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AWS launched a new local emulator service for its cloud services on Wednesday to help enterprises accelerate application development and testing. The service, named AWS Emulator, will allow developers and AI coding agents to build, deploy, and test AWS-dependent applications on their machines without provisioning actual cloud infrastructure and paying for it, thereby potentially reducing developm…

Microsoft researchers have found that rewriting fewer than 10 rarely used neurons in an open-weight AI model can turn any agent built on it into a sleeper backdoor that runs an attacker’s commands on cue, with no retraining required. Researchers from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Red Team described the technique called Lazarus in a research paper . It modifies dormant neurons in a model’s fina…

A configuration file meant to store local command permissions on Anthropic’s Claude Code is exposing thousands of API keys, database credentials and other secrets, according to findings by GitGuardian. The code security firm identified 31,088 distinct secrets in Claude Code’s “.claude/settings.local.json” files across 23,276 public GitHub repositories. Of those, 5343 were still valid when GitGuar…

I can’t decide whether Agile development is completely dead or about to make a huge comeback. Or maybe Waterfall will. Who knows? Coding agents are changing everything — and I don’t think we’ve quite figured out how they are going to update our methodology, or how we are going to organize ourselves to take advantage of them. We have barely scratched the surface. Folks who have been around a while…

Two protocols define how AI agents connect to internal resources and collaborate with other AI agents. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is well known because it’s promoted as a general protocol for connecting AI agents to resources and other AI agents. But that’s not completely accurate. It’s really the Agent2Agent protocol (A2A) that’s enabling AI agent orchestration . The confusion stems from h…

PuppyGraph on Tuesday said it was adding an AI-assisted graph schema builder and MCP integrations to PuppyGraph 1.0, the new version of its distributed graph query engine for enterprise data. The update is designed to help developers reduce the complexity, latency, and costs associated with letting AI agents query interconnected data across thousands of database tables and multiple platforms. The…

Microsoft researchers have uncovered a memory-safety bug in Rust’s standard library that had gone undetected for nearly 11 years, alongside other flaws that can trigger undefined behavior even in applications written entirely in safe Rust. Two of the findings affect stable Rust, including a separate issue that could cause applications to access freed memory. The nearly 11-year-old bug involves Ru…

Anthropic has introduced Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, claiming significant improvements in handling complex software engineering tasks while cutting API prices by 20% compared with the previous versions. Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 share the same underlying model but have different safeguards. Fable is broadly available, while direct access to Mythos is restricted to vetted cybersecurity and lif…

Running a gold mine can be profitable. Finding and digging the next one is expensive. As analyst Benedict Evans argues , Anthropic’s business has the same challenge, with more than 80% of its third-quarter revenue coming from models released in the preceding six months. A lab can make good money serving its best model while spending heavily on the one it will need next, but it could make amazing …

I read the recent piece about AWS cloud capacity being “largely sold out” through 2027 , and my first reaction was fairly simple: Well, that’s that. I guess I’ll stop recommending Amazon Web Services to any client looking to host AI workloads. Clearly, the cloud is full. Please take a number. Your GPU will be available sometime after the next presidential election, assuming the data center hamste…

Agentic AI has become a powerful enterprise business tool with increasing capabilities, and it has never been easier to address business pain points by applying a large language model (LLM) to develop a plausible automated solution. But is that solution as reliable as you need it to be, especially when the insights gleaned are used to inform critical business decisions? LLMs are incredible resour…

My most-cited BYTE cover story was 1994’s Componentware , which made the case for a two-tier architecture best exemplified then by Visual Basic and its component ecosystem. The prevailing strategy for software reuse, object-oriented programming , hadn’t gained the traction we all expected. Visual Basic showed us why it hadn’t. Objects were written in the same languages, and by the same specialize…

The UK’s digital watchdogs have warned enterprises that they can’t evade their legal responsibilities by blaming errors on AI agents that they have deployed. “By taking action on behalf of users, such as making purchases and communicating with businesses, these agents could transform how people use digital services, engage with markets and unlock wider innovation,” said the Digital Regulation Coo…

OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company in order to incorporate the San Francisco-based software developer’s Code.Storage infrastructure layer for Git into its Codex AI-powered programming tool. Pierre Computer, whose employees number just barely in the double digits, has got plenty of clout for its small size. It’s well-known for Code.Storage offering, as well as for its open-source software li…

A memory-safety flaw in CPython can allow malicious AI model templates to escape code sandboxes and execute arbitrary code inside inference servers, according to security researchers at RunSybil. “By exploiting this vulnerability, attackers could gain a foothold inside servers responsible for processing millions of user requests,” Darius Houle, a security researcher at RunSybil, wrote in a blog p…