InfoQ

JEP 533 Tightens Exception Handling in Java's Structured Concurrency for JDK 27

JEP 533, Structured Concurrency, has reached integrated status for JDK 27. It refines exception handling and type safety in ...
InfoQ

AI-First Software Delivery: Balancing Innovation with Proven Practices

Wes Reisz discusses the shift toward AI-first software delivery, emphasizing that agentic workflows are not one-size-fits-all ...
TheServerSide

Java, JDBC and Postgres

The first thing you'll learn in this PostgreSQL and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) tutorial is that most developers simply call it Postgres. The two terms are both interchangeable and official. Use ...
The Guardian

Claude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

PocketOS was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production ...
Live Science

'I violated every principle I was given': AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses

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 ...
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Java 25: Oracle’s Big-Tent Release—and a Clearer Roadmap for What’s Next

Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...
The Independent

‘It took nine seconds’: Claude AI agent deletes company’s entire database

An AI agent powered by Anthropic’s leading Claude model has deleted a company’s entire production database, leaving customers unable to access key data. PocketOS, which provides software for car ...
Euronews

An AI agent deleted a company’s entire database in 9 seconds - then wrote an apology

The AI system, powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus model, had been handling a routine task when it independently chose to “fix” an issue by wiping the data - without any human approval. Whoopsy! An ...
Fast Company

‘I violated every principle I was given’: An AI agent deleted a software company’s entire database. It may not be the AI’s fault

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 ...
The Verge

PocketOS maker says an AI agent “deleted our production database in 9 seconds.”

The details of what happened should be taken with a grain of salt since some of its self-reported by the chatbot, which can be tricky. But according to Jer Crane, a Cursor coding agent running Claude ...
Mashable

An AI agent allegedly deleted a startup's production database, causing a huge outage

People are trusting their AI agents with much more important work, but doing so still carries significant risks. Just ask Jeremy Crane, founder of PocketOS, a startup that builds software for car ...