Azure SQL Dev Hub opens one front door for building against Azure SQL
Building an app against Azure SQL has always involved a small scavenger hunt: which service tier fits your workload, which connection library your language wants, which quickstart actually applies. Microsoft’s new Azure SQL Dev Hub, announced in public preview, tries to collapse that hunt into a single starting point in the Azure portal. Per the […]
unreal-agent brings async-first harness design to coding agents
A harness that never makes the model wait unreal-agent has been climbing GitHub’s trending list all week, at roughly 1.9k stars four days after it appeared, and the pitch behind it is simple enough to repeat in one line: the same model, doing the same work, up to 40 percent cheaper, because the harness never […]
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes reach general availability
Running code you do not trust is one of those problems that sounds solved until you actually have to do it. If you build agentic applications, multi-tenant platforms, or CI/CD systems, the options have traditionally been roll your own microVM fleet, bolt together gVisor or Firecracker yourself, or accept the blast radius. This week Microsoft […]
Z.ai open-sources its whole coding agent stack with ZCode
The harness, not just the model Z.ai, the company behind the GLM model family, open-sourced ZCode this week, and the interesting part is the scope. This is not a CLI script and a README. The repository contains the desktop client, the browser workspace, the backend services, the shared UI, and the agent runtime that powers […]
Azure Copilot’s Troubleshooting Agent hits general availability
Microsoft has taken the Troubleshooting Agent in Azure Copilot to general availability. It lives in the Azure portal, in both the Copilot chat experience and the Support + Troubleshooting blade, and its job is to take a vague complaint like “my VM rebooted itself last night” and turn it into a diagnosis, a fix, or […]
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 […]
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 […]
RSA-260 falls to GPU sieve built and run by coding agents
Cognition published a factorization of RSA-260 this week, a 260-digit number from the old RSA Factoring Challenge. That makes it the largest publicly solved RSA challenge number, beating RSA-250, which had held the record since February 2020. The interesting part is not the number itself. It is who did the work and what it cost. […]
GLM-5.3 goes open-weight, and its specialty is unsettling
Z.ai has released the weights for GLM-5.3, its frontier coding model, on Hugging Face. The launch blog post from mid-August promised the weights two weeks after launch, once safety evaluation and hardening finished, and that window has now closed. What makes this release unusual is not the benchmark table, though the numbers are strong. It […]
Lakebase Branching Lets Copilot Agent Mode Debug Against Production Data Without Touching Production
Microsoft has put a new capability into public preview for Azure Databricks: copy-on-write branching for Lakebase, wired directly into GitHub Copilot agent mode. In one command, a developer can branch a production Lakebase database, point Copilot agent mode at the branch endpoint, and debug an AI application against realistic data while the production database stays […]
Azure SRE Agent VNet Integration Reaches General Availability with Private Network Controls
Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of Virtual Network (VNet) integration for Azure SRE Agent. The capability allows operations and platform teams to deploy and operate Microsoft’s autonomous site reliability engineering agent entirely within their private virtual network topology. By routing the agent’s outbound management traffic through dedicated subnets, organizations can enforce corporate Network […]
AnonyMousKIT Phishing Platform Uses Conversational Voice AI to Unlock Stolen iPhones
Automating the Social Engineering of Device Unlocks Security researchers at SOCRadar have uncovered a sophisticated phishing-as-a-service platform dubbed AnonyMousKIT. Designed specifically to bypass Apple Activation Lock on stolen iOS devices, the kit integrates conversational voice AI agents alongside automated multi-channel messaging to deceive device owners into surrendering their screen passcodes. When an iPhone or iPad […]