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The Verge Tech

Xbox’s first chief operating officer is out after just a few months

Xbox's first chief operating officer (COO) is leaving after the new role was created just a few months ago. Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today, according to an internal Xbox memo seen by The Verge. Chiang has been at Microsoft for 21 years, serving as the head of Minecraft before being promoted to Xbox chief operating officer in July. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced Chiang's departure in a surprisingly short memo today. "Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today. I'm grateful for her years of

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GitHub Changelog

Turn notifications into code with GitHub Copilot in Teams

The new GitHub app in Microsoft Teams brings GitHub notifications and GitHub Copilot together, helping your team turn repository updates into action. Notifications keep your team informed, while GitHub Copilot… The post Turn notifications into code with GitHub Copilot in Teams appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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DZone

How to Build Your Own AI SRE From Scratch

If you are responsible for keeping a production system alive, you have probably been pitched an "AI SRE" in the last few months. Maybe more than one. Maybe more than one this week. When we sat down at Bronto to map that space, we ended up with 64 tools across seven camps: pure-play investigation agents, observability platforms with AI built in, incident management tools with AI on top, AIOps and alert correlation, hyperscaler agents like AWS DevOps Agent and Azure SRE Agent, Kubernetes copilots

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The Verge Tech

OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access

OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content "without risk of affecting external systems." OpenAI paused training its frontier AI models in September, after disclosing several incidents in which its AI agents broke out of their testing environments to hack third-party companies a

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ExternalCybersecurity
BleepingComputer

Abandoned Popcorn Time app exposed millions of devices to RCE attacks

Researchers remotely disabled a vulnerable updater in the abandoned Time4Popcorn app, a fork of the Popcorn Time BitTorrent client, closing a security flaw that could have allowed attackers to execute malicious code with elevated privileges on millions of computers. [...]

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Vercel Blog

Send feedback from the Vercel MCP

now includes , a tool for sending bug reports, friction reports, and feature requests directly to the Vercel team from your agent or harness.Vercel MCPsubmit_feedback Ask your agent to give feedback in plain language: Your assistant can attach structured context that describes the task, the expected behavior, and what went wrong: The tool requires sign-in, and it sends feedback only when you ask your agent to share it. Connect your agent to Vercel MCP and read the to get started.submit_feedbac

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