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Enterprise environments are changing quickly as organizations adopt cloud platforms , automated infrastructure, and continuous delivery pipelines. Software updates are released more often, and systems are set up automatically using infrastructure-as-code automation tools. While this acceleration allows organizations to deliver software and services faster, it also creates new challenges for secur…

Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data Studio , its development tool for the SQL Server and Azure SQL databases. Part of a range of tools designed to work with Microsoft’s on-premises and in-cloud SQL databases, Azure Data Studio focused on building and testing queries rather than database administration. In other words, it was a developer-focused, lighter-weight alternative to SQL Serve…

From runtime architecture to process design In a recent InfoWorld article, I introduced t he concept of the Agent Tier — a runtime architecture that separates deterministic enterprise execution from contextual reasoning. The core idea was straightforward: as enterprise workflows incorporate more signals and adaptive models, embedding contextual judgment directly inside branching logic leads to in…

AWS has released new Graviton-powered RG instances for its Amazon Redshift data warehouse service aimed at helping enterprises reduce both rising analytics costs and the operational complexity of modern lakehouse architectures. At the core of the new instances is an integrated data lake query engine that AWS says can run SQL analytics across both Redshift warehouse data and Amazon S3 data lakes ,…

SAP made bold promises about AI at Sapphire 2025 : Knowledge Graph, Joule Studio, and AI Agent Hub would ship by the end of the year. Those tools are now technically available, but adoption has lagged, and SAP is already announcing version 2.0. “Joule Studio adoption has been minimal compared to what we’d like,” said Manoj Swaminathan , SAP’s chief product officer for Business Suite, in a briefin…

Lemonade , created by AMD, is a server application plus GUI for running local AI models, similar to projects like LM Studio (or, more distantly, ComfyUI ). What it lacks in configurability, it tries to make up for in broader integration with third-party apps that use standard APIs, and with support for non-NVIDIA runtimes. Lemonade works with a variety of runtimes and back-end engines. It support…

Tests of how well 19 large language models (LLMs) complete and perform complicated multi-step tasks has shown that they are both error-prone and, in many cases, unreliable. The findings are contained a preprint paper, LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate , written by Microsoft researchers Philippe Laban , Tobias Schnabel and Jennifer Neville based on a benchmark they created called DELEG…

The TeamPCP threat group has pulled off another big supply chain attack which within a few hours this week was able to successfully compromise 170 Node Package Manager (npm) and PyPI packages. The attack affected the entire TanStack Router ecosystem (@tanstack) of 42 packages, a routing library hugely popular among React web application developers. Multiple other packages were also affected, incl…

GitLab CEO Bill Staples says enterprises’ monthly bill for developer platform services has risen from tens of dollars per seat to hundreds over the last year, and is headed toward the thousands, signaling a structural change in how they will be billed for AI-enabled software development tools . The increase in cost reflects the volume of work AI agents generate inside development pipelines, Stapl…

It seems that the software developers at Facebook, who are all in on AI-powered coding, came up with a notion they called “Claudeonomics” to measure their all in-ness. This manifested itself as an internal dashboard/scoreboard of who was burning the most tokens with Claude Code . The race was on to see who could burn through the most tokens. Never mind whether this conflagration of Claude tokens …

As use of agentic AI accelerates, Red Hat is hoping to position itself as the critical behind-the-scenes plumbing and connective fabric. To this end, the company has unveiled new desktop and developer suite functions, skills bundles, and a rolling Linux release to help enterprises move beyond the experimental phase. Announced at Red Hat Summit today, the new features and services are included in …

With the release of JDK 26 , which arrived March 17, we’ve now seen 17 versions of Java delivered under the time-based six-month release cadence. Nobody can call this anything other than a huge success for Java . In the last eight years, we’ve seen the Java platform move forward faster than at any time in its history. In addition, the faster release cadence has made preview features and incubator…

It’s not every day that a radically new architecture comes along, but here we are: in-browser SQLite , combined with reactive SQL and auto-syncing. The promise is instant interactivity on the front end, while maintaining data symmetry with the back end. As a direct challenger to the RESTful group-think that has dominated web development for a decade, it is well worth a look. Not really new, but i…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reshaping its underlying network foundation , a move that could redefine how enterprises approach cloud technology, costs, and operational efficiency. As enterprises contemplate next-generation workloads, from generative AI to globally distributed applications, AWS’s end-to-end custom networking stack is a new calculus for cloud economics, agility, and security. Let’s…

A malicious Hugging Face repository posing as an OpenAI release delivered infostealer malware to Windows systems and logged 244,000 downloads before being removed, raising fresh concerns about how enterprises source and validate AI models from public repositories. The repository, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, impersonated OpenAI’s legitimate Privacy Filter release, copied its model card almost w…