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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Google’s Gemma 4 shines on local systems – both big and small

Google’s Gemma 4 comes touted as the latest evolution of Google’s multi-modal model offerings. Gemma 4 not only offers reasoning and tool use, but vision and audio functionality, and it’s available in a range of model sizes that target servers and local devices. What’s striking about Gemma 4 is that even at the higher end…

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