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Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Critical Splunk Enterprise Flaw Lets Attackers Run Code Without Authentication. Published context: June 13, 2026. Splunk has released security updates to address a critical security flaw in Splunk Enterprise that could be exploited to conduct unauthenticated file operations and even remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20253, is rated 9.8 on the CVSS scoring system. “In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.4 and 10.0.7, an unauthenticated user ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS announces AWS Workload Credentials Provider. Published context: June 11, 2026. AWS announces AWS Workload Credentials Provider, a lightweight client-side provider that automates deployment of exported certificates from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and local caching of secrets from AWS Secrets Manager across AWS and non-AWS workloads. Previously, customers exporting public or private certificates from ACM had to build custom automation 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 CloudWatch Application Signals now supports infrastructure, logs, and traces context for faster troubleshooting](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/cloudwatch-application-signals-supports infrastructure-logs-traces-context-for-faster troubleshooting/). Published context: June 11, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals introduces service health ranking on the application map and new infrastructure, logs, and traces tabs on the service overview page. These capabilities let operators triage unhealthy services and inspect the underlying compute environment, log snippets, and trace details in one place, making it easier to find root causes ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported GitHub to Disable npm Install Scripts by Default to Stop Supply Chain Attacks. Published context: June 11, 2026. GitHub has announced what it said are “breaking changes” coming to npm version 12, one of which turns off install scripts by default to combat software supply chain threats. The changes aim to combat attack techniques that abuse the “npm install” command to trigger the execution of malicious code using npm lifecycle hooks. “Npm install” is used to download a ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Langflow Vulnerability CVE-2026-5027 Exploited for Unauthenticated RCE. Published context: June 10, 2026. A high-severity security flaw in Langflow, an open-source low-code platform to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications, has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-5027 (CVSS score: 8.8), a case of path traversal that could allow an attacker to write files to arbitrar ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EKS now supports local clusters on AWS Outposts with Amazon EC2 instance store. Published context: June 11, 2026. Today, AWS is expanding support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) local clusters on AWS Outposts to first-generation and second-generation AWS Outposts racks running Amazon EC2 instances that boot from Amazon EC2 instance store. AWS Outposts offers static stability for Amazon EC2 instances backed by EC2 instance store , and AWS is now extending tha ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing metal-48xl and metal-96xl for Amazon EC2 network/EBS instances. Published context: June 9, 2026. AWS is announcing the general availability of metal-48xl and metal-96xl sizes for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8in, M8ib, M8idn, M8idb, R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances. These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only on AWS and feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards. Thes ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Lightsail is now available in three additional AWS Regions. Published context: June 12, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Lightsail is available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (Spain). This expansion brings the power and simplicity of Lightsail to customers across new geographies in Asia, South America, and Europe. With this launch, customers in these geographical regions can now enjoy lowe ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported ShinyHunters Exploits Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day (CVE-2026-35273) to Breach Universities. Published context: June 11, 2026. The ShinyHunters extortion crew exploited an unpatched flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft to break into enterprise systems, steal data, and demand payment to keep it private. The campaign hit universities hardest. Google’s Mandiant attributes it to the group it tracks as UNC6240, and dates the activity between May 27 and June 9. Oracle did not publish its advisory un ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Gemma 4 models now available on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: June 10, 2026. Today, AWS announces the availability of the Gemma 4 family of open-weight models from Google DeepMind on Amazon Bedrock . With Gemma 4, you can build generative AI applications across reasoning, multimodal understanding, agentic, and software engineering workflows. The Gemma 4 family on Amazon Bedrock includes three variants—Gemma 4 31B, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, an ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL major version 18. Published context: June 11, 2026. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 18, starting with version 18.3. This release brings community improvements to query performance and database management, and introduces support for pg_roaringbitmap, a new extension that performs fast, memory-efficient set operations on large collections of integers. This enabl 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 TechCrunch recently reported Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world. Published context: June 12, 2026. The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion. 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. ...