Wed.Jun 18, 2025

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The Model Context Protocol Security Reality Check

The New Stack

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a standard for AI agents and servers, defining how agents discover, authenticate to and invoke remote tools and services. But securing OAuth-based MCP servers is trickier than it looks. Recent updates to the MCP Security Best Practices specification, led by security experts including Den Delimarsky and Paul Carleton , have highlighted critical gaps in current deployments, particularly around confused deputy attacks and token-handling vulnerabi

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Zoho unveils Zia Hubs, its answer to Copilot and Duet AI for unstructured content intelligence

CIO

Zoho has launched Zia Hubs, a new AI-powered content intelligence layer that is designed to unlock insights from unstructured business data. The new tool is designed to help enterprises derive insights from any type of file format or structure, including PDFs, call logs, audio files, emails, and meeting recordings. A tool within Zoho WorkDrive, Zia Hubs leverages the company’s proprietary AI engine, Zia, to extract meaning, context, and actionable intelligence from a wide variety of file formats

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Accelerate threat modeling with generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In this post, we explore how generative AI can revolutionize threat modeling practices by automating vulnerability identification, generating comprehensive attack scenarios, and providing contextual mitigation strategies. Unlike previous automation attempts that struggled with the creative and contextual aspects of threat analysis, generative AI overcomes these limitations through its ability to understand complex system relationships, reason about novel attack vectors, and adapt to unique archi

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AI PCs will shape the future of work – but not everyone will get one

CIO

I spoke with IDC’s Ryan Reith, Group Vice President, WW Device Trackers , at IDC’s 60th annual Directions conference. Ryan and his IDC colleagues advise senior IT leaders around technology strategy – in his case focusing on end user devices. From the benefit of that experience Ryan said that although there is no critical use case for AI PCs today, organizations should be thinking about the future of their workforce and the devices they will need.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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Meeting summarization and action item extraction with Amazon Nova

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Meetings play a crucial role in decision-making, project coordination, and collaboration, and remote meetings are common across many organizations. However, capturing and structuring key takeaways from these conversations is often inefficient and inconsistent. Manually summarizing meetings or extracting action items requires significant effort and is prone to omissions or misinterpretations.

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Dont Get Burned with Recruiting AI Vendors with Jeff Pole

Go Hire- CTO

Dont Get Burned with Recruiting AI Vendors with Jeff Pole In this episode of GoHire Talks , Jonathan Duarte sits down with Jeff Pole , CoFounder & CEO of WardenAI , to explore the compliance complexities and promise behind recruiting AI tools. Jeff shares how WardenAI conducts independent audits to certify that Recruiting AI tools are fair, transparent, and legally defensible.

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8 steps to ensure data privacy compliance across borders

CIO

As organizations expand internationally, IT leaders must navigate a maze of regulations, from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as well as other region-specific privacy laws. So to stay compliant, they should have strong plans that cover data mapping, encryption, consent tracking, and see that vendors follow the rules.

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Honeycomb Observability Day London: A Jam-Packed Day of Great Talks

Honeycomb

On May 15th, 2025, Honeycomb hosted Observability Day (or O11yDay) in the London financial district. The skies were clear and the weather was wonderful and we had a huge turnout, from our networking breakfast to the happy hour at the end of the day. Keynote by Charity Majors Charity’s keynote talk began with a retrospective of observability from the 1950s to today.

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How Developers Can Monetize APIs Without a Marketplace

The New Stack

API monetization is expected to reach $8 billion by 2027 in the US alone. That figure could be driven higher by the advent of AI-powered APIs, said Adrian Machado , a staff software engineer with Zuplo , an API management platform designed for developers. For instance, in the travel sector about 90% of revenue is coming from APIs, he said. Expedia, airlines, travel products — all sold through APIs, he added. “One thing you should know is that the market for API monetization is growin

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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Designing Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems with the A2A Protocol

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It feels like every other AI announcement lately mentions “agents.” And already, the AI community has 2025 pegged as “the year of AI agents,” sometimes without much more detail than “They’ll be amazing!” Often forgotten in this hype are the fundamentals. Everybody is dreaming of armies of agents, booking hotels and flights, researching complex topics, and writing PhD theses for us.

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How To Use Terraform for Automation at the Edge

The New Stack

Automation is redefining how organizations deploy and manage secure workloads at the distributed edge. By leveraging flexible platforms with robust automation APIs, such as REST and Terraform , enterprises can orchestrate, automate and chain together essential network and security services across diverse sites. This includes everything from firewalls and SD-WANs to core business applications that require resilience and strong security.

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SaaS sprawl keeps growing with no end in sight

CIO

Even as CIOs try to limit SaaS sprawl, the problem appears to be getting worse, as employees keep adding new apps instead of removing them, according to a new study. While SaaS sprawl is a well-known and long-standing problem , more than six in 10 IT leaders say their organizations are adding new SaaS tools every month, according to a new report from intelligent process automation provider Nintex.

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Private Cloud’s Comeback: Driving the Enterprise IT Reset

The New Stack

The cloud landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by a strategic recalibration of how enterprises deploy and manage their IT workloads. Broadcom’s Private Cloud Outlook 2025: The Cloud Reset report, based on a global survey of 1,800 senior IT decision-makers across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, unveils a decisive “cloud reset.” Enterprises are moving away from a binary public-versus-private cloud mindset toward a deliberate, hybrid approach that stra

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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CIOs brace for rising costs as Salesforce adds 6% to core clouds, bundles AI into premium plans

CIO

Salesforce is rolling out sweeping changes to its pricing and product packaging, including a 6% increase for Enterprise and Unlimited Editions of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service, and select Industries Clouds, effective August 1. Simultaneously, the company is retiring standalone AI add-ons and Einstein 1 Editions and moving to bundled Agentforce plans priced from $125 to $550 per user per month, a shift that Anish Krishnan, senior analyst at QKS Group, cautioned “risks being viewed as

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AI Engineer World's Fair 2025: My Day 1 Highlights

Crafty CTO

My live experience at the AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 in San Francisco could be summarized as “extremely intense.” As I sat down to recap my highlights, starting with this post covering what Day 1, I ended up re-watching every session, and now I understand better why it felt so intense—the amount of information packed into the short 20 minute sessions was immense, and the people communicating that information were, on average, “brilliant plus” humans …

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Anthropic’s Claude Code Gets Support for Remote MCP Servers

The New Stack

Claude Code , Anthropic’s AI coding agent , has seen a 160% growth in its active user base since the company launched its Claude 4 models three months ago. Today, it is expanding Claude Code with support for remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. This will allow developers to extend Claude Code’s toolchain and data access with data and tools from a far wider range of services, like other dev tools, project management services and knowledge bases.

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Modernizing data ingestion: How to choose the right ETL platform for scale

CIO

When custom pipelines start to crack In the early stages of building a data platform, it’s common to patch together ingestion workflows by hand — scripting one-off jobs, customizing transformations per customer and relying on tribal knowledge to keep things running. It works…until it doesn’t. At a fast-scaling healthcare technology company, our customer base grew faster than our data infrastructure.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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Secrets in the Open: Cloud Data Exposures That Put Your Business at Risk

Tenable

Sensitive data and secrets are leaking. How cloud security leaders can shut them down. Despite the billions of dollars organizations are investing in cybersecurity, one of the most preventable threats persists: sensitive data and credentials exposed in publicly accessible cloud services. According to the Tenable Cloud Security Risk Report 2025 , 9% of public cloud storage resources contain sensitive data — including personally identifiable information (PII), intellectual property (IP), Payment C

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From If to When: What’s Next for Coherent PON?

CableLabs

There are a lot of reasons to attend an industry conference. To name just a few, events like SCTE TechExpo or the recent CableLabs Winter Conference provide opportunities to: Learn about the latest technology research. Discover emerging products. Network with colleagues. Identify technology trends. The last of these was very much evident at this year’s Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) conference, the world’s leading event for fiber optic technologies, where there was a palpable shift in

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Stronger Cloud Security in Five: Accelerate Response in the Cloud

Tenable

In this sixth installment of Tenable’s “Stronger Cloud Security in Five” blog series, we offer three recommendations that you can quickly roll out to help you expedite, prioritize and fine-tune how you detect and respond to cloud security issues. The dynamic, distributed and fast-changing nature of cloud environments makes it imperative for organizations to have a streamlined and swift process for detecting and responding to cloud security issues.

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Cyber Risk Management Strategy: How to Plan

Firemon

Online threats are everywhere, and no organization is safe from them. Whether it’s stolen data, ransomware, or phishing, attacks are becoming more frequent and severe. That’s why having a clear cyber risk management strategy matters. This guide walks you through planning and carrying out a security approach that protects your business, keeps you in line with rules, and helps you avoid potential problems.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Why Marketing Must Lead the New Buyer Journey

IDC

Today’s B2B tech buyers are digitally fluent, AI-assisted, and increasingly independent. They move easily between platforms, researching products and evaluating vendors, without ever needing to speak with a salesperson. For marketing leaders, this changes everything. When buyers are making critical decisions before sales even enter the conversation, your role expands dramatically.

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Atlassian Adds CLI Option to AI Agent for Building Software

DevOps.com

Atlassian has added a command line interface (CLI) option to provide application developers with a familiar construct for invoking Rovo Dev, its artificial intelligence (AI) agent for building software Part of a portfolio of Rovo Software Agents that Atlassian now makes available in beta, Rovo Dev completes and debugs code, creates tests, surfaces insights and […]

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Future AI processors said to consume up to 15,360 watts of power — massive power draw will demand exotic immersion and embedded cooling tech

Ooda Loop

The power consumption of AI GPUs has steadily increased in recent years and is expected to continue rising as AI processors incorporate more compute and HBM chiplets. Some of our sources in the industry have indicated that Nvidia is looking at 6,000W to 9,000W for thermal design power for its next-generation GPUs, but experts from […] The post Future AI processors said to consume up to 15,360 watts of power — massive power draw will demand exotic immersion and embedded cooling tech appeare

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Secure DevOps in Serverless Architecture

Dzone - DevOps

Serverless computing, app development, and deployment have been completely revolutionized by its unparalleled scalability and cost efficiency. Infrastructure management abstraction, which is provided by serverless platforms like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions, allows developers to concentrate on building their functionality while the cloud provider takes care of scaling, patching, and maintenance.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Your Whole Org Must Care About API Costs

The New Stack

In recent years, API adoption and the operational load surrounding it have grown at an unprecedented rate. I’ve shared my perspective on developer velocity, cognitive load, and how “ Optimizing for Developer Productivity Creates a Winning DevEx.” In my experience, I’ve seen a recurring story play out in many organizations: teams chase innovation at all costs, only to find themselves bogged down by the very complexity they’ve created.

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Mastering TypeScript: Your Ultimate Guide to Types, Inference & Compatibility

Perficient

In today’s world, TypeScript has become the go to choice for building robust but at the same time scalable applications. By combining various approaches for static type with dynamic capabilities of React, our hero enhances and improves productivity and responsibility. At the same time reduces the runtime errors. But to use TypeScript efficiently, we need to dive deeply into types, inference, compatibility and more.

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AI Browsers: Dia’s Chat-Based UI and the Future of the Web

The New Stack

The web browser has been the core app of the web for more than thirty years. Fundamentally, it hasn’t changed much over that time, but now it’s starting to be reimagined as an AI tool. Dia , a new web browser that invites you to “chat with your tabs,” has just been launched as an invite-only beta by The Browser Company. I took it for a spin to find out what AI browsers can offer.