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Adding insult to injury A human ransomware crook used frontier AI models to breach an enterprise network in less than 10 hours, an intrusion Unit 42 says would normally take human operators around two weeks. The human attacker then told negotiators that they used frontier models and agentic attack frameworks
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The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data Microsoft is set to launch the next iteration of C# this November. Redmond recently unveiled a preview of C# 15 that introduces tighter restrictions on data types alongside enhanced memory safety protections. Perhaps the
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Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds EXCLUSIVE What's old is new again as VMware will soon release an updated version of vSphere Standard, the low-end server virtualization bundle that it hasn’t significantly changed for years and
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At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a stage of its own. This year, the technology, implications, and players are so rapidly developing and widespread that we’re expanding the single AI stage into two! The AI Stage will continue
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When enterprise buyers build out their next AI accelerator evaluation list this cycle, they're more likely to put a non-Nvidia chip on it than Nvidia's own next-generation GPU. According to VentureBeat's July VB Pulse survey of 170 AI infrastructure respondents, 39.4% said they&
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Adobe for Slack lets Slackbot turn conversations and shared files into images, video and documents using Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat and more than 70 other tools. Article 50 of the EU AI Act now requires synthetic content to be marked in a machine-readable format, and the Commission’s own guidance
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I’m officially at the four-week mark working on Shipaton, and another progress update is here. Note: This is the 4th post about my work towards shipping an app for the Shipaton 2026 hackathon. If you want to read from the beginning you can find the link to the first
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Every phone in Apple’s iPhone 17 series easily earned a spot on CNET’s list of the best phones for 2026. They include powerful hardware, a gorgeous design, speedy performance and fantastic cameras. However, Apple’s well-known high quality comes at a price. Still, there’s no reason to
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Coder has announced Agent Relay, a self-hosted execution environment that lets Cursor’s cloud agents run inside a customer’s own infrastructure, with SpaceXAI as launch partner and the product in private preview. Cursor continues to run inference and planning, so under the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act it
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* Forescout researchers showed AI can port RCE exploits to PLCs, achieving DoS and shellcode execution * Effort required heavy researcher input and $500+ in API usage, making attacks impractical for criminals * Nation‑state actors remain a concern, as seen in Sandworm’s 2025 attack on Poland’s power grid If you
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SummaryThis post is for technical decision makers evaluating where to run production PostgreSQL workloads. It compares two valid operating models—self-managed PostgreSQL and a managed database service—through business and operational outcomes: control, engineering capacity, resilience, security, cost predictability, risk tolerance, and access to specialist expertise. The right choice depends
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As organizations accelerate AI adoption and modernize their digital estates, applications, data, and infrastructure increasingly span multiple cloud environments. Customers are choosing the best platform for each workload, leveraging unique capabilities across providers to drive innovation, resilience, and business agility. Yet while multicloud strategies have become commonplace, networking between cloud
