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Developers can spend days using fuzzing tools to find security weaknesses in code. Alternatively, they can simply ask an LLM to do the job for them in seconds. The catch: LLMs are evolving so rapidly that this convenience might come with hidden dangers. The latest example is from researcher Hung Nguyen from AI red teaming company Calif, who, with simple prompts to Anthropic’s Claude Code, was abl…

Meta researchers have developed a structured prompting technique that enables LLMs to verify code patches without executing them, achieving up to 93% accuracy in tests. The method, dubbed semi-formal reasoning, could help reduce reliance on the resource-heavy sandbox environments currently required for automated code validation. The development comes as organizations look to deploy agentic AI for…

WebAssembly , or Wasm, provides a standard way to deliver compact, binary-format applications that can run in the browser. Wasm is also designed to run at or near machine-native speeds. Developers can write code in one of the various languages that compile to Wasm as a target (e.g., Rust ), and deliver that program anywhere Wasm runs. But Wasm by itself isn’t enough. An application, especially on…

Everyone is worried about junior developers. What are all these fresh-faced computer science graduates going to do now that AI is writing all the code? It is a legitimate concern. It wasn’t that long ago that the best advice I could give an early-career person interested in software development was to go to a boot camp. Sure, they could go to college and get a four-year computer science degree, b…

In a quiet corner of GitHub better known for weekend experiments than paradigm shifts, Drona Reddy , a data analyst at Amazon US, has published a single markdown file that promises to cut Claude’s output token usage by more than half, not by changing code, but by reshaping the model’s behavior. The file, called Claude.md and available under an MIT license , outlines a set of structured instructio…

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An Anthropic employee accidentally exposed the entire proprietary source code for its AI programming tool, Claude Code, by including a source map file in a version of the tool posted on Anthropic’s open npm registry account, a risky mistake, says an AI expert. “A compromised source map is a security risk,” said US-based cybersecurity and AI expert Joseph Steinberg . “A hacker can use a source map…

Microsoft has given Azure many hats: a serverless platform for distributed applications, a host for security and identity services, a place for big data, and an alternative to running your own data centers and infrastructure. It’s this last one that’s often forgotten since much of the thinking about cloud platforms focuses on new tools and technologies instead of the old faithful applications tha…

Since its initial release in 2011, Apache Kafka has cemented itself as the de facto platform for event streaming. Kafka enthusiast Tim Berglund often refers to it as the “universal data substrate.” This is made possible in large part by the Kafka ecosystem that enables connectivity between Kafka and external systems (Kafka Connect) and a Java stream processing library (Kafka Streams). The latest …

Front-end engineers usually think performance problems live in the browser. When a page feels slow, we inspect bundle size and rendering. When something breaks, we open the network tab. If users complain, we optimize components or tweak state management. For a long time, I approached production issues the same way, assuming the root cause had to exist somewhere inside the UI. Over time, however, …

The release of the Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud Report provides vital insights into how enterprises are navigating the constantly changing landscape of cloud computing and increasingly AI-driven workloads. The findings show that the enterprise cloud discussion has changed significantly in recent years. What started as a focus on cost-cutting and simple lift-and-shift migration has evolved into…

Paraphrasing William Gibson, the future of AI is here, but it’s nowhere close to evenly distributed yet. Last week in London, I had two conversations about enterprise AI that obliterated any semblance of a neat and tidy story of AI adoption. In the first meeting, the head of engineering at a large hedge fund told me about engineering teams with fleets of agents in full production, and (in his per…

Anthropic didn’t intend to introduce Mythos this way. Details of what it calls its most capable AI model yet surfaced through a data leak in its content management system (CMS), revealing a LLM with sharply improved reasoning and coding skills. The data leak, which was the result of the company’s staffers inadvertently exposing material about the LLM, including a draft blog post about it, via a p…

Just as integration catalogs were must-haves at the peak of SaaS, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are now becoming all the rage for connecting AI agents and enterprise systems. In this paradigm, developers aren’t hand-coding API calls to external systems, nor are users clicking “click to integrate” and entering credentials into GUIs. Instead, agentic systems are looking up available MCP serv…

Kotlin 2.3.20 has become the latest version of the JetBrains-built language, featuring an interoperability mode for C or Objective-C libraries and name-based destructuring declarations for property names. Developers also can leverage Kotlin interfaces on JavaScript and TypeScript. The update to the Java rival language was introduced March 16 . Instructions for getting started with the language ca…