Oracle rejects request it give up control of MySQL

Oracle has formally refused to restructure control of the Community Edition of MySQL, following a request that it do so from a consortium of database companies providing forks of the database, and from MySQL users. The decision comes after the consortium’s major...

An LLM that will help you build a nuclear weapon

I’ve asked GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and other large language models (LLMs) to help me construct a nuclear weapon. All of them said no. Let’s be clear, my lack of knowledge is not the real barrier to constructing one. The knowledge is public, free, and...

Pity the developers who resist agentic coding

The world of software development is changing very rapidly, and agentic coding is the catalyst. And by “very rapidly,” I mean “so fast that things are basically spinning almost out of control.” What a fantastic time to be alive. With Claude Code, I have become (if I...

Amazon is linking site hiccups to AI efforts

Amazon reportedly convened an engineering meeting Tuesday to discuss “a spate of outages” that are tied to the use of AI tools, according to a report in the Financial Times.  “The online retail giant said there had been a ‘trend of incidents’ in recent months,...