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Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Critical TeamCity Flaw Could Let Attackers Run OS Commands Without Logging In. Published context: July 28, 2026. JetBrains is urging customers of on-premise versions of TeamCity to update to the latest version following the discovery of a critical security issue that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects all TeamCity On-Premises versions. It has been addressed in versions 2025.11.7 and 2026.1.3. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub MCP App brings exposure findings into your AI-assisted workflow (Preview). Published context: July 27, 2026. AWS announces the preview of the AWS Security Hub MCP App, a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings your Security Hub exposure findings directly into Claude Desktop. This capability can help accelerates your security investigations by reducing context switching and manual triage, letting you explore and act on your exposures without leaving yo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Neptune now supports tag-based access control for IAM. Published context: July 27, 2026. Amazon Neptune Database now supports tag-based access control (TBAC) for IAM, enabling customers to use AWS resource tags and IAM principal tags as conditions in IAM policies and Service Control Policies (SCPs) to control access to Neptune data-plane operations. Neptune already provides robust security through VPC isolation, TLS encryption, and IAM authentic ...

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API. Published context: July 27, 2026. Moonshot AI released open weights for Kimi K3 today and it’s live on Telnyx Inference. The architecture and Moonshot’s own benchmarks are in their technical blog. This post is about running it on Telnyx. What we are adding: K3 is now available via the Telnyx Inference API, hosted on GPUs that we own and operate. This matters due to the size of this model. A ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data. Published context: July 22, 2026. Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited, could facilitate a silent hijack of a user’s WhatsApp data. The shortcoming has been codenamed HermeticReader by Guardio Labs. It’s officially tracked as CVE-2026-48294 (CVSS score: ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Connect now supports audio optimization for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC. Published context: July 24, 2026. Agents using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or Windows 365 Cloud PC can now take calls directly from their virtual desktop session with audio optimization enabled. To get started, IT administrators need to complete a one-time setup for their virtual desktop environment. Once configured, media is redirected from the virtual desktop to the agent’s local ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: July 21, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6in and R6idn instances are available in AWS Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central) regions. These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System , deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth ...

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot. Published context: July 27, 2026. On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet. ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Fastjson 1.x RCE Vulnerability Targeted in Attacks With No Patched Available. Published context: July 25, 2026. Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva say attackers are targeting a critical flaw in Fastjson, Alibaba’s JSON library for Java. In affected Spring Boot applications, a malicious JSON request can execute code without authentication, with the privileges of the Java process. Tracked as CVE-2026-16723, the vulnerability carries an Alibaba-assigned CVSS score of ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Introducing KNFSD File Cache - Now in Preview. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces the availability of KNFSD File Cache, an open-source, Apache-2.0 licensed solution for deploying a scalable, high-speed Network File System (NFS) cache on AWS. KNFSD File Cache mounts exports from one or more source NFS servers, whether on-premises, in another AWS Availability Zone or Region, or in another cloud over AWS Interconnect - m ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in six additional AWS Regions. Published context: July 21, 2026. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). Elastic Disaster Recovery is the recommended service for disaster recovery to AWS. It helps minimize downtime and data loss wit ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SES simplifies sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager. Published context: July 24, 2026. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now offers a simplified console experience for sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager. Mail Manager is a capability within SES for managing email flow, but configuring its resources individually to set up SMTP sending requires multiple steps. The new guided setup creates and configures these resources automatically, so ...