Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Kimsuky Deploys HTTPSpy, Expands Arsenal with HelloDoor and VS Code Tunnels. Published context: May 29, 2026. The North Korean state-sponsored threat actor known as Kimsuky (aka Velvet Chollima) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting South Korean military and corporate entities through March and April 2026. “Kimsuky employed a range of tailored social engineering tactics, such as spoofing security software installation pages and crafting a fak ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark 4.0.2 in general availability. Published context: May 27, 2026. Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark 4.0.2 across all three deployment models. With Spark 4.0.2, you can build and maintain data pipelines more easily with ANSI SQL and VARIANT data types, enforce fine-grained access control (FGAC) at the row level or column level, strengthen compliance and governance frameworks with Apache Iceberg v3 table format, and deplo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: May 26, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth a ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports integration with Kiro Powers. Published context: May 27, 2026. Today, AWS announces that Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports integration with Kiro Powers , enabling developers to build Aurora MySQL-backed applications faster with AI agent assistance. Kiro Powers is a repository of curated and pre-packaged Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, steering files, and hooks that have been validated by Kiro par ...

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale. Published context: May 26, 2026. Hey we’re Faiz and Saheed and we built Minicor so AI companies who need to integrate to desktop systems with no API can quickly build scalable desktop RPAs. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD0GHZIJ1cw Edit: RPA is an acronym for Robotic Process Automation - things like triggering mouse clicks and key strokes to perform tasks programmatically. Sorry if ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS now supports ENA Express for Multi-AZ replication. Published context: May 26, 2026. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ instances now use ENA Express for replication traffic between Availability Zones. ENA Express uses AWS’s Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to optimize network performance by delivering up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth for cross-AZ replication traffic leveraging advanced congestion control and multi-pathing capabilities, and red The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported GlassWorm Malware Takedown Disrupts Developer Supply Chain Attack Infrastructure. Published context: May 27, 2026. CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, has announced the simultaneous disruption of all command-and-control (C2) channels associated with GlassWorm, a persistent software chain campaign targeting software developers through malicious packages and extensions. “Since at least early 2025, GlassWorm operators have systematically The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported CERT-In Mandates 12-Hour Patching for Internet-Facing Flaws Amid AI-Assisted Attacks. Published context: May 26, 2026. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where “feasible” to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors’ abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and large language mode ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds new query commands and functions. Published context: May 21, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights query language now supports 13 new commands and functions that give you more powerful ways to query, transform, and analyze your logs. Customers analyzing logs in CloudWatch Logs Insights often need to perform string manipulation, encode or decode field values, parse non-JSON log formats, or calculate geographic distances, so ...

Today’s signal AWS News Blog recently reported AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Local Zones in Istanbul, open-source ExtendDB, Kiro Web, and more (May 25, 2026). Published context: May 25, 2026. There’s something genuinely energizing about working with startups — something I’ve been doing intensely for more than two years now. Startups operate at a different frequency: the urgency is real, the constraints are tight, and the stakes are personal. Helping them navigate the challenge of proving their business model requires not just technical depth but ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported The Alert Firehose Finally Meets Its Match. Published context: May 25, 2026. Ask a cybersecurity pro about Network Detection and Response (NDR) and you might still hear “Noisy,” “Too much data.” But ask the teams running NDR that includes agentic AI capabilities and you’ll hear they’re actually using it to catch threats earlier, triage faster, and chase fewer false positives. The old complaint lingers in part because reputations are ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9. Published context: May 8, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9, the latest minors released by the MySQL community. We recommend upgrading to the newer minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality adde ...