Before connecting to a production DB with MCP, do not assume a 'success response' means success—8 items for a Query Execution Contract

"Show me the confirmed orders from last month, broken down by department."The AI connected to the database, executed the SQL, ...
HackerNoon

Building Multi-Cloud Security Guardrails With Policy-as-Code, IAM, and Automated Remediation

Learn how to secure AWS, Azure, and GCP using policy-as-code, drift detection, least-privilege IAM, microsegmentation, and ...

For those stuck on the Google Skills BigQuery lab: How I learned to 'not take instructions literally' to get a perfect score

When I opened Gmail this morning, I received an email from the Google Skills team saying, 'Task 2 of Explore Data with Gemini in BigQuery has been fixed, so please try again.' I immediately retried th ...
nytimes.com

Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency

The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims. By Maggie Haberman Hamed Aleaziz Shane Goldmacher and Jonathan Swan President Trump ...
DVIDSHub

U.S. Forces End Operation Inherent Resolve Mission in Iraq

TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) completed the orderly departure of U.S. forces and equipment from Erbil Air Base, Sept. 30, marking the end of the Operation Inherent Resolve mission in ...
NBC Washington

White House using taxpayer money to run ads promoting Trump. Is it legal?

The White House has spent days fiercely defending three taxpayer-funded advertisements that glorify President Donald Trump and have cost more than $1.7 million in public spending, calling them public ...
cybersecuritynews

Cisco Secure Email Gateway 0-day Vulnerability Actively Exploited in the Wild to Run Malicious Code

Cisco has issued an urgent warning regarding an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in its Secure Email Gateway appliances that allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary ...
Engadget

What more can you delete from your iPhone to free up space?

You're probably familiar with the basic steps to take when your iPhone storage is cluttered. Uninstalling apps you never use and deleting old photos and videos will ...
howtogeek

I replaced cd and ls with these modern Linux commands—and I’m not going back

Dibakar Ghosh is a tech journalist at How-To Geek with over a decade of experience using and writing about open-source software, Linux, Android, AI, and personal productivity. He writes about software ...
cisa

#StopRansomware: Medusa Ransomware

Executive Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are releasing this updated ...
The Hill

Centcom commander visits USS Abraham Lincoln amid questions about conditions on ship

Adm. Brad Cooper, who leads the U.S. Central Command (Centcom), visited the USS Abraham Lincoln on Saturday amid concerns of the ship’s living conditions as well as the mental health of the service ...
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Understand and resolve SQL Server blocking problems

Blocking is normal in any lock-based relational database, but persistent or long-running blocking degrades throughput and causes application timeouts. This article describes what blocking is in SQL ...