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 […]
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.7-Code Targets Token Efficiency in Agentic Coding
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.7-Code offers 30% lower token usage and a 21.8% coding benchmark gain — here’s what DevOps teams need to know about the open-source release.
GitHub Removes PAT Requirement for Agentic Workflows
GitHub Agentic Workflows can now use GitHub Actions’ built-in GITHUB_TOKEN instead of a personal access token (PAT). That means developers no longer need to create, store, or rotate a PAT to run agentic workflows, eliminating both the operational hassle and the security risks that come with managing long-lived tokens at scale.
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 […]
Survey Surfaces Depth of DevSecOps Crisis in the Age of AI
A global survey of 2,350 developers, CISOs and application security managers published this week finds that while nearly all respondents (96%) work for organizations that have embedded or connected artificial intelligence (AI) code and tools into some aspect of their application development workflows, nearly half of all code (49%) running in production environments was AI-generated […]
Anthropic Reverses Course on Hidden AI Restrictions Following Developer Backlash
Anthropic has abruptly walked back a controversial, unannounced policy that degraded the performance of its latest model, Claude Fable 5. The reversal follows intense backlash from the machine learning community, which criticized the company for a lack of transparency and anti-competitive behavior, according to a Wired report. The controversy began earlier this week with the […]
npm v12 Is Coming in July — Here’s What Developers Need to Do Now
For years, running npm install meant trusting that whatever code got pulled in would behave itself. That trust was often misplaced. Starting in July 2026, npm v12 changes the rules. Install scripts won’t run automatically anymore. Neither will dependencies be pulled from Git repos or remote URLs. All of it becomes opt-in. This is a […]
Datadog Leverages AI to Extend Observability Reach Deeper into DevOps Workflows
Datadog this week significantly extended the reach of its Bits artificial intelligence (AI) framework to enable DevOps teams to automatically discover and resolve issues based on the telemetry data collected by its observability platform. Announced at the company’s DASH 2026 conference, Datadog is now embedding an AI coding tool, dubbed Bits Code, across its entire […]
Security Flaw in Claude Code Illustrates the Risk of AI in Developer Workflows
AI coding agents are reshaping software development—but they’re also expanding the attack surface. Researchers uncovered a now-patched vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Code GitHub Action that could have enabled prompt injection attacks to expose CI/CD secrets, API keys, and credentials. As AI agents gain autonomy in development workflows, organizations must treat untrusted inputs as hostile and rethink CI/CD security models. Natural language is becoming executable code—and attackers know it.
GitLab Previews Revamped DevOps Platform for the Agentic AI Era
At Transcend 2026, GitLab launched updates to optimize its DevOps platform for AI-generated code, featuring Next Gen Source Code Management, GitLab Orbit, and an AI Governance framework.
Survey Surfaces Emerging DevOps Bottlenecks in the AI Coding Era
New Black Duck survey reveals AI coding tools boost developer productivity but create critical bottlenecks in manual reviews, code rework, and security vulnerabilities.
GitHub Takes Down 73 Microsoft Repos After Miasma Worm Attack
GitHub pulled 73 Microsoft repositories offline after the self-replicating Miasma worm weaponized IDEs and AI coding tools to harvest developer credentials.
Visual Studio Code 1.123 Brings Deeper AI Integration and Smarter Agent Tools
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.123 on June 3, expanding its AI-assisted development capabilities with features that reflect the editor’s direction: toward a more agentic, context-aware workflow. The update is relatively focused, but several additions stand out to developers who rely on Copilot and other AI models day to day. A Million-Token Context Window One […]
AWS Unfurls Open Source AI Agent to Enable Better AI Coding Outcomes
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today previewed a customizable lightweight, open-source harness, dubbed Simple Strands Agent (SSA), that looks to provide a more consistent approach to the interactions that occur between artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools. Anoop Deoras, director of applied science for agentic AI at AWS, said one of the issues that has arisen in […]
Kilo Adds Benchmark to Identify Most Efficient AI Models for Coding
Kilo today made available a benchmarking framework for its open source artificial intelligence (AI) agent that enables application development teams to generate code using multiple models. Company CEO Scott Breitenother said KiloBench measures the impact that frontier AI models are having on actual production workflows versus relying on a set of benchmarks, such as SWE-bench […]
Broadcom Aims to Better Secure Spring Applications in the AI Era
Broadcom today released a raft of updates to the open source Spring framework for building Java applications to primarily address a wave of vulnerabilities discovered by researchers using artificial intelligence (AI) tools. At the same time, Broadcom is also adding a managed service through which organizations can secure thousands of Spring dependencies for organizations building […]
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 […]
Secure Code Warrior Leverages AI to Extend DevSecOps Training Reach
Secure Code Warrior this week extended the capability of its artificial intelligence (AI) agent to make it possible to surface relevant training insights in real time as application developers are writing code. Announced at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, the Adaptive Learning capability added to the company’s learning platform detects which AI tools […]
IronWorm Malware Shares Shai-Hulud Traits, Takes Threat to ‘Next Level’
Open source software developers continue to come under attack, with the latest threat being a custom malware that shares many of the attributes of the notorious Shai-Hulud self-propagating worm but comes with functions that make it more difficult for defenders to detect and to reverse engineer. Dubbed “IronWorm,” the infostealer is built in the Rust […]
Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Advance Open Source Vite Ecosystem
Cloudflare this week acquired VoidZero, the maintainer of open source tools such as Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ that are used widely to build web application frameworks. Rita Kozlov, vice president of product management for Cloudflare, said this acquisition will ensure the financial stability of a set of open source tools that play a […]
Allstacks Extends Reach of Software Engineering Intelligence Platform to AI Agents
Allstacks this week added a shared workspace capability to its software engineering intelligence platform that makes it simpler for product and software engineering teams to create specifications for artificial intelligence (AI) agents that organizations plan to develop and deploy. Product Studio provides teams with a place to plan, draft, and refine product requirements using the […]
SmartBear Adds Computer Vision Capability to Testing Platform
SmartBear this week extended its ability to apply artificial intelligence to application testing with the addition of a computer vision capability that can be used to detect objects in applications. Prashant Mohan, vice president of product at SmartBear, said the company’s TestComplete platform now combines computer vision and optical character recognition to help automate the […]