SSMS 22.1 now out, destructive database commands powered by AI coming soon

SQL Server Management Studio 22.1.0 is now available with lots of improvements for GitHub Copilot. A powerful Agent Mode is ...
Computer Weekly

NCSC warns of confusion over true nature of AI prompt injection

Malicious prompt injections to manipulate generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) large language models (LLMs) are being ...
InfoQ

MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base

A recent report has analyzed the repository statistics of the MySQL server to evaluate the project's status, Oracle's commitment to MySQL, and the future of the community edition. Julia Vural, ...

Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database

An AI image generator startup’s database was left accessible to the open internet, revealing more than 1 million images and ...

In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool

Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US Department of Homeland systems have once again been ...

Amazon wants to demolish your tech debt like it did this AWS server - here's the plan

Amazon just dropped a server off a crane to showcase its upgraded AWS Transform service, revealing how agentic AI could rewrite millions of legacy lines faster than developers ever imagined.
InfoWorld

How GlassWorm wormed its way back into developers’ code — and what it says about open source security

Pervasive, evasive malware thought to have been eliminated has wormed its way back into development environments. Just a little over two weeks after GlassWorm was declared “fully contained and closed” ...
The New York Times

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.

The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published. By Gina Kolata Letters ...
NPR

Racist slurs, naughty words, and how dictionary editors define them

How do we define slurs like the N-word? Whether it’s heated debates about racist or ableist slurs, arguments about gender, or even new kinds of profanity, dictionary editors have been at the center of ...
GeekWire

Amazon links Nova Act, its AI agent creator, to VS Code, Cursor and Kiro

Amazon introduced a Nova Act extension to build and test AI agents directly inside integrated development environments including Visual Studio Code, Amazon’s Kiro, and Cursor. The company says the new ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Elevate SQL Development with VS Code

As SQL development increasingly becomes part of full-stack workflows, developers are looking for ways to simplify their tooling without compromising capability. While SQL Server Management Studio ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code SQL Extension Previews Microsoft Fabric Connectivity

Microsoft updated its free MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code with new Fabric connectivity and provisioning features in public preview, alongside GitHub Copilot slash commands and multiple ...