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Saturday October 18, 2025. 02:18 AM
Careless developers publishing Visual Studio extensions to two open marketplaces have been including access tokens and other secrets that can be exploited by threat actors, a security vendor has found. The discovery was made earlier this year by researchers at Wiz, who...
Friday October 17, 2025. 02:22 PM
Just as Windows 10 has reached its end of life (EOL), issues with Windows 11 abound, the most recent an update that broke localhost for some developers, preventing them from accessing web apps running locally on their machines. The October 2025 cumulative update,...
European organizations are increasingly vocal about their desire to reduce their reliance on US-based hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. This goal stems from a growing need to achieve digital sovereignty, comply with stricter data...
The dream of self-directed AI is becoming real, and companies can’t wait to turn their agents loose on everyday workflows. Standards like the Model Context Protocol are helping agents move from chat to action, while new frameworks promise smoother integrations and smarter...
Thursday October 16, 2025. 11:00 AM
IT operations have long been defined by one overriding goal: keep applications running at all costs. Success was measured in uptime. Agentic AI systems break that assumption. Unlike traditional applications, agents are ephemeral, spinning up in response to a prompt or...
Big changes to the license used by the popular open source key/value store Redis prompted a fork, with the launch of Valkey. In the time since that fork in March 2024, the two projects have diverged. The Valkey project is concentrating on performance improvements, with...
Typing questions into a chatbot is nice, but speaking often feels more natural. In fact, some experts encourage people to talk to generative AI instead of typing, in part to get out of the habit of using them as glorified search engines. “If you haven’t tried voice...
Wednesday October 15, 2025. 12:52 PM
A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign suggests that the loss of skills often seen when fine-tuning large AI models may not be true forgetting but a temporary bias in their output. By retraining only specific layers such as the self-attention and upper...
Java microframeworks are generally lightweight and minimalistic, characterized by their emphasis on performance, cloud-native capabilities, and developer experience. They are designed for building lightweight web applications, and they’re particularly well-suited to...
Python’s rich ecosystem of data science tools is a big draw for users. The only downside of such a broad and deep collection is that sometimes the best tools can get overlooked. Here’s a rundown of some of the best newer or less-known data science projects available for...
If you’re a software developer and you don’t already know of Paul Graham and his wonderful essays, then you’re in for a treat. Graham writes about programming, running startups, and, well, life. As one of the original dotcom success stories and the founder of Y...
Tuesday October 14, 2025. 03:00 PM
Oracle has unveiled a new data lakehouse offering that supports Apache Iceberg to help enterprises streamline analytics and enhance data interoperability across cloud and on-premises environments. Enterprises focused on leveraging data for AI and analytics use cases have...
Oracle is doubling down its focus on agentic use cases for enterprises with new features added to its latest long-term support version of its database offering — AI Database 26ai. The new database includes Select AI Agent, Agent Factory, and integration with Oracle’s MCP ...
Purpose-built clouds are cloud environments created and optimized for specific workloads, industries, or applications, rather than generic infrastructure that supports broad use cases. To better meet unique business needs, these clouds offer customizations across various...
Monday October 13, 2025. 11:03 AM
The arrival of generative AI-enhanced business intelligence (GenBI) for enterprise data analytics has opened up access to insights, while also increasing the speed, relevance and accuracy of those insights. But that’s in best-case scenarios. Often, AI-powered analytics...
In the beginning, there was devops: a new philosophy that aimed to break down the silos of software development and IT operations and combine both teams into a single group with shared responsibility. Devops practices borrowed from agile development methodologies, insisted...
Codex CLI is an open-source coding agent from OpenAI, written primarily in Rust, that runs locally on your computer. Codex IDE extension is a coding agent that runs in Visual Studio Code and its forks, such as Cursor and Windsurf. Codex Web, which connects to Codex Cloud,...
Python didn’t become the lingua franca of artificial intelligence by accident. I’ve argued that Python’s dominance in AI isn’t due to blazing performance or fancy features, but because it offers the shortest distance from idea to working code. It’s an accessible,...
Friday October 10, 2025. 11:00 AM
The chilling reality of a Salesforce.com data breach is a jarring wake-up call, not just for its customers, but for the entire cloud computing industry. In recent months, a wave of cyberattacks has targeted cloud-based platforms that house and process massive amounts of...
Codex, OpenAI’s AI-powered software engineering agent that can work on tasks in parallel, is now generally available. Since being launched as a research preview in May, Codex has added Slack integration, an SDK, and admin tools. OpenAI announced general availability of...
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