Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Thursday 15 October 2026
25 stories from 5 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Hackers hijacked 1,900 GitHub accounts. Then they went after 30,000 repos.
The New Stack
Hackers accessed roughly 1,900 GitHub accounts, then used them to slip credential-stealing workflows into more than 30,000 repositories. The malicious GitHub Actions jobs targeted CI/CD secrets, cloud access keys, and AI provider API keys…
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Vercel adds always-on workers to run more of your backend
The New Stack
Vercel is giving developers more options for running their backends on its platform. At its Ship conference in San Francisco on Thursday, the company introduced Daemons, a new service for continuously running background workers, and made…
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OpenAI promised developers six months’ notice. GPT-4o users got three.
The New Stack
OpenAI is retiring four GPT-4 models from its API on January 14, 2027. The deprecation notice the company sent developers Wednesday covers GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1, and GPT-4.1 mini, along with their dated snapshots and every…
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A fully programmable secure web gateway
Cloudflare Blog
Every secure web gateway on the market works the same way: traffic matches a condition. A terminal action fires. Allow, Block, Isolate, Log. This model has been the foundation of network security for nearly 30 years, and it handles the…
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Meta ships Muse Spark Open, its answer to China’s best open-weight models
The New Stack
Meta on Thursday launched Muse Spark Open, a new 816B open model (with 42B active parameters) that the company argues is the “most capable US open-weight model to date.” The new model is available through the APIs of Baseten, Fireworks AI…
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Bringing the borderless Lakehouse into the agentic era with innovations for Gemini
Google Cloud Blog
As enterprises shift their AI usage from experimental chatbots to autonomous agents, teams are hitting a critical bottleneck: accessing and reasoning over data scattered across multiple clouds, SaaS platforms, and on-premises systems. To…
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Evolving the cloud-native foundation for the next generation of AI
Azure Blog
Building a cloud-native foundation for AI The relationship between model innovation and AI infrastructure has never been more clear; as AI becomes more capable, the platform underneath it matters even more. Agents are fundamentally…
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Evolving the cloud-native foundation for the next generation of AI
Azure Blog
Building a cloud-native foundation for AI The relationship between model innovation and AI infrastructure has never been more clear; as AI becomes more capable, the platform underneath it matters even more. Agents are fundamentally…
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How Visko streams real-time world models on Google Cloud TPUs
Google Cloud Blog
Editor's note: Generative AI startups are moving rapidly beyond static clip generation to build interactive, real-time worlds. In this technical deep dive, we explore how AI startup Visko collaborated with Google Cloud TPU engineers to…
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Modernizing perimeter security: Scalable perimeters with VPC Service Controls
Google Cloud Blog
Agents represent a fundamental shift in cloud operations. They can act on behalf of users or autonomously, make non-deterministic decisions, and request data across projects at unprecedented speed and scale. Because agents are a distinct…
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What the Gemini agent means for startups
Google Cloud Blog
Small teams, short runway, and constant pressure to ship faster — it’s the reality we see every day among the founders we work with at Google for Startups. When you are building a company from the ground up, every hour spent on operational…
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Temporal Serverless Workers on Cloud Run: Scale workers ahead of demand
Google Cloud Blog
The open-source Temporal execution platform is rapidly becoming a foundational layer of modern software infrastructure — especially for orchestration in distributed systems and AI agent workloads. However, deploying and scaling workers in…
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Nvidia squeezed a 74B agent model into 24GB so it can run on your laptop
The New Stack
Nvidia on Thursday announced a few new additions to its Nemotron family : Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B vision-language model for enterprise agents and two small Bolt models ( Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB)…
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What it takes to become an AI company: Four lessons from the top
The New Stack
Every company is under pressure to become “an AI company. ” Over the past several months, we’ve been undertaking that transformation at Precisely, changing how we build, work, and measure progress. That experience has reinforced something…
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Anthropic’s been eyeing confidential AI. It just made its move with another acquihire.
The New Stack
Anthropic’s done it again. On Tuesday, Opaque Systems announced a new agreement with Anthropic that “carries Opaque’s work forward.” Vague wording aside, the agreement marks another acquihire for Anthropic, with the AI juggernaut licensing…
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“Everybody with a $20 account is now a researcher”: How Akrites is tackling the flood of AI bug reports
The New Stack
AI is making it easier than ever to find potential security vulnerabilities in open source software. But finding something that looks like a vulnerability isn’t quite the same as finding a genuine security flaw. As such, maintainers are…
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Anthropic built its own git replacement for AI-scale coding. But you can’t have it.
The New Stack
This week, Anthropic revealed it built an in-house version control system to handle exploding code merges. It says Claude was both part of the problem that caused the bottleneck and instrumental in building the solution. When the AI…
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The permission you denied today is your safety net for tomorrow
The New Stack
What happens when you give an AI support agent a permission it never needed, then assign it a task the underlying data does not support? The result is entirely predictable. During a test with customer invoices, an agent pulled up a record…
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ARMORY CASTLE Exploits BeyondTrust
Google Cloud Blog
Written by: Jayson Frost, Bryce Greathouse, Brian Meyer, John Palmisano, Rajesh Rajeshirke, Steve Rasch, John Wolfram Introduction On October 15, BeyondTrust disclosed a vulnerability, CVE-2026-102764, impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support…
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Deploy with Void
Cloudflare Blog
VoidZero's tools such as Vite, Vitest, Oxc, and Rolldown — bundled in one toolchain as Vite+ — have made frontend development faster, but building full-stack applications requires more than just a tooling stack. These applications need…
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Cloudflare and OpenAI: making AI discovery better for everyone
Cloudflare Blog
Optimizing your site for AI is of little use if AI can't find it. The answer to someone's question may already be on your website: the installation guide you spent a week writing, or a first-hand account of using a product, with the…
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The code confidence gap nobody’s talking about
The New Stack
AI has changed the economics of software creation: A task that once took hours to implement can now start with an agent producing an initial solution in minutes. As agents take on broader assignments, like changing code across a…
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Agentic AI doesn’t have a model problem. It has a retrieval problem.
The New Stack
On BrowseComp-Plus, GPT-4.1 answered 93.49% of the questions correctly when it was given the supporting documents directly. When an agent used the same model but relied on BM25 to search for evidence to pass to the model, accuracy fell to…
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Investigating Ephemeral Supply Chain Tampering
Google Cloud Blog
Written by: Tyler McLellan Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant investigated a software supply chain compromise campaign targeting the update infrastructure belonging to AOMEI Technology between April 2026 and…
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New: Sync real-time Stripe data to Postgres with Stripe Data Pipeline
Stripe Engineering
Applications rely on current Stripe data to fulfill orders, update customer accounts, and manage access to paid features. Until now, developers have had to build and maintain custom integrations to keep application databases in sync with…