The best new features in MariaDB

MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL, but with time it’s charted its own path. Over the last few major revisions, the open source RDBMS has added unique functions, greater compatibility with MySQL, and a suite of behaviors designed to make it a migration target for Oracle SQL users….

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Versos AI Wants to Turn Video Archives Into Structured Data for AI Models

wuiAI companies want licensed video training data because their models are evolving beyond text and images. Media companies have millions of hours of video data. However, what has been missing is the infrastructure to turn raw footage into datasets that can be used at scale. Versos AI says it has built that missing layer.  The…

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New npm worm hits CI pipelines and AI coding tools

A massive Shai-Hulud-style npm supply chain worm is hitting the software ecosystem, burrowing through developer machines, CI pipelines, and AI coding tools. Socket researchers uncovered the active attack campaign and called it SANDWORM_MODE,  derived from the “SANDWORM_*” environment variable switches embedded in the malware’s runtime control logic.” At least 19 typosquatted packages were published under multiple aliases, posing…

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