The Python Software Foundation (PSF) reported a 69% increase in AWS spending from July 2025 to July 2026, driven by growing Python usage and AI agents installing packages. The PSF's infrastructure, in…
At the RSA Conference, a panel on GenAI code security highlighted that decades of technical debt are colliding with AI-accelerated code generation, creating a 'vulnpocalypse.' Dave Aitel from OpenAI s…
A new web tool, GetPlus, scans 31 browser and IP signals to assess whether a user's environment matches restricted regions for ChatGPT, generating a risk score for account bans. The tool checks IP cou…
More than 75% of AI-first businesses took an average of 80 days longer to recover from security incidents than peers, and nearly half said AI was directly exploited in their most recent breach, accord…
Fastly has joined Experian's Agent Trust ecosystem to help enterprises verify, authorize, and monetize legitimate AI agent traffic at the network edge, turning a security liability into a revenue oppo…
Fastly has released Fastly Fiddle, a web-based tool that compiles and executes VCL on real Fastly edge nodes, enabling developers and coding agents to test VCL code against production infrastructure i…
UptimeRobot has acquired IsDown, a service that tracks the status of more than 6,000 cloud and SaaS providers, to help users see both their own systems and their dependencies in one place. The acquisi…
The Ruby Association will hold its Activity Report 2026 on August 4 in Tokyo, featuring a keynote by Ruby creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto titled "Extreme Vibe Coding" and an invited talk by Fastly's…
Fastly Compute enables edge enforcement of x402 HTTP-native payment challenges for automated transactions, allowing services to require payment before requests reach the origin. The x402 protocol uses…
Google is quietly pitching publishers on a new AI program requiring broad rights to use their content for AI training or risk losing existing Showcase payments, but the explicit terms inadvertently gi…
Publishers and e-commerce brands are testing a new deception tactic called LLM honeypotting to fight AI crawlers, luring bots into useless content to drive up their compute costs and pollute their mod…
Fastly has released version 0.13.0 of its Rust SDK with a new PendingRequest::send_to_client capability that hands off long-running backend requests from the Wasm guest to the host, freeing edge resou…
A user in Mazatlan, Mexico, reports severe network throttling and instability when downloading large GGUF files from Hugging Face's CDN via Telmex ISP, while other services like GitHub run at full spe…
Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default on ad-supported pages starting September 15, replacing its Pay Per Crawl model with a Pay Per Use system that charges AI companies only when their content …
Cloudflare is rolling out new rules for 'mixed crawlers' that can be used for both search and AI training, setting a Sept. 15 deadline to block training and agent use by default on ad-supported pages.…
Fastly announced a prototype to secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, addressing AI-specific attack vectors, production-scale performance, and authentication complexity for a major global publi…
A new specification proposes that documentation sites expose raw Markdown source at predictable URLs via a .md suffix or content negotiation, enabling AI agents and tools to fetch lossless, smaller pa…
AI systems are scraping publisher content to generate direct answers without driving traffic or revenue back to the source, breaking the traditional search engine bargain. Publishers face eroding refe…
Microsoft Clarity now flags bot requests that violate a website's robots.txt rules, displaying them as a percentage of total bot activity in its Bot Analytics dashboard. The feature, which must be ena…
Fastly developed a capacity planning model using the Gini coefficient, a macroeconomic metric for inequality, to predict edge infrastructure needs. The model outperformed machine learning approaches b…