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The VibeSec Reckoning
Vibe coding has significantly accelerated software prototyping but AI agents frequently recommend insecure configurations, creating security problems. Gautam Koul, Lucian Moss, Neil Drew-Lopez, and Daberechi Ruth Edeokoh share their experience while building applications for Thoughtworks's global ma...
Cisco and OpenAI redefine enterprise engineering with Codex
Cisco and OpenAI are redefining enterprise engineering with Codex, helping Cisco scale AI-native development, accelerate AI Defense work, and automate defect remediation.
Building self-improving tax agents with Codex
See how OpenAI, Thrive, and Crete built a self-improving tax agent with Codex, automating filings, improving accuracy, and accelerating workflows.
Redpanda SQL is GA: the query engine that skips the pipeline
Your warehouse can't query data that hasn't been ingested yet. Redpanda SQL can. Ad hoc SQL against live topics and Iceberg history, no ETL pipeline required.
Warp’s big bet on building open source with GPT-5.5
Warp uses GPT-5.5 and OpenAI models to coordinate coding agents across local, cloud, and open-source development workflows.
Election information and safeguards in 2026
Ahead of global elections, we’re helping people access information, supporting cyber defenders, and increasing AI transparency
Reachy Mini goes fully local
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Shipping a Trillion Parameters With a Hub Bucket: Delta Weight Sync in TRL
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Canada’s Bill C-22 and the security cost of collecting more data
Bill C-22 would push secure services to collect more data, retain more metadata, and build new access paths. That’s bad for privacy, and bad for security.
Reconciling the Past: Correcting Records for Unfixed Kubernetes CVEs
The Kubernetes project relies on transparency to empower cluster administrators and security researchers. One important way we do that is by publishing CVE records into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database. As part of our ongoing effort to mature the official Kubernetes CVE Feed , we ha...
AI is becoming a first hire for small businesses
New research shows how 4 million Americans use ChatGPT to start, run, and grow small businesses, lowering the cost of entrepreneurship with AI.
OpenAI, Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL announce strategic content partnership
OpenAI partners with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL to bring trusted Brazilian journalism to ChatGPT, expanding access to news with attribution and transparency.
Harness, Scaffold, and the AI Agent Terms Worth Getting Right
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The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again
Massive demand for the role at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The latest version of the FDE role looks like the consultant / solution architect role done by many early-junior engineers.
How Virgin Atlantic ships faster with Codex
How Virgin Atlantic used Codex to ship its revamped mobile app on a fixed holiday travel deadline, reaching near-total unit test coverage and zero P1 defects.
OpenAI named a Leader in enterprise coding agents by Gartner
OpenAI is named a leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents, with Codex recognized for innovation and enterprise-scale deployment.
We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks
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Introducing Nova, our internal platform for coding agents
Nova lets engineers run multiple coding sessions in parallel and lets internal systems use AI agents as part of automated workflows.
AdventHealth advances whole-person care with OpenAI
AdventHealth is using ChatGPT for Healthcare to streamline workflows, reduce administrative burden, and return more time to patient care.
Bliki: Vibe Coding
Vibe coding is building a software application by prompting an LLM, telling it what to build, trying it out, prompting for changes - but without looking at any of the code that the LLM generates. This technique can be used by people without any knowledge of programming. However the resulting softwar...
Making It Easier Than Ever to Connect with Friends in League & VAL!
Link your Discord and Riot accounts to sync your friends lists, show your in-game activity as your Discord status, and invite your Discord friends directly to your League or VAL lobby.
Three more static code analysis sensors
Birgitta Böckeler adds discussion of three more sensors for static code analysis, focusing on checking and enforcing better modularity. Computational sensors for dependency checks were good at enforcing rules, but the rules were limited. Building a computational sensor for coupling data proved lackl...
Google Cloud deletes Australian trading fund’s infra
A $124B fund in Australia would have lost all data stored with Google Cloud, had they not relied on a third-party backup. A rare blunder from GCP, where regional replication did not stop the deletion – and a just as rare statement from Google Cloud’s CEO taking the blame.
Announcing etcd 3.7.0-beta.0
SIG-Etcd announces the availability of the first beta release of etcd v3.7.0 . This new version of the popular distributed database and key Kubernetes component includes the long-requested RangeStream feature, as well as a refactoring and cleanup of multiple legacy components and interfaces. v3.7 wi...
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.