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Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Hackers Exploit Gravity SMTP WordPress Plugin Bug to Expose API Keys. Published context: June 20, 2026. Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that’s installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score: 5.3), is a medium-severity information disclosure flaw that can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, such as configuration data, API ke ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base is now generally available. Published context: June 17, 2026. Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service, is now generally available. With Managed Knowledge Base, developers can build production-ready AI agents grounded in enterprise data without managing vector databases, data pipelines, or retrieval infrastructure. The service handles data ingestion, storage op 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 AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. Published context: June 15, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports new Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in th ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Agent adds Kiro Power, Claude Code, simulated validations and new integrations support. Published context: June 17, 2026. AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) adds support for Kiro and Claude Code, enabling developers to trigger security scans directly from their development environment. AWS Security Agent now also validates code scanner findings by simulating exploits in a sandbox environment and providing proof of exploit, so teams can trust their results, minimize ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egress. Published context: June 18, 2026. Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) introduces customer-routed control plane egress, a capability that lets you route outbound Kubernetes API server traffic through your own Amazon VPC. This includes admission webhook callbacks, OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider lookups, and aggregate API server requests. With customer-routed control plane egr 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 AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports Bedrock Guardrails in policy. Published context: June 17, 2026. Today, AWS announces that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports Bedrock Guardrails in policy, giving enterprises deeper safety and security controls as they scale AI agents in production. AgentCore policy is an authorization capability within Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that controls which actions AI agents are authorized to take. Guardrails give enterprises de ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports X2m instances. Published context: June 16, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server launches memory-optimized X2m database instances. Based on the Amazon EC2 X2iedn instance, X2m database instances provide the Amazon RDS Optimize CPU feature, which allows customers to reduce SQL Server software licensing costs by 50% or more compared to Amazon RDS x2iedn database instances for m ...

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M. Published context: June 19, 2026. DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago. 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 AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for Agentic Web Retrieval. Published context: June 16, 2026. As AI agents become more capable, they need access to information beyond a model’s training data - to answer questions, retrieve latest facts, and take action grounded in current developments. Today, we’re making that easy with the general availability of Web Search on AgentCore. Web Search is a fully managed tool that enables agents to ground responses in c ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AgentCore harness in now generally available. Published context: June 17, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of the managed agent harness in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, taking teams from idea to working agents in minutes. An agent is more than a model. If the model is the brain, the harness is the body: everything the brain needs to get work done. It runs the orchestration loop, executes tools, manages the context window, ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL expand Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 2029. Published context: June 17, 2026. Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL now offer Amazon RDS Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 30, 2029, from the previous end date of February 28, 2027. This applies to Aurora MySQL version 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) and RDS for MySQL version 5.7, giving customers additional time to plan ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Secrets Manager introduces safe secrets handling in the Agent Toolkit for AWS. Published context: June 17, 2026. AWS Secrets Manager now offers a secret safety skill as part of the aws-core plugin in the Agent Toolkit for AWS , an open-source repository that equips AI coding agents with tools, knowledge, and guardrails for building on AWS. The skill lets developers use secrets within agentic workflows without ever exposing secret values to the underlying model or sessi ...