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A growing divide among leading AI companies over how to secure increasingly powerful models is beginning to translate into challenges for enterprise IT, with implications for how organizations access, deploy, and govern AI systems. The latest flashpoint came after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for neutral evaluators to independently test AI models, pushing back on calls from rivals to slow deve…

AWS is betting that AI agents need a different interface as they move beyond answering prompts and start working autonomously in the background. The company has open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted application that gives users an inbox for managing work delegated to AI agents, with separate threads for ongoing tasks and a queue for work that is completed or needs human input, rather than keeping…

Career paths for software developers have always been a touch problematic. Early on, you started out as a junior developer, and maybe there were ladder rungs that got you raises until you became a senior developer. But there was typically a ceiling to that, leaving you with little choice but to move into a management position if you wanted to continue to advance and make more money. On top of tha…

One of the first questions I ask devops organizations is to walk me through their development and operations standards. What are the non-negotiable devops practices ? What are the data governance first principles ? What observability standards are in place? How is security embedded in devops ? This is the starting point. From there, we might review standards on how functional requirements are wri…

A swarm of hundreds of OpenAI agents uploaded “malicious packages” to RubyGems and tried to steal API keys, the Ruby community gem hosting service revealed Friday. OpenAI confirmed part of the disclosure, saying , “our agents used the RubyGems platform to access the internet to carry out benign tasks and retrieve public information. We’ll continue to investigate as part of our broader review of a…

Java Development Kit 27 , an Oracle-driven, planned update to standard Java, is now generally available. This latest update to standard Java has features ranging from making the Garbage-First (G1) garbage collector the default collector and adding structured concurrency to simplify concurrent programming. Overall, there are nine features listed on what is described as a reference implementation o…

Attackers have opened a new front in their war on software developers: Vite servers, which they are probing for sensitive data including cloud credentials, infrastructure configuration and environment files. Vite was created as a build tool for Vue , a JavaScript framework for building user interfaces and web applications, but has now become a widely used development server and build tool across …

Cockroach Labs, the company behind distributed SQL database CockroachDB, is betting that the rise of agentic applications will make traditional database provisioning, where systems are sized for peak demand, increasingly difficult to justify as agents create highly concurrent, unpredictable and often short-lived database workloads that can leave provisioned compute idle between bursts. Its soluti…

If you like the idea of running an LLM on your own computer but tried awhile ago and were disappointed, it may be time to give it another chance. “A few months ago, any LLM that I could run on my Macbook scored 0% on an agentic coding eval I put together,” Simon P. Couch, senior software engineer at Posit, posted on Bluesky this spring. “[The April] Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 4 releases both scored 90%.”…

There is a quiet war happening underneath the AI boom, and most people are not paying attention to the right front. While headlines focus on which model is winning, which startup is raising money, or which chatbot is gaining users, a parallel race is playing out in data centers and corporate boardrooms across the world. The race is for AI infrastructure: the GPU clusters, power contracts, cooling…

Steve Yegge is not the shy and retiring type, so when he wants recommendations on how others are managing 10 to 20 (or more) coding agents, he posts the question on X . Specifically, he’s looking for an IDE because “I use Emacs, and I wouldn’t wish it on you.” The replies (600 and counting) offer plenty of alternatives: Herdr, cmux, Conductor, the Claude and Codex desktop apps, and an impressive …

Yet another security vulnerability has been discovered in GitLab infrastructure, this one a perfect 10 in severity. CVE-2026-85706 , the second flaw GitLab has disclosed in just a month, is a maximum-severity vulnerability that allows attackers to read arbitrary files in a single HTTP request. The path traversal flaw results from improper confinement and lack of authentication enforcement in GitL…

For CIOs and CDOs heading into Microsoft Fabric and SQL Community Conference Europe , the main question is not which data technology sits at the center. It is whether the data platform improves revenue, productivity, and decision speed while creating a trusted foundation for AI at scale. That should drive the data strategy. Enterprise AI is forcing companies to tackle a familiar problem, with dat…

Before the rise of all-in-one frontier models, artificial intelligence and machine learning libraries tended to focus on highly specialized jobs. Even today this is still a powerful and useful approach: the more specialized the tool, the better the job it will do for its narrowly defined purpose. One category for such tooling is computer vision : real-time analysis of video or still images. Facia…

Postgres just turned 30. Over those three decades, I’ve watched it pick up hot standby replication, logical replication, asynchronous IO, just-in-time compilation, and dozens of other features built for enterprise workloads. Every one of them solved a real problem and raised the floor on what a DBA needs to know just to do the job well. I don’t think most people outside this world fully register …