Tag: devops

Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer

Persistent sessions could be just the beginning

DATABASES

After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres

Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends

Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers

Just don’t call the WinRT projection for Node.js a lock-in

How AI drove Shopify back to clean code

Turns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback

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Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past

Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog

GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team

Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters

Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage

Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over

Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists

Haskell adherents revisit the language's tongue-in-cheek 'avoid success at all costs' mantra

Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’

The port took just 11 days and about $165,000 at API pricing

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HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

New verb carries request content while remaining safe, idempotent, and cacheable

Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships

10X faster build times could force Slack developers back to their keyboards

GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues

A purported jab of Sony's physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself

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Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy

Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity

No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle

Apple's final break with Chipzilla leaves another platform preparing to wind down support

.NET's long-term support is not long-term enough, dev complains

Three-year lifecycle leaves enterprises with barely a year to adopt each LTS release

Channel

Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software

Despite warnings of revenue deflation, chairman predicts AI will make more work, not less, for services orgs

Baby girl standing in a wooden playpen with toys on a carpeted floor.

Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen

93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI

software

Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update

Feature is not yet stable, but will offer easy conversion of web applications

AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime

Suitable for running untrusted code, AI agents, or any long-running task

Vercel debuts eve open source agent framework, tries to fix shadow AI with Passport

Cost premium of using AWS indirectly via Vercel is mitigated by more efficient use of compute resources, CTO claims

Git good with Epic Games' new open source VCS, Lore

Got big binaries? Tired of other version control systems that treat them like inferior files? Lore might be worth a look

AWS hypes continuous agentic DevOps, puts Kiro in your pocket

Trust is the biggest barrier to AI adoption, says AI chief, claiming that new features in Bedrock AgentCore will prevent bad outcomes

Wooden blocks with the letters L, I, N, U and X on a white background.

Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more

Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us

Java's Project Valhalla finally lands a preview in JDK 28

Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release

Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own

Blending containers and VMs but some features half-baked

Camouflaged soldier holding a hand grenade with both hands outdoors.

GitHub pulls pin on npm's auto-run scripts

Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors

An open brass padlock with a bent shackle on a dark tabletop.

Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway

Pressure to deploy wins out over security as four in five orgs confess to breaches from vulnerable apps

Apple courts developers with privacy and context in AI comeback bid

Apple Intelligence stumbled through 2024 and 2025. It's starting to look respectable

Python JIT compiler project under threat after steering council says proper process wasn't followed

No new features to be submitted to main branch, existing code removed in 6 months if new proposal not created and accepted

TypeScript devs no longer need to tangle with C# to use Aspire dev stack after Microsoft update

Aspire is a powerful tool for developers but not well understood – and pure TypeScript AppHost may broaden its appeal

Robot waiter delivering a plate of food to a diner in a modern restaurant.

Agentic AI arrives for Delphi and C++ Builder

Kai is an extension for RAD Studio (Delphi and C++ Builder) that integrates with external AI providers

GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended'

Another day, another GitHub wobble - but the service keeps growing

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Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust

Unsafe bits get a warning label in planned low-level coding shake-up

Threat hunters find Google API keys still usable 23 minutes after deletion

Plenty of time for cyber crims to grab data or hit you with a giant bill

Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and they worry it's after their desk too

Most software engineers now use AI for most of their code and fear the existential threat

Hardening open source projects may deter contributions

Red padlock lying across laptop keyboard keys.

GitHub says internal repos exfiltrated after poisoned VS Code extension attack

Initial assessment says customer data spared while users wonder what else may have slipped out

TanStack weighs invitation-only pull requests after supply chain attack

Shai-Hulud worm exploited GitHub Actions misconfiguration to poison shared cache, now project weighing nuclear option on unsolicited contributions

Google reimburses Register sources who were victims of API fraud

But it's holding fast on auto-expanding customers' budgets

Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami

An influx of agents is pushing GitHub to the brink

Anthropic’s Bun Rust rewrite merged at speed of AI

Version 1.3.14 of JavaScript toolkit released as last Zig version; a million lines of Rust code merged in gargantuan commit

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A woman looks at her smartphone and credit card asking for refunds

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

'What the hell is going on? It's just draining my money'

A robotic hand interacts with a code display, illustrating AI-assisted software development.

GitLab promises a different kind of layoff as biz pivots toward AI

Code hosting biz is trimming its global footprint and flattening its management layer

Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released

JIT compiler much improved, but no reinstatement for leaky incremental garbage collector

Software developers work at dual monitors in a glass-walled office

Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged

Cybercrooks ruin engineers' weekends with Saturday attack

Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs

The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams

White head silhouette with blue C++ letters on a yellow background.

C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply

Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations

Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help

Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations

Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked

Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future

Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port

It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho

Patches

Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines

This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows

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Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool

Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor

GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain

After Hashicorp co-founder blasts the source shack and numbers slide

Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar

Down to you to work out the value

GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not

Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement

Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad

Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch

Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us.

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Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus

Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director

GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs

Long-familiar workflow lets developers split big code changes into smaller, easier-to-review chunks

Cloudflare revamps CLI as agents take over the internet

What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human?

Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it

Fabled Q&A site for devs struggles with its future as AI takes over its original purpose

The EmDash dashboard is reminiscent of WordPress but is built on Astro

Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

Name is a joke but the project is real, said main engineer

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system

If you loved the data retention of Microsoft Recall, you'll be thrilled with Claude Code

Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

Unexpected quota drain prompts complaints, breaks automated workflows

Contracts are in C++26 despite disagreement over their value

Inventor Bjarne Stroustrup argues feature is neither minimal nor viable

The first thing vibe coding builds is confidence it will help you succeed

And developers should be confident it won't kill the craft

Using AI to code does not mean your code is more secure

Use of AI coding assistants has surged, but so has the number of vulnerabilities in AI-generated code

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out

OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral

Deal helps company build out its Codex team

Oracle unveils Project Detroit for faster Java interop with JavaScript and Python

Big Red bets on native runtimes over reimplementations to tackle edge cases

Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown

Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projects

Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool

First vibe coding, now vibe reviewing ... but the buzz is good as it finds worthy issues

AWS backs Open VSX as Rust survey shows VS Code decline

AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market

Generic methods arrive in Golang, but they weren't the top dev demand

Approved proposal reverses earlier stance, even as survey highlights bigger frustrations

Meta frees React to live in its own foundation

Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governance

Go library maintainer brands GitHub's Dependabot a 'noise machine'

When a one-line fix triggers thousands of PRs, something's off

Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs

Russinovich and Hanselman say firms must train juniors to fix agent mistakes – not replace them with prompts

From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding

Security is 'dangerously behind' though, as devs 'treat it as something to solve later'

Agile Manifesto turns 25 – just in time for vibe coding to test it

Co-author Jon Kern says AI coding tools amplify strengths and expose weaknesses

React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components

Not everyone's convinced React belongs on the server as well as in the browser

Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware

Repo mirrors now open for business

GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept

Won't replace traditional CI/CD – and still in early development – so use 'at your own risk'

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

The software doesn't show what files it's working on

GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

Slowdowns, outages, and Copilot problems afflict code shack

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VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files

Versions installed via Snap don't delete files when users empty system trash

Java developers want container security, just not the job that comes with it

BellSoft survey finds 48% prefer pre‑hardened images over managing vulnerabilities themselves

How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C

Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI

How an experienced developer teamed up with Claude to create Elo programming language

Bernard Lambeau, the human half of a pair programming team, explains how he's using AI

GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners

Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card

Paris Buttfield-Addison literally wrote books on Swift

AWS Re:invent

AWS admits AI coding tools cause problems, reckons its three new agents fix 'em

Autonomous AI triages DevOps issues and pushes code to repositories, while checking security

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons

Scared looking office consultant hides under desk

PostHog admits Shai-Hulud 2.0 was its biggest ever security bungle

Automation flaw in CI/CD workflow let a bad pull request unleash worm into npm

Deploying to Amazon's cloud is a pain in the AWS younger devs won't tolerate

man holds hand up in gesture of rejection

Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached

Is PHP declining? JetBrains says yes. And no

Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge

Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'

Code reflecting in a developer's glasses

Bun 1.3 stuffs everything and kitchen sink into JS runtime

Meta will move React to Linux Foundation to address vendor dominance fears

Python releases version 3.14 – with cautious free-threaded support

Kicked from RubyGems, maintainers forge new home at Gem Cooperative

Socket will block it with free malicious package firewall

IBM killing mainframe coding kit for PCs this year

Harness CEO and co-founder Jyoti Bansal presents at Unscripted in London

Harness pitches AI agents as your new DevOps taskmasters

Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts

A 2025 Google-sponsored DORA report has reframed AI as central to software development

Google-sponsored DORA report reframes AI as central to software development

AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs

RubyGems maintainer quits after Ruby Central takes control of project

Atlassian drops $1B on company that helps measure dev productivity

Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns

Overmind bags $6M to predict deployment blast radius before the explosion

Atlassian's move to cloud-only means customers face integration issues and more

Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features

rusty gears - conceptual illustration for Rust

Microsoft inches toward Rusty Windows drivers, production use still a no-no

Programmers: you have to watch your weight, too

GitHub engineer claims team was 'coerced' to put Grok into Copilot

Bun JS toolkit adds MySQL driver, secrets API, YAML, and more

man sinks face onto pile of papers... has yellow sticky note reading help on forehead

Nx NPM packages poisoned in AI-assisted supply chain attack

VMware Explore

VMware: The private cloud's main purpose is now keeping developers happy

Dockworkers tying up container ship to dock with stacked containers in the background at the Port of Los Angele

Docker Desktop bug let containers hop the fence with barely a nudge

Python survey shows growth even as Foundation funding falters

Codeberg beset by AI bots that now bypass Anubis tarpit

GitHub head ankles as Microsoft takes biz by the hand

GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI

NIST discovers DevSecOps, thinks world should really check this out

AWS Re:Invent in Las Vegas, December 2024

AWS Lambda loves charging for idle time: Vercel claims it found a way to dodge the bill

Caught a vibe that this coding trend might cause problems

GitHub command palette wins stay of execution after dev pushback

Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages

CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on 'black box' code from AIs

New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers

Cisco returns to load balancing market as it chases VMware refugees

HashiCorp speaks up about adjusting to life under IBM

AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics

Why rapid proliferation of cloud native apps requires faster, more efficient toolsets

Why brave the jet lag? KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China have the answers

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Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

That massive GitHub supply chain attack? It all started with a stolen SpotBugs token

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IBM likes Hashicorp, finally puts a $6.4B ring on it

Docker delays Hub pull limits by a month, tweaks maximums, stalls storage billing indefinitely

GitLab and its execs sued again and again over 'misleading' AI hype, price hikes

On-Prem

Lloyds Bank reviews tech and engineering personnel in reorg

CSO

Illustration of two people talking securely to each other from their laptops

What does it mean to build in security from the ground up?

IBM banks on friendlier US regulatory climate for dealmaking

North Korean soldiers at the military parade in Pyongyang of the 60th anniversary of the conclusion of the Korean War

North Koreans clone open source projects to plant backdoors, steal credentials

Elevate DevSecOps with data-driven insights

Securing AI workloads in multi-tenant K8s clusters

Brackets go there? Oops. That’s not where I used them and now things are broken

Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft

Man at desk overwhelmed by flood of messages

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

A rethink of parental leave policy

When AI assistants leak secrets, prevention beats cure

Hackers love GitHub dorks - SecOps love outsmarting them

Systems

Huawei releases data detailing serverless secrets

HashiCorp CTO Armon Dadgar on stage at HashiConf 2024 (pic: Richard Speed)

HashiCorp unveils 'Terraform 2.0' while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room

You have issues with 'Issues' always being called 'Issues' in Jira, so Atlassian now allows them to be called ‘Tasks’

A Deno web server in three lines of code (well, with a hefty import)

Deno 2.0 looks to backward compatibility to move forward

Illustration of a virtual machine lifecycle in front of server racks

While HashiCorp plays license roulette, Virter rolls out to rescue FOSS VM testing

Deadline looms: Google Workspace mandates OAuth by September 30

Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps

Sorry, Moxie. Blaming Agile for software stagnation puts the wrong villain in the wrong play

Illustration of a python crawling over some code

Core Python developer suspended for three months

Study backer: Catastrophic takes on Agile overemphasize new features

OpenTofu hits version 1.8 with more crowd-pleasing features

CSO

FYI: Data from deleted GitHub repos may not actually be deleted

Jon Kern, co-author of Agile Manifesto, wearing sunglasses with mountain in the background

Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up 'reimagining' project

K8s celebrates KuberTENes: A decade of working together

The transformative power of composable applications

Add composability to your application development

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

Someone working on a laptop next to the letters 'API'

Charting a smoother, secure microservices migration

Google’s in-house docs about search ranking leak online, sparking SEO frenzy

Changing the rules for software development

Discovering the promise of platform engineering

Computer sprinkled with exotic chemicals produced super-problems, not super-powers

Did IBM make a $6.4B blunder by buying HashiCorp?

Composition of Halle Berry standing next to the Hollywood sign

I told Halle Berry where to go during a programming gig in LA

The sky’s the limit for 5G app developers

Woman in business suit happily high-fiving a robot

Atlassian outsources office drudgery to GenAI agents

Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders

Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison

Java thriving after 30 years

75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively

A culture of open source collaboration

Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source

Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams

Innovating with InnerSource

Cyber-crime

Over 170K users caught up in poisoned Python package ruse

Offbeat

Driver's compartment of a steam engine show lots of controls (pic: Richard Speed)

How would you sum up a decade of Kubernetes?

Docker CEO Scott Johnston at Kubecon Europe 2024 (pic: Docker, Inc.)

Docker launches Testcontainers on former rival Red Hat's OpenShift

HashiCorp reportedly considering sale amid growing challenges

GitHub fixes pull request delay that derailed developers

What is GitHub Copilot Enterprise? You and your org just might find out firsthand

Twilio reminds users that Authy Desktop apps die in March – not in August

Google throws $1M at Rust Foundation to build C++ bridges

The age of edge ops is upon us

AI-generated bug reports are seriously annoying for developers

CloudBees co-founder buzzes about open source drama and AI

Peter Smails, SUSE SVP, General Manager, Enterprise Container Management

SUSE's Captain Container on sailing the open source seas

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HashiCorp loses its Hashi, keeps the Corp as co-founder waves goodbye

GitLab admits IT ineptitude in finance reporting is ongoing

You can't deepfake diversity, and that's a good thing

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky introducing Amazon Q

Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant

Illustration of a robot studying a laptop while someone reads a paper document next to it

AWS previews AppFabric for productivity – pitched as AI-powered glue between apps

DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked

Security

New Relic warns customers it's experienced a cyber … something

CompSci teachers panic as Replit pulls the plug on educational IDE

A QA engineer works through a project on a large screen in an office

Open source work makes me appreciate software testing. It's not an academic exercise

HashiCorp CEO talks license changes and the role of foundations

HashiCorp Vault scans for skeletons in your code closet