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Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Developer Workstations Are Now Part of the Software Supply Chain. Published context: May 18, 2026. Supply chain attackers are not only trying to slip malicious code into trusted software. They are trying to steal the access that makes trusted software possible. Recently, three separate campaigns hit npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub in a 48-hour window, and all three targeted secrets from developer environments and CI/CD pipelines, including API keys, cloud crede ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Partner Central agents now accelerates opportunity creation. Published context: May 15, 2026. Today, AWS announces that the AWS Partner Central agents now accelerate opportunity creation through natural language conversation. AWS Partner Central agents , released on March 16, 2026, are AI-powered capabilities built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that help partners surface pipeline insights, advance deals with next-step recommendations, and identify fund 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 PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23. Published context: May 14, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes and improvements added by the PostgreSQL community. This releas ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Two new models for agentic coding and efficient AI are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Published context: May 14, 2026. Today, AWS announced the availability of GLM-5.1-FP8 and Phi-4-mini-instruct in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These models from Z.ai and Microsoft bring advanced agentic capabilities and efficient inference to enterprise AI workloads on AWS infrastructure. These models address different e ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in additional AWS Regions. Published context: May 15, 2026. Amazon EMR Serverless is now generally available in six additional AWS Regions - Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central). Amazon EMR Serverless is a deployment option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple and cost effective for data engineers and analysts ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20260224, 12.22-rds.20260224, and 13.23-rds.20260224. Published context: May 15, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20260224, 12.22-rds.20260224, and 13.23-rds.20260224. We recommend that you upgrade to these versions to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides up to three additional ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Transform agents now available in Kiro, Claude, Cursor, and Codex. Published context: May 14, 2026. Today, AWS announces that the AWS Transform agents — built on decades of AWS migration and modernization experience — are now accessible through a Kiro power, agent plugins, and via the AWS Transform MCP server. Developers can now consume all of AWS Transform’s capabilities directly from their preferred development environment, whether working interactively ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudFront announces Passthrough Mode for mutual TLS (Viewer). Published context: May 14, 2026. Amazon CloudFront now supports passthrough mode for viewer mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication, enabling customers to forward client certificates to their origin for validation without requiring CloudFront to perform certificate verification. Passthrough mode allows customers with existing mTLS implementations at their origins to use CloudFront without requirin 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 EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region. Published context: May 14, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8aedz instances are available in Europe (Ireland) region. These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin). These instances offer the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. X8aedz instances are built using the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro Cards an ...

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management. Published context: May 15, 2026. I’m a Type 1 diabetic and software engineer. Last year I went months between endocrinologists with no clinician reviewing my data. I’m an engineer, so I built the tool I needed — and now I’m open sourcing it. GlycemicGPT is a self-hosted platform that connects continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps, and existing Nightscout instances to an AI analysis lay ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Agent now supports full repository code reviews. Published context: May 12, 2026. Today, AWS announces the release of full repository code review , a new capability in AWS Security Agent that performs deep, context-aware security analysis of your entire codebase. Unlike traditional static analysis tools that match code against known vulnerability patterns, full repository code review reasons about your application’s architecture, trust bo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances with Oracle SE2 License Included. Published context: May 13, 2026. Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers M8i and R8i instances with Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) with the License Included (LI). M8i and R8i instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The new instances offer ...