AI Coding Tools

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Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from bankers and traders, limits them to engineers

Goldman Sachs has taken advanced AI coding tools away from most of its bankers and traders. Under internal guidance updated in October and reported by Bloomberg on November 2, Anthropic’s Claude Code and Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot are now limited to the bank’s roughly 12,000 engineers, out of a workforce of about 47,000. Don’t mistake this for a firm turning its back on AI. Goldman still runs its own AI assistant for every employee, and it still uses Claude heavily behind the scenes. What changed is who gets to hand a coding agent a task and let it run. ...

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16,000 Supabase Databases Exposed Names, Passwords and Auth Tokens to the Open Web

Sixteen thousand databases, wide open to anyone with a URL. Security researchers at UpGuard found roughly 16,000 Supabase-hosted databases publicly exposing people’s personal data on the open web, according to research reported by TechCrunch on September 25. The exposed records included names, home addresses, phone numbers and user passwords — plus a smaller number of authentication tokens and, in rare cases, credit card data. Cybernews, which reviewed the findings, put the count at 16,326 databases and noted that over half appeared to leak personally identifiable information. ...