When you eliminate the dependency on local storage, the database becomes an active, real-time engine, not just a place to store data. In 2021, I was developing software for an aerospace manufacturer ...

In a world awash in high-tech security tools like passkeys, quantum-safe algorithms, and public-key cryptography, it can be refreshing to get back to the simple things… like a good old-fashioned ...

It was an agent of chaos. An AI system’s attempt to handle a routine task backfired terribly after it inadvertently deleted the company’s entire database in just seconds. The epic blunder came to ...

A U.S. court has sentenced Latvian hacker Deniss Zolotarjovs to more than eight years in prison following his conviction for carrying out ransomware attacks. The Justice Department accused the hacker ...

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InfoQ has launched a five-week online AI Engineering certification for senior practitioners working on production AI systems, ...

The deletion of a company's entire database at the hands of an AI agent should not be seen as an outlier, but rather a possible outcome for any organization. "It took 9 seconds," wrote Jer Crane, ...

An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding ...

AI agents can boost productivity, but they're also giving some companies a serious headache. The founder of a car rental software startup said that a Cursor AI agent deleted its database. It's the ...

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On Saturday, the founder of (what else?) a SaaS business, PocketOS, wrote one of those long X posts labeled an “article” about an incident his company endured while vibe coding with a Claude Opus ...

Another cautionary tale about AI has hit social media. This time, a software company’s founder is claiming that a Claude-powered version of AI coding tool Cursor deleted his entire production database ...