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Terraform promised us a better world. Define your infrastructure in code, version it, review it, and deploy it with confidence. For small teams running a handful of services, that promise holds up beautifully. Then your organization grows. Teams multiply. Modules branch and fork. State files balloon. And suddenly, that clean declarative vision starts looking a lot like a sprawling monolith that n…

Nvidia’s recent acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the Slurm workload manager, is raising concerns among AI industry executives and supercomputing specialists who fear the chip giant could use its new position to favour its own hardware over competing chips, whether through code prioritization or roadmap decisions. The concern, as industry sources frame it, is straightforward: Nvidia now …

When a coding assistant starts looking like it’s cutting corners, developers notice. A senior director in AMD’s AI Group has publicly needled Anthropic’s Claude Code for what she calls a tendency to skim the hard bits, offering answers that land but don’t quite stick. The gripe isn’t about outright failure so much as fading rigor, with complex problems drawing responses that seem quicker, lighter…

Many enterprise devops teams struggle to deploy frequently, increase test automation, and ensure reliable releases. What can they learn from SaaS companies, where developing and deploying software for thousands of customers is core to their revenue and business operations? SaaS companies must have robust testing, observability, deployment, and monitoring capabilities. One bad deployment can disru…

Too many executives are cutting software engineering teams because they bought into the fantasy that AI can now build and maintain enterprise applications with only a few people around to supervise the machine. That idea isn’t bold. It isn’t visionary. It’s reckless, and more executives will suffer the consequences of their mistakes beyond just a bad quarter. Yes, AI can write code. That much is …

WebAssembly targets for Rust will soon face a change that could risk breaking existing projects, according to an April 4 bulletin in the official Rust blog. The bulletin notes that all WebAssembly targets in Rust have been linked using the --allow-undefined flag to wasm-ld , but this flag is being removed. Removing --allow-undefined on wasm targets is being done in rust-lang/rust#149868 . That ch…

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.114. The update of Microsoft’s popular code editor streamlines the AI chat experience, offering previews of videos in the image carousel for chat attachments, adding a Copy Final Response command to the chat context menu, simplifying semantic searches of codebases by GitHub Copilot, and more. Introduced April 1 , VS Code 1.114 can be downloaded from the…

Is your generative AI application giving the responses you expect? Are there less expensive large language models —or even free ones you can run locally —that might work well enough for some of your tasks? Answering questions like these isn’t always easy. Model capabilities seem to change every month. And, unlike conventional computer code, LLMs don’t always give the same answer twice. Running an…

We just can’t seem to help ourselves. Our current infatuation with multi-agent systems risks mistaking a useful pattern for an inevitable future, just as we once did with microservices . Remember those? For some good (and bad) reasons, we took workable applications, broke them into a confusing cloud of services, and then built service meshes, tracing stacks, and platform teams just to manage the …

Databricks has outlined a reference architecture for a multi-agent AI system, named AiChemy, that combines internal enterprise data on its platform with external scientific databases via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to accelerate drug discovery tasks such as target identification and candidate evaluation. These early-stage steps are critical in drug development because they help pharma compan…

Car buyers kick tires. Horse traders inspect the teeth. What should shoppers for large language models (LLMs) do? Here are 27 prescient questions that developers are asking before they adopt a particular model. Model capabilities are diverse, and not every application requires the same support. These questions will help you identify the best models for your job. What is the size of the model? The…

Anthropic has blocked paid Claude subscribers from using the widely used open-source AI agent OpenClaw under their existing subscription plans, a move that took effect April 4 and has drawn pushback from subscribers who question both the cost implications and the company’s stated rationale. In an email to subscribers reviewed by InfoWorld, Anthropic said access to third-party tools through subscr…

Researchers who identify and report bugs in open-source software will no longer be rewarded by the Internet Bug Bounty team. HackerOne, which administers the program, has said that it is “pausing submissions” while it contemplates ways in which open source security can be handled more effectively. The Internet Bug Bounty program, funded by a number of leading software companies, has been run sinc…

The leak of Claude Code’s source is already having consequences for the tool’s security . Researchers have spotted a vulnerability documented in the code. The vulnerability, revealed by AI security company Adversa , is that if Claude Code is presented with a command composed of more than 50 subcommands, then for subcommands after the 50th it will override compute-intensive security analysis that …

The European Union’s Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-EU, has traced last week’s theft of data from the Europa.eu platform to the recent supply chain attack on Aqua Security’s Trivy open-source vulnerability scanner. The attack on the AWS cloud infrastructure hosting the Europa.eu web hub on March 24 resulted in the theft of 350 GB of data (91.7 GB compressed), including personal names, ema…