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DigitalOcean Blog

Scale Faster with Managed Weaviate: Now in Public Preview on DigitalOcean

Production Weaviate in minutes, managed by DigitalOcean. Starting at $20/month. Vector databases have become a core piece of the AI application stack. Whether you’re building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, agentic workflows and memory, or similarity-based recommendations, you need a vector store that’s reliable, fast, and doesn’t require a dedicated ops engineer to keep running. Weaviate has become a critical part of that stack — its open-source AI-native vector database

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DZone

Disaster Recovery as a Governance System

Disaster recovery is often discussed as if it were mainly a technical discipline. Build the standby environment, configure replication, document failover, test the process, and the job is largely done. If the primary system fails, the recovery target takes over. The topic is framed as one of topology, tooling, replication, and automation. All of those things matter. None of them answers the hardest operational question: when should recovery actually be invoked?

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The Hacker News

Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs

Datadog Security Labs is warning of "several overlapping campaigns" that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub API. "Operators rely on automated scraping tooling with custom or legitimate-sounding user agents, leveraging GitHub 'ghost' accounts that are often years old, or compromised OAuth tokens and personal

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Wired Business

Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5

Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic’s best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.

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The Hacker News

New GigaWiper Windows Backdoor Bundles Disk Wiping, Fake Ransomware, and Spyware

Microsoft has taken apart a destructive Windows backdoor it calls GigaWiper. What stands out is how it is built: not one tool but three older destructive programs bolted into one, offered as commands the operator can choose from. Each is a different way to break a machine: wipe the whole disk, overwrite the Windows drive, or run fake "ransomware" that scrambles files with a key it never saves

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