Episode 572: The world isn’t curl

This week, we discuss how security gets sold to execs, where agentic coding and security collide, and Cloudflare vs. Datadog's diverging paths. Plus, Coté weighs in on sugar cookies.

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Runner-up Titles

• Sugar Kingdom
• Bastard Sugar
• Choose butter
• It’s just AI now
• People don’t like paying for software
• It’s an exciting time to be writing software
• Are we going to start funding open source?
• Speaking of that, but not that, it’s totally unrelated
• We’re leaving the table
• Weird network stuff
• That box of cables on GitHub

Rundown

• Security

  • Mini Shai-Hulud Is Back: npm Worm Hits over 160 Packages
  • Fedora Hummingbird Linux Brings Agentic Linux to Builders
  • Red Hat Hardened Images
  • Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Portkey to Secure the Rise of AI Agents
  • Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
  • Redis and the Cost of Ambition

• AI is restructuring the software industry — winners and losers

  • Datadog's stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat
  • Cloudflare stock sinks 24% after earnings as company cuts 1,100 employees
  • Linear increases workforce

Relevant to your Interests

• Laws, anecdotes, idioms, and other shit people say - cote.pizza
• The smart lock standard that could replace your keys is finally here
• dirtyfrag/README.md at master · V4bel/dirtyfrag · GitHub
• Red Hat Summit Newsroom
• Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted
• Your Container Is Not a Sandbox
• OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company
• Corporate Card Startup Ramp Raising Funds at $40 Billion Valuation
• Cyberattack shutters Canvas learning platform for schools across the U.S.
• AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region
• AI and DevOps Maturity
• Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX
• Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS
• He's not wrong, but what can they do? How are those Microsoft foundation models going?

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Conferences

• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
• DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting.

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  • Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
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Recommendations

• Brandon: Xcode MCP
• Matt: whatcable
• Coté: Shogun.