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A serious security breach is putting the spotlight on cloud database company PingCAP. A cyber extortion group called FulcrumSec claims to have stolen over ten point six terabytes of data, including source code from more than four hundred private repositories, customer SQL statements, API keys, and billing information. For any company trusting TiDB Cloud with sensitive workloads, this one demands attention.
Shifting gears, a video making the rounds poses a question that's becoming harder to ignore: is AI quietly degrading our ability to think for ourselves? The argument isn't new, but the timing is sharp. As AI tools become embedded in daily work and decision-making, researchers and educators are raising real concerns about cognitive dependency and what we quietly trade away for convenience.
And on a quieter note for the RSS faithful, a developer has built a small but thoughtful integration that pulls Hacker News comments directly into The Old Reader. It's a niche tool, but it speaks to something broader — the ongoing effort by independent developers to stitch together the open web in ways the big platforms simply won't bother to do.
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