Survey: AI Coding Tools Increase Open Source Software Dependencies
A survey of 307 enterprise technology leaders finds that as organizations rely more on artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools to build applications, they are simultaneously increasing the amount of open source software they are dependent on. Conducted by the market research firm Moving Horizon on behalf of ActiveState, a provider of a platform for accessing […]
mabl Adds Harness to AI Testing Automation Platform
Mabl today extended its test automation platform with a harness that, in addition to enforcing guardrails and testing standards for artificial intelligence (AI) agents, enables application development teams to better understand the impact of code changes before a pull request (PR) is made. Announced at a mabl Experience event, the extensions to the test automation […]
GemDB Extension Uses Code to Update Database
GemDB has introduced a Visual Studio Code extension that enables developers and AI coding agents to create, modify and persist database objects directly through Python code. With integrated Jupyter Notebook and MCP support, GemDB Code aims to eliminate traditional schema migrations, simplify database management and accelerate DevOps workflows.
GitHub Puts a Firewall Between npm and Your CI Runners
GitHub’s new package firewall puts enterprise security policies between npm registries and the developers, CI runners and AI coding agents consuming packages. With malware detection, attestation checks and package-age restrictions, it aims to stop malicious dependencies before installation.
AI Agents Can Now Take Software Apart. DevOps Teams Need a Plan
AI-powered reverse engineering is making it easier to understand and rebuild software without source code. Tools such as REA and increasingly capable AI models create opportunities for legacy modernization while raising fresh concerns about intellectual property, application security and functional correctness.
Microsoft Foundry Puts AI Agents on a Schedule and Under Watch
Microsoft’s September Foundry updates focus on making AI agents production-ready with automated routines, lower token costs, trace-based insights and improved resilience. For DevOps teams, the changes bring agent operations closer to familiar CI/CD and observability practices.
GitHub Brings AI Security Scanning to Pull Requests CodeQL Can’t Cover
GitHub’s AI Scan brings AI-powered vulnerability detection to pull requests involving languages, scripts and infrastructure files beyond CodeQL’s existing coverage. Paired with the general availability of agentic autofix, the release expands security automation across the development lifecycle. But advisory-only findings, coverage gaps and AI credit consumption mean DevOps teams still need clear review policies.
Cohere Plans to Acquire Aisle to Add AI-Powered Code Security
Enterprise AI platform provider Cohere announced it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Aisle, a cybersecurity startup whose AI agent platform discovers source-code vulnerabilities and generates proposed fixes. The proposed acquisition would also establish a dedicated cybersecurity business called Cohere Cyber. Aisle’s platform analyzes software for previously unknown vulnerabilities, validates potential findings, evaluates […]
Chainguard Debuts a Security-First Agent Platform
Open source security company Chainguard has released Workspaces, a service designed to provide a safe space for agents to do their thing without disrupting the security of existing operations. The market for platforms to host agents is large and growing daily, though Chainguard’s expertise in security solves a major problem with running agents, namely managing […]
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
OpenCode Breach Puts Spotlight on AI Distillation Threats
An attack using the technique on the open source coding agent’s Console hub exposed third party API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
Dean Hall Open Sources Brutal to Give Game Studios a Way Out of Engine Lock-In
DayZ creator Dean Hall has unveiled Brutal, a free C# framework designed to give game developers greater control over their technology and reduce dependence on commercial engines. Already used in projects including RimWorld’s new engine, Brutal promises flexibility and performance while raising familiar questions about licensing, maintenance and open source sustainability.
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 […]
ScienceLogic Extends Observability Reach and Control Deeper into AI Agents
ScienceLogic has added additional tools and capabilities to its observability platform that provide deeper visibility and control over artificial intelligence (AI) agents that are being used to automate IT operations. The latest 2.7 update to the Skylar AI platform provides visibility into agent routing and tool selection via a catalog that uses traces to surface […]
Figma Gives AI Agents a Spec Sheet and Developers a Shared Canvas
Figma introduces Specs, code layers and expanded MCP tools to connect AI agents, designers and developers while improving design-to-code workflows.
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 […]
Apple Brings Whole-Program C++ Hardening to Clang
Apple has added a new tool to the upstream LLVM project that could change how teams harden large C++ codebases. The clang-ssaf-driver, merged into LLVM Git this week, analyzes an entire project as it builds and then rewrites source code based on what it finds. The driver is part of Clang’s Scalable Static Analysis Framework […]
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 […]
GitLab Fixes CVSS 10 Flaw in CI/CD Regex Engine, Plus 23 Other Vulnerabilities
GitLab is telling every self-managed customer to upgrade now. On October 12, the company shipped versions 19.4.2, 19.3.5, and 19.2.8 of GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). The releases fix 24 security vulnerabilities. One has a CVSS score of 10.0, the highest rating possible. GitLab.com already runs the patched code. GitLab Dedicated customers […]
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 […]
npm Puts a 48-Hour Clock on Unused Trusted Publishing Configurations
GitHub has added an expiration date to unused npm trusted publishing configurations. Any configuration that doesn’t complete a successful publish within 48 hours of creation now expires and can no longer authorize a release. It’s a small change. But it closes a gap that matters to anyone who publishes packages from a CI/CD pipeline. How […]
Anthropic Builds Its Own Source Control After AI Agents Outgrow Git
Anthropic has moved its internal monorepo off Git and onto a version control system it built from scratch. The reason is simple. Its AI agents now write code faster than Git-based infrastructure can handle it. In a post on its engineering blog, the company said it averaged about 2,500 merged code changes a day in […]
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