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Google Cloud Blog

Unify operational and Lakehouse data with direct Iceberg access in AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

To make good business decisions, you need two kinds of data: the live state of the business from operational databases, and the historical context stored in an analytical system such as a lakehouse or a data warehouse. Traditionally, those systems have been separate, but they are now converging rapidly. That’s why today, we're announcing direct Iceberg access in AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, in preview. Now, developers can query Apache Iceberg tables stored in a cloud storage bucket directly from Allo

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Google Cloud Blog

AlloyDB Express: Instant, scale-to-zero PostgreSQL for developers and coding agents

Databases have struggled to keep up with the speed of AI-enabled software development. Across the engineering and platform teams we talk to, we see coding agents stalled by slow database provisioning, CI/CD test pipelines bottlenecked by complexity, and internal apps hitting a wall as they transition from sandbox to production. Until now, no PostgreSQL service in the market has combined agent-ready capabilities with uncompromised enterprise security and scale. To solve this, we are excited to an

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Google Cloud Blog

New capabilities to power agents at scale with Google's Agentic Data Cloud

Not long ago, we were entering the agentic era; today, organizations are deriving significant value from running agents in production. The opportunity to capture new revenue streams, improve efficiency, and manage risk makes reimagining operations with agents top of mind for enterprise leaders. That is why we built the Agentic Data Cloud — a System of Action designed to activate all your data by breaking down walled gardens, deliver high accuracy and trust, and operate proactively at low cost. L

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SANS Internet Storm Center

The Classics Return: Vulnerable E-Mail Scripts, (Wed, Nov 4th)

One of the early web application vulnerabilities I remember was CVE-2000-0411 [CVE]. This was a simple vulnerability in a CGI-bin script used to send e-mail. The vulnerability was pretty straightforward: Adding additional parameters to the URL leaked environment variables. Other vulnerabilities allowed setting the "To" address and were heavily abused by spammers. And if parameters were passed directly to the sendmail binary, similar vulnerabilities could allow arbitrary code execution.

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DZone

AI-Powered CI Test Failure Triage

Last month, a nightly regression came back with 60 failures out of roughly a thousand tests. I spent the first half of the next morning fixing none of them. I sorted them: some were the same failure under different names, some were environment noise, and some were the product actually breaking. By lunch it was three things. A dependent service had returned errors for about a two-hour window, a data seeding job hadn't finished before the suite started, and one genuine defect. Sixty red rows, thre

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