{"slug": "oracle-pins-hopes-on-star-wars-productivity-jump-to-lightspeed-from-ai-assisted", "title": "Oracle pins hopes on 'Star Wars' productivity jump to lightspeed from AI-assisted engineering", "summary": "Oracle is betting on a 'Star Wars' productivity jump from AI-assisted engineering to accelerate its software development, according to a report from The Register. The company aims to leverage AI tools to significantly boost developer output, though specific metrics were not disclosed.", "body_md": "### TOP STORIES\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks\n\nThe model provider gave METR the credits for free. An actual customer would not have been so lucky\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control, asks partners to chip in\n\nSecurity ... this time it will be different\n\n-\nSYSTEMS\n\n#### Nvidia is building an IP licensing empire on the back of NVLink\n\nEven when you think you're not buying Nvidia, you might still be buying Nvidia\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI\n\nCompany's three year pursuit of debt from non-existent address ended by Oxford judge\n\n-\nsecurity\n\n#### Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution\n\n100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### Debian votes to let contributors code with AI\n\nDisclosure optional, quality mandatory\n\n-\n#### LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI\n\nIt looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer\n\n-\n#### Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming\n\nGRUB's up for furry new update\n\n-\n#### AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi\n\nPlus: new official Amiga-branded hardware is coming\n\n-\n#### Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot\n\nThe lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one… or does he?\n\n-\n#### FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another\n\nWord up", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/oracle-pins-hopes-on-star-wars-productivity-jump-to-lightspeed-from-ai-assisted", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/01/oracle-pins-hopes-on-star-wars-productivity-jump-to-lightspeed-from-ai-assisted-engineering-1/5293596", "published_at": "2026-09-01 16:06:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-01 20:53:37.812770+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Oracle", "The Register"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/oracle-pins-hopes-on-star-wars-productivity-jump-to-lightspeed-from-ai-assisted", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/oracle-pins-hopes-on-star-wars-productivity-jump-to-lightspeed-from-ai-assisted.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/oracle-pins-hopes-on-star-wars-productivity-jump-to-lightspeed-from-ai-assisted.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/oracle-pins-hopes-on-star-wars-productivity-jump-to-lightspeed-from-ai-assisted.jsonld"}}