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Microsoft is overhauling its Windows Insider Program, which provides early access to new Windows 11 features. The company is introducing significant changes, starting with giving testers the ability to select specific new features they want to try out, offering more control over their preview experience.
Cybersecurity researchers have identified four malicious packages on the npm registry: `chalk-tempalte`, `@deadcode09284814/axios-util`, `axois-utils`, and `color-style-utils`. These packages were designed to steal information from developer systems and have been downloaded thousands of times.
Actor Matt Ryan, who voices Edward Kenway, has confirmed he filmed new scenes for the upcoming Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake. The new content is intended to add more emotional weight and depth to the main character's personal conflicts and overall journey in the popular game.
A new Linux Foundation report finds that security readiness is the biggest obstacle to AI adoption. A widening gap exists between the rush to deploy AI and the ability to secure it. The report notes 67% of teams face pressure to accelerate deployment despite security risks.
A newly analyzed computer virus from over 20 years ago, named fast16.sys, reveals an early Stuxnet-style attack. The malware was designed to selectively target high-precision calculation software, subtly altering results in memory. This highlights a long-standing threat of data manipulation in critical systems.
AI tools are making it easier for less-skilled hackers to launch sophisticated attacks. This puts critical but under-resourced sectors like local hospitals, banks, and nonprofits at significantly greater risk of costly data breaches.
Google has added an AI assistant called 'Ask' to its Earth Engine platform. Powered by Gemini, it helps developers write complex geospatial code using simple text prompts, accelerating projects in climate science, agriculture, and urban planning.
A new report challenges the common fear that AI is hurting graduate hiring. Researchers found no direct evidence of an AI-driven spike in unemployment, suggesting that other economic factors are the primary drivers of job market trends.
Google Cloud has launched its new Z4D machine series, designed to speed up applications that handle large amounts of data. These new virtual machines and bare-metal servers target databases, analytics, and other I/O-intensive business-critical workloads.
A new benchmark tested how major PostgreSQL providers handle memory-intensive queries. The test revealed that some popular services, including AWS RDS and Google Cloud SQL, crashed completely, causing significant downtime.
A federal judge blocked Utah's VPN age verification law, ruling that flawless geolocation is technically impossible. This decision sets a major precedent for state-level internet regulations and user privacy protections, acknowledging fundamental technological limits.
pgEdge launched Starfleet, a Postgres platform that gives AI coding agents their own isolated database branches. These branches are never merged, letting developers safely test AI-generated code without risking their main production database.
Meta built a new gateway that reduced persistent database connections by 19 times. Called ZGateway, the stateless proxy handles over a billion operations per second, centralizing traffic routing, caching, and load balancing for its ZippyDB system.
ChatGPT's voice feature can now use plugins and connected apps while you talk. This turns the AI from a simple conversationalist into a hands-free assistant that can complete tasks in other services for you.
Database firm pgEdge has launched Starfleet, a new service to help developers move AI applications using Postgres from the prototype stage to full-scale production, addressing a common point of failure for many AI projects.
Chinese EV makers Nio and Geely are partnering to build a shared network of battery swapping stations. The collaboration aims to standardize the technology, offering a three-minute 'refill' that could solve the EV charging bottleneck.
JetBrains Rider's latest update introduces an AI agent that automatically analyzes application performance. This helps developers quickly identify and fix bottlenecks without manual profiling, saving significant time and effort.
A federal court ruled states can regulate the prediction market Kalshi under their gambling laws. This creates a complex and costly legal patchwork for fintech platforms trying to operate nationwide.
Uber developed a new Kubernetes tool that separates scaling decisions from the actual scaling actions. This allows multiple systems to manage capacity safely, enabling regional failover without paying for constantly running idle servers.
JetBrains is rolling out a new compilation scheme for Kotlin Multiplatform to fix inconsistencies between the IDE and compiler. This update promises more reliable builds and better performance for developers using the cross-platform framework.
AWS has added foreign key support to its Aurora MySQL database, a feature users have long requested. This allows the database itself to enforce data consistency, removing a major reason some developers avoided the service.
The Java ecosystem saw a wave of updates, including major releases for TornadoVM and Groovy, plus new versions of GraalVM, Hibernate, and Quarkus. These releases offer developers performance gains, new features, and critical stability improvements across the board.
X-energy is building America's first advanced nuclear fuel plant in decades. The Tennessee facility will produce next-generation fuel, a potential solution for the massive power demands of AI and data centers.
Asus released a new workstation powered by Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell superchip. The $120,000 machine offers 748GB of unified memory, bringing on-premise AI supercomputing power to a desktop form factor for elite development teams.