MariaDB buys back the company it sold two years ago
MariaDB, a company that as recently as last year was very much in transition due in part to the fact its new CEO, Rohit de Souza, is a specialist in preparing organizations for acquisition and resale, went in another direction Tuesday by making an acq...
Microsoft unveils Proxy 4 library for polymorphic coding in C++
Microsoft has released Proxy 4, an update of its Proxy library for runtime polymorphism in the C++ language. The new release introduces building blocks for composing facades, aliases to express borrowing and weak ownership patterns, helpers for effici...
Critical Docker Desktop flaw allows container escape
Users of Docker Desktop on Windows and Mac are urged to upgrade to the latest version to patch a critical vulnerability that could allow an attacker to break the container isolation layer and potentially take over the host system. The flaw could also ...
How to avoid the risks of rapidly deploying AI agents
In a recent poll of technology executives, 92% said they expected to increase AI spending over the next year. Half expected more than 50% of their organization’s AI deployments to be autonomous within the next 24 months. These AI investments include...
How does AI affect cloud attack vectors?
Drawing on key insights from the paper “AI Risk Atlas: Taxonomy and Tools for Navigating AI Risks,” it’s clear the industry faces a crucial challenge. The authors provide a comprehensive framework for understanding, classifying, and mitigating t...
A wake-up call for identity security in devops
In early 2025, GitHub lit up with confusion and more than a little panic. Thousands of developers found suspicious issues posted in their public repositories, flagged with a GitHub-style “Security Alert: Unusual Access Attempt” warning. The proble...
Visual Studio Code update auto-starts MCP servers
The newly released Visual Studio Code 1.103, also known as the July 2025 version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, adds the ability to configure auto-start behavior for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Announced August 7, VS Code 1.103 ...
Databricks buys Tecton to give context to AI agents
To perform tasks as well as a human, AI agents need context — something that has been lacking in many systems to date, according to Databricks. It hopes to fill that gap with a new acquisition, that of San Francisco-based machine learning startup T...
What alternative clouds are good for
Alternative clouds are having a moment. Nearly 75% of organizations are using two or more alternative cloud providers, according to a HostingAdvice.com survey of 500 IT leaders from May 2025. These alternative clouds refer to cloud providers outside t...
Enterprise essentials for generative AI
Every day brings a new, better large language model (LLM) or a new approach to finding signal in all the AI noise. It’s exhausting to try to keep up. But here’s a comforting yet uncomfortable truth about enterprise AI: Most of what’s loud today ...
Generative AI dos, don’ts, and ‘undos’
AI agents are undeniably powerful, but wielding that power responsibly is another story. This month’s picks dive into the real-world dos and don’ts of generative AI: Best practices for using genAI tools for code generation, how to avoid the trap o...
From cloud migration to cloud optimization
The vision of the cloud as a cost-efficient solution captured the imagination of IT leaders during its years of mass adoption. Enterprises expected to save significantly by leveraging the scalability of public cloud infrastructure and paying only for ...
Anthropic adds Claude Code to its Claude enterprise plans
Anthropic has bundled Claude Code, its agent-based command line interface (CLI) coding tool, into the enterprise plans for its generative AI chatbot Claude, in an effort to help streamline developer workflows as well as to take on rivals such as Gemin...
How to upload files using minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We’ve discussed minimal APIs in several earlier posts here. We’ve examined how we can implement in-memory cach...
Up and running with Azure Linux 3.0
Microsoft’s move to the cloud-native world means it’s now the custodian of several quite different Linux distributions. Some are internal tools that run deep parts of Azure’s networking infrastructure; others are part of Azure’s Internet of Th...
