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Z.ai disables coding assistant feature after flaw exposed enterprise code upload risk

Z.ai’s default-enabled workflow sent entire local repositories to cloud infrastructure, raising fresh concerns over how AI tools handle sensitive source code.

By Gyana Swain

Sep 22, 20264 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData and Information SecurityDevelopment Tools

AI agents fall for indirect prompt injection traps

Hidden instructions on websites con agents into falling for scams that a human would see through, says Zscaler.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 6, 2026 5 mins

Cybercrime Fraud Vulnerabilities

Rust language rises to top 10 in Tiobe popularity index

A strong focus on memory safety and speed accounts for Rust’s growing popularity, while competitors C and C++ continue to struggle with memory management challenges, Tiobe said.

By Paul Krill

Jul 6, 2026 3 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

AI token prices are cooling — but why?

We’re not spending as much on AI as we were two months ago — but it’s anyone’s guess why.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jul 3, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s AI chief says new Muse Spark update will sharpen coding, agentic AI

Alexandr Wang said the upcoming Muse Spark update will significantly improve coding and agentic capabilities, while analysts say the model could give enterprises a lower-cost alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 3, 2026 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Microsoft launches AI engineering company

Microsoft Frontier Company will embed engineering experts at customers to co-design, co-innovate, and continuously improve their AI systems, Microsoft said.

By Paul Krill

Jul 2, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Visual Studio Code improves tools for agents

VS Code 1.127 enhances agent session management, introduces per-site browser permissions, and makes browser tools for agents generally available.

By Paul Krill

Jul 2, 2026 2 mins

Development Tools Integrated Development Environments Visual Studio Code

AWS raises AgentCore runtime quotas by up to 5x to help enterprises scale AI agents

Higher default limits would allow organizations to run more concurrent AI agent sessions and handle larger workloads without seeking quota increases.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 2, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing

Argo CD flaw shows why GitOps infrastructure should be treated as tier zero

The unpatched vulnerability could give attackers a pathway from a compromised pod to broader control over Kubernetes deployments.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jul 2, 2026 4 mins

Development Tools Security Software Development

Go-based TypeScript 7.0 reaches release candidate stage

First version of TypeScript built with Go is 10x faster than JavaScript-based TypeScript 6, according to Microsoft.

By Paul Krill

Jul 1, 2026 2 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages TypeScript

SnapLogic MCP Builder eases creation of MCP servers

MCP Builder, now generally available in the SnapLogic platform, generates MCP servers from existing integrations, OpenAPI specifications, and API management services, SnapLogic said.

By Paul Krill

Jul 1, 2026 1 min

Application Integration Development Tools Generative AI

AWS aims to lower log analytics costs with new analytics engine for managed OpenSearch

The new engine could let enterprises retain more telemetry data for compliance and incident response at lower cost, although migration work and missing query support may slow adoption, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 1, 2026 4 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence

End of support looms for .NET 8 and .NET 9

Microsoft will no longer provide servicing updates, security fixes, or technical support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 after November 10, 2026.

By Paul Krill

Jul 1, 2026 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Claude Sonnet 5 boosts coding, reasoning, and tool use

Claude Sonnet 5 is the most agentic Sonnet model yet, rivaling Opus 4.8 in performance at lower prices, Anthropic said.

By Paul Krill

Jun 30, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Rust introduces new Range types

Rust 1.96.0 stabilizes a set of replacement range types that implement IntoIterator rather than Iterator, helping developers avoid the ‘footgun’ of implementing both Iterator and Copy.

By Paul Krill

Jun 30, 2026 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Microsoft MCP server gives AI assistants access to MSBuild logs

The Microsoft Binlog MCP Server enables AI-powered build failure diagnosis, property tracing, performance analysis, and build comparison through natural language queries.

By Paul Krill

Jun 30, 2026 2 mins

Build Automation Development Tools Devops

MongoDB embeds reranking into Atlas as enterprises look to simplify AI stacks for scale

Bringing reranking into the database could reduce developer overhead, simplify AI operations, and lower inference costs, though CIOs should weigh those benefits against integration trade-offs, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 30, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Management Databases

Microsoft unveils Memora to tackle AI agents’ memory problem

The research project promises more efficient long-term recall by organizing knowledge around abstractions and cue-based retrieval instead of raw conversation history.

By Nidhi Singal

Jun 30, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Kotlin improves compile-time constants

Experimental improvements to compile-time constants in Kotlin 2.4.0 promise to make support for numeric and string types more consistent and easier to use.

By Paul Krill

Jun 30, 2026 2 mins

Kotlin Programming Languages Software Development

Azul offers free JVM vulnerability risk assessment

Azul’s free risk assessment for Java estates addresses the blind spot that autonomous AI exploitation tools are increasingly able to find, the company said.

By Paul Krill

Jun 29, 2026 2 mins

Application Security Java Programming Languages

VS Code stops trusting your code by default

VS Code 1.26 prevents automatic code execution for new project folders, lets users configure whether code can be executed without explicit approval.

By Paul Krill

Jun 29, 2026 3 mins

Development Tools Integrated Development Environments Visual Studio Code

Deno update streamlines creation of desktop apps

Experimental ‘deno desktop’ feature in Deno 2.9 produces a native desktop application that compiles into a single distributable binary.

By Paul Krill

Jun 29, 2026 2 mins

JavaScript TypeScript WebAssembly

US tells OpenAI to restrict access to its most powerful AI model

The Trump administration is getting twitchy about the power of the new models.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jun 26, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence

pgEdge joins rush to merge OLTP and OLAP storage to support AI

pgEdge’s ColdFront could appeal to enterprises looking to reduce storage costs without sacrificing application compatibility or the ability to modify historical data.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 26, 2026 6 mins

Analytics Databases Transaction Processing

Agentic AI security steals the spotlight at Confidential Computing Summit

Security for AI agents increasingly resembles the trust infrastructure that underpins today’s internet, confidential computing experts observed.

By Travis Van

Jun 25, 2026 6 mins

Data and Information Security Security

New Linux Foundation project aims to bring DNS-style trust to AI agents

Agent Name Service would create a standardized way to verify identity and capabilities across enterprise AI systems.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 25, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance Data Management

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to scrape Claude AI

The alleged campaign generated 28.8 million queries in a large-scale model-extraction effort to replicate AI capabilities.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jun 25, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Technology Industry

AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll

Growing use of coding agents and consumption-based pricing models could push per-developer AI spending to unprecedented levels over the next two years, says Gartner.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 24, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development

Anthropic’s Claude Tag aims to turn workplace AI from a personal assistant into a teammate

The Slack-based offering could reduce coordination overhead for engineering and business teams.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 24, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence

EDB converges analytics on Postgres to support AI agents

EDB’s Postgres-first approach to converged analytics could appeal to enterprises seeking greater control over data, governance, and AI infrastructure.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 23, 2026 5 mins

Databases PostgreSQL Relational Databases

OpenAI rolls out AI-led push to fix open-source software flaws

‘Patch the Planet’ pairs automated analysis with expert review to uncover and remediate vulnerabilities in core infrastructure projects.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jun 23, 2026 5 mins

Open Source Security Vulnerabilities

GitHub Actions hardens checkout security to block ‘pwn request’ attacks

After years of trying to educate developers to use pull_request_target securely, the platform finally implements stronger defaults.

By John E. Dunn

Jun 22, 2026 4 mins

Code Security GitHub Version Control Systems

AWS Continuum offers devs help with securing code

Continuum is a new service intended to hep developers and security teams secure their own code and that of others too, with a goal of automating remediation.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 22, 2026 5 mins

Amazon Web Services Code Security IaaS

Researchers grow a hypothesis tree for AI coding agents

A new framework, Arbor, they claim, preserves hypotheses, experiments, and lessons learned across long-running research tasks, delivering 2.5x better performance than other models under the same budget.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 19, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Solving an ARD problem in AI: Agentic Resource Discovery

Microsoft, Google, Cisco and others propose a new way to help AI agents discover the tools they need to perform the tasks they are assigned.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jun 19, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Governance IT Governance Frameworks

OpenAI gets the attention it needs from AI researcher Noam Shazeer

Shazeer, who contributed key insights to the development of today’s AI models, is transferring from Google.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jun 19, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Google, Microsoft offer specs to help you prove your AI is behaving nicely

The Appia Foundation won’t set standards or regulations, but aims to help enterprises evaluate their compliance with them.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jun 19, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Governance IT Leadership

AWS aims to take the pain out of RAG with Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base

The new service automates embeddings, indexing, and connectors to help developers focus on building AI apps instead of maintaining data pipelines.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 19, 2026 4 mins

Amazon Web Services Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

AI coding agents may be getting bad instructions from ‘smelly’ config files

The first proposed catalog of ‘configuration smells’ reveals widespread issues like context bloat, skill leakage, and conflicting instructions that can make coding agents less reliable and more expensive.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 18, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development

Databricks targets AI operations bottlenecks with ZeroOps

Databricks’ Genie ZeroOps shifts engineers from firefighting data issues to reviewing AI-generated fixes.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 18, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Management

France’s OVHcloud bets on frontier AI as Europe seeks alternatives to US models

The company says the cost of training frontier AI models has fallen sharply, but analysts say the bigger challenge may be keeping those systems updated without undermining sovereignty or commercial viability.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jun 18, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

AWS targets software release bottlenecks with DevOps Agent update

The new release management features validate, test, and review AI-generated code before deployment.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 17, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

From RAG to ontology: Databricks bets on context as the key to trusted AI agents

Genie Ontology aims to unify business definitions across systems, but analysts say data quality and governance will make or break adoption.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 17, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance Data Management

Z.ai pitches GLM-5.2 for long-running software engineering tasks

The open-source model combines a one million-token context window with architectural updates aimed at lowering the cost of repository-scale AI coding.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jun 17, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

SpaceX’s planned $60 billion deal for Cursor raises questions for CIOs

Analysts differ on the likely impact, some arguing that the deal gives Cursor the compute expansion it needs, while others worry that Cursor’s trustworthiness could be threatened.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 16, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Databricks pitches LTAP as a new foundation for agentic applications

By merging transactional and analytical workloads, LTAP promises fewer pipelines, lower costs, and better governance.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 16, 2026 7 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Data Management

DocLang aims to make documents readable by AI, not humans

Development of the AI-native DocLang document format raises questions about its impact on human workers, as well as on governance and accountability.

By Paul Barker

Jun 16, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance IT Governance

Google unveils DiffusionGemma, an AI model that breaks free of left-to-right processing

Rather than generating text word by word, Google’s experimental open-source model drafts entire passages simultaneously using diffusion, resulting in up to 4x faster inference.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 12, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology