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Malicious pgserve, automagik developer tools found in npm registry

Application developers are being warned that malicious versions of pgserve, an embedded PostgreSQL server for application development, and automagik, an AI coding tool, have been dropped into the npm JavaScript registry, where they could poison developers’ computers. Downloading and using these versions will lead to the theft of data, tokens, SSH keys, credentials, including those…

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Microsoft issues out-of-band patch for critical security flaw in update to ASP.NET Core

Developers are advised to check their applications after Microsoft revealed that last week’s ASP.NET Core update inadvertently introduced a serious security flaw into the web framework’s Data Protection Library. Microsoft describes the issue as a “regression,” coding jargon for an update that breaks something that was previously working correctly. In this case, what was introduced…

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Datadog Report: The Silent Failure Problem in AI Is About to Hit Enterprise System

Datadog’s latest State of AI Engineering report points to a measurable failure problem in enterprise AI systems. Around 1 in 20 requests already fail in production, yet systems continue to run and return outputs that appear correct, making these failures difficult to detect. That 5% failure in production AI is very high by engineering standards. …

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SpaceX secures option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60B

SpaceX has obtained the right to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, the two companies announced Tuesday. The aerospace company disclosed the arrangement in a post on X. “SpaceXAI and cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.” SpaceX added that the…

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