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Attackers breached Dashlane's systems and downloaded fewer than 20 encrypted user password vaults. While the data remains encrypted, the incident highlights a vulnerability in the company's API that allowed for a coordinated brute-force campaign.
Microsoft is updating six Windows apps, most notably adding an optional Copilot watermark for AI-edited images in the Photos app. The feature is off by default, giving users control over labeling AI content.
Traditional BI semantic layers standardize business metrics for reports and dashboards. However, to ground AI models effectively, a new 'context layer' is needed. This layer provides deeper business context, relationships, and operational data, ensuring AI applications generate accurate and reliable insights.
Ubuntu has released patches for multiple critical vulnerabilities in Nginx. The flaws could expose sensitive information during SMTP authentication and allow attackers to inject plain text into proxied TLS connections. These issues affect core web server and mail proxy functionalities, requiring immediate attention from administrators.
The European Commission has launched a new strategy to boost its technological independence. A central part of the plan is a major push to adopt and contribute to open-source software across public services and industry.
AI safety researchers are developing new methods to create more robust 'model organisms'—specialized AIs used for testing alignment techniques. Current models are often too fragile, ceasing their misaligned behavior after general training, which undermines the reliability of safety experiments and the development of effective safeguards.
Managing numerous schemas in data pipelines like Kafka and Flink can become complex and costly. An InfoQ article explores this "schema proliferation" and suggests a consolidation strategy to simplify queries, reduce maintenance, and make systems more scalable and resilient.
Dutch financial crime investigators have seized 800 servers and arrested two individuals connected to a web hosting company. The firm is accused of providing infrastructure for cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, and other malicious online activities, highlighting a crackdown on so-called 'bulletproof' hosting services.
IBM Japan is developing a new solution called ALSEA to help large companies integrate generative AI into their software development. The tool aims to standardize and govern AI use, moving it from experimentation to a core part of IT.
A new study finds workers spend as much time managing AI tools as they do on productive work. This "botsitting" creates new chores, offsetting the time saved and challenging the real-world productivity gains promised by AI vendors.
Google DeepMind researchers found that simply filtering out undesirable content from an AI's training data is not an effective safety measure. This highlights a fundamental challenge in preventing harmful outputs from large language models.
Xiaomi has open-sourced MiMo Code, an AI tool for developers. The company claims it can handle complex, multi-step coding tasks better than leading models like Claude, which often fail when small errors build up over time.
A developer used open-source ML models on an M1 Max to index nearly 700 GB of GoPro video. This shows modern consumer hardware can handle complex AI tasks without the cloud, offering a private, low-cost alternative.
Four major long-term support (LTS) versions of Java will all reach their end-of-support dates within a tight three-year window. This sets the stage for a future upgrade bottleneck for companies needing to maintain security and support.
A UK police officer is under criminal investigation for allegedly using AI to fabricate evidence in multiple cases. The landmark case raises urgent questions about digital forensics, data integrity, and trust in the justice system.
Shutterstock has launched a new platform integrating its massive stock library with generative AI tools for creating and editing images and video. The move positions it to compete directly with Adobe and Canva in the AI-native creative space.
HashiCorp has released a new open-source tool that allows AI assistants to manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform. This aims to boost productivity by automating repetitive tasks for developers and IT teams, letting them focus on more critical work.
A new version of the classic Vim text editor, Vim Classic, has been released. It's a long-term support fork intentionally developed without using any generative AI tools, offering a stable, AI-free alternative for developers.
Simple vector search is no longer enough for production AI. Companies are now building hybrid systems that combine it with ranking and personalization to deliver more relevant and useful results.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's private warnings to U.S. officials about AI risks led to new export controls on advanced models from Anthropic. This move could restrict global access to top-tier AI and impact teams on Amazon Bedrock.
JetBrains is letting educators from platforms like Udemy and Coursera embed hands-on coding practice directly into its IDEs. The move aims to bridge the gap between theoretical online courses and real-world developer workflows.
Google DeepMind researchers discovered that Gemini's safety features primarily come from supervised fine-tuning (SFT), not reinforcement learning (RL) as commonly thought. This changes how we understand and build safe AI models.
AWS has released CDK Mixins, a new feature for its Cloud Development Kit. It allows developers to create and apply reusable code for security, monitoring, and configuration across different cloud resources, saving time and enforcing standards.
Google is testing a new web standard, WebMCP, that allows AI agents to interact with websites directly. This creates a reliable way for AI to perform tasks, replacing older, error-prone methods like screen scraping.