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Security researchers have flagged a high-severity flaw in Open WebUI , a self-hosted enterprise interface for large language models, that allows external model servers connected via its Direct Connections feature to inject malicious code and hijack AI workloads. The issue, tracked as CVE-2025-64496, stems from unsafe handling of server-sent events (SSE), enabling account takeover and, in some cas…

How must databases adapt to generative AI , and how should databases be integrated with large language models (LLMs)? These are questions that Sailesh Krishnamurthy has grappled with for several years now. As VP of engineering for databases at Google Cloud, Krishnamurthy leads the database team for Google Cloud and all Google services including Google Search and YouTube. He also leads a program t…

Consider a fictitious company, DeltaSite, and an all-too-common scenario for rapidly expanding SaaS providers. Within months, DeltaSite embarked on an ambitious multicloud migration, deploying critical workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. DeltaSite’s board approved a seven-figure investment in the latest cloud security tools, including AI-powered monitoring and automated compliance fram…

Microsoft’s C# has won the Tiobe Index Programming Language of the Year designation for the second time in three years, with the largest year-over-year increase in ranking in the company’s programming language popularity index. Meanwhile, another Microsoft language, TypeScript , may crack the index’s top 20 this year, according to Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen. Tiobe announced C# as its language of the y…

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on,” says Prospero in The Tempest . While he was reflecting on humanity’s fleeting existence, he could just as well have been describing the tech industry’s fascination with shiny new objects that come and go. Over the decades, countless software leaders have fallen into the age-old trap of chasing “the next big thing,” only to find themselves trying to fit a…

It’s time to wake up from the fever dream of autonomous AI. For the past year, the enterprise software narrative has been dominated by a singular, intoxicating promise: agents. We were told that we were on the verge of deploying digital employees that could plan, reason, and execute complex workflows while we watched from the sidelines, which Lena Hall, Akamai senior director of developer relatio…

Artificial intelligence and its promise to revolutionize programming —and possibly overthrow human sovereignty—is a central story of the post-Covid world. But for JavaScript developers, it is only one of the forces contending for center stage. Among the notable trends in 2025 was the emergence of increasing power, importance, and stability on the server side. This was partially driven by the univ…

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The second part of Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s “Azure Innovations” Ignite 2025 presentation covered software and a deeper look at the platforms he expects developers will use to build cloud-native applications. Azure was born as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, providing the plumbing for your applications so you didn’t have to think about infrastructure, as it was all automated and hi…

IBM is urging customers to quickly patch a critical vulnerability in its API Connect platform that could allow remote attackers to bypass authentication. The company describes API Connect as a full lifecycle application programming interface (API) gateway used “to create, test, manage, secure, analyze, and socialize APIs.” It particularly touts it as a way to “unlock the potential of agentic AI” …

Cloud computing continues to be the platform of choice for large applications and a driver of innovation in enterprise technology. Gartner forecasts public cloud spending alone to the public cloud services market alone will reach $1.42 trillion in current U.S. dollars, driven by AI workloads and enterprise modernization. Driving this growth are the rise of AI and machine learning on the cloud , a…

If you’ve been watching the JavaScript landscape for a while, you’ve likely noticed the trend toward simplicity in web application development. An aspect of this trend is leveraging HTML, REST, and HATEOAS (hypermedia as the engine of application state) to do as much work as possible. In this article, we’ll look at Hotwire , a collection of tools for building single-page-style applications using …

Nvidia has licensed intellectual property from inferencing chip designer Groq, and hired away some of its senior executives, but stopped short of an outright acquisition. “We’ve taken a non-exclusive license to Groq’s IP and have hired engineering talent from Groq’s team to join us in our mission to provide world-leading accelerated computing technology,” an Nvidia spokesman said Tuesday, via ema…

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has quickly become the enterprise default for grounding generative AI in internal knowledge. It promises less hallucination, more accuracy, and a way to unlock value from decades of documents, policies, tickets, and institutional memory. Yet while nearly every enterprise can build a proof of concept, very few can run RAG reliably in production. This gap has no…

For more than a decade, many considered cloud outages a theoretical risk, something to address on a whiteboard and then quietly deprioritize during cost cuts. In 2025, this risk became real. A major Google Cloud outage in June caused hours-long disruptions to popular consumer and enterprise services, with ripple effects into providers that depend on Google’s infrastructure. Microsoft 365 and Outl…