Omar Gallaga has covered technology, digital culture and other topics for outlets including CNET, NPR, WIRED, Texas Monthly, MSNBC, Consumer Reports, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The ...

Imagine waking up one morning to find your data irretrievably lost. It’s a nightmare scenario for any business or developer, and it emphasizes the critical importance of backing up your MySQL database ...

In the US, fired and laid-off workers often have their digital credentials deactivated before they learn about the loss of their jobs; indeed, the inability to log in to a corporate system may be the ...

One moment, a tech company had a functioning production database and intact backups. Fewer than ten seconds later, it had neither. A coding agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude model, assigned to ...

A Cursor AI agent deleted a company’s entire production database, ignoring instructions prohibiting it from running destructive commands. A Cursor AI agent running on Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a company ...

Another cautionary tale about AI has hit social media. This time, a software company’s founder is claiming that a Claude-powered version of AI coding tool Cursor deleted his entire production database ...

The world remains abuzz about AI’s potential to contribute to the greater good of humanity. For instance, Firefox developer Mozilla recently proclaimed that AI could effectively end the era of ...

Facepalm: It took only nine seconds for an AI coding agent to wipe a startup's production database and its backups with a single API call to its cloud provider. The failure began when Cursor, running ...

People are trusting their AI agents with much more important work, but doing so still carries significant risks. Just ask Jeremy Crane, founder of PocketOS, a startup that builds software for car ...

AWS is announcing the release of Amazon S3 Files, a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With S3 Files, Amazon S3 is the ...

The personal data we store on our Apple devices can be literally priceless, with photos and videos the most obvious example. Imagine parents losing the video they shot of their toddler taking their ...