AI Crackdowns, Mega Mergers, and Security Chaos Define This Week in Tech

AI crackdowns, cloud strain, mega mergers, security flaws, and layoffs shaped a chaotic week across enterprise tech, cybersecurity, and media.

pgEdge Announces ColdFront for PostgreSQL, Seamlessly Uniting AI, Analytical and OLTP Workloads

Edge, the leading open source enterprise Postgres company, today announced pgEdge ColdFront, a transparent data tiering ...
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How CVE-2026-20253 Turns Splunk’s PostgreSQL Sidecar Into an Open Door

CVE-2026-20253 is a CVSS 9.8 pre-auth flaw in Splunk Enterprise's PostgreSQL sidecar service. An unauthenticated attacker can ...

Databricks CEO Says He’s Cracked A 40-Year-Old Database Problem With LTAP

At Data + AI Summit, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi unveiled LTAP, a new architecture that collapses the 40-year unification ...
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I built an RSS reader with Antigravity 2.0, and Claude in VS Code can't compete

Antigravity 2.0 finally solved the context window problem that kills Claude in VS Code.
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Critical Splunk Enterprise Flaw Lets Attackers Run Code Without Authentication

Splunk issued security updates for a critical CVSS 9.8 vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise that allows unauthenticated remote ...
eWeek

Claude Code Explained: What to Know About Anthropic’s AI Coding Tool

Learn what Claude Code is, how Anthropic’s AI coding agent works, where it excels, its limits, pricing concerns, and who ...
Infosecurity Magazine

Cybercriminals Use Fake AI Guides and Dev Tools to Spread AsyncRAT Malware

The two files posing as Realtek components are really copies of AutoHotkey, a legitimate automation tool repurposed as an ...
The Silicon Review

Vamshidhar Parupally has been working on a tense little moment in software: the last check before code goes live.

Discover how Vamshidhar Parupally is addressing one of software development’s most critical moments—the final validation ...
SecurityWeek

Splunk, Palo Alto Networks Patch Severe Vulnerabilities

Splunk and Palo Alto Networks have released patches for critical and high-severity vulnerabilities across their products.
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Top 5 vibe-coding tools to build your next project

Vibe-coding is revolutionizing software development and making it easier than ever to build fully functional websites and ...
InfoQ

Microsoft Open-Sources PostgreSQL Extension for In-Database Durable Execution

Recently open-sourced by Microsoft, pg_durable is a PostgreSQL extension that enables durable workflows to run natively inside the database, eliminating the need for external orchestration systems.