Snowflake
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Snowflake is a cloud data warehouse platform integrating with Vercel's v0 for natural-language-driven app generation, and whose Cortex Agent was compromised via prompt injection from a GitHub README that executed arbitrary shell code.
Rockstar Games gets a taste of grand theft data amid ShinyHunters threat of 'Pay or leak'
ShinyHunters leverages third-party compromise (Anodot cloud-monitoring tool) to threaten Rockstar Games with data extortion, exposing supply-chain credential risks in enterprise tooling.
Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage
Rust-based Rocky brings Git-style version control and compile-time data contracts to SQL pipelines, solving schema drift detection and column-level lineage tracking for data warehouses.
Composition Shouldn't be this Hard
Ex-Twitter/Google/Snowflake engineers launch Cambra to eliminate infrastructure brittleness by consolidating incompatible database/cache/queue models into a single coherent system.
Exclusive: Omni raises $120 million to fix one of AI’s biggest enterprise data problems
Ex-Looker engineers' semantic layer platform Omni reaches $1.51B unicorn status with $120M Series C, signaling investor confidence that data abstraction layers will be critical enterprise infrastructure for scaling AI adoption.
Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs
AWS and Microsoft are racing to commercialize LLM-powered natural language-to-SQL tools, but researchers are exposing a critical vulnerability: these systems excel at syntactic correctness while being blind to semantic errors, risking silent data misinterpretations at scale.