What?!# how is this possible. What did I miss?

Downdetector was a billion dollar business!


https://www.theverge.com/tech/889234/downdetector-ookla-speedtest-sold-accenture

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/aws-mcp-server/

This is a super cool sandbox manager created by AWS and the deployment is way too easy. Makes managing ephemeral labs simple: https://github.com/aws-solutions/innovation-sandbox-on-aws

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-034-aws/ CVE-2026-9133 - Arbitrary file read in rabbitmq-aws plugin

https://x.com/github -> We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely

https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/claude-codes-goals-separates-the-agent-that-works-from-the-one-that-decides-its-done

https://archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-ai

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578?s=46&t=hxmjEyu5OyUbWbc_cO5EPQ

Idk if you guys have seen this but this one is big:
https://www.ox.security/blog/shai-hulud-here-we-go-again-170-packages-hit-across-npm-pypi/

adding to the list (for the ruby people) - https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/rubygems-suspends-new-signups-after.html

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

https://claude.com/blog/claude-platform-on-aws

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/aws-outage-data-center-fanduel-coinbase.html

https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures

https://copy.fail/

Example of Atmos Native CI updated to use merge queues

https://github.com/cloudposse-examples/atmos-native-ci

https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/

Who knew? GitHub has an MCP registry https://github.com/mcp

https://claude.com/product/claude-security#public-beta

https://handyai.substack.com/p/your-ceo-is-suffering-from-ai-psychosis

Some news and solutions that caught my eye this week:

• A Client VPN endpoint can now be bound to a transit gateway, rather than just to one VPC. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/aws-client-vpn-transit-gateway
• "Lambda Just Got a File System. I Put AI Agents on It." is a worked example of using S3 Files across 3 Lambda functions. [SAM, alas, but the idea, structure, and resource definitions are useful elsewhere.] edjgeek.com/blog/s3-files-lambda-agents and github.com/singledigit/lambda-s3-files-example
• "AWS Backup Restore Testing for Aurora provisioned: Zero Lambda, Full Automation" defines a Step Function that executes SQL queries to check a restored database, using rdsdata:ExecuteStatement rather than a database client. [This person sometimes outdoes me on low-code, no-dependency designs! 😀] builder.aws.com/content/3CuMcCh8jz6tIAWFEaehy58ATHU/aws-backup-restore-testing-for-aurora-provisioned-zero-lambda-full-automation

https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854

Rough week for GitHub PR.

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/

Warp is now open source https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/whats-coming-to-our-github-actions-2026-security-roadmap/

https://restofworld.org/2026/sam-altman-worldcoin-zoom-tinder-partnerships/

Just out…

TL;DR: Today, we are announcing that all GitHub Copilot plans will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026.

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/

https://medium.com/@affirmtechnology/how-affirm-retooled-its-engineering-organization-for-agentic-software-development-in-one-week-1fd35268fde6