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Secrets Management Tools: The Complete 2025 Guide

Pulumi ESC corrals secrets from 20 + stores—Vault, AWS, Azure, GCP—into a singleYAML config-as-codeengine. It spawns dynamic short-lived credentials and locks every action behind a centralized audit log. Existing secret stores stay intact. Retrieval hitssub-secondspeeds. Envelope encryption shields ..

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Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands

A hacker slipped a wiper intoAmazon Qv1.84.0 via a dodgy GitHub pull. AWS revoked every key, nuked the rogue commit, then rolled outAmazon Q v1.85.0...

Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands
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I Watched Gemini CLI Hallucinate and Delete My Files

The Gemini CLI on Windows bungled a failedmkdir. It flagged the error as success, then ranmovecommands. Files landed in a ghost folder and got overwritten. Data vanished. WindowsmkdirsetsERRORLEVELon failure.movetreats missing targets as rename directives. No exit-code checks. No read-after-write ve..

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SQL Injection as a Feature

Over ten years, the legacy report page mutated from a locked-downSQLform. It ended up as a hidden console spilling raw database guts. Developers swapped hardcoded queries fordatabase-drivenreport names. They slapped ontimeouts,string filters, and warnings but skipped restoring safe defaults. Implic..

SQL Injection as a Feature
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OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August, The Verge reports

OpenAI set to launch GPT-5 in August, blending distinct models for versatile AI functionality. Watch for potential delays due to development hurdles or competitor announcements.Implication: OpenAI is shifting from "one model fits all" to a modular AI architecture. Expect future LLMs to act more like..

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Alibaba Launches Qwen3-Coder AI Model for Agentic Programming Excellence

Alibaba unleashedQwen3-Coder, a480B-parameter MoE titan. It ignites35Bparameters per token to code, debug, and automate workflows. It spans256Ktokens of context—and can stretch to a million. It ships asQwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instructon Hugging Face and GitHub. It hooks intoQwen CodeCLI orClaude Code...

Alibaba Launches Qwen3-Coder AI Model for Agentic Programming Excellence
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AI As Profoundly Abnormal Technology

Scott Alexander’s team argues that AI is aprofoundly abnormal technologyon track forrecursive self-improvementwithin2–10 years. They counter (AIANT)’s view (AI As A Normal Technology) of slow, regulated diffusion by showing thatLLMsare rapidly adopted in medicine, law, and software — bypassing insti..

AI As Profoundly Abnormal Technology
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How AI data integration transforms your data stack

AI data integration obliterates manual ETL chores. It handlesschema mapping,transformation,anomaly detection. Deployments sprint ahead. Machine learning models digest structured, semi-structured, unstructured formats. They forge real-time pipelines bristling withgovernanceandsecurity. Infra shift:A..

How AI data integration transforms your data stack
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AI Coding Tools Underperform in Field Study with Experienced Developers

METRran an randomized controlled trial  (RCT) with 16 open-source devs. They tackled real-world code tasks usingClaude 3.5andCursor Pro. The pitch:40%speed boost. Reality:19%slowdown. A deep dive into 246 screen recordings laid bare friction in prompting, vetting suggestions, and merging code. That ..

AI Coding Tools Underperform in Field Study with Experienced Developers
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The vibe coder's career path is doomed

An AI-powered dev workflow combinedClaude,Playwright, and aPostgres-backed REST APIto ship 2–3 features per day. But as complexity grew, multi-agent loops broke down, tests ballooned, and schema drift demanded increasingly precise prompts and manual corrections.The result: more time spent managing c..

The vibe coder's career path is doomed