OpenAI set to launch GPT-5 in August, blending distinct models for versatile AI functionality. Watch for potential delays due to development hurdles or competitor announcements.Implication: OpenAI is shifting from "one model fits all" to a modular AI architecture. Expect future LLMs to act more like..

A hacker slipped a wiper intoAmazon Qv1.84.0 via a dodgy GitHub pull. AWS revoked every key, nuked the rogue commit, then rolled outAmazon Q v1.85.0...

Terraform v1.5 debuts anexperimental flag,-generate-config-out. It grabs configs duringresource importand spits out raw HCL. Teams stash assets in animportblock, trigger the flag, then polish the generatedmain.tf. IaC onboarding feels like a sprint...

Pulumi ESC corrals secrets from 20 + stores—Vault, AWS, Azure, GCP—into a singleYAML config-as-codeengine. It spawns dynamic short-lived credentials and locks every action behind a centralized audit log. Existing secret stores stay intact. Retrieval hitssub-secondspeeds. Envelope encryption shields ..

The Gemini CLI on Windows bungled a failedmkdir. It flagged the error as success, then ranmovecommands. Files landed in a ghost folder and got overwritten. Data vanished. WindowsmkdirsetsERRORLEVELon failure.movetreats missing targets as rename directives. No exit-code checks. No read-after-write ve..

Over ten years, the legacy report page mutated from a locked-downSQLform. It ended up as a hidden console spilling raw database guts. Developers swapped hardcoded queries fordatabase-drivenreport names. They slapped ontimeouts,string filters, and warnings but skipped restoring safe defaults. Implic..

Claude Code zips out Ruby functions, tests, and pull requests viaCLIprompts across multiplegit worktrees. It slays manual typing and ejects IDE plugins. It spins up ephemeraltest environmentsto replay bugs, pries open externalgemcode, and syncs branches, commits, and PRs in one go...

Alibaba unleashedQwen3-Coder, a480B-parameter MoE titan. It ignites35Bparameters per token to code, debug, and automate workflows. It spans256Ktokens of context—and can stretch to a million. It ships asQwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instructon Hugging Face and GitHub. It hooks intoQwen CodeCLI orClaude Code...

Scott Alexander’s team argues that AI is aprofoundly abnormal technologyon track forrecursive self-improvementwithin2–10 years. They counter (AIANT)’s view (AI As A Normal Technology) of slow, regulated diffusion by showing thatLLMsare rapidly adopted in medicine, law, and software — bypassing insti..

AI agents tap MCP servers andStrands Agents. They fire off tools that chart IAM permission chains and sniff out AWS privilege escalations. Enter the “Sum of All Permissions” method. It hijacks EC2 Instance Connect, warps through SSM to swipe data, and leaps roles—long after static scanners nod off. ..