Benioff says Microsoft's OpenAI stake pushed Salesforce toward Anthropic

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has revealed that his company was unable to invest in OpenAI due to Microsoft's existing stake in the ChatGPT maker. Speaking on the Sources podcast hosted by Alex Heath, Benioff said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman turned down Salesforce's investment interest. This led Salesforce to back rival AI firm Anthropic in early 2023 instead. That investment is now reportedly valued at around $5 billion. With Anthropic gearing up for a potential public listing, Benioff believes the stake could eventually be worth tens of billions for Salesforce.

DOJ Backs Trump on White House Press Access, Calls It a Privilege Not a Right

The Trump administration has asserted its authority to limit journalists' access to the White House, framing such access as a privilege rather than a legal right. The Justice Department argued that the First Amendment does not guarantee media entry to the White House complex. National security concerns were cited as part of the justification for imposing these restrictions. In response, major news outlets including CNN, MSNBC, and Politico have filed a legal challenge against the restrictions in federal court.

Guessing ATS job board slugs misfires half the time, study of 2,127 firms finds

A developer building a company-to-job-board index across 2,127 firms found that guessing URL slugs from company names works only about 26% of the time, and nearly half of those matches point to the wrong employer. Because Ashby and Lever do not include a company name in their API responses, there is no direct way to confirm board ownership from the payload alone. Greenhouse is the exception, returning a company name field that enables straightforward verification. A common but flawed workaround — comparing the company name against the job URL — simply checks whether the guessed slug matches itself, making it incapable of catching errors. The only reliable cross-platform method is cross-referencing known job titles from an independent source against the titles returned by the board.

How to Build a React Native Starter in 2026 That Actually Ships

A well-structured React Native boilerplate should prioritize time-to-first-paid-user over the number of included screens or libraries, according to a developer guide published on DEV Community. Essential components include end-to-end authentication with session restore, a fully working payments flow via Stripe or RevenueCat, and a configured EAS Build pipeline with staging and production profiles. Error boundaries paired with crash-logging tools like Sentry, along with OTA update channels via expo-updates, are also flagged as non-negotiable defaults. On the other hand, redundant animation libraries, custom UI kits, Redux boilerplate, and demo screens should be cut to reduce maintenance overhead. The recommended stack centers on Expo SDK 53+, expo-router, Zustand, TanStack Query, and Supabase, with the guiding principle that a good scaffold should make it trivial to delete what you do not need.

How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?

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Indonesia Java Sea Shipwreck: 20 Dead, 115 Still Missing After 10 Days

A ship sinking in Indonesia's Java Sea has left at least 20 people dead as of Wednesday, ten days after the vessel went down. Search and rescue operations are ongoing, with 115 individuals still unaccounted for. A total of 108 people have been confirmed as survivors of the disaster. The incident highlights the ongoing dangers of maritime travel in Indonesian waters.

India ODI squad to gather in Thiruvananthapuram ahead of West Indies series

India's ODI squad is set to assemble in Thiruvananthapuram by September 24 for a three-match series against West Indies. The series will mark the return of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma to ODI cricket. Ravindra Jadeja will also make a comeback to the format after being left out following the ODI series against New Zealand earlier this year. Several key players, including vice-captain Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan, Jasprit Bumrah, and Axar Patel, are currently unavailable as they are representing India at the Asian Games.

Gunman Kills at Least 11 in Mass Shooting in Durban, South Africa

A mass shooting in Durban, South Africa has left at least 11 people dead. An unidentified gunman carried out the attack, though further details about the suspect remain unclear. The location and exact circumstances of the shooting have not been fully disclosed in available reports. Authorities are believed to be investigating the incident, though no official statements have been cited. The motive behind the attack is currently unknown.

Developer Builds AI-Human Cryptid Reporting System Using Sanity CMS

A developer has built an open-source 'Cryptid Field Station' as part of the Sanity Challenge, allowing hikers to submit reported cryptid sightings with location coordinates and photo or video evidence. On submission, an automated agent runs parallel checks — an AI credibility assessment via Google Gemini and a live weather data pull from Open-Meteo for the reported location and time. Depending on the agent's verdict, reports are either auto-approved, auto-rejected, or flagged for review by a human ranger who can verify, reject, or publish sightings through a real-time triage dashboard. Every status transition appends a verification document to the sighting, creating a shared audit trail authored by both the AI agent and the human reviewer. The project includes a built-in control test — a jackalope report that admits to being taxidermy — which is designed to always be rejected, serving as a live integrity check for the pipeline.

TypeSafe's Jev AI Model Targets Faster, Cheaper App Decision Tasks

TypeSafe AI has introduced Jev, a model it calls a 'System One' AI, designed specifically to make structured decisions from a fixed set of options rather than generating free-form text. Unlike large language models (LLMs) from providers like OpenAI or Anthropic, Jev accepts a text input and returns a choice along with a probability estimate, making it suited for tasks like support ticket routing. The probability output allows applications to automate high-confidence decisions while flagging ambiguous cases for human review. TypeSafe claims Jev is substantially faster and cheaper than LLMs for such decision workflows, citing an internal benchmark of 193.6 times faster, though the company notes this figure applies to specific System One tasks and not all use cases. The article suggests Jev and LLMs can complement each other, with Jev handling routing logic while an LLM drafts the actual customer response downstream.

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MyZubster Rebuilds Knowledge Explorer as Static, Evidence-Classified Interface

The MyZubster project has relaunched its Knowledge Explorer as a fully static, client-side web page hosted on Vercel, replacing a previous design that blended domain discovery, search, and record inspection into a single unwieldy flow. The updated page organises records across domains such as Fermentation, Monero, Programming, and Martial Arts, allowing users to filter by domain, full-text search, and evidence state. Each record carries an explicit evidence classification — Personal Practice, Observation, External Source, or Protocol — to signal the epistemic reliability of the entry rather than treating all stored records as verified guidance. The implementation requires no backend service, database, or framework runtime, and uses a timestamped backup system to enable straightforward rollbacks after deployments. Future development aims to move the in-memory record registry to versioned Markdown files with validated front matter, turning the site into a generated view over source-controlled knowledge objects.

SalesWiki uses role-based access to serve different facts from one shared knowledge base

Developer project SalesWiki explores how a single shared sales knowledge base can serve different roles — such as account executives and marketers — without exposing every record to every user. The system separates broad account knowledge, sensitive sales notes, contact references, and legal material into distinct storage areas, with a card's directory location determining its access class. Role and account policies are enforced server-side, meaning a salesperson preparing for a call and a marketer selecting a campaign signal each receive only the facts relevant to their decision. Contact details are kept out of the shared vault entirely, replaced with opaque references resolved by an approved external store to isolate access and deletion concerns. The project acknowledges gaps, including the need for a real identity provider in production deployments, and treats information requests and change requests as separate, distinct paths.

Veeam Agent Flaw CVE-2026-32996 Lets Local Users Gain SYSTEM Privileges

A high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability, CVE-2026-32996, has been discovered in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, affecting version 13.0.1.2067 and earlier builds shipped with Veeam Backup & Replication 13. The flaw resides in the Veeam Endpoint Backup service, where a low-privileged local user can exploit improper session UID handling over a named pipe to inherit an elevated administrator context. Because the service logs valid session UIDs to a file readable by standard users, an attacker can replay a captured UID and execute commands as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Rated 7.3 (High) under CVSS v4, the vulnerability is reportedly being actively exploited in the wild, with public proof-of-concept code already available. Veeam has released a fix in Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.2.29, which updates the agent to build 13.0.3.1220, and users are urged to upgrade immediately.

AWS DevOps Agent Security Tested: Guardrails Hold, But Permissive Roles Pose Risks

A security researcher tested AWS DevOps Agent's directed actions feature by granting an elevated role broad permissions and attempting unauthorized operations on EC2 instances. Tests showed that a permissive SSM document combined with a broadly privileged elevated role allowed installation of an arbitrary software package after explicit approval. However, the agent blocked operations like ec2:RunInstances that fall outside its supported action set, even when those permissions were attached to the elevated role. The researcher emphasized that CloudTrail logging is critical for detecting misuse, since the agent's approval step does not itself act as a guardrail when the attacker controls the approval. Risks extend beyond malicious actors, as mistaken approvals or social engineering could also lead to unintended changes.

Solana Tests Alpenglow Upgrade to Slash Transaction Finality to 150ms

Solana has begun testing a major protocol upgrade called Alpenglow that aims to dramatically reduce transaction finality times. The upgrade would cut finality from the current 12.8 seconds down to just 150 milliseconds. This near-instant settlement would allow exchanges, bridges, and merchants to treat payments as irreversible almost immediately after they are made. The development marks a significant step toward making Solana more competitive for real-time payment use cases.

B.Tech Student Jayanth Joins DEV Community to Share AI and Full-Stack Journey

Jayanth, a freelance full-stack and AI automation developer pursuing a B.Tech degree set to conclude in 2026, has introduced himself to the DEV Community. He balances academic coursework and competitive programming with real-world freelance projects involving full-stack web applications and AI system design. His current technical focus spans React, Next.js, LangGraph-based multi-agent systems, RAG evaluation, and multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform on AWS and GCP. He recently built a CNN-BiLSTM deep learning model for Argentinian Sign Language recognition using the LSA64 dataset. Jayanth says he joined the platform to publicly document his learnings, including debugging challenges and architectural trade-offs often omitted from standard tutorials.

How the .NET MAUI Ecosystem Extends Beyond a Simple Cross-Platform UI Framework

Microsoft's .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) is a framework that lets developers build native apps for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single shared C# codebase. While the framework handles UI and platform targeting, its real strength lies in the broader ecosystem of libraries, NuGet packages, architecture patterns, and developer tools that surround it. Through NuGet, developers can integrate ready-made solutions for networking, authentication, storage, analytics, and more, significantly reducing build time. Because MAUI sits on top of the full .NET platform, developers can also leverage existing .NET technologies such as Entity Framework Core, Azure SDKs, and ASP.NET Core concepts. This shared foundation allows mobile and backend teams to align on common models, libraries, and development practices across an entire application stack.