Microsoft has pulled the WMIC command-line utility from Windows 11 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1 builds, ending a tool long abused by ransomware and other attackers.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation gave Kubeflow its top maturity tier, citing 6,600-plus contributors and 260 million PyPI downloads.
Apple's new M6 and M5 Ultra chips ship alongside Core AI, a new framework for building and deploying AI models on Apple silicon, with M5 Ultra supporting 512GB of unified memory.
TrueFoundry's MIT-licensed TrueForge harness matched Claude Managed Agents on a 14-task enterprise benchmark while costing up to 75% less per run.
Packer 1.16 adds a provenance post-processor and a verify-attestation command, letting teams cryptographically sign and check the origin of every machine image they build.
PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 landed August 13 alongside 19 Beta 3, patching 28 security flaws and over 110 bugs, with PostgreSQL 14 set to lose support in November.
A crafted marimo notebook could run an attacker's command as a local subprocess the moment it was opened in edit mode, via a fake MCP server entry in its configuration.
Doug Gregor detailed Embedded Swift additions landing ahead of Swift 6.4: broader `any` type support, untyped throws, and full metatype support.
A new paper testing seven defenses against AI-hallucinated software packages finds only RAG and Self-Refine hold up under adversarial prompting; Ruby stays the most vulnerable language.
OpenAI is bringing back a five-hour usage cap on Codex and ChatGPT Work for Plus subscribers starting August 25, citing compute load management.
NVIDIA's Groq-derived Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator is now shipping, promising ultrafast token generation for agentic coding workloads, with Nebius first to deploy it.
Dash0 buys Berlin's Polar Signals to bring CUDA-aware continuous profiling and a new storage engine into its OpenTelemetry-native observability platform.