DevOps Toolbox
OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor’s Model Access After SpaceX Acquisition
OpenAI is ending Cursor’s direct access to its AI models after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired its parent company, Anysphere. This is the next move in the increasingly bitter conflict between Elon Musk ...
Dash0 Acquires Polar Signals for Continuous Profiling and GPU Visibility
Observability startup Dash0 announced this week that it acquired Berlin-based continuous profiling specialist Polar Signals. The deal adds continuous profiling to SignalStore, Dash0’s OpenTelemetry-native data platform. Continuous profiling has been part of ...
npm v12 Shuts Down a Popular Malware Trick — But the Threat Isn’t Going Away
For years, one of the easiest ways to sneak malware onto a developer's machine has been to hide in plain sight. Install a package from npm, and any lifecycle script bundled with ...
Cursor Launches Origin Code Hosting Platform as GitHub Rival
AI coding provider Cursor has launched Origin, a code hosting platform that puts source code and AI coding agents inside the Cursor development environment. The new coding platform expands the company into ...
Cloudsmith Extends Policies and Controls to Secure Application Binaries
Cloudsmith this week revealed it has expanded the policy management and continuous risk detection capabilities it makes available within its software artifact management platform to now include policy templates, cooldown policies, and ...
Microsoft Decouples AI Agents From the VS Code Editor in Latest Release
Microsoft has shipped Visual Studio Code 1.133, and the headline change is architectural rather than cosmetic: AI agent sessions now run in a dedicated background process rather than within the editor's extension ...
Arm Adds AI Tool to Optimize Workloads Using Runtime Data
Arm has made available a Dynamic Insights tool that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) models to generate recommendations for optimizing software running on its processors using actual data collected at runtime. Alex Spinelli, ...
Reflex’s Newly Open-Sourced XY Library Offers Faster Python Charting
A newly open-sourced Python charting library, called XY, from Reflex offers an advantage few other charting tools provide: massive scalability. The library rethinks how to render a set of points on the ...
AWS Adds Agentic Workspace to Kiro AI Coding Tool
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week added an open source workspace for its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that enables application developers to asynchronously assign tasks to an AI agent that ...
Stack Overflow Is Being Reborn as a Back-End Service for AI Agents
Will that stop its decline? We'll soon find out. Once upon a time, Stack Overflow was, love it or hate it, the site programmers went to find answers for their most annoying ...
Cohere’s North Mini Code Lets Devs Stack Their Own AI
Toronto startup Cohere has released an open-weight model designed for developers to use to build their own AI stack. The open-weight North Mini Code is a 30-billion-parameter “mixture-of-experts” (MoE) model. MoE equips ...
The Evolving Role of Observability in DevOps
DevOps practices have fundamentally changed how software is delivered, operated, and improved. At their heart, DevOps methodologies seek to unify development and operations, enabling teams to ship changes more quickly while maintaining ...
