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Online retailer Zalando trims AWS bill by getting manual with Flink stream filtering
19+ hour, 23+ min ago (525+ words) Running efficient data pipelines for a large online retailer is no mean feat." Zalando sells some "3 billion ($3.4 billion) of fashion goods every quarter. Its engineers bring together multiple streams of data about pricing, stock, sponsored products and more for its…...
SolarWinds Web Help Desk is being exploited all over again
14+ hour, 25+ min ago (589+ words) New speakers confirmed for The Stack Summit: NYC on April 16! Someone should probably raise a ticket. When is helpdesk software also remote access software for hackers?" When it's SolarWinds Web Help Desk, built on WebObjects Right, that's just not hysterically…...
Claude is getting better at calling out nonsense prompts
22+ hour, 18+ min ago (179+ words) New speakers confirmed for The Stack Summit: NYC on April 16! Claude is wildly outperforming GPT and Gemini in BullshitBench. Its creator thinks some vendors may be losing touch with fundamentals. If you fed a nonsense prompt into an LLM in…...
Critical infra leaders have "mostly negative" thoughts about federal cyber regs
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (33+ words) Critical infra leaders have "mostly negative" thoughts about federal cyber regs'thestack.technology New speakers confirmed for The Stack Summit: NYC on April 16! Regulations come at expense of cybersecurity response, claims industry panel....
AWS data centre locations hit by direct drone strikes
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (323+ words) New speakers confirmed for The Stack Summit: NYC on April 16! Throttled launches and a DynamoDB control plane hidden from users shows how hyperscalers deal when the public cloud takes a literal hit. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, London…...
Critical Cisco SD-WAN bug exploited: Five Eyes urges action
1+ week, 5+ day ago (342+ words) Don't miss The Stack Summit: NYC on April 16. Speakers include JPMorgan's Group CIO Lori Beer. Pre-register today. Cisco flags critical CVSS 10 bug- Five Eyes agencies team up in threat detection guide. A critical CVSS vulnerability allocated CVE-2026-20127 in Cisco Catalyst…...
AWS open sources its AI agent experiments
1+ week, 5+ day ago (25+ words) AWS open sources its AI agent experiments'thestack.technology All development teams at AWS will be able to add their projects to a new GitHub page....
AWS's Madelyn Olson on the future of Valkey
1+ week, 6+ day ago (793+ words) The open-source world is no stranger to the "rug pull." But when Redis, the de facto standard for in-memory data caching, swapped its permissive license for a restrictive commercial one in early 2024, the shockwaves reached every corner of the technology…...
AWS adds “safeguards", denies AI agent caused outage
2+ week, 17+ hour ago (331+ words) "An engineer was using a role with broader permissions than expected'a user access control issue, not an AI autonomy issue." AWS says it has "implemented numerous safeguards" to avoid outages or disruptions " after an incident that sources told the FT…...
Critical BeyondTrust vulnerability CVE-2026-1731 exploited
3+ week, 4+ day ago (360+ words) 11,000 instances exposed; AI used to find the CVE-2026-1731 Assume that self-hosted BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) instances are now compromised if you haven't patched since the February 6 disclosure, watchTowr warned on Thursday. An estimated 11,000 instances are…...