Software, security, and cloud news — summarized in plain language, with sources.
Vercel opens private beta for persistent storage in its Sandbox environment while GitHub schedules its annual developer conference for October 2026 under an agentic AI theme.
Two developments this week expose the double-edged nature of AI assistants: Meta's support bot was weaponized to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts, while OpenAI introduced a new protective feature to limit AI-assisted data theft.
Two developer-platform moves signal expanding infrastructure ambitions as the agentic software era takes shape.
Two major platform updates this week give engineering teams sharper control over how AI agents execute code and consume budget.
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