Three deadlines are colliding at once in cloud AI right now. OpenAI retired its Assistants API on August 26, 2026, taking the Azure OpenAI Assistants API (Preview, classic) down with it on the same date. AWS pushed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and the wider Bedrock 2 platform into general availability with a visual agent builder in…
Pick the wrong $5-a-month server and you will not notice for weeks. Then a marketing post goes semi-viral, traffic triples overnight, and your droplet, instance, or Lightsail box falls over at the exact moment it mattered most. DigitalOcean, Vultr, and AWS Lightsail all compete for that same budget-conscious developer who wants real infrastructure without an…
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Iranian-linked hackers spent the spring and summer of 2026 proving a point security vendors had been making for years: the programmable logic controller, not the laptop, is now the most contested device on a corporate network. A joint CISA, FBI, NSA, DOE and EPA advisory issued April 7, 2026 and updated July 22, 2026 confirmed…
Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta’s vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that “the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording.” The company’s line of…
OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May. The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations of several OpenAI models, and that it was mainly fueled…