RapidFort Extends Open Source Software Security Reach to Runtime Environments
RapidFort today at the Black Hat USA conference announced it has extended its ability to secure open source software to the runtimes that DevOps teams deploy in production environments. Michael Wood, chief marketing officer for RapidFort, said the RapidFort Runtime platform makes it possible to now monitor open source software deployed within a container image […]
The Surprisingly High Cost of ‘Free’ Search Solutions
Not long ago, some business leaders seemed to view enterprise search as a “nice-to-have.” Or, at the very least, they considered it more of a supporting utility than a strategic, business-critical platform. Organizations use enterprise search tools to help employees locate internal documents and enable support teams to surface relevant information. And, of course, retailers […]
OpenAI Open Sources Codex Security CLI for the Merge Path
OpenAI has released its Codex Security command-line interface and software development kit as open source software under the Apache 2.0 license, providing a new way to bring its AI security scanner into development workflows. The CLI can scan repositories, review staged and unstaged changes before a commit, compare findings across scans and export results for […]
AI Code Generation Raises New Quality Risks
Mladen Lazic, CTO of Scopic, joins Mike Vizard to explain why AI-generated code is outpacing review capacity — and why independent QA agents that never see the source code are becoming essential.
Why Agentic Coding Needs Governance at Scale
CloudBees CEO Moritz Plassnig joins Alan Shimel to explain why agentic coding is exposing every unfinished piece of the DevOps transformation — and why AI-scale delivery needs AI-scale governance.
The Anatomy of a $900,000 Validation Bill
A 50-developer team shipping at an agentic pace will spend roughly $900,000 this year on AI and developer tooling costs. Most of the engineering leaders I’ve talked to saw the compute costs coming. What they didn’t anticipate was where the rest of the bill was hiding. The culprit is a timing problem. Frontier models price […]
Adoption and Fragmentation of AI in CI/CD—and Operational Readiness
In today’s enterprise software delivery environment, AI has moved from a distant possibility to an active area of experimentation across the CI/CD pipeline. The conversation around AI in software delivery often runs ahead of the underlying reality, and most organizations are still working through what it takes to operationalize AI inside delivery architectures that were […]
Investments in DevOps Tools and Platforms Start to Accelerate in AI Era
A global survey of 839 IT decision-makers conducted by the Futurum Group finds 54% now work for organizations that use AI across more than half of their software development lifecycle (SDLC), with 40% reporting AI already generates the majority of production code merged in the last 90 days. Within the next three years, a total […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
ManageEngine OpManager Nexus Adds MCP, GenAI, and Autonomous AI, With AI Sovereignty Built-In
ManageEngine OpManager Nexus enhanced its newly launched hybrid observability platform with a range of powerful AIOps capabilities. OpManager Nexus was launched in April 2026 with the merger of two of ManageEngine’s flagship observability solutions: OpManager Plus and Site24x7. The new platform is unique in the observability market with its dual deployment strategy: You can either […]
Why Your Best People Can’t Save a Broken Delivery System
When delivery falls apart, the reflex is to blame the team. Missed dates, quality slips, a burned-out squad — leadership tends to reach for a personnel fix and quietly move on. The uncomfortable pattern in most enterprise organizations is that the system itself is the failure mode. Decision latency, priority misalignment, and layers of governance […]
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
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Mistral Releases Leanstral 1.5, an Open Model That Solved 587 of 672 Putnam Math Problems
Mistral’s open Leanstral 1.5 model solved 587 of 672 Putnam math problems and is already finding real bugs in open-source code.
Platform Engineering vs. DevOps: Why This Is the Wrong Question
DevOps has done what it was supposed to do. It broke down the wall between development and operations, it made continuous delivery a normal expectation, it made shared ownership of production a cultural default, and it moved software delivery from a scheduled event to a continuous flow. The results reshaped how modern software gets built. […]
Ornith Models Automate Agentic Coding With Self-Scaffolding
Ornith, a new family of open source LLM models from the DeepReinforce research collective, takes a novel approach to executing coding and debugging tasks: It generates an architectural framework to give the user’s harness a structured instruction set – a scaffold – to create an agent to complete the job. Available in a set of […]