AWS Delivers AI Service to Discover Vulnerabilities and Generate Patches
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made generally available a service through which it finds and validates code vulnerabilities and provides a patch that DevSecOps teams can then automatically apply or set up a pull request to implement. Dr. Neha Rungta, director of applied science at AWS, said the AWS Continuum service for code vulnerabilities is […]
Blitzy Adds Chat-to-Prompt Interface to Agentic AI Engineering Platform
Blitzy this week added a chat interface to a platform that enables DevOps teams to employ artificial intelligence (AI) agents by expressing their intent in natural language. Dr. Neeraj Deshmukh, Field CTO for Blitzy, said the Chat to Prompt interface makes it possible for a software engineer to describe a desired outcome that is then […]
Claude Platform Now Sends Agent Traces Straight to Your Observability Stack
Anthropic is making it easier to see what Claude-based agents do in production. The company has added OpenTelemetry trace export to the Claude Platform. Developers can now send traces from the Messages API, Claude Managed Agents, and the Claude SDKs to the observability tools they already use. The feature launched in public beta on October […]
One Bill for Grok, Cursor, and X: What SpaceX’s Bundle Means for Developers
SpaceX wants to be the single line item for your AI coding tool, your chatbot, and your social media account. On October 12, SpaceX Super Intelligence (SpaceXSI), the AI unit formerly known as xAI, introduced The X Subscription. It folds Grok, the Grok Bot agent, the Cursor AI code editor, and X Premium into one […]
BAND Desktop Application Streamlines Management of AI Coding Agents
BAND today made available a desktop application through which application developers can more easily manage and collaborate with multiple coding agents. Company CEO Arick Goomanovsky said the BAND for Developers application, in addition to providing more context and coordinating handoffs between disparate AI agent sessions, also makes it simpler for developers to intervene whenever an […]
GitHub Narrows App Permissions to Pull Teams Off Classic PATs
GitHub is giving DevOps teams more ways to limit an automation job to only the access it needs. A batch of GitHub Apps updates released Oct. 13 adds narrower permissions, relaxes a long-standing install restriction for repository administrators, and makes it easier to move users to expiring tokens. GitHub says the goal is to help […]
Docsy for AI Agents, Oh, and People Too
Google’s Docsy is joining the Linux Foundation as AI agents become documentation readers. Prague — When I grew up in programming, if you didn’t understand something in the code or operating system, you were told to Read The Fine (Ah, yeah, fine) Manual (RTFM). Of course, back then we actually had manuals and documentation. Since […]
Blitzy Makes Sandbox for Reverse Engineering Code Available at No Cost
Blitzy has made available a sandbox where DevOps teams can reverse-engineer up to one million lines of code, generate up to 25,000 lines of tested end-to-end code, and identify security vulnerabilities across a codebase at no cost. Dan Ochs, director of AI solutions consulting for Blitzy, said the provider’s Proactive Insights platform uses multiple artificial […]
Talentica Software Unfurls Managed AI Service to Optimize Software Delivery
Talentica Software this week launched a managed software delivery service that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to enable DevOps teams to deploy applications developed using AI coding tools at scale. Company CTO Manjusha Madabushi said the DevX AI Pods service makes use of a set of AI agents that Talentica has trained to provide the context […]
AWS Adds Harness to Open Source SDK for Building AI Agents
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week revealed it has added a harness to the open source software development kit (SDK) it makes available for building artificial intelligence (AI) agents. First introduced last year, the Strands SDK makes it simpler for application developers to use AI models to build and deploy AI agents. The Strands harness […]
GitLab Tightens Rate Limits as Coding Agents Drive Demand
GitLab is introducing new rate limits for its cloud-based DevOps platform as growing demand from AI agents and automated development tools increases pressure on its infrastructure. The changes, which begin October 19, will restrict the volume of requests users can send to GitLab.com based on their subscription plans. Free-tier customers and users making unauthenticated requests […]
StackHawk Delivers Wingman to Fix Vulnerabilities as Developers Write Code
StackHawk this week launched Wingman, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that makes it possible for application developers to automatically fix vulnerability issues as code is being written. Wingman is designed to install into Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Antigravity. It scans the live application, interprets findings, and fixes vulnerabilities in a way that […]
Apica Adds AI Agents and MCP Server to Platform for Managing Telemetry Data
Apica today added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to version 3.0 of its Ascent platform for managing telemetry data pipelines. Andi Mann, chief product and technology officer for Apica, said the AI agent, dubbed Venn, makes it possible for IT teams to use natural language rather than having to […]
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 the developer toolbox for years and provides teams with an ongoing view of where running applications spend CPU time, allocate memory and consume […]
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 it runs automatically — no review, no approval, no second look. Attackers have known this for a long time, and they’ve used it […]
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 a market long dominated by GitHub. The rollout arrived as GitHub suffered a major outage lasting more than six hours, disrupting pull requests, […]
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 expanded evaluation triggers. Alison Sickelka, vice president of product for Cloudsmith, said these additions to the platform will make it simpler to prevent […]
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 host. The release, which rolled out August 12, moves agent execution into what Microsoft calls the Agent Host, a standalone process built on […]
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, senior vice president for AI and developer platforms at Arm, said the Dynamic Insights tool provides both human developers and AI agents with […]
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 computer screen, and opens new possibilities for using charts in daily workflows. Most Python charting libraries today, such as Plotly, Bokeh, or Matplotlib, […]
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 is capable of autonomously performing tasks, such as testing code as it is created, in a way that maintains context across multiple sessions. […]
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 development questions. Back then, according to Prashanth Chandrasekar, Stack Overflow’s CEO, the site had “100 million monthly visitors.” Then AI came along. From […]
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 a model with specialized neural nets for individual tasks, such as mathematics and code generation. Mistral pioneered this approach to compete with larger […]