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Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Popular GitHub Action Tags Redirected to Imposter Commit to Steal CI/CD Credentials. Published context: May 19, 2026. In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have compromised the popular GitHub Actions workflow, actions-cool/issues-helper, to run malicious code that harvests sensitive credentials and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server. “Every existing tag in the repository has been moved to point to an imposter commit that does not appear i ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Security Hub Extended expands to 21 curated partner solutions across 9 categories. Published context: May 20, 2026. AWS Security Hub Extended plan now includes 21 curated partner solutions across 9 security categories, adding SentinelOne (endpoint), CyberArk (identity), Sublime (email), Varonis (data security), LayerX (browser), Native Security (cloud), and Zenity (AI security). With these additions, you have more flexibility to select the solutions that best fit your ent ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub now uncovers identity risks from unused access. Published context: May 20, 2026. Today, AWS Security Hub brings identity risk into the same unified console where central security teams already manage threats, exposures, and posture findings. Security Hub now detects unused IAM permissions, roles, and credentials across your AWS organization, helping central security teams identify and reduce identity risk at scale. Until now, managing id ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS announces ExtendDB, an open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter. Published context: May 20, 2026. Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced version 0.1 of ExtendDB, an open source project that implements the Amazon DynamoDB API with pluggable storage backends. Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, fully managed NoSQL database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. ExtendDB enables application developers, platform teams, and enterprise archit 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 SageMaker HyperPod now supports data capture for inference workloads. Published context: May 20, 2026. Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports data capture for inference workloads, enabling customers to record inference request and response payloads for model monitoring, compliance, debugging, and offline analysis. Organizations deploying generative AI and machine learning models on HyperPod need systematic visibility into the inputs flowing into their models 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 Inspector is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. Published context: May 19, 2026. Today, AWS announces the availability of Amazon Inspector in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads including Amazon EC2 instances, container images, and AWS Lambda functions for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure across your AWS Organi ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow 3.2. Published context: May 19, 2026. Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 3.2, the latest major release of the popular open-source workflow orchestration framework. Amazon MWAA is a managed service that lets you run Apache Airflow at scale without managing the underlying infrastructure. This release brings new data-aware scheduling capabilities 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 CloudFront announces support for OCSP Revocation for Mutual TLS (Viewer). Published context: May 14, 2026. Amazon CloudFront now supports Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) revocation checking for viewer mTLS, enabling you to validate client certificate revocation status in real time during connection establishment. This enables customers using mutual TLS (mTLS) on CloudFront to verify that client certificates haven’t been revoked before accepting connecti ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS SAM CLI adds AWS CloudFormation Language Extensions support to accelerate local serverless development. Published context: May 18, 2026. AWS SAM CLI now supports AWS CloudFormation Language Extensions , enabling you to reduce duplication in your infrastructure as code (IaC) templates while retaining the full local development workflow. This accelerates your serverless development by letting you define resources once and iterate locally without waiting for cloud deployments. Developers frequen ...

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare. Published context: May 18, 2026. Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs. 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 AWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs). Published context: May 15, 2026. AWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs). The maximum number of SCPs that can be attached to a single node (root, OU, or account) has increased from 5 to 10, and the maximum SCP size has increased from 5,120 to 10,240 characters. With these higher quotas, you can write SCPs with finer-grained permissions and conditions ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported MiniPlasma Windows 0-Day Enables SYSTEM Privilege Escalation on Fully Patched Systems. Published context: May 18, 2026. Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher behind the recently disclosed Windows flaws, YellowKey and GreenPlasma, has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day flaw that grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems. Codenamed MiniPlasma, the vulnerability impacts “cldflt.sys,” which refers to the Wind ...