crates.io, or PHP Composer package has had no such warning, because GitHub’s malware detection only ever watched one ecosystem. That changed this month. Dependabot malware alerts, which had run on npm data alone, now draw on all eight ecosystems the moment a user turns malware alerts on. Dependabot itself already runs across more than 30 million repositories and 34-plus

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff received $49.38 million in fiscal 2026 compensation, making him the enterprise software company’s highest-paid named executive officer as it accelerates its transformation from CRM software to an AI-powered enterprise platform. Salesforce’s five highest-paid named executives collectively received $132.30 million during the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026. Robin Washington ranked second at $28.45 million, followed by Srinivas Tallapragada at $20.

AI-driven Salesforce development has arrived in a big way. In-house, the company built their governance scaffolding, measurement system, and workflows first, while trying to get developers to adopt and adapt. Late last year, they moved to Claude Code as their primary coding agent, rolled it out to everyone, and yanked all the token limits. https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/279243301/from-weeks-to-hours-how-claude-is-transforming-salesforce-development

Salesforce, Inc. CRM is stepping up its competition with Microsoft Corporation MSFT and Oracle Corporation ORCL in agentic AI by combining customer data, business applications and autonomous AI agents on one platform. Its Agentforce platform is already gaining commercial traction, giving Salesforce a strong starting point in the fast-growing enterprise AI market. https://www.tradingview.com/news/zacks:01fab352e094b:0-how-is-salesforce-challenging-orcl-msft-in-the-agentic-ai-s

Records held in Salesforce and ServiceNow systems are under attack leaving user data exposed, according to researchers at Reco. The attack appears similar to those perpetrated by the extortion group ShinyHunters, Reco said. ShinyHunters has been particularly active this year, attacking dating sites in January and Oracle in June, and there are fears that they could have found a new target. https://www.csoonline.com/article/4209788/salesforce-servicenow-data-targeted-in-city-fo

Salesforce's (NYSE: CRM) stock price has fallen 46% from its previous high amid what CEO Marc Benioff calls the "SaaSpocalypse" -- the fear that artificial intelligence (AI) agents will pressure corporate spending on software-as-a-service (SaaS) products. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/NVDA-Q/pressreleases/3829820/marc-benioff-s-salesforce-spent-a-record-27-billion-on-stock-buybacks-in-a-single-quarter-to-fight-what-he-calls-the-saaspocalypse-here-s-