IBM and Red Hat Launch Lightwell Catalog to Automate Remediation
IBM and Red Hat this week revealed that Lightwell Network, a catalog of more than 6,500 application-layer dependencies that drives an automated vulnerability remediation service, is now generally available. At the same time, the Lightwell Clearinghouse Premier service, through which application development teams can both access validated patches and coordinate remediation efforts, is now available […]
GhostApproval Flaw Featuring Decades-Old Feature Found in Six AI Coding Tools
A security flaw found in six popular AI coding agents can let attackers abuse a decades-old feature in Unix to trick an AI agent into giving them control of a developer’s system. Researchers with Google-owned Wiz said the vulnerability, dubbed “GhostApproval,” relies on symbolic links – or symlinks – a file system feature that has […]
Multi-Model AI Debate: The New Way to Design Software Systems
How agentic workflows can automate architecture debates, compare tradeoffs and produce stronger software designs
How to Build a DevSecOps CI/CD Pipeline on Azure With GitHub Actions
Fix security problems when they’re cheap to fix, which is before the code is deployed. A pipeline that enforces this automatically is what makes that principle real.
Shadow Mode Continuous Integration: The Missing Test Layer for AI Agents
Autonomous agents require CI/CD pipelines that evaluate behavior, not just artifacts. Containerized shadow mode gives platform teams a practical control point: Run the agent in an isolated Docker environment, replay realistic workflows, capture structured traces and evaluate behavior against statistical and policy baselines.
From Alerts to Intelligence: Building a Production Self-Healing System for Port-Down Failures
Big, distributed computing systems seldom have visible failures. Most of them start without any bang, frequently with a health-check disconnection, a failed TCP connection or a service port that is no longer listening. Such signals are not too big when considered in isolation. However, in the scenario where systems are running with several hundreds of […]
Self-Healing Infrastructure With Cognitive Automation: How LLMs and Ansible Transform Middleware Reliability
Infrastructure reliability has always been central to enterprise success, yet traditional automation methods often fall short in handling complex, dynamic environments. With the rise of large language models (LLMs), a new paradigm of cognitive automation is emerging — where intelligent agents help infrastructure not only detect failures but also recommend or implement remediations in real-time. […]
Building CI/CD Pipelines for On-Prem Azure DevOps: What the Cloud Docs Don’t Tell You
The engineering that makes on-prem CI/CD reliable is invisible when it works. When it does not work, the failures are subtle and the documentation is thin.
Why AI-Driven Devops is Exposing the Limits of Traditional Toolchains and What Comes Next for Engineering Teams in 2026
The future belongs to adaptive systems that can learn, adjust and self-correct in real-time. Teams that invest in observability, modularity and AI-aware governance today will be positioned to thrive in this new operational reality.
Developing Real-Time Event Processing With Micronaut and Kafka Streams: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to develop lightweight, high-performance stream processing applications in Java with contemporary frameworks
GitHub Copilot Bills Hit $800: Visual Studio’s June Update Adds Real-Time Usage Alerts and MCP Trust Checks
Visual Studio’s June update adds real-time Copilot usage alerts and MCP server trust checks, responding to billing and agent security concerns.
Former GitHub CEO Unveils Distributed Git Network Built for AI Coding Agents
As AI coding agents become a larger part of software development, a new startup founded by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is introducing infrastructure built to address the growing pressure on centralized Git hosting. The new company, Entire, has launched a preview of a distributed Git network that allows developers to mirror GitHub repositories across […]
North Korea Expands the Reach of PolinRider Supply Chain Attack Campaign
The North Korean-sponsored threat groups behind the long-running fake interview scams targeting developers are expanding the PolinRider supply chain campaign that has escalated over the past several months. Reports from cybersecurity vendors Socket and Rescana found that two groups linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have published at least 108 malicious packages […]
Pentagon Campaign Seeks Engineers for Defense AI and Software Modernization
The Pentagon has announced the launch of War Force, a recruiting campaign for software engineers whose work would support multiple defense AI and modernization projects. The campaign is being run in partnership with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management as part of the federal government’s U.S. Tech Force program. OPM said the program is intended […]
‘GitLost’ Flaw Lets Attackers Trick GitHub AI Agent Into Leaking Private Repos
Noma researchers again show how easy it is to manipulate AI agents with malicious commands via indirect prompt injection attacks.
How AI is Revamping DevSecOps Processes
Artificial Intelligence is pushing DevSecOps into a new phase where security is no longer just about detecting vulnerabilities, but increasingly about resolving them automatically within the flow of software delivery. As many organizations are discovering, DevSecOps historically gave teams visibility into risk. AI is now turning that visibility into automated remediation. This evolution has taken […]
Block Details Builderbot Framework for Orchestrating AI Agents Across SDLC
The software engineers at Block have developed an orchestration layer they are using to manage artificial intelligence (AI) agents that have been trained to automate multiple tasks across their software development lifecycle (SDLC). Based on goose, an open source agent framework the company developed and contributed to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the Builderbot orchestration […]
How Independent Service Deployments Expose the Limits of Conventional Regression Testing Tools
The architectural shift to independently deployable services was supposed to make software delivery faster and less risky. In many aspects, it has. Teams can ship a change to one service without coordinating a release across the entire system. A bug fix in the payment service does not require a synchronized deployment with the notification service, […]
A Beginner’s Guide to CI/CD and CI/CD Pipelines
Modern software development moves at a pace that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. Organizations push updates on demand, respond to vulnerabilities within minutes, and integrate new features at a relentless pace. This acceleration is driven by continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). To understand how CI/CD reshapes the security posture of modern organizations, […]
Beyond Automation: Building Accountability for AI Agents
The conversation around AI agents has evolved remarkably quickly. Not long ago, most organisations were still experimenting with prototypes and controlled use cases, trying to understand where these systems might fit within existing operations. Today, that conversation has changed. Agents are increasingly being deployed into production environments where they can write code, interact with customers, […]
The Next DevOps Bottleneck: When AI Generates More Software Than Organizations Can Manage
The organizations that benefit most from AI will probably not be the ones generating the largest amount of code. They will be the ones who build systems capable of managing software at scale.
Most Outages Don’t Announce Themselves
Many outages never announce themselves as outages. They show up as rising latency or an error rate that creeps from 2% to 4% over an afternoon while everyone’s busy with something else.
Novee Uncovers Cordyceps: The Latest Threat to CI/CD Pipelines
A newly discovered supply chain security flaw is once again putting a spotlight on inherent weaknesses in CI/CD pipelines and the growing interest among cyberthreat actors to exploit them. Security researchers with Novee, an AI penetration testing platform provider, wrote about Cordyceps, an exploitable pattern in the open source supply chain that can allow attackers […]