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When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for massaging tables of data. But what if you want more control, precision, and power than Excel alone delivers? In that case, the open source Pandas library for Python might be what you are looking for.…

I have had a love/hate/love relationship with Tailwind. When Tailwind was first released, it generated a lot of buzz, and I naturally gave it a look. It was an intriguing notion—to define a multitude of tiny CSS utility classes that you embed directly in your HTML, giving you fine control over every tag. It was super cool. However, I’m a huge believer in the separation of concerns. You shouldn’t …

Threat actors could use prompt injection attacks to take advantage of three vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s official Git MCP server and cause mayhem with AI systems. This alert comes from researchers at Israel-based Cyata, which urges infosec leaders to make sure corporate developers using the official GIT MCP server update to the latest version as soon as possible. The risk is that an attacker co…

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached a second rampdown phase for bug fixes, with the feature set having been frozen last month. The second rampdown phase was announced January 16. The following 10 features are officially targeted to JDK 26: a fourth preview of primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch , ahead-of-time object cac…

Sometimes, if you want to get an early look at a new tool from Microsoft, you must get out your compiler and build it from source. That’s the case with the first public look at the new open source release of XAML Studio , one of its .NET UI design tools, which is transitioning to the stewardship of the .NET Foundation. XAML Studio is a tool for prototyping .NET user interfaces. Developed in Micro…

“Greenops” didn’t emerge because enterprises suddenly had a moral awakening. Rather, cloud bills became painful , regulators got serious, and sustainability teams started asking questions IT couldn’t answer with confidence. Once companies realized that cloud consumption wasn’t only a technical concern but also a financial and reputational risk, they did what they always do: They operationalized i…

ClickHouse has acquired open source LLM engineering platform, Langfuse, to add observability capabilities to its database services, which are designed for online analytical processing and AI applications. The deal underscores ClickHouse’s push to become a more complete data and AI platform as customers try to move LLM-based applications into production, analysts say. Langfuse’s observability capa…

“The global edge AI market is on a steep upward trajectory,” says Joshua David , senior director of edge project management at Red Hat . To his point, the edge AI market is anticipated to climb to a $143 billion valuation by 2034. The bump in edge AI goes hand in hand with a broader shift in focus from AI training, the act of preparing machine learning (ML) models with the right data, to inferenc…

No serious developer still expects AI to magically do their work for them. We’ve settled into a more pragmatic, albeit still slightly uncomfortable, consensus: AI makes a great intern, not a replacement for a senior developer . And yet, if this is true, the corollary is also true: If AI is the intern, that makes you the manager. Unfortunately, most developers aren’t great managers. We see this ev…

Astro Technology Company, maker of the Astro web framework , has just been acquired by Cloudflare . The company also just released Astro 6 in beta, with the update featuring a redesigned development server. The merger with Cloudflare means Astro remains open source and MIT-licensed and continues to be actively maintained, according to the January 16 announcement . In addition, Astro will continue…

Microsoft is offering a Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for its Visual Studio Code editor , enabling developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents from VS Code. Launched January 14 , the extension can be accessed from the Visual Studio Marketplace . The extension is intended to make it possible to develop AI agents in a familiar editor, with source control, and with AI help when wanted,…

Google is previewing a new AI-driven feature in its BigQuery data warehouse that generates parts of SQL queries from natural-language comments, something it claims will speed up data analysis and lower the barrier to working with complex queries as enterprises look to simplify data access in order to move their AI pilots into production. The new feature, Comments to SQL, will enable developers an…

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The finding of fresh privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in Google’s Vertex AI is a stark reminder to CISOs that managing AI service agents is a task unlike any that they have encountered before. XM Cyber reported two different issues with Vertex AI on Thursday, in which default configurations allow low-privileged users to pivot into higher-privileged Service Agent roles. But, it said, Google to…

MongoDB has released the source code of mongot, the engine that powers MongoDB Search and Vector Search, under the Server Side Public License. Analysts say the move would help developers of the self-managed version of the database plan better RAG systems for AI use cases, as the code will provide more transparency, debuggability, and control. By making mongot’s source code publicly available, Mon…