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Cloud 66

The Governance Blind Spot: Vendor Lock-In in the AI Development Era

Aug 18, 2026 By Kelley Schultz In Cloud 66
When we launched our Governance Gap series, we set out to explore how the explosion of AI-assisted engineering changes the risk profile for modern software organizations. We looked at the rise of The New Software Creator and analyzed why deployment governance is what keeps teams safe when code production accelerates. We also mapped out the realities of security at scale and defined who owns governance accountability.
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Amazon AI Code Rewriting Gone Wrong!

Aug 18, 2026 By Harness In Harness
In 2025 Amazon tasked Ai to find efficiencies. It definitely did. The AI went rogue and started deleting files and canceling programs. It was efficient. Less code, less products, more efficient. Adam mentions, dont burn the house down to reduce the electric bill. ShipTalk breaks down the biggest shifts in AI, DevOps, and software delivery. No hype, no vendor gloss. Stop talking, start shipping.
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resolve

AI Agent Builder: Create Agents That Fit Your IT Environment

Aug 18, 2026 By Zack Austin In Resolve
AI agents are quickly becoming part of the enterprise automation conversation because, among other things, they help teams move faster. But there is a major difference between an AI agent that sounds useful in a demo and an AI agent that is ready for production. Production agents need scope. They need to know what they own, which systems they can touch, which workflows they can run, which teams they support, and where the boundaries are.
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certkit

TLS 1.2 isn't end of life, but it will be soon

Aug 18, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In CertKit
You’re probably running a TLS configuration that the IETF says is “non-conformant”. But you didn’t do anything wrong. In July, the IETF published a pair of RFCs that took away three of TLS 1.2’s key exchange methods and froze the rest of it. The phrase they used is MUST NOT, the strongest thing a specification is allowed to say. Nginx, Apache, and Windows Server all ship with those key exchanges turned on by default. Nothing breaks tomorrow.
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gitkraken

AI Was Supposed to Mean Working Less. For Some Developers, It's Doing the Opposite.

Aug 18, 2026 By Jade Nangah In GitKraken
AI coding tools were supposed to mean developers work less. On a recent webinar recorded with LeadDev, senior engineering manager Vernon put words to something a lot of teams are quietly noticing instead: “It’s concerning because it’s the opposite of what was promised. We were supposed to be working less.”
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What AI compresses, and What it Amplifies

Aug 18, 2026 By Cortex | Engineering Operations Platform In Cortex
Adam Berman, VP of Engineering at Semgrep, on the double edge of AI tools for engineering leaders: they compress the distance between an idea and a working prototype, letting him get from exploration to a demoable POC in the gaps between meetings. But that same leverage amplifies risk. One person can spin up 1,000 unowned problems just as fast as they can spin up 1,000 wins. From a Braintrust by Cortex conversation on how AI is changing the job of engineering leadership.
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console connect

What is a Tier 1 IP backbone, and why does it matter?

Aug 18, 2026 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
Every time you join a video meeting, move data between cloud environments or use an AI-powered application, your traffic travels across a complex network of interconnected infrastructure. At the heart of this global ecosystem sits the internet backbone – and the highest-performing networks within it are known as Tier 1 IP backbones.
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upsun

What build-versus-buy actually looks like in agentic engineering

Aug 18, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
Most build-versus-buy debates assume you're choosing once, at the start, and living with it. Agentic engineering doesn't work that way. The decision shows up at every layer of the stack, and the teams getting it right aren't the ones who picked "build" or "buy" as a philosophy. They're the ones who know which layer is which.
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Kepler: Coordinate Every AI Coding Agent From One Place

Aug 18, 2026 By GitKraken In GitKraken
Kepler is GitKraken's new agentic development environment (ADE), and it's now in public preview for Windows, Mac, and Linux. If GitKraken Desktop is built to go deep on one repository, Kepler is built to go wide: one task, multiple repositories, multiple AI agents, tracked in a single place instead of a dozen open terminals.
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Europe Can't Find 5 Gigawatts. So It Gets Creative | Ben Baldieri, Founder of The GPU

Aug 18, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
Everyone is talking about multi-gigawatt AI data centers. Europe is solving a different challenge. In this episode of Uplink, Michael Reid sits down with Ben Baldieri, Founder of The GPU, to explore how power constraints, fragmented regulation, and limited grid capacity are reshaping Europe's AI infrastructure landscape.
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