Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it
As the COOs from both Uber and Microsoft recently learned, encouraging company engineers to use AI aggressively can lead to […]
Month: May 2026
Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has sparked a revolt among Wikipedia editors after disbanding the engineering team responsible for many community-requested […]
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression
BORK!BORK!BORK! The National Space Centre in England took things a little too far with its simulation of a rocket launch, […]
Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents
Rogue agents are dangerous, but eliminating them is never easy. Jason Bourne, Ethan Hunt, and James Bond have each run […]
Lone attacker published 14 malicious npm packages mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch libraries
A single npm user on Thursday published 14 malicious packages within a four-hour window, all mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, DevOps, […]
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk’s Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand
A security lead at a large enterprise* told me last week, when I asked whether they had any interest in […]
ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal
If you thought US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s widespread use of face recognition apps was a privacy violation, you’re about […]
No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs – exploit module is out
There’s a huge hole and no one is patching it thus far. A critical, remote code execution (RCE) bug in […]
UCLA seeks pre-litigation resolution with Oracle
UCLA has entered pre-litigation discussions with Oracle, one of the suppliers underpinning its finance transformation project, which has been delayed […]
23andMe inherits lawsuit over ‘disturbing’ DNA data breach
The office of Rob Bonta, California’s attorney general, is suing 23andMe for the data protection failings that led to the […]