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ScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework Migration

Enable self-managed AD Kerberos authentication with Amazon RDS for Db2

In this post, we show how to configure Windows Active Directory for Amazon RDS for Db2 with Kerberos authentication and how to validate the setup from a domain-joined client. We walk through the end-to-end process published in the aws-samples/sample-rds-db2-tools repository.

RFK Jr. stacks FDA panel with peptide peddlers as FDA scientists oppose access

Peptide drugs are popular, but FDA scientists warn they're untested, may be harmful.

007 First Light’s developer lays off staff but claims its next franchise will continue

IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman series and 007 First Light, announced that it is laying off staff after a relationship with an "external partner" on its next big franchise, Project Fantasy, "has come to an end." IO has described Project Fantasy as an "online fantasy RPG", and Kotaku and Bloomberg report that Microsoft, which is planning significant cuts as part of a broader "reset" of the Xbox business, was going to be the game's publisher. It's unclear how many people will be affe

The 20 Software Engineering Laws

Most engineers learn these laws the hard way. When you try to rewrite something and it doesn’t deliver, or when a project is already late, adding engineers to the team will just make it fail faster. Sometimes, when you start using a metric to measure progress, the whole team will start trying to manipulate it. Then, six months later, someone mentions a 1975 law that addresses exactly what happened. I paid a price to learn this, too: I spent half my career learning these lessons the hard way, as

Conversational analytics in BigQuery brings trusted agentic reasoning to everyone

Businesses run on fast decisions, but the teams who hold the answers are often buried under a backlog of routine requests, leaving users waiting in line for insights they need now. Today, we are bringing Conversational Analytics in BigQuery to general availability, so both business and technical teams can query data, run multi-step analyses, and generate visual reports using natural language, right where the data lives. With this release, Conversational Analytics in BigQuery now delivers an agen

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Microsoft Warns Poisoned MCP Tool Descriptions Can Make AI Agents Leak Data

New Microsoft research shows how attackers can hijack AI agents that act on a user's behalf, using nothing more than a poisoned tool description to make the agent quietly hand over company data to an outsider. The trick is that the agent never breaks a rule. Every step looks routine, so in a default setup no alarm may fire. The work comes from Microsoft Incident Response and its