Business of DevOps
Fast-Moving Shai-Hulud Attack Infects npm Packages with 2 Billion Monthly Downloads
Jeff Burt | | Aikido Security, AWS, credential theft, GitHub Actions, HashiCorp Terraform, npm malware, Shai-Hulud worm, supply chain attackResearchers at Aikido Security and Endor Labs are tracking a fast-spreading supply-chain attack that is compromising a wide range of npm software packages that combined have more than 2 billion installs a ...
AI is Coding Us Into a Corner
Charlie Gero | | AI coding tools, AI dependency, AI hallucinations, AI patching, AI-generated code, application security, code review, code vulnerabilities, developer productivity, developer trust, frontier models, future software maintenance, Human Oversight, junior developers, secure coding, software engineering skills, software security, technical debtAI-powered patching and coding is putting us on a track towards a deepening dependency on future frontier models. The modern tools we use today to fix yesterday’s coding problems are quietly creating ...
Shift Left Security: 4 Automated Security Gates in GitHub Actions
Zia Ullah | | automated security testing, CI/CD security gates, CodeQL, container image scanning, CVE detection, DAST, dependency scanning, DevSecOps pipeline, Dynamic Application Security Testing, GitHub Actions security, Node.js security, npm audit, OWASP ZAP, SAST, shift left security, Snyk, Software Supply Chain Security, Static Application Security Testing, Trivy, vulnerability scanningLearn how to add four automated security gates to GitHub Actions using npm audit, Snyk, Trivy, CodeQL and OWASP ZAP—without an enterprise licence ...
Microsoft Confirms Copilot ‘Super App’ Is Coming This Year — and It’s About More Than Convenience
Tom Smith | | Agent 365, agent sprawl, AI agents, AI identity management, autonomous agents, Copilot Chat, Copilot Code, Copilot consolidation, Copilot Cowork, enterprise AI governance, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Autopilots, Microsoft Copilot super app, Microsoft Entra Agent ID, One CopilotMicrosoft is combining Copilot Chat, Code, Cowork and Autopilots into one super app, raising new questions about agent governance, identity, licensing and security ...
JetBrains Open-Sources KotlinLLM, a Research Prototype for Runtime Code Generation
Tom Smith | | agentic AI, AI coding tools, Apache License 2.0, asLlm, generative AI, IntelliJ IDEA plugin, JetBrains Research, Kotlin, Kotlin/JVM, KotlinLLM, LLM-generated code, mockLlm, persistent code generation, reviewable AI code, runtime code generation, Smart macros, software development, statically typed programmingJetBrains open-sources KotlinLLM, letting compiled Kotlin apps generate and persist LLM-written code at runtime instead of calling a model live ...
GitHub Brings Stacked Pull Requests Out of the Shadows
Tom Smith | | AI coding agents, branch protection, code quality, code review, continuous integration, developer productivity, DevOps workflows, gh-stack, GitHub Copilot, GitHub public preview, GitHub stacked pull requests, merge queues, pull request size, software engineering, Stacked PRsGitHub introduces native stacked pull requests, helping development teams break large changes into smaller, dependency-ordered PRs that are faster and easier to review ...
CISA’s 2026 SBOM Guidance Adds Hash Requirements and AI Coverage
Tom Smith | | AI supply chain security, CISA, CISA SBOM 2026, CMMC, component hashes, component licensing, continuous SBOM validation, CycloneDX, FBI, FedRAMP, NSA, open source security, SaaS security, SBOM automation, SBOM minimum elements, software bill of materials, software procurement, Software Supply Chain Security, software transparency, SPDX, vendor risk managementCISA’s updated 2026 SBOM minimum elements expand software transparency requirements to AI, SaaS and open source while adding hashes, licenses and stronger validation ...
GitHub Gives Teams More Control Over Copilot’s Cloud Agent in Linear
Tom Smith | | agent guidance, agentic coding, AI coding agent, AI development workflow, automated pull requests, branch controls, Copilot cloud agent, custom coding agents, devops automation, engineering productivity, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Marketplace, Linear integration, Linear issues, mid-session steering, model selection, software development agentsGitHub’s Copilot cloud agent integration with Linear is now generally available, adding model, branch and team-level controls for delegated coding work ...
GitHub and PyPI Bet On Time to Slow Down Software Supply Chain Attacks
Tom Smith | | automated updates, CI/CD security, dependency cooldown, dependency pinning, dependency updates, devops security, GitHub Dependabot, lockfiles, malicious packages, open source security, package poisoning, package registry security, platform engineering, PyPi, Python Package Index, scoped access tokens, Software Supply Chain Security, supply chain attacksGitHub and PyPI are using time as a security control, delaying dependency updates and locking older releases against new file uploads ...
CodePen 2.0 Turns a Design Playground Into a Real Deployment Tool
Tom Smith | | browser coding, browser-based IDE, Cloud development environment, Cloud IDE, CodePen, CodePen 2.0, CodePen Projects, custom domains, developer tools, devops, file-based projects, front-end development, one-click deployment, production deployment, real-time collaboration, shadow infrastructure, version history, web developmentCodePen 2.0 transforms the front-end playground into a file-based development platform with collaboration, version history and one-click deployment ...
The End of Manual Triage
Neel Shah | | agentic SRE, AI-powered SRE, Aiden for SRE, alert enrichment, automated diagnosis, automated incident triage, Datadog Bits AI, distributed systems reliability, incident investigation, incident response automation, machine-assisted triage, manual incident triage, MTTR reduction, observability correlation, observability-first design, on-call engineering, operational context, progressive automation, root cause analysis, Rootly, SRE architecture, SRE automation, telemetry correlationWhy SRE teams are replacing manual incident triage with AI-assisted correlation, stronger observability and controlled agentic workflows ...
AI Agents Are Writing Your Infrastructure Code. Is Anyone Governing It?
Neel Shah | | agentic infrastructure, AI agent governance, AI coding assistants, AI-generated infrastructure, cloud misconfiguration, cloud security automation, continuous drift detection, devops security, IAM misconfiguration, infrastructure as code security, infrastructure compliance, infrastructure guardrails, Kubernetes security, platform engineering security, policy as code, RBAC for AI agents, secure-by-default platforms, SRE governance, StackGen Aiden, Terraform securityAI agents now generate infrastructure code at scale, but security pass rates are stuck at 55%. Here’s how teams can close the governance gap ...
