September 17, 2025

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Pulumi has made its AI-powered agents available in preview for its infrastructure-as-code platform. The new Pulumi Neo feature introduces a set of AI agents that autonomously diagnose issues and complete tasks when permitted, allowing users to focus on higher-level tasks while leveraging artificial intelligence for routine operations and process automation.

Google is testing a new search app for Windows that integrates with Google Drive and the web directly from the desktop. The app features Chrome-like installation, visual search feature Lens, and an Alt + Space shortcut to launch it. Users can switch between result modes and choose dark or light themes, with access in US English for Windows 10 users.

The article introduces Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) and its relationship with COM, a fundamental Windows technology. It aims to provide an introduction to COM and DCOM principles, protocols, and network analysis. The series explores authorization and enumeration mechanisms, marshalling, garbage collection, and key concepts like MS-WCCE and OPC, for vulnerability research purposes.

A zombie server is a healthy-looking server that secretly fails, causing slow user experience degradation. Traditional health checks fail to validate application capabilities, allowing zombies to receive traffic despite being unable to handle real requests. Advanced detection strategies, including synthetic transaction testing and multi-layered approaches, can identify and prevent zombie servers.

This article provides an in-depth tutorial on writing a simple GUI program using pure assembly language without dependencies. The program interacts with an X11 server and displays text in a window by generating IDs, opening fonts, creating graphical contexts, polling for server messages, and drawing text using the X11 server's message format.

MongoDB has introduced an application modernization platform, AMP, which leverages AI agents to analyze and convert legacy applications into compatible code for its document database. The platform aims to simplify the modernization process for businesses, allowing them to migrate outdated systems to more efficient and modern applications using a scalable solution.

CodeRabbit is expanding its AI-powered code review platform with CLI support, auto unit test generation, and custom pre-merge checks. The move comes as the company receives $60M in new funding, enabling it to help developers identify routine issues, enhance test coverage, and secure AI-generated code on a larger scale effectively.

A new beta version of an API has been released to address a critical issue with CSI drivers implementing the ListSnapshots RPC call. The updated v1beta2 API includes a VolumeSnapshotInfo struct, providing more detailed information about individual volume snapshots. Conversion from v1beta1 objects is facilitated through a webhook, paving the way for future adoption and testing of the feature.

Consumer Reports is urging Microsoft to extend its October 14th deadline for free security updates on Windows 10, citing concerns that millions of consumers will be left vulnerable to cyberattacks due to over 200-400 million PCs unable to upgrade to Windows 11. The organization criticizes the $30 one-year update extension as hypocritical.

Roy van Rijn, an experienced developer, optimizes Java weather data parsing from over 4 minutes to under 2 seconds by employing techniques like parallelism, memory mapped files, SIMD, and Graal native compilation. He shares code changes and tricks that led to this impressive performance boost, showcasing a remarkable journey of optimization.

A professor of computer science successfully coded a K-means clustering algorithm in old versions of COBOL, challenging the notion that modern languages are required for machine learning. Despite limitations, COBOL's human-friendly syntax makes it surprisingly easy to read and understand. However, legacy languages like COBOL lack resources and support compared to alternatives like Python or C++.

In the DevOps world, quality assurance is crucial, not just at the end of a process but throughout it to impact release cycles and efficiency. Automation can lead to faster release cycles, with companies seeing up to 60% improvement over manual testing methods. A balanced approach integrating automation, testing, and QA is necessary for success.

Zarr is a library designed for efficient storage and manipulation of large multidimensional arrays. This tutorial covers the basics, including array creation, chunking strategies, and direct value modification on disk, before diving into advanced operations like chunking, compression, indexing, and visualization techniques to provide a comprehensive understanding of Zarr's capabilities.

A bug in Zig's ArenaAllocator causes a dangling pointer issue when returning an allocated array, as the returned allocator's state becomes invalid due to stack allocation. Reordering assignment or using heap-allocated memory for allocator addresses resolves this by avoiding duplication and ensuring proper cleanup. This fixes the memory leak.

Oracle has announced Java 25, simplifying AI application development with capabilities like machine learning and natural language processing. The new version comes with long-term support for eight years, a significant milestone in Oracle's commitment to the popular programming language, aimed at making it easier for developers to create AI applications using Java.

The Wyze Palm Lock is a smart door lock that opens with an infrared sensor detecting hand veins, launched for $129.98. It offers up to six months of battery life and can be recharged indoors. Wi-Fi connectivity allows users to lock/unlock remotely or via voice commands with smart assistants like Alexa or Google Assistant.

A recent npm supply chain attack compromised private repositories and sensitive information of popular packages with over 2 billion weekly downloads, exploiting phishing attacks, credential harvesting, and self-propagating malware to infect affected packages. SafeDep identified common patterns used by attackers, including 2FA phishing and dormant package targeting, to spread malicious code.