AI frenzy feeds credential chaos, secrets leak through code, tools, and infrastructure

Code keeps moving through pipelines, and credentials continue to surface alongside it. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 puts the count at 28.65 million new hardcoded secrets in public GitHub commits in 2025, extending a multi-year rise in exp… Continue reading AI frenzy feeds credential chaos, secrets leak through code, tools, and infrastructure

Tails 7.6 ships automatic Tor bridge retrieval and a new password manager

Tails 7.6 is out, and for users operating on networks that block Tor, the most consequential addition is built-in bridge retrieval. The Tor Connection assistant can now detect when a direct connection to Tor is restricted and automatically request brid… Continue reading Tails 7.6 ships automatic Tor bridge retrieval and a new password manager

GitHub jumps on the bandwagon and will use your data to train AI

GitHub updated how it uses data to improve AI-powered coding assistance. Starting April 24, interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users may be used to train and improve GitHub’s models unless users opt out. Copilot Business and Copilot Ente… Continue reading GitHub jumps on the bandwagon and will use your data to train AI

Who owns AI agent access? At most companies, nobody knows

AI agents are operating across production enterprise environments at scale, and the identity infrastructure managing their access has not kept up with their deployment. A January 2026 survey of 228 IT and security professionals, conducted by the Cloud … Continue reading Who owns AI agent access? At most companies, nobody knows

Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 ships with confidential computing support, XFS live repair

Many enterprise Linux deployments rely on hardware-level memory isolation to protect sensitive workloads from co-tenants and compromised hypervisors. Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 (UEK 8.2) extends that capability on Oracle Linux wit… Continue reading Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 ships with confidential computing support, XFS live repair

Google’s TurboQuant cuts AI memory use without losing accuracy

Large language models carry a persistent scaling problem. As context windows grow, the memory required to store key-value (KV) caches expands proportionally, consuming GPU memory and slowing inference. A team at Google Research has developed three comp… Continue reading Google’s TurboQuant cuts AI memory use without losing accuracy