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Blitzy Makes Sandbox for Reverse Engineering Code Available at No Cost

Blitzy has made available a sandbox where DevOps teams can reverse-engineer up to one million lines of code, generate up to 25,000 lines of tested end-to-end code, and identify security vulnerabilities across a codebase at no cost. Dan Ochs, director of AI solutions consulting for Blitzy, said the provider’s Proactive Insights platform uses multiple artificial […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 25, 2026
AI

Talentica Software Unfurls Managed AI Service to Optimize Software Delivery

Talentica Software this week launched a managed software delivery service that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to enable DevOps teams to deploy applications developed using AI coding tools at scale. Company CTO Manjusha Madabushi said the DevX AI Pods service makes use of a set of AI agents that Talentica has trained to provide the context […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 24, 2026
AI

AWS Adds Harness to Open Source SDK for Building AI Agents

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week revealed it has added a harness to the open source software development kit (SDK) it makes available for building artificial intelligence (AI) agents. First introduced last year, the Strands SDK makes it simpler for application developers to use AI models to build and deploy AI agents. The Strands harness […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 23, 2026
AI

GitLab Tightens Rate Limits as Coding Agents Drive Demand

GitLab is introducing new rate limits for its cloud-based DevOps platform as growing demand from AI agents and automated development tools increases pressure on its infrastructure. The changes, which begin October 19, will restrict the volume of requests users can send to GitLab.com based on their subscription plans. Free-tier customers and users making unauthenticated requests […]

James Maguire · Sep 21, 2026
AI

StackHawk Delivers Wingman to Fix Vulnerabilities as Developers Write Code

StackHawk this week launched Wingman, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that makes it possible for application developers to automatically fix vulnerability issues as code is being written. Wingman is designed to install into Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Antigravity. It scans the live application, interprets findings, and fixes vulnerabilities in a way that […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 17, 2026
AI

Apica Adds AI Agents and MCP Server to Platform for Managing Telemetry Data

Apica today added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to version 3.0 of its Ascent platform for managing telemetry data pipelines. Andi Mann, chief product and technology officer for Apica, said the AI agent, dubbed Venn, makes it possible for IT teams to use natural language rather than having to […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 8, 2026
AI

Dash0 Acquires Polar Signals for Continuous Profiling and GPU Visibility

Observability startup Dash0 announced this week that it acquired Berlin-based continuous profiling specialist Polar Signals. The deal adds continuous profiling to SignalStore, Dash0’s OpenTelemetry-native data platform. Continuous profiling has been part of the developer toolbox for years and provides teams with an ongoing view of where running applications spend CPU time, allocate memory and consume […]

Jaime Hampton · Aug 21, 2026
DevOps and Open Technologies

npm v12 Shuts Down a Popular Malware Trick — But the Threat Isn’t Going Away

For years, one of the easiest ways to sneak malware onto a developer’s machine has been to hide in plain sight. Install a package from npm, and any lifecycle script bundled with it runs automatically — no review, no approval, no second look. Attackers have known this for a long time, and they’ve used it […]

Tom Smith · Aug 20, 2026
AI

Cursor Launches Origin Code Hosting Platform as GitHub Rival

AI coding provider Cursor has launched Origin, a code hosting platform that puts source code and AI coding agents inside the Cursor development environment. The new coding platform expands the company into a market long dominated by GitHub. The rollout arrived as GitHub suffered a major outage lasting more than six hours, disrupting pull requests, […]

James Maguire · Aug 19, 2026
Blogs

Cloudsmith Extends Policies and Controls to Secure Application Binaries

Cloudsmith this week revealed it has expanded the policy management and continuous risk detection capabilities it makes available within its software artifact management platform to now include policy templates, cooldown policies, and expanded evaluation triggers. Alison Sickelka, vice president of product for Cloudsmith, said these additions to the platform will make it simpler to prevent […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 18, 2026
Blogs

Microsoft Decouples AI Agents From the VS Code Editor in Latest Release

Microsoft has shipped Visual Studio Code 1.133, and the headline change is architectural rather than cosmetic: AI agent sessions now run in a dedicated background process rather than within the editor’s extension host. The release, which rolled out August 12, moves agent execution into what Microsoft calls the Agent Host, a standalone process built on […]

Tom Smith · Aug 14, 2026
AI

Arm Adds AI Tool to Optimize Workloads Using Runtime Data

Arm has made available a Dynamic Insights tool that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) models to generate recommendations for optimizing software running on its processors using actual data collected at runtime. Alex Spinelli, senior vice president for AI and developer platforms at Arm, said the Dynamic Insights tool provides both human developers and AI agents with […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 13, 2026
Blogs

Reflex’s Newly Open-Sourced XY Library Offers Faster Python Charting

A newly open-sourced Python charting library, called XY, from Reflex offers an advantage few other charting tools provide: massive scalability. The library rethinks how to render a set of points on the computer screen, and opens new possibilities for using charts in daily workflows. Most Python charting libraries today, such as Plotly, Bokeh, or Matplotlib, […]

Joab Jackson · Aug 13, 2026
AI

AWS Adds Agentic Workspace to Kiro AI Coding Tool

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week added an open source workspace for its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that enables application developers to asynchronously assign tasks to an AI agent that is capable of autonomously performing tasks, such as testing code as it is created, in a way that maintains context across multiple sessions. […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 5, 2026
AI

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 […]

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols · Jun 12, 2026
AI

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 […]

Joab Jackson · Jun 12, 2026
Blogs

The Evolving Role of Observability in DevOps

DevOps practices have fundamentally changed how software is delivered, operated, and improved. At their heart, DevOps methodologies seek to unify development and operations, enabling teams to ship changes more quickly while maintaining system reliability. The discipline has grown beyond simple CI/CD automation to encompass culture, observability, and intelligent workflows. As organizations scale, they face new […]

Jennifer Shawn · May 21, 2026
Blogs

GitHub Breach Tied to Malicious VS Code Extension Exposes Thousands of Internal Repositories

GitHub says attackers accessed thousands of internal repositories after a company employee’s device was compromised through a malicious Visual Studio Code extension, though the company said it has removed the malicious extension, isolated the compromised endpoint, and launched an investigation. The company confirmed that approximately 3,800 internal repositories were affected. GitHub stated that investigators have […]

James Maguire · May 20, 2026
Blogs

Google Code Wiki Aims to Solve Documentation’s Oldest Problem

Google introduces Code Wiki, an AI-powered platform that automatically generates and maintains documentation for code repositories. With Gemini integration, live diagrams, and interactive code-aware chat, Code Wiki aims to reduce onboarding time, simplify code comprehension, and transform how developers understand complex systems.

Tom Smith · Nov 17, 2025

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