Vercel Adds Kimi K2.7 Code Model; GitHub Logs Nine May Outages
Two platform updates this week signal both expanding AI model access and persistent reliability concerns for developer infrastructure.
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Two platform updates this week signal both expanding AI model access and persistent reliability concerns for developer infrastructure.
Two infrastructure moves this week signal a broader push to make security scanning and AI-driven data access faster and cheaper at scale.
Two new threats demand attention: a technique that weaponizes developer tooling against AI agents, and a ransomware group climbing victim charts with aggressive affiliate payouts.
Vercel expands its AI SDK to orchestrate major coding agents while GitHub discloses a turbulent May marked by nine separate service incidents.
Patched vulnerabilities in a popular AI agent framework and fresh intelligence on a fast-growing ransomware operation put pressure on security and engineering teams.
Two major platform updates reduce tool-switching for ops teams and eliminate the need for public IPs when exposing private applications.
Two networking updates cut console-hopping and eliminate the need for public IPs when exposing private apps.
Two separate threat actors are reshaping enterprise risk: one exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft flaw before a patch existed, another scaling ransomware operations with a 90% affiliate payout model.
A turbulent month for GitHub reliability coincides with Vercel expanding its deployment reach into xAI's Grok Build environment.
Investigators close in on the operator behind one of ransomware's fastest-rising gangs, while the security industry pauses to recognize the work that keeps attacks from making headlines.
Two platform updates this week sharpen AI tooling for security and model access in production environments.
GitHub's npm overhaul targets supply chain exploits while a fast-rising ransomware group called The Gentlemen lures affiliates with a 90% revenue split.
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