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Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy

Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to int main(enter the void)...

AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 24

Break free from infrastructure limits: Nutanix and Dell for Agile, scalable IT

Webinar Join us here at 0900 PT, April 30, to find out more

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

AI Software Development Week12 Apr 2025 | 94

Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs

Cloud Next Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure

AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 18

Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in

Cloud Next Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 5

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky

Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 66

That massive GitHub supply chain attack? It all started with a stolen SpotBugs token

But this mystery isn't over yet, Unit 42 opines

Devops07 Apr 2025 | 7

Public-facing Kubernetes clusters at risk of takeover thanks to Ingress-Nginx flaw

How many K8s systems are sat on the internet front porch like that ... Oh, thousands, apparently

Patches25 Mar 2025 | 1

Show top LLMs some code and they'll merrily add in the bugs they saw in training

One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out

AI + ML19 Mar 2025 | 33

IBM likes Hashicorp, finally puts a $6.4B ring on it

Monopoly watchdogs forever hold their peace, unlike developers still unhappy about Terraform license switch

Devops28 Feb 2025 | 9

Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o

Updated Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity

AI + ML27 Feb 2025 | 127

Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs

Uncle Sam's number-crunchers warn lawyers, customer service reps to brace for change, say techies will be fine

Databases25 Feb 2025 | 11

If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them

Interview Aleph Alpha's Jonas Andrulis on the challenges of building sovereign AI

AI + ML23 Feb 2025 | 4

Docker delays Hub pull limits by a month, tweaks maximums, stalls storage billing indefinitely

Image fetches to be capped on hourly basis for Personal, unauthenticated use, paid-for plans get unlimited access

Devops22 Feb 2025 | 11

GitLab and its execs sued again and again over 'misleading' AI hype, price hikes

Bosses bragged about Duo Chat bot, buyers weren’t buying it – claim

AI + ML20 Feb 2025 | 7

Even Linus Torvalds can have trouble with autocycle … autocracy… AUTOCOMPLETE!

Penguin Emperor's weekly State Of The Kernel post went astray

OSes18 Feb 2025 | 38

IBM banks on friendlier US regulatory climate for dealmaking

Reckons completion of Hashicorp buy is around the corner, plans to use some of $7B free cash for more M&A

Devops31 Jan 2025 | 5

North Koreans clone open source projects to plant backdoors, steal credentials

Stealing crypto is so 2024. Supply-chain attacks leading to data exfil pays off better?

Devops29 Jan 2025 | 2

Don't want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now

SYSTEM-level command injection via API parameter *chef's kiss*

Patches24 Jan 2025 | 4

Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

Nailed just 15% of assigned tasks

AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 75

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Downward DOGE: Elon Musk keeps revising cost-trimming goals in a familiar pattern

Comment On top of that, Trump's increased federal spending almost completely negates $150B in cuts

Developer scored huge own goal by deleting almost every football fan in Europe

Who, Me? Fiddling with the production database – what could possibly go wrong?

Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic's USB-C for AI

Hands On Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it's not all sunshine and rainbows

Microsoft rated this bug as low exploitability. Miscreants weaponized it in just 8 days

It's now hitting govt, enterprise targets

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux

Can't run Windows 11? Don't want to? There are surprisingly legal options

Today's LLMs craft exploits from patches at lightning speed

Erlang? Er, man, no problem. ChatGPT, Claude to go from flaw disclosure to actual attack code in hours

ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it

Sam says it's Son's money well spent

ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' eye to speed up deportations

Only Peter Thiel-backed biz can pull off $30M IT deal, apparently

Bug hunter tricked SSL.com into issuing cert for Alibaba Cloud domain in 5 steps

10 other certificates 'were mis-issued and have now been revoked'

America's National Science Foundation tells DEI, misinfo studies: You're fired

No one should be excluded – unless you have certain views on the Mid-East crisis

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Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud went down 'hard' today

Same, Big A, same

SaaS21 Jan 2025 | 11

Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling

Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in

Nvidia GTC17 Jan 2025 | 11

In AI agent push, Microsoft re-orgs to create 'CoreAI – Platform and Tools' team

Nad lad says 30 years of change happening in 3 years ... we're certainly feeling the compression of time

AI + ML13 Jan 2025 | 10

Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't touch them

World Economic Forum finds huge demand for brainbox skills, news for how it changes your role

AI + ML10 Jan 2025 | 60

Brackets go there? Oops. That’s not where I used them and now things are broken

Who, Me? Weird syntax AND/OR a junior techie can be very bad for business

Devops06 Jan 2025 | 82

Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft

That strange time between Christmas and New Year – perfect for changing production projects

Devops02 Jan 2025 | 13

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

Python security developer-in-residence decries use of bots that 'cannot understand code'

Devops10 Dec 2024 | 91

Solana blockchain's popular web3.js npm package backdoored to steal keys, funds

Damage likely limited to those running bots with private PKI access

Cyber-crime05 Dec 2024 | 7

AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows

re:Invent Cloud colossus reckons it can clarify hallucinations, get your apps off Microsoft's OS at pleasing speed

AI + ML04 Dec 2024 | 36

We'll answer any questions DoJ has, HPE CEO tells us as Feds probe $14B Juniper buy

Takeover still expected to close late 2024 or early next year

Networks20 Nov 2024 | 11

HashiCorp unveils 'Terraform 2.0' while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room

HashiConf shindig oddly reluctant to mention impending IBM acquisition

Devops18 Oct 2024 | 15

Google's memory safety plan includes rehab for unsafe languages

Large C and C++ codebases will be around for the 'foreseeable future'

Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2024 | 30

You have issues with 'Issues' always being called 'Issues' in Jira, so Atlassian now allows them to be called ‘Tasks’

Developers get auto-coding ideas drawn from bug reports, and more AI besides

Devops10 Oct 2024 | 22

Deno 2.0 looks to backward compatibility to move forward

Modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript plays nicer with Node.js

Devops09 Oct 2024 | 4

Rackspace internal monitoring web servers hit by zero-day

Exclusive Intruders accessed machines via tool bundled with ScienceLogic, 'limited' info taken, customers told not to worry

Cybersecurity Month30 Sep 2024 | 9

As IBM pushes for more automation, its AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff

So say our sources, who warn job cuts, outsourcing risk depriving biz of seasoned technical talent

Off-Prem24 Sep 2024 | 53

While HashiCorp plays license roulette, Virter rolls out to rescue FOSS VM testing

Open Source Summit Europe BSL shenanigans continue to make waves

Devops20 Sep 2024 | 7

Deadline looms: Google Workspace mandates OAuth by September 30

27 days to get your users' third-party apps on Google’s sign-in

Devops03 Sep 2024 | 8

Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps

Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data

Devops03 Sep 2024 | 2

You probably want to patch this critical GitHub Enterprise Server bug now

Unless you're cool with an unauthorized criminal enjoying admin privileges to comb through your code

Patches21 Aug 2024 |

Core Python developer suspended for three months

Code of Conduct violations include allegations that posts created 'atmosphere of FUD'

Devops09 Aug 2024 | 236

It's 2024 and we're just getting round to stopping browsers insecurely accessing 0.0.0.0

Can't reach someone's private server on localhost from outside? No problem

Research09 Aug 2024 | 39

Study backer: Catastrophic takes on Agile overemphasize new features

Interview Users just want stuff that works. How hard can it be?

Devops07 Aug 2024 | 92

OpenTofu hits version 1.8 with more crowd-pleasing features

Open source TerraForm rival introduces a new file extension so users can 'keep older code around for compatibility'

Devops31 Jul 2024 | 5

DigiCert gives unlucky folks 24 hours to replace doomed certificates after code blunder

For the want of an underscore

CSO31 Jul 2024 | 27

FYI: Data from deleted GitHub repos may not actually be deleted

And the forking Microsoft-owned code warehouse doesn't see this as much of a problem

CSO25 Jul 2024 | 49

Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up 'reimagining' project

Interview Jon Kern is looking for Agile exemplars, not the 'Agile Industrial Complex'

Devops16 Jul 2024 | 156

A friendly guide to containerization for AI work

Hands on Save the headaches, ship your dependencies

AI + ML07 Jul 2024 | 4

CISA looked at C/C++ projects and found a lot of C/C++ code. Wanna redo any of it in Rust?

So, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and unsafe dependencies

Research28 Jun 2024 | 81

If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – like 100,000+ are – remove it immediately

Scripts turn sus after mysterious CDN swallows domain

CSO25 Jun 2024 | 61

Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started

Hands on In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story

AI + ML22 Jun 2024 | 6

Um, what ever did happen with network automation?

Systems Approach Is it lingering somewhere between fusion power and self-driving cars?

Networks17 Jun 2024 | 10

From RAGs to riches: A practical guide to making your local AI chatbot smarter

Hands on Nine out of 10 execs recommend adding Retrieval Augmented Generation to your daily regimen

AI + ML15 Jun 2024 | 27

K8s celebrates KuberTENes: A decade of working together

Give yourselves a pat on the back - all 88,000 of you

Devops12 Jun 2024 | 1

More layoffs at Microsoft: What's really going on here?

Analysis We had a record quarter, so sorry to see you go

On-Prem04 Jun 2024 | 69

Google’s in-house docs about search ranking leak online, sparking SEO frenzy

Updated GitHub trove details API features that 'contradict' Big G’s public statements about how its engine works

Devops29 May 2024 | 39

By 2030, software developers will be using AI to cut their workload 'in half'

Prepare for the HyperAssistant of the future, maybe

AI Software Development Week28 May 2024 | 98

Was there no one at Microsoft who looked at Recall and said: This really, really sucks

Kettle Our vultures weigh in on the week that was more 'what we Built' than 'what you can Build'

OSes25 May 2024 | 75

GitHub Enterprise Server patches 10-outta-10 critical hole

On the bright side, someone made up to $30,000+ for finding it

Patches22 May 2024 | 3

Computer sprinkled with exotic chemicals produced super-problems, not super-powers

On Call The machine was so dead, hospital staff treated it like a corpse

Devops17 May 2024 | 95

AWS CISO tells The Reg: In the AI gold rush, folks are forgetting application security

RSAC 'Everybody's learning as they go. But there's a rush to get these apps out'

AI + ML13 May 2024 | 5

Did IBM make a $6.4B blunder by buying HashiCorp?

Opinion Terraform maker's programs are ideal fit for Big Blue, but why splash out when the software's free and open?

Devops10 May 2024 | 48

I told Halle Berry where to go during a programming gig in LA

On Call Five-star techies share stories of working from the lap of luxury

Devops10 May 2024 | 95

Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs

Microsoft-backed super-lab gets direct access to answers – and code forum gets its own AI

AI + ML07 May 2024 | 26

Atlassian outsources office drudgery to GenAI agents

Rovo will write to-do lists, create graphics, become virtual colleagues to whom you offload scutwork

Devops03 May 2024 | 6

Open source programming language R patches gnarly arbitrary code exec flaw

Updated An ACE in the hole for miscreants

Patches01 May 2024 | 1

Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison

The software redemption

Devops25 Apr 2024 | 29

Crooks exploit OpenMetadata holes to mine crypto – and leave a sob story for victims

'I want to buy a car. That's all'

Cyber-crime18 Apr 2024 | 6

75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively

Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns

Devops13 Apr 2024 | 45

What can be done to protect open source devs from next xz backdoor drama?

Kettle What happened, how it was found, and what your vultures have made of it all

Research06 Apr 2024 | 93

How this open source LLM chatbot runner hit the gas on x86, Arm CPUs

Way to whip that LLaMA's ass

Applications03 Apr 2024 | 3

Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source

Analysis This time, we got lucky. It mostly affected bleeding-edge distros. But that's not a defense strategy

Devops01 Apr 2024 | 98

Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams

Code shines up nicely in production, says Chocolate Factory's Bergstrom

Devops31 Mar 2024 | 134

Docker launches Testcontainers on former rival Red Hat's OpenShift

Interview CEO Scott Johnston on company pivots and trying not to surprise the community

Devops23 Mar 2024 | 6

HashiCorp reportedly considering sale amid growing challenges

Who would want to snap up Terraform?

Devops18 Mar 2024 | 2

What is GitHub Copilot Enterprise? You and your org just might find out firsthand

Big biz invited to like and subscribe, without fear of litigation

Devops27 Feb 2024 | 7

Twilio reminds users that Authy Desktop apps die in March – not in August

'This is an excellent way to piss off thousands of developers'

Devops15 Feb 2024 | 31

ANZ Bank test drives GitHub Copilot – and finds AI does give a helping hand

Expert Python programmers saw the most benefit

AI + ML10 Feb 2024 | 40

GitOps pioneer Weaveworks unravels after funding fabric frays

Company burned through $61.6M in investment

CxO06 Feb 2024 | 3

Google throws $1M at Rust Foundation to build C++ bridges

Chocolate Factory matches Microsoft money for memory safety

Devops05 Feb 2024 | 14

AI-generated bug reports are seriously annoying for developers

Hallucinated programming flaws vex curl project

Devops04 Jan 2024 | 15

CloudBees co-founder buzzes about open source drama and AI

Interview Sacha Labourey on the HashiCorp license, Jenkins X experiments, and when LLMs will come for your job

Devops03 Jan 2024 | 2

SUSE's Captain Container on sailing the open source seas

Interview Peter Smails talks community, licensing, and AI pragmatism

Devops18 Dec 2023 | 1

HashiCorp loses its Hashi, keeps the Corp as co-founder waves goodbye

Mitchell Hashimoto departs, apparently unconnected to controversial licensing change

Devops15 Dec 2023 | 3

GitLab admits IT ineptitude in finance reporting is ongoing

Code shack has had two years since auditor's 'adverse opinion' to get house in order

Devops07 Dec 2023 | 8

You can't deepfake diversity, and that's a good thing

Opinion Fresh thinking and new approaches can only come from varied cohorts of people

Devops04 Dec 2023 | 26

Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant

Re:Invent Anthropic CEO also rocks up on stage for reasons

Devops28 Nov 2023 | 7

AWS previews AppFabric for productivity – pitched as AI-powered glue between apps

Re:Invent Park user data in Amazon's servers for ML-generated insights and actions – yea or nay for you?

Devops28 Nov 2023 | 1

DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked

Anna? Oh, she was just a demo persona, says organizer

Devops28 Nov 2023 | 21

CompSci teachers panic as Replit pulls the plug on educational IDE

It 'was losing a ton of money for the business,' CEO complains

Devops21 Nov 2023 | 36

Open source work makes me appreciate software testing. It's not an academic exercise

Systems Approach Literally...

Devops07 Nov 2023 | 18

HashiCorp CEO talks license changes and the role of foundations

Interview Open Source or Source Available? Does anyone really care?

Devops19 Oct 2023 | 8

HashiCorp Vault scans for skeletons in your code closet

HashiConf Added functionality follows BluBracket acquisition earlier this year

Devops11 Oct 2023 |

HashiCorp tweaks Terraform with user interface changes and AI infused testing

HashiConf Can I use AI to write me a license that won't annoy the open-source community?

Devops11 Oct 2023 |

If you want to fund open source code via Patreon with GitHub, well now you can

Exploited open source maintainers get broader payment pleading options

Devops03 Oct 2023 | 4

And now for something completely different: Python 3.12

Nobody expects more flexible string parsing

Devops03 Oct 2023 | 29

GitHub alienates developers by force feeding them AI recommendations

Decision to combine user-curated feed with algorithmic stuff leaves coders fuming

Devops13 Sep 2023 | 40

AI coding is 'inescapable' and here to stay, says GitLab

Getting strong FOMO vibes from devs – tho how ML is actually used among engineers may surprise you

Devops05 Sep 2023 | 23

From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars?

Opinion WebAssembly is getting a lot of hype, but is it the game-changer some think it is?

Devops01 Sep 2023 | 68

OpenTF forks Terraform, insists HashiCorp is the splinter group

Dude, stop hitting yourself

Devops28 Aug 2023 | 13

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