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SmartBear is closing the gap between coding and testing by integrating its platform directly with AI coding tools from GitHub, Anthropic, AWS, and Atlassian. By bringing testing into the IDE, developers can validate code at the speed it is created, reducing technical debt and keeping AI-generated code from slowing the development pipeline. See how SmartBear is connecting coding and testing in the AI era: zpr.io/FaZquZqBWkrk #SmartBear #AICoding #SoftwareTesting #DevOps

Trump declassifies election intel ahead of midterms — docs don't back his fraud claims. White House launches Gold Eagle to speed vuln patching as most breaches trace to known flaws. Plus: AI steps up for humanitarian aid. Techstrong Gang, live now. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Nudge Security has added two AI agents, the OAuth Grant Risk Analyst and the Browser Extension Risk Analyst, designed to help cybersecurity teams identify and remediate high-risk OAuth grants and threats emanating from AI browser extensions. The new agents address the persistent access and data exposure risks that compromised tokens and unsanctioned extensions introduce across SaaS environments. Read the full article to see how these AI agents strengthen SaaS security: zpr.io/a3bE3fNrWfUC #SaaS #Cybersecurity #AIAgents #OAuth

A survey of 300 IT and cybersecurity professionals finds that 79% of organizations experienced a security incident in the past year involving a known vulnerability, and more than half knew about the flaw for 30 days or longer. Only a quarter automate remediation, while the majority rely on manual ticketing and review processes that leave organizations exposed well after patches are available. See the full survey findings for a closer look at the remediation gap: zpr.io/JdxJtvJte75d #VulnerabilityManagement #Cybersecurity #ITSecurity

Mike Vizard interviews Derek Larson of COCC and Todd McNeal of SmartBear on AI test automation, why AI-generated code still needs independent QA and how teams avoid letting AI grade its own homework. Watch: techstrong.tv/videos/intervi…

Atlassian is transforming Jira into the central control plane for agentic engineering. Direct support for Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot makes it possible to assign tasks to AI coding agents while a Jira Coding Agent converts issues into ready-to-review pull requests. Learn how Atlassian is shaping agentic development directly from Jira: zpr.io/EFH8vCC3xBeV #Atlassian #Jira #AgenticAI #DevOps

Tenable has extended its Tenable One Exposure Management Platform to ingest and analyze static code vulnerability data from development and security sources, giving cybersecurity teams a unified view that spans code creation to runtime. Read more about how Tenable is trying to close the gap between code and exposure management: zpr.io/hdhYVJxWSzqp #Tenable #ExposureManagement #AppSec #CyberSecurity

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged hardware trade secret theft. Meta flexes new AI muscle: Muse Spark 1.1, a Watermelon model that may match GPT-5.5, and a new AI cloud business. Plus SAP dodges an EU antitrust fine. Techstrong Gang breaks it down. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Sophos has rebuilt its security platform into an AI-native defense system that fuses every signal into a single real-time data lake, enabling coordinated threat responses at machine speed. The launch arrives as identity compromise now drives 79% of ransomware attacks, with malicious email and phishing surpassing exploited vulnerabilities as the top root cause. Read the full article to see how Sophos Fusion tightens the link between detection and response: zpr.io/5NDuUkdf3uRL #Sophos #SophosFusion #AI #Cybersecurity

SnapLogic has launched a SnapCode capability and an MCP server that lets AI coding tools like Claude Code directly invoke its iPaaS environment, giving developers governed access to more than a thousand pre-built integrations with SAP, Salesforce, Snowflake and other enterprise systems. Find out more here: zpr.io/mNbt6a8sNzPi #SnapLogic #MCP #iPaaS #AI

200+ economists (incl. 15 Nobel laureates) warn AI could outpace the Industrial Revolution. New research shows AI closing the expertise gap for terrorist groups. Microsoft cuts Windows patch windows from weeks to hours. Techstrong Gang breaks it down. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Cribl is acquiring CardinalOps to add AI agents that continuously map security controls against adversary behavior, enabling teams to detect and close gaps before they are exploited. The acquisition brings threat detection to the point of telemetry collection, reducing reliance on SIEM centralization and shifting the race against AI-armed attackers upstream. Read the full article to see how Cribl plans to close the detection gap at machine speed: zpr.io/E2p5z8u2FqXK #Cribl #CardinalOps #AI #Cybersecurity

This week's IT job roundup includes a Senior Systems Engineer at DoorDash in San Francisco, a remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer at LiveKit, and a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Beacon AI in San Carlos. Food‑delivery platform engineering, real‑time video infrastructure, and AI‑driven aviation tech each offer a different infrastructure challenge this week. See the full list for all ten opportunities here: zpr.io/rtqse2taFLw7 #CloudInfrastructure #SRE #DoorDash #TechCareers

NVIDIA now takes a cut of AI cloud revenue on top of hardware sales — Sharon AI & Firmus are first partners ($25-30B committed). Today's Techstrong Gang covers that, a wild YouGov AI-confidant survey, and Hollywood's Tilly Norwood/Scorsese/A24 fight. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Prefect has agreed to acquire Dagster Labs, combining its Python-based workflow automation platform and the FastMCP MCP framework with Dagster’s declarative orchestration to give AI agents the deterministic context they need to complete tasks repeatably. The combined entity will continue to offer Dagster’s orchestration framework as a standalone open-source project, while Prefect’s profitability funds the community and the merged portfolio targets the next wave of agentic AI automation. Read the full article for more on how the deal aims to make AI workflows auditable and context-aware: zpr.io/9bbhb4QKHYhm #AgenticAI #WorkflowAutomation #DataEngineering #OpenSource

IBM is making mainframes more accessible with the new z17 and LinuxONE 5 configurations, including rack‑mounted systems that plug into existing data centers and deliver up to 82 cores and 18 TB of memory. Learn how the new form factors change the mainframe deployment equation: zpr.io/ddbyKPYs3C4U #IBM #Mainframe #Infrastructure #LinuxONE

A Windows device ID (not his VPN) is what caught an alleged Scattered Spider hacker. Today's Techstrong Gang also covers China's "backdoor" warning on Claude Code and ex-GitHub CEO Dohmke's new Git network for AI agents ($60M seed, $300M valuation). x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Block is orchestrating AI agents across its entire SDLC with Builderbot, which now executes over 200,000 operations a day and merges about 1,500 pull requests per week, roughly 15% of all production code changes. The orchestration layer runs on goose, the open‑source agent framework Block contributed to the Agentic AI Foundation. Read more about how this approach is accelerating delivery on the Square platform: zpr.io/dDaN57MLmL8y #AgenticAI #Builderbot #DevOps #OpenSource

IBM and Red Hat have officially launched the Lightwell Network, a major initiative aimed at tackling decades of technical debt by automating remediation for over 6,500 application‑layer dependencies. Read more about how the initiative is designed to speed up remediation across the software supply chain: zpr.io/gYwc82zQqf2L #IBM #RedHat #Lightwell #SupplyChainSecurity

Open source AI is changing the economics. Copyright lawsuits are testing the rules. AI agents are forcing a trust layer for the web. Today on Techstrong Gang: Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Kate Scarcella and Chris Blask discuss cost, rights and PACT. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…