Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

WhiteCobra Targets Developers with Dozens of Malicious Extensions

A threat group is dropping two dozen malicious extensions into the VSCode and Open VSX marketplaces, targeting developers using the VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf source code editing tools with the goal of draining cryptocurrency wallets. Researchers with security firm Koi Security have been tracking WhiteCobra’s activities for more than a year as the bad actors […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents 1M+ downloads, Cloud Club Captain, AI Agent Hackathon, and more (September 15, 2025)

Last week, Strands Agents, AWS open source for agentic AI SDK just hit 1 million downloads and earned 3,000+ GitHub Stars less than 4 months since launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands Agents, you can build production-ready, multi-agent AI systems in a few lines of code. We’ve continuously improved features including support […]

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Oasis Security Identifies Security Weakness in Cursor AI Coding Tool

Oasis Security this week warned application developers of a security flaw in the Cursor artificial intelligence (AI) code editor developed by Anysphere, Inc. that potentially could be used to allow a maliciously crafted code repository to execute code as soon as it’s opened using Cursor. Erez Schwartz, threat research engineer at Oasis Security, said that […]

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Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances

As someone who has been using macOS since 2001 and Amazon EC2 Mac instances since their launch 4 years ago, I’ve helped numerous customers scale their continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on AWS. Today, I’m excited to share that Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are now generally available. Development teams building […]

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Sketch Coding and the Rise of MCP in DevOps

At swampUP 2025, JFrog’s Yonatan Arbel reflects on his journey inside the company and how developer DNA continues to shape JFrog’s culture. Arbel, who has spent nearly a decade with JFrog, began as a software engineer before moving into leadership and eventually into a developer relations role. But as he emphasized, “once a developer, always […]

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Bringing Trust and Governance to AI-Driven DevOps

At swampUP 2025 in Napa Valley, Alan Shimel sat down with three industry leaders whose companies sit at the heart of today’s AI-driven DevOps transformation: Rahul Tripathi, general vice president and GM of ITSM at ServiceNow; Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI at NVIDIA; and Shlomi Ben Haim, co-founder and CEO of JFrog. Tripathi, […]

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OpenTelemetry Extensions to Enable Observability of AI Agents

OpenTelemetry is extending support for AI agents, enabling unified observability across apps and intelligent automation of IT tasks. Discover how Cisco and Splunk are driving this next phase of telemetry innovation. Source: DevOps.com

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Survey Surfaces Software Engineering Challenges Following Adoption of AI

A survey of 101 senior engineering leaders published this week finds while 87% believe their organization is “prepared” or “very prepared” to adopt artificial intelligence (AI). It’s also clear that several hurdles remain, most notably making sure application development teams have the quality assurance skill and expertise needed to validate AI outputs (66%). Conducted by […]

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Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE

Today, we’re announcing LocalStack integration in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent improvements to the AWS Lambda development experience, including the console to IDE integration and remote debugging capabilities we launched in July […]

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Warp Embeds AI Agents into a CLI to Provide Better Feedback Loop

Warp has added a version of its artificial intelligence (AI) agent for writing code that integrates directly within a command line interface (CLI). Company CEO Zach Lloyd said rather than working with AI agents within the context of an integrated development environment, Warp Code embeds AI agents with a CLI that is likely to prove […]

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