Gheist Hackers Abuse GitHub Tokens to Steal Repository Secrets
The evolving Gheist campaign uses stolen GitHub tokens and malicious Actions workflows to extract repository secrets and cloud credentials. While GitHub protections have blocked observed attacks on public repositories, private environments remain exposed.
Reddit’s r/opensource AI Ban Targets the Wrong Problem
Reddit’s largest open-source community is cracking down on AI-generated projects, prompting criticism over sweeping restrictions that could exclude legitimate developers. As Linux takes a different approach, DevOps teams face a more important question: How can they enforce code quality and accountability without banning the tools developers use?
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 […]
Recursive Flint Puts a Fast Agentic Coding Model on Developers’ Laptops
Recursive has unveiled Flint, a 40-billion-parameter, open-weight coding model designed to run locally on developer hardware. Built with help from the company’s Eureka Machine research system, Flint promises faster inference, greater source-code privacy and freedom from per-token API fees. For DevOps teams, the launch raises fresh questions about AI agent governance, code quality and continuous model evaluation.
Claude Writes 180 Million Lines of Proofs to Verify 123 Open Source Libraries
Formal verification has long been the gold standard for software correctness. It has also been too expensive for almost everyone. New research from Anthropic suggests that’s changing. Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, working with formal methods company Theorem, used Claude to prove security properties in the compiled code of 123 open-source libraries from Google’s OSS-Fuzz project. […]
Report: AI Agents Increase Observability Costs
Cisco has released its Splunk State of Observability 2026 report, revealing that companies face growing costs and operational challenges as they deploy AI agents without sufficient monitoring capabilities. The report found that 57% of organizations spend more on telemetry, the data used to monitor IT systems, than on the infrastructure being monitored. Additionally, 55% of […]
Hackers Inject Credential-Stealer, RAT Into LiteLLM
Attackers compromised a version of LiteLLM this week by injecting malicious code into all seven of its published Python wheels on PyPI, delivering a package that included an infostealer to exfiltrate credentials and secrets and a remote access trojan (RAT) that could let bad actors run arbitrary code on infected machines. The compromised version – […]
Linux Foundation: AI Speeds Development, but Low-Quality Code Strains Maintainers
A new Linux Foundation study finds that generative AI is delivering big productivity gains for open source software developers, but AI is also creating an influx of low-quality code submissions that need time-consuming human review. The research found that an estimated 25% of incoming pull requests, which are proposed changes to software projects, are considered […]
OpenAI Puts COBOL Migration to the Test, and Its Newest Models Mostly Pass
OpenAI’s latest coding benchmarks show substantial improvements in handling COBOL, Fortran and other low-resource languages. But for DevOps teams modernizing legacy applications, translating code is only half the challenge. The real test is preserving business logic, arithmetic precision and production behavior.
Survey: AI Coding Tools Increase Open Source Software Dependencies
A survey of 307 enterprise technology leaders finds that as organizations rely more on artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools to build applications, they are simultaneously increasing the amount of open source software they are dependent on. Conducted by the market research firm Moving Horizon on behalf of ActiveState, a provider of a platform for accessing […]
mabl Adds Harness to AI Testing Automation Platform
Mabl today extended its test automation platform with a harness that, in addition to enforcing guardrails and testing standards for artificial intelligence (AI) agents, enables application development teams to better understand the impact of code changes before a pull request (PR) is made. Announced at a mabl Experience event, the extensions to the test automation […]
GemDB Extension Uses Code to Update Database
GemDB has introduced a Visual Studio Code extension that enables developers and AI coding agents to create, modify and persist database objects directly through Python code. With integrated Jupyter Notebook and MCP support, GemDB Code aims to eliminate traditional schema migrations, simplify database management and accelerate DevOps workflows.
GitHub Puts a Firewall Between npm and Your CI Runners
GitHub’s new package firewall puts enterprise security policies between npm registries and the developers, CI runners and AI coding agents consuming packages. With malware detection, attestation checks and package-age restrictions, it aims to stop malicious dependencies before installation.
AI Agents Can Now Take Software Apart. DevOps Teams Need a Plan
AI-powered reverse engineering is making it easier to understand and rebuild software without source code. Tools such as REA and increasingly capable AI models create opportunities for legacy modernization while raising fresh concerns about intellectual property, application security and functional correctness.
Microsoft Foundry Puts AI Agents on a Schedule and Under Watch
Microsoft’s September Foundry updates focus on making AI agents production-ready with automated routines, lower token costs, trace-based insights and improved resilience. For DevOps teams, the changes bring agent operations closer to familiar CI/CD and observability practices.
GitHub Brings AI Security Scanning to Pull Requests CodeQL Can’t Cover
GitHub’s AI Scan brings AI-powered vulnerability detection to pull requests involving languages, scripts and infrastructure files beyond CodeQL’s existing coverage. Paired with the general availability of agentic autofix, the release expands security automation across the development lifecycle. But advisory-only findings, coverage gaps and AI credit consumption mean DevOps teams still need clear review policies.
Cohere Plans to Acquire Aisle to Add AI-Powered Code Security
Enterprise AI platform provider Cohere announced it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Aisle, a cybersecurity startup whose AI agent platform discovers source-code vulnerabilities and generates proposed fixes. The proposed acquisition would also establish a dedicated cybersecurity business called Cohere Cyber. Aisle’s platform analyzes software for previously unknown vulnerabilities, validates potential findings, evaluates […]
Chainguard Debuts a Security-First Agent Platform
Open source security company Chainguard has released Workspaces, a service designed to provide a safe space for agents to do their thing without disrupting the security of existing operations. The market for platforms to host agents is large and growing daily, though Chainguard’s expertise in security solves a major problem with running agents, namely managing […]
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 […]
OpenCode Breach Puts Spotlight on AI Distillation Threats
An attack using the technique on the open source coding agent’s Console hub exposed third party API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
Dean Hall Open Sources Brutal to Give Game Studios a Way Out of Engine Lock-In
DayZ creator Dean Hall has unveiled Brutal, a free C# framework designed to give game developers greater control over their technology and reduce dependence on commercial engines. Already used in projects including RimWorld’s new engine, Brutal promises flexibility and performance while raising familiar questions about licensing, maintenance and open source sustainability.
Blitzy Adds Chat-to-Prompt Interface to Agentic AI Engineering Platform
Blitzy this week added a chat interface to a platform that enables DevOps teams to employ artificial intelligence (AI) agents by expressing their intent in natural language. Dr. Neeraj Deshmukh, Field CTO for Blitzy, said the Chat to Prompt interface makes it possible for a software engineer to describe a desired outcome that is then […]
ScienceLogic Extends Observability Reach and Control Deeper into AI Agents
ScienceLogic has added additional tools and capabilities to its observability platform that provide deeper visibility and control over artificial intelligence (AI) agents that are being used to automate IT operations. The latest 2.7 update to the Skylar AI platform provides visibility into agent routing and tool selection via a catalog that uses traces to surface […]