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Mazda CX-30 and Mazda3 Recalled to Fix Airbag Software Issue
The problem can only occur if the vehicle’s starter battery dies after the ignition has been left in the “on” position without the engine running for 2 or more hours, according to documents the automaker provided to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), If this happens, the vehicle’s airbag sensor may store an error code that deactivates the airbags…
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Software sprawl is getting out of control: 86% of IT leaders say disparate tools are creating financial strain and security risks – but consolidation is now a ‘high priority’
Software sprawl is killing business growth, according to new research, with tools meant to simplify operations actually making them much more complex. With more than three-quarters of UK mid-market firms planning to boost their software spend this year, a report from Nintex shows this sharpened focus on rapid adoption means interoperability is being neglected. Three-in-ten IT leaders said they were…
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CEOs want AI in everything, but software engineers are pushing back – extensive application upgrades are a becoming a huge ‘paint point’ for teams
Software engineers are becoming exasperated at having to embed AI capabilities in applications, according to research from Gartner – a problem the firm says isn’t likely to go away. More than three-quarters (77%) of senior software engineers said demands to integrate AI within existing applications are a “significant or moderate pain point”. Key factors behind this sharpened focus on AI…
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Fresh Microsoft layoffs hit software engineering roles, documents show
Microsoft is set to lay off more than 300 employees as part of a fresh round of cuts in the company’s home state of Washington – and software engineers once again appear to be bearing the brunt. According to Worker Adjustment and Training Notification (WARN) filings, 305 Washington-based staff in total are affected. Organizations are required to file notifications on…
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Last week’s 7-hour outage caused by software flaw
American cybersecurity company SentinelOne revealed over the weekend that a software flaw triggered a seven-hour-long outage on Thursday. This massive outage affected multiple customer-facing services in what SentinelOne described as a “global service disruption.” SentinelOne acknowledged the outage in a post published Thursday, reassuring customers that their systems were still protected. “Customer endpoints are still protected at this time, but…
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Hackers are exploiting critical flaw in vBulletin forum software
Two critical vulnerabilities affecting the open-source forum software vBulletin have been discovered, with one confirmed to be actively exploited in the wild. The flaws, tracked under CVE-2025-48827 and CVE-2025-48828, and rated critical (CVSS v3 score: 10.0 and 9.0 respectively), are an API method invocation and a remote code execution (RCE) via template engine abuse flaws. They impact vBulletin versions 5.0.0…
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US to block China’s access to essential semiconductor design software – Computerworld
“With Cadence and Synopsys being US-based companies and Siemens contributing to more than 90% share of the EDA tools globally, this move further tightens EDA software sales in China,” said Neil Shah, VP for research and partner at Counterpoint Research. “EDA tools cannot be substituted and are the foundation to chip design and manufacturing.” What makes this strategically different is…
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Shifting left might improve software security, but developers are becoming overwhelmed – communication barriers, tool sprawl, and ‘vulnerability overload’ is causing serious headaches for development teams
Nearly half of enterprises are trying to “shift left” in a bid to shore up software security, but false positives, the faster pace of development thanks to AI, and challenges integrating tools are limiting success for developers. That’s according to research by AI security firm Pynt that focused on the adoption of shift left practices — referring to a strategy…
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Python’s popularity shows no signs of fading – here’s why software developers love it
Python’s popularity continues to surge, according to the Tiobe index, with the programming language reaching a 25.25% share in May. Figures from the index show Python now holds the highest rating for any programming language since 2001, surpassing Java’s record-breaking rating in June 2001. But as Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen noted, this was the first month of the Tiobe index…
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‘Developers will need to adapt’: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joins Google’s Sundar Pichai in revealing the scale of AI-generated code at the tech giants – and it’s a stark warning for software developers
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says up to 30% of the tech giant’s code was written by AI, prompting more questions over the impact of the technology on software development. Speaking during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at LlamaCon last month, Nadella revealed that anywhere between 20% to 30% of code was “written by software” – essentially meaning…
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