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AI coding agent deleted a firm’s entire production database and its backups in under 10 seconds

One moment, a tech company had a functioning production database and intact backups. Fewer than ten seconds later, it had neither. A coding agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude model, assigned to ...
TechRepublic

AI Agent Reportedly Deletes Company’s Entire Database, Admits to Violating Guardrails

A Cursor AI agent deleted a company’s entire production database, ignoring instructions prohibiting it from running destructive commands. A Cursor AI agent running on Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a company ...
Bleeping Computer

April KB5083769 Windows 11 update causes backup software failures

The April 2026 KB5083769 security update breaks third-party backup applications from multiple vendors on systems running Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. According to user reports, first spotted by Microsoft ...
HotHardware

Claude AI Agent Confesses to Wiping a Company's Entire Database and All Backups in Seconds

The world remains abuzz about AI’s potential to contribute to the greater good of humanity. For instance, Firefox developer Mozilla recently proclaimed that AI could effectively end the era of ...
TechSpot

AI coding agent running Claude wiped a startup's database (and its backups) in 9 seconds

Facepalm: It took only nine seconds for an AI coding agent to wipe a startup's production database and its backups with a single API call to its cloud provider. The failure began when Cursor, running ...
Fast Company

‘I violated every principle I was given’: An AI agent deleted a software company’s entire database. It may not be the AI’s fault

Another cautionary tale about AI has hit social media. This time, a software company’s founder is claiming that a Claude-powered version of AI coding tool Cursor deleted his entire production database ...
Redmond Magazine

Restoring a Database to an Older Version of SQL Server

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...
Windows Report

Microsoft Launches SQL Server 2026, Fabric Databases, and Rebranded Azure DocumentDB

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...
Redmond Magazine

PowerShell-Based SQL Server Backups Revisited, Part 2

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...
TWCN Tech News

How to Install, Uninstall, Reset Windows Server Backup

Windows Server Backup is a feature pre-installed with the Windows Server operating system. It is designed to protect important data and system configurations and provides comprehensive backup and ...
GitHub

create-a-full-database-backup-sql-server.md

This article describes how to create a full database backup in [!INCLUDE [ssnoversion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] by using [!INCLUDE [ssManStudioFull ...