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Claude Fable won’t answer basic biology questions
Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and praising its skills in biology, among others. But the model won't answer basic biology questions - the kind you'd expect a high schooler to handle. Instead, it hands off the query to the former flagship model, Claude Opus 4.8. It isn't because Fable doesn't know the answers. It's because Anthropic won't let it, by design. Fable is a public-facing, Mythos-class model, a family so ca
Oracle PeopleSoft servers hacked in ShinyHunters data theft attacks
Oracle PeopleSoft servers are being targeted in ongoing data theft attacks by the ShinyHunters extortion gang, which claims to have stolen data from over 100 organizations. [...]
Automate Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL major or minor version upgrade using AWS Systems Manager and Amazon EC2
Managing Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition upgrades across multiple database clusters can be time-consuming and error-prone when done manually. In this post, we show you how to automate Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL upgrades across your entire database fleet through consistent, repeatable procedures.
How to migrate from Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS CloudFormation (Part 1)
In this post, you learn how to use AWS DMS Schema Conversion to migrate Oracle schemas to PostgreSQL. AWS DMS Schema Conversion converts database schemas and code objects to formats compatible with your target database. You also learn how to use AWS DMS to migrate data to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition.
Avoid shared database accounts with federated IAM authentication
In this post, you will learn how to integrate Okta with AWS IAM Identity Center and implement Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) authentication to create a unified authentication flow. You configure attribute-based access control (ABAC) that automatically maps user identities from your IdP to database permissions, supporting interactive user sessions and helping you avoid shared accounts. By the end, you have a working system where databa
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