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The Verge Tech

Congresswoman denies staff used AI to write defense funding amendment

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says her staff used AI for "spellcheck" in an amendment summary for a major defense bill, but denies it was used for the bill text itself and says "NO Legislation is ever drafted with AI." Luna issued the response after accounts on X began sharing screenshots of an amendment summary for the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act. It reads: "Identical to H.R. 100 (118th Congress).11:25 AM????Claude responded: Requires the Secretary of Defense to designate Departmen

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AWS Database Blog

Build a Spring Boot REST API with Amazon Aurora DSQL

In this post, you learn how to build a Spring Boot REST API that integrates with Aurora DSQL. You’ll configure the Aurora DSQL JDBC Connector for IAM authentication, implement optimistic concurrency control, and run the application across two regional nodes to observe active-active behavior.

Advanced (300)Amazon AuroraDSQL
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ExternalDatabase
AWS Database Blog

Automating cross-account refresh for Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB clusters

Keeping non-production environments current with production data is a common operational need. In this post, you learn how to automate cross-account environment refresh for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ DB clusters (available for PostgreSQL and MySQL) using a serverless pipeline that runs with a single trigger.

Amazon RDSExpert (400)Technical How-to
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ExternalObservability
Grafana Blog

Grafana 13.1 release: observability as code updates, extending Grafana Assistant across more data sources, and more

Earlier this year, Grafana 13 laid the groundwork for making it easier and faster than ever to turn your data into actionable insights.   With our latest minor release, Grafana 13.1, we're building on that foundation, expanding observability as code, bringing Grafana Assistant to more data sources, and streamlining the everyday workflows teams rely on to visualize, analyze, and act on their data.  Below are just some of the highlights from Grafana 13.1. If you want to explore all the latest upd

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ExternalCybersecurity
Dark Reading

Do CISOs Need a Code of Ethics?

Dark Reading Confidential Episode 19: Kickbacks, no-show jobs, "dirty" VCs, and shelf ware — industry expert Robert "RSnake" Hansen explains why he thinks its time for a CISO code of ethics to ensure cybersecurity bosses aren't engaged in self-dealing that could risk enterprise, and even national, security.

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

Your Biggest Identity Problem Isn't Your Employees Anymore; It's Everything Else

I used to open identity audits by asking a CISO how many users were on their network. These days, I ask a different question first: how many non-human identities do you have, and when was the last time anyone counted? Most of the time, the answer is a long pause, followed by a number that's wrong, followed by an admission that it's wrong. That pause is the whole story of identity security in 2026. CyberArk's 2025 Identity Security Landscape report, based on a survey of 2,600 security decision-ma

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