{"slug": "devs-in-the-trenches-are-stressed-from-the-mandate-to-automate-everything-but-it", "title": "Devs in the trenches are stressed from the mandate to automate everything, but Render thinks it can help", "summary": "Developers are feeling stressed by the mandate to automate everything, but cloud hosting company Render aims to alleviate that pressure with its platform, as discussed at its Localhost conference in San Francisco.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nsecurity\n\n#### Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate\n\nCampaigners say tech is unable to reliably distinguish between kids and adults at the boundary where use is planned\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### Devs in the trenches are stressed from the mandate to automate everything, but Render thinks it can help\n\nSan Francisco plays host to hosting company's Localhost conference\n\n-\nai + ml\n\n#### Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'\n\nThe underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention\n\n-\nAI AND ML\n\n#### Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck\n\nEd's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger\n\n-\nOS platforms\n\n#### Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app\n\nBird-branded AI will ride on Stonking Stingray\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well\n\nNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another\n\n-\n#### History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system\n\nWhen a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'\n\n-\n#### Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it\n\nProject Headroom could save you big money, too\n\n-\n#### OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge\n\nSixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak\n\n-\n#### Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped\n\nRed Hat’s free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend\n\n-\n#### LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business\n\nLike AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/devs-in-the-trenches-are-stressed-from-the-mandate-to-automate-everything-but-it", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/19/devs-in-the-trenches-are-stressed-from-the-mandate-to-automate-everything-but-render-thinks-it-can-help/5258595", "published_at": "2026-06-19 10:15:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-19 11:10:16.263056+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Render", "Localhost"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/devs-in-the-trenches-are-stressed-from-the-mandate-to-automate-everything-but-it", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/devs-in-the-trenches-are-stressed-from-the-mandate-to-automate-everything-but-it.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/devs-in-the-trenches-are-stressed-from-the-mandate-to-automate-everything-but-it.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/devs-in-the-trenches-are-stressed-from-the-mandate-to-automate-everything-but-it.jsonld"}}