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Martin Fowler

Fragments: September 8

Christian Catalini says we’re in a situation where we are vastly reducing the cost of generating things, but not the cost of verifying them:. This explains why the first major AI products appeared in chat, image generation, and code assistance. Not because these were the hardest human problems, but because their outputs were relatively easy to inspect. A user can judge the tone of a message, look at an image, or run a test on a piece of code. […] The old automation boundary was routine versus no

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ExternalCybersecurity
SecurityWeek

Cylake Raises $245 Million Ahead of Cybersecurity Platform Beta

The startup founded by Palo Alto Networks’ Nir Zuk has raised $290 million to build an AI-native security platform for highly regulated organizations that cannot rely on the public cloud. The post Cylake Raises $245 Million Ahead of Cybersecurity Platform Beta appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

Databricks Lakebase: Give Your Agent a Branch, Not Your Production Database

There's an awkward moment in every agentic data project. The agent works. It writes decent SQL, it reasons about schema, it proposes a migration that looks right. And then somebody asks the question nobody wants to answer: what happens when it's wrong against production? The usual answers are all bad.

ExternalCybersecurity
SecurityWeek

SAP Patches Critical Extended Passport Processing Vulnerability

Affecting the SAP kernel code, the flaw allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to run arbitrary commands, recover secrets, and modify data. The post SAP Patches Critical Extended Passport Processing Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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The Hacker News

Liquid Hackers Return 3,400 Bitcoin Taken via Elements Bug, Still Holding $47M in BTC

Whoever took nearly 4,000 bitcoin from the Liquid Network on Sunday, September 6, returned 3,400 of it the next day, Bitcoin's public record shows. About 598.5 bitcoin has not come back. Liquid is a Bitcoin sidechain that holds real bitcoin to back a token called L-BTC. The network is still paused, so holders cannot turn that token back into bitcoin. The 3,400 bitcoin was sent to a&

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