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Microsoft doubles down on Rust
After many years of watching how Microsoft develops platforms and rolls out technologies to external users, one thing is clear: anything that is important to Microsoft internally quickly becomes important…
OpenAI bets enterprises are ready to delegate real work to autonomous agents
OpenAI says true agentic AI has finally arrived, pushing beyond the trivial capabilities of early-stage virtual assistants. This week at OpenAI Dev Day, the company introduced Dots, which CEO Sam…
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
OpenAI, which hoovered up vast amounts of internet content amid copyright fights, has accused individuals associated with China’s Moonshot AI of being involved in a “distillation attack” that began July…
Stack Overflow expands Stack Internal to give AI agents ‘trusted’ enterprise knowledge
As enterprises increasingly turn to coding agents for building applications, Stack Overflow has added new capabilities to Stack Internal, its enterprise-focused platform for centralizing proprietary technical knowledge, to help development…
16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows
A 16-year-old security researcher named Faav found an authentication flaw in Microsoft’s Titan analytics service that allowed him to gain administrator access, submit unauthorized SQL queries with no valid credentials,…
Unsloth’s model picker had a code-execution problem
True to its name, AI-model-training tool Unsloth would do more work than it was asked to when developers checked out a model: It would also allow arbitrary code to execute…
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in their ability to perform at least one basic cybersecurity task, according to the government’s latest skills survey. The annual research found…
Validating AI models and agents with property-based testing
Testing deterministic systems is relatively straightforward. Create an assertion that the system should pass, and automate validating it against a series of input-to-output data patterns. When new test patterns are…
Observability for AI-native systems: New SLIs beyond latency and error rate
When HTTP 200 means nothing An AI assistant can return a response in under a second, maintain 99.9% availability and still give customers a fabricated answer. Traditional dashboards will show…
AI cuts software developers some slack
My mom used to say that Hodges’s law was “Junk expands to fill the space allotted for it.” We lived in three houses over the years, each one bigger than…