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In the past year, cloud outages have exposed a hard truth about the modern digital economy: A disruption at one hyperscaler can quickly spread far beyond a single vendor’s platform. Failures in cloud control planes, identity systems , storage layers, and core regions have disrupted business operations, developer workflows, and consumer services worldwide. From Google Cloud’s internetwide disrupti…

Microsoft has unveiled the Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business focused on delivering “frontier transformation” through AI for Microsoft’s customers around the world. Microsoft Frontier Company launches with a $2.5 billion investment from Microsoft and 6,000 industry and engineering experts who will be embedded with customers to co-design, co-innovate, deploy, and continuously imp…

Visual Studio Code 1.127, an update to Microsoft’s popular kinda-sorta open-source code editor, brings improvements to the Agents window for managing agent sessions and makes the browser tools for agents generally available. Browser tools for agents was previously a preview feature. Released July 1 , VS Code 1.127 can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, and Mac from code.visualstudio.com . This rel…

As an old Delphi guy, I remember well the “language wars” we had with the Visual Basic guys. An early codename for Delphi was “VBK” — VB Killer — and the VB community took exception. They’d come to our Delphi forums and pick fights. Naturally, we brash Delphi guys would fight back, engaging in big flame wars and getting all worked up over what wasn’t much more than a personal preference. Good tim…

AWS has increased key Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime quotas by up to fivefold, enabling enterprises to support more concurrent AI agents and user interactions without going through the quota-increase process that often slows production deployments. While quota increase service requests are free themselves, the added capacity is more likely to translate into higher underlying compute and runtime…

A newly disclosed vulnerability in Argo CD is drawing attention to the security risks of GitOps platforms, with researchers warning that the flaw could allow attackers who gain a foothold inside a Kubernetes cluster to execute code and manipulate application deployments. Security firm Synacktiv said in a report that the flaw affects Argo CD’s repo-server component, which fetches content from Git …

AI-powered software development tools integrate with your IDE and codebase, helping you to write, refactor, and fix code faster. These tools also make it fast and easy to create and run unit tests and integration tests — tasks that take more time when done manually. Today, .NET developers often use GitHub Copilot , Claude Code , Cursor AI, and even AI chatbots like ChatGPT to generate code. In th…

As organizations rush to move AI into production, they’re finding that the tools they rely on to monitor traditional software don’t translate cleanly to AI systems. The reason is fundamental: AI doesn’t fail as software does. It doesn’t throw clean error codes or follow predictable execution paths. It drifts, hallucinates, and degrades in ways that are often subtle, intermittent, and hard to repr…

It started with a one-line message from a finance team on a Tuesday afternoon: A handful of customers had been charged twice that day, and one was disputing a duplicate charge with their bank. I went straight to the monitoring, expecting to find something broken. Instead, everything looked healthy: By the system’s own records, every order had been paid exactly once. It took the team a month of di…

Microsoft has announced a release candidate (RC) of TypeScript 7.0. A port of JavaScript -based TypeScript that is based on the Go language, TypeScript 7.0 is often about 10 times faster than TypeScript 6.0 , Microsoft said, thanks to native code speed and shared memory parallelism. Developers can get the new compiler by installing it from the typescript package on npm: npm install -D typescript@…

SnapLogic has released MCP Builder, a template-based tool designed to help organizations operationalize AI faster by turning existing integration pipelines into agent-ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Announced July 1 and generally available in the MCP Server workflow of the SnapLogic platform, MCP Builder generates MCP servers from existing integrations, OpenAPI specifications, and API…

AWS is offering to help enterprises address the growing cost of retaining telemetry for talkative AI applications with a new engine for its managed Amazon OpenSearch Service optimized for log analytics, which it claims can reduce storage costs by 70% and at the same time deliver better price-performance. AI and agentic applications are generating more telemetry than conventional observability arc…

Microsoft will end support for its .NET 8 and .NET 9 platforms on November 10 , 2026. The company advises current users of those platforms to upgrade to .NET 10 . After November 10, Microsoft will no longer provide servicing updates, security fixes, or technical support for .NET 8 and .NET 9. “We recommend upgrading to .NET 10 , which is an LTS (long term support) release supported through Novemb…

When you use an AI agent, the more contextual data the agent has about the job, the better it will perform. But agents don’t have much memory, since the large language models (LLMs) they depend on are stateless. When their memory runs out, the agent glitches out, hangs up, or spews out nonsense. Tactics like truncating or compacting agent memory can make up for this, but they’re not real solution…

Autonomous AI engineer agents can deliver software at a scale in multiples of what a human engineering team can do, and that productivity is genuinely valuable. But without proper guardrails at the specification level, these agents can industrialise inefficient infrastructure patterns at the same pace, consistently and at a scale that makes post-deploy remediation impractical. When an agent provi…