GitHub Gives Teams More Control Over Copilot’s Cloud Agent in Linear
GitHub’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
GitHub 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
CodePen 2.0 transforms the front-end playground into a file-based development platform with collaboration, version history and one-click deployment.
Black Duck Extends Scope and Reach of Code Scanning Tool
Black Duck has updated its Coverity static analysis code scanning tool to provide deeper integrations with artificial intelligence (AI) tools along with updates to its user interface that make it simpler to prioritize issues in a way that makes it easier to adhere to multiple compliance mandates. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server added to […]
FakeGit Targets AI Coding Agents with Malicious GitHub Repos
Threat actors continue to find new ways to incorporate AI into schemes aimed at luring developers into downloading malware from fake repositories. The latest example involves almost 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that are being used to distribute a loader and an information-stealer. The FakeGit campaign is nothing new, with Oleg Zaytsev, lead security researcher with […]
New Copilot Dashboard Shows Enterprises Which Developers Are Actually Using AI — Not Just Who’s Logged In
GitHub’s new Copilot dashboard shows enterprises which developers use AI deeply — turning adoption data into a real productivity business case.
OpenAI’s Codex Context Cut Puts Enterprise AI Coding Workflows on Notice
OpenAI quietly trimmed the default input context window for GPT-5.6 inside its Codex CLI, dropping it from 372,000 tokens to 272,000 tokens. That’s a 27% cut, and developers noticed fast. The change surfaced in a GitHub pull request to the Codex CLI, and within days, developers on Reddit and X were asking why OpenAI shrunk […]
VS Code 1.129 Moves Agent Sessions Out of the Editor Window
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.129, and the headline change isn’t a new feature so much as a new foundation. The update introduces the agent host, a dedicated process that runs AI coding agents like Copilot, Claude, and Codex outside the editor itself, using a new open protocol called the Agent Host Protocol (AHP). […]
Security Risks from AI Coding Agents Expand Beyond the Sandbox: Pillar
AI coding assistants have become an essential part of developers’ work, automating many of the repetitive tasks – think boilerplate coding and scaffolding – that in the past ate up a lot of their time. More jobs can now get done faster. That said, such agents also represent a significant security risk, making developers – […]
Harness Extends DevOps Reach to the Realm of AI Agents
Harness today extended the reach of its core continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to enable DevOps teams to build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents. At the core of that capability are five additions to the Harness portfolio, including an AI Asset Catalog that automatically discovers every agent, skill, and plugin that exists within repositories […]
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 […]
xAI Open-Sources Grok Build Coding Agent After Cloud Upload Exposes SSH Keys, Repos
xAI has published the full source code for Grok Build, its terminal-based AI coding agent, on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license. The release lands three days after a security researcher showed the tool quietly shipping entire developer repositories — SSH keys and password databases included — to a Google Cloud bucket xAI controls. The […]
HashiCorp Introduces tfpolicy, a Native Policy Framework for Terraform
HashiCorp’s new tfpolicy framework brings native policy-as-code governance to Terraform using HCL and lifecycle-aware infrastructure checks.
Anaconda Acquires Kilo Code to Unify AI Development from First Prompt to Production
Anaconda Inc. has acquired Kilo Code, an open-source, model-agnostic platform that embeds artificial intelligence (AI) agents directly into developer workflows. The acquisition integrates Kilo’s rapid-growth community of over three million developers into Anaconda’s expanding enterprise AI-native development ecosystem. The transaction positions Anaconda to secure the entire software development lifecycle, from the developer’s initial prompt to […]
SmartBear Tightens Integration Between AI Coding and Testing Tools
SmartBear this week revealed it is narrowing the divide between coding and testing by integrating its platform with artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools. Sheryl Koenigsberg, senior vice president of product marketing at SmartBear, said integrations with AI coding tools from Anthropic, Atlassian, GitHub, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will make it simpler for application developers […]
Anaconda Doesn’t Want to Be Just the Python Company Anymore
The question is no longer whether Anaconda wants to be more than the Python company. It is how much of the AI development stack DeSanto ultimately intends to own.
Atlassian Extends AI Reach of Jira Into Agentic Engineering Workflows
Atlassian today extended the scope of tasks that artificial intelligence (AI) can automate directly from its Jira project management software, including assigning work to an AI coding agent. Initially, Jira integration with AI coding tools includes Claude Code from Anthropic, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, with support for Codex from OpenAI forthcoming. Software engineering teams can […]
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 […]
‘HalluSquatting’ Compromises AI Coding Agents to Install Malware, Create Botnets
Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem since OpenAI first introduced its ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, highlighting generative AI’s tendency to generate plausible but false or misleading information and its inability to just say “I don’t know.” They can lead to embarrassing or uncomfortable moments. However, security researchers in Israel have found that the large […]
IBM Bob Gets Multi-Agent Muscle and a Cost Dashboard for Enterprise Coding
IBM Bob adds multi-agent coordination, cost analytics, and modernization workflows for IBM Z, IBM i, and Java as AI governance takes center stage.
GitHub’s Redesigned PR Inbox Tackles the Review Bottleneck AI Created
GitHub’s redesigned pull requests dashboard is now GA, adding Inbox, saved views, and smarter filters as PR review queues grow.
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 Undercuts Anthropic and OpenAI on Coding Agent Pricing
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 undercuts Opus 4.8 on price, matching it on key coding benchmarks, and adds new safeguards against cybersecurity risks.
Enterprise Smart Contracts Have a Cryptography Problem. EY Just Built a Way Around It
The business case for smart contracts is building fast. Major financial institutions are using programmable, code-based agreements to underpin financial workflows, supply chain operations, and tokenization initiatives. Developers are being asked to prove the value. But there’s a problem most organizations don’t fully see until they’re already stuck: Privacy. Public blockchains are transparent by design. […]