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Online retailer Zalando trims AWS bill by getting manual with Flink stream filtering
19+ hour, 31+ min ago (525+ words) Running efficient data pipelines for a large online retailer is no mean feat." Zalando sells some "3 billion ($3.4 billion) of fashion goods every quarter. Its engineers bring together multiple streams of data about pricing, stock, sponsored products and more for its…...
SolarWinds Web Help Desk is being exploited all over again
14+ hour, 33+ min ago (589+ words) New speakers confirmed for The Stack Summit: NYC on April 16! Someone should probably raise a ticket. When is helpdesk software also remote access software for hackers?" When it's SolarWinds Web Help Desk, built on WebObjects Right, that's just not hysterically…...
Claude is getting better at calling out nonsense prompts
22+ hour, 26+ min ago (179+ words) New speakers confirmed for The Stack Summit: NYC on April 16! Claude is wildly outperforming GPT and Gemini in BullshitBench. Its creator thinks some vendors may be losing touch with fundamentals. If you fed a nonsense prompt into an LLM in…...
AWS open sources its AI agent experiments
1+ week, 5+ day ago (25+ words) AWS open sources its AI agent experiments'thestack.technology All development teams at AWS will be able to add their projects to a new GitHub page....
AWS's Madelyn Olson on the future of Valkey
1+ week, 6+ day ago (793+ words) The open-source world is no stranger to the "rug pull." But when Redis, the de facto standard for in-memory data caching, swapped its permissive license for a restrictive commercial one in early 2024, the shockwaves reached every corner of the technology…...
Will AI-generated reports break the bug bounty system?
3+ week, 5+ day ago (210+ words) We spoke to cURL creator and HackerOne co-founder about whether bug bounties can survive AI. The widely used open-source CLI app for downloading files, cURL, has taken its bug bounty programme off HackerOne. Daniel Stenberg, who founded the project 30 years…...
Monday.com migrates live K8ssandra clusters to new EKS
3+ week, 5+ day ago (330+ words) Don't miss The Stack Summit: NYC on April 16. Speakers include JPMorgan's Group CIO Lori Beer. Pre-register today. With some automation and planning (and some short-lived risk) you can do what K8ssandra doesn't offer out the box: migrating to new EKS clusters,…...
A backdoor was the most downloaded"skill for viral Clawdbot
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1055+ words) A security researcher manipulated download numbers to send a backdoor to the top of download charts for viral open source AI assistant Clawdbot. The (designed to be benign) backdoor was downloaded by developers in seven countries " before Jamieson O'Reilly cancelled…...
Cloudflare backpedals on 'AI-assisted' Matrix server blog
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (123+ words) Cloudflare backpedals on Matrix server blog post with 'AI-assisted' code'thestack.technology Cloudflare published a company blog on a vibe-coded project with inaccuracies and "TODO" comments. Cloudflare published a blog post on Tuesday where the author claimed to have developed Matrix…...
Anthropic donates $1.5 million to Python Software Foundation
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (22+ words) Anthropic donates $1.5 million to Python Software Foundation'thestack.technology The frontier lab is putting its money where its open source dependencies are....