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GitLab issue email’s only security is obscurity
It was meant to make life simpler: a secret email address to which developers can send a message and create an issue in their GitLab project. But poor security defaults and a long-lived token embedded in the address mean that anyone who knows the address can potentially modify protected repositories. If project owners publish or leak these addresses, as…
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Google plans Gemini 4 release before year-end
Google’s Gemini 4 AI model is in the early days of post-training, the phase in which a base AI model is refined to behave reliably, and should be released “much earlier” than the end of this year, Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information at its AI Agenda Live Summit. Some Google observers have speculated that this could be as early as…
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IBM’s big cloud decision
A recent piece in Academy of Management Today by Daniel Butcher takes a fresh look at IBM’s pivot to cloud computing , and it’s worth your time. The article walks through IBM’s early exploration of cloud technology in the mid-1990s when competitors like General Magic and Compaq began building business plans around the newly coined term. IBM assigned…
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Java 28 starts to take shape
A sixth feature, ahead-of-time (AOT) code compilation, has been proposed for JDK 28 . Java Development Kit 28 is a non-LTS (Long-Term Support) or “feature release” of standard Java due in March 2027. Ahead-of-time code compilation would improve Java application startup and warmup time by making optimized native code for the application instantly available…
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Teradata aims to make agentic execution of multistep data work more efficient
Teradata is adding a context engine, an execution layer, and reusable agent skills to Tera, its AI-powered workspace for enterprise data and AI tasks, in order to make agentic execution of multistep workflows more efficient. Tera was initially introduced in May as part of Teradata’s Autonomous Knowledge Platform. The new additions are designed to cut…