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133 postsdata-eng-bench: Snowflake's dbt benchmark for coding agents
Snowflake's data-eng-bench tests coding agents on 103 realistic dbt data-engineering tasks across DuckDB and Snowflake, via the open-source Harbor framework.
ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses
ChainDrop, a Shai-Hulud npm worm variant, infected 444 packages and spreads via tarballs, evading standard repository-based defenses.
CAKE: Compiler-Agent Co-Design Lets AI Write Faster GPU Kernels
CAKE pairs AI coding agents with a hardware-explicit compiler IR, beating tuned GPU kernel baselines on B200 with verifiable, evolving toolchains.
Prefill/Decode Disaggregation Can Worsen Tail Latency, Not Fix It
Splitting prefill and decode across GPU pools adds queues and KV transfer overhead that can worsen tail latency without careful control-loop design.
IETF Publishes Best Current Practice for Cross-Device Flow Security
New IETF BCP (RFC 10027) details cross-device flow security threats, real-world exploits, and mitigation strategies for engineers and architects.
MCP Security: Trust Boundaries and the Attacks the Spec Won't Stop
A breakdown of MCP's four trust boundaries, stdio server risks, OAuth 2.1/PKCE/CIMD updates, and the confused-deputy attack class engineers must handle.
Researchers Lure Lazarus's Fake IT Workers Into a Sham DeFi Startup
Researchers built a fake DeFi startup to hire and monitor North Korea's Famous Chollima IT worker operatives using ANY.RUN sandboxes.
Python Bytecode: The Security Blind Spot Beyond Source Review
Study of over 1M PyPI packages shows Python .pyc bytecode bypasses source-level security review, exposing CPython to crashes and memory-corruption bugs.
MongoDB BSON Symbol Type Bypasses Authorization Check (CVE-2026-18690)
MongoDB CVE-2026-18690: a BSON symbol-typed collection name bypasses authorization checks, letting limited users reach protected system collections.
RovoBlast: One Click Turns Atlassian's AI Assistant Into a Data Leak
Varonis details RovoBlast, a one-click prompt injection flaw in Atlassian's Rovo AI assistant that can expose sensitive enterprise data.