Engineering Insights

Update regarding Vercel service disruption on August 7, 2024

On August 7, 2024, Vercel's Edge Middleware and Edge Functions experienced a significant outage affecting many customers. We sincerely apologize for the service disruption. Vercel’s platform is designed to . As standard practice, we use staggered rollouts for both code and configuration changes. Every aspect of our infrastructure is designed to gracefully fail over to the next available region in the event of an incident, and ensures no single point of failure across infrastructure components. H

Gotta cache 'em all: bending the rules of web cache exploitation

Through the years, we have seen many attacks exploiting web caches to hijack sensitive information or store malicious payloads. However, as CDNs became more popular, new discrepancies between propriet

0Din: A GenAI Bug Bounty Program – Securing Tomorrow’s AI Together

As AI continues to evolve, so do the threats against it. As these GenAI systems become more sophisticated and widely adopted, ensuring their security and ethical use becomes paramount. 0Din is a groundbreaking GenAI bug bounty program dedicated specifically to help secure GenAI systems and beyond. In this blog, you'll learn about 0Din, how it works, and how you can participate and make a difference in securing our AI future. The post 0Din: A GenAI Bug Bounty Program – Securing Tomorrow’s AI Toge

Elastic 8.15: Better semantic search, new OTel distribution, SIEM data import

Elastic 8.15 includes enhancements in semantic search, new OTel collector distribution, AI-driven SIEM data onboarding, LLM integrations, additions to cross-cluster search (CCS), and more functionality within the Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL).

Updates to the StoreKit External Purchase Link Entitlement

In response to the announcement by the European Commission in June, we’re making the following changes to Apple’s Digital Markets Act compliance plan. We’re introducing updated terms that will apply this fall for developers with apps in the European Union storefronts of the App Store that use the StoreKit External Purchase Link Entitlement. Key changes include: Developers can communicate and promote offers for purchases available at a destination of their choice. The destination can be an alt

Zico Kolter Joins OpenAI’s Board of Directors

Zico Kolter Joins OpenAI’s Board of Directors We’re strengthening our governance with expertise in AI safety and alignment. Zico will also join the Safety & Security Committee

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