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  • Real-SWE benchmarks AI coding agents on code that cannot leak into training data

    Why another SWE benchmark Specific Labs released Real-SWE, a benchmark that runs frontier AI coding agents against private, real-world enterprise codebases. The pitch is simple and hard to argue with: public benchmarks leak. SWE-bench tasks live in public repositories, and their solutions are on the internet. Any model trained after the benchmark published has, at…

  • The Linux Zoom client is reading your clipboard before you paste

    What was found Simon Tatham, the developer behind PuTTY, noticed in early September that an update to the Linux Zoom client had started proactively reading everything written to the X11 clipboard. Zoom 7.1.5 on Linux does it. The previous version he ran, 6.6, did not. He documented the behavior in a Mastodon thread that has…

  • Azure says goodbye to OS Guard: what AKS operators should do before December 10

    The short version Microsoft will retire Azure Linux with OS Guard on Azure Kubernetes Service on December 10, 2026. On that date you will not be able to create new OS Guard node pools, and existing ones stop receiving support. The stated replacement is Azure Container Linux, which went generally available on AKS starting with…

  • Extended Support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now billing

    If you run PostgreSQL 11, 12 or 13 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, a quiet billing change went live on September 1. Azure automatically enrolled servers on unsupported PostgreSQL versions in Extended Support when standard support ended on July 31. A one-month grace period covered August at no charge. The meter started running…

  • Defender for Cloud brings serverless container posture to Azure Container Apps

    Microsoft has made Azure Container Apps environments available in Defender for Cloud’s Serverless Containers Posture experience, now generally available. Security teams can pull their Container Apps estate into posture management from a single workflow instead of treating each serverless platform separately. The capability also covers Azure Container Instances and Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate. The…

  • OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

    In May, someone flooded RubyGems with more than 2,000 malicious packages over a couple of days. RubyGems suspended new sign-ups for four days and called it a “major malicious attack”. Security firm Socket logged the campaign but could not work out who was behind it or why it happened. The packages scraped data from UK…

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