Minimus has extended its managed service for providing application developers with hardened images to include support for the Vulnerability Exploittability eXchange (VEX) format used to share data across multiple application security tools and platforms along with hardened Helm charts for securely deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters.Additionally, Minimus has added compliance dashboards and views, and integration with Microsoft for Single Sign-On (SSO) service.Minimus CTO John Morello said the overall goal is not just to provide access to a set of hardened images but also make it simpler for DevSecOps teams to operationalize them.For example, Minimus now provides hardened Helm charts aligned…
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Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub, said on Monday he’s stepping down and will leave the company at the end of 2025 to become “a founder again,” signaling a major shakeup in how the artificial intelligence (AI) coding unit is run.Since Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 for $7.5 billion, it has operated as an independent unit. But the exit of Dohmke, who was CEO for nearly four years, marks a major turning point in the way GitHub operates. Microsoft isn’t naming a new CEO position, and the rest of GitHub’s leadership team will report directly to Microsoft’s new CoreAI…
In a tech landscape dominated by distributed systems, serverless architectures, and real-time analytics, one might assume that SQL, a language born in the 1970s, would be fading into obscurity. Yet, SQL continues to thrive, evolving alongside cloud-native databases and remaining the backbone of modern data operations.The Enduring Appeal of SQLIn a world where data pulses beneath every digital surface, one language continues to thread its way through the veins of enterprise logic and analytical precision: SQL. Not because it’s trendy, but because it’s timeless. SQL isn’t just a tool; it’s the grammar of structure, the syntax of understanding, the quiet…
There’s a weird contradiction in modern AI development. We have better tools than ever. We’re building smarter systems with cleaner abstractions. And yet, every time you try to swap out a component in your stack, things fall apart. Again. This isn’t just an inconvenience. It’s become the norm. You’d think with all the frameworks and libraries out there (LangChain, Hugging Face, MLflow, Airflow) we’d be past this by now. These tools were supposed to make our workflows modular and composable. Swap an embedding model? No problem. Try a new vector store? Easy. Switch from OpenAI to an open-source LLM? Go…
As part of a demo recently I was adding a default value to a new column with a simple DEFAULT and a value. Under the covers this creates a constraint, however, I want to ensure this is named explicitly and not auto generated. This post shows how to do this.Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.SetupLet’s create a simple table like this one:CREATE TABLE dbo.OrderHeader ( OrderHeaderID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT OrderHeaderPK PRIMARY KEY, OrderDate DATETIME, CustomerID INT ) GONow I want to add a Created…
London, United Kingdom, August 11th, 2025, CyberNewsWireNew Heimdal study reveals how tool sprawl creates blind spots, with over half of providers experiencing daily or weekly burnout Survey of 80 North American MSPs shows fragmented security stacks drive fatigue, missed threats, and business inefficiency Security tools meant to protect managed service providers are instead overwhelming them. A new study from Heimdal and FutureSafe reveals that 89% of MSPs struggle with tool integration while 56% experience alert fatigue daily or weekly. The research exposes a dangerous paradox. MSPs experiencing high alert fatigue are significantly more likely to miss real threats.The very tools deployed to…
Cycode has added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to its application security posture management (ASPM) platform that has been specifically trained to determine how exploitable a specific vulnerability found in an application actually is.In addition, Cycode has made available an AI Security Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator that analyzes the impact that using AI can have on specific DevSecOps use cases.Devin Maguire, senior product marketing manager for Cycode, said that AI Exploitability Agent developed by Cycode will make it simpler for DevSecOps teams to prioritize remediation efforts based on the level of risk a vulnerability represents to the organization.That’s critical…
A practical approach to escaping the expensive, slow world of API-dependent AI The $20K Monthly Reality Check You built a simple sentiment analyzer for customer reviews. It works great. Except it costs $847/month in API calls and takes 2.3 seconds to classify a single review. Your “smart” document classifier burns through $3,200/month. Your chatbot feature? $15,000/month and counting. The Shared Pain: Bloated AI features that drain budgets faster than they create value High latency that kills user experience (nobody waits 3 seconds for a “smart” response) Privacy concerns when sensitive data must leave your network Compliance nightmares when proprietary data…
Austin, TX, USA, August 6th, 2025, CyberNewsWireSpyCloud Investigations, now with AI Insights, empowers security teams to act decisively with finished intelligence built from billions of breach, malware, and phishing records.SpyCloud, the leader in identity threat protection, today announced a significant enhancement to its SaaS Investigations solution: the integration of advanced AI-powered insights that mirror the tradecraft of SpyCloud’s seasoned investigators. Building on the foundation of its industry-leading IDLink identity analytics, this new capability further automates and accelerates complex cybercrime investigations, empowering security operations, cyber threat intelligence, and fraud & risk prevention teams to uncover critical findings faster than ever to…
If you’ve been anywhere near a tech conference, your LinkedIn feed, or a DevOps Slack channel lately, you’ve probably heard someone claim AI is either the greatest productivity weapon since version control… or the world’s most overhyped autocomplete. Depending on who’s talking, AI is either saving the day or slowing workflow to a crawl. As always, the truth lies somewhere in between.Let’s start with numbers—because CEOs love numbers. A recent GitLab–Harris Poll survey, spotlighted on DevOps.com, reveals that C-level executives believe their organizations are saving about $28,249 per developer per year thanks to AI—citing a 48% boost in developer productivity…