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SecurityWeek

Mandiant Founder Kevin Mandia Joins Amazon Board

Mandiant founder and cybersecurity veteran brings more than 30 years of public and private sector experience to Amazon’s board. The post Mandiant Founder Kevin Mandia Joins Amazon Board appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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ExternalTechnology Trends
Wired Business

Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

BusinessBusiness / Artificial IntelligenceBusiness / Tech Culture
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ExternalSoftware Engineering
GitHub Changelog

AI Scan for pull request APIs in public preview

You can now manage GitHub code scanning’s AI Scan for pull request enablement with REST API endpoints at the organization and repository levels. This public preview gives teams a programmatic… The post AI Scan for pull request APIs in public preview appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Google Cloud Blog

Introducing the Google Cloud Developer Plugin for AI Coding Agents

Agent skills fit well alongside documentation and remote MCP servers as ways of enabling the success of your AI workflows. They reduce context window usage for certain use cases, and they're straightforward to install. However, you might have noticed that managing individual skills can be unwieldy, or that some skills are most useful when they act alongside other skills or MCP servers toward the same goal. That's where plugins come in to help. Today, we're thrilled to announce a new Google Cloud

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ExternalTechnology Trends
The Verge Tech

Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook

It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bono. That's the narrative AI companies are pitching schools on right now, but according to New York Times education technology reporter Natasha Singer, it's also how the tech industry has built its influence in classrooms for the past 15 years. In a new boo

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