AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview
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GitHub debuts an AI coding agent for GitHub Copilot that can fix bugs, add features, improve documentation, and more, and open sources GitHub Copilot in VS Code
Body — I find the following two news items on the front page: Thomas Dohmke / The GitHub Blog : GitHub Copilot: Meet the new coding agent Visual Studio Code : VS Code: Open Source AI Editor The GitH...
No unified definition for an AI “agent” is leading to customer frustration, as Microsoft, OpenAI, Salesforce, Amazon, Google, and others market it differently
Data Science: 2010-2016 — Machine Learning: 2017-2022 — AI: 2022-2024 — AI Agent: 2025- [embedded post] @neuroemergent : Beep Boop. “You agentic Bro?” — “I agent Bro.” [embedded post] Paul R...
Sources: Google laid off 200+ employees from its Core teams, including IT and its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to India and Mexico
unless it's your smartphone Ann Resuma / International Business Times : Google Lays Off 200 ‘Core’ Employees; Eyes Shifting Some Roles To India, Mexico Alice Nunwick / Verdict : Google lays off 200 US...
An AWS developer claims Amazon is “silently sacking” staff by pushing them to take a different role that they would quit later, avoiding the need for severance
Amazon has a stock problem. It's not only Amazon, but they have more to lose. If you're a customer, that's going to be bad for your business too. Threads: @alkalinegarrett and @carnage4life Mastodon...
LastPass says hackers stole password vault data in 2022 by exploiting an RCE flaw in third-party software to install a keylogger on a DevOps engineer's computer
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer :
LastPass says hackers stole password vault data in 2022 by exploiting an RCE flaw in third-party software to install a keylogger on a DevOps engineer's computer
LastPass revealed more information on a “coordinated second attack,” where a threat actor accessed and stole data …
Sources: Palo Alto Networks to buy Cider Security, which helps enterprises identify security risks in DevOps pipelines, for $200M in cash and $100M in shares
The startup, which develops an AppSec operating system, will receive $200 million in cash and $100 million in Palo Alto stock
Cambridge, UK-based Gearset, which offers DevOps tools for Salesforce, raised $55M led by Silversmith Capital Partners
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DevOps startup Lightlytics, which makes SaaS tools to help model cloud infrastructure, raises a $26M Series A led by EIP
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