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OpenAI News

Continuously hardening ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection

OpenAI is strengthening ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection attacks using automated red teaming trained with reinforcement learning. This proactive discover-and-patch loop helps identify novel exploits early and harden the browser agent’s defenses as AI becomes more agentic.

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ExternalDevOps
Kubernetes Blog

Avoiding Zombie Cluster Members When Upgrading to etcd v3.6

This article is a mirror of an original that was recently published to the official etcd blog. The key takeaway? Always upgrade to etcd v3.5.26 or later before moving to v3.6. This ensures your cluster is automatically repaired, and avoids zombie members. Issue summary Recently, the etcd community addressed an issue that may appear when users upgrade from v3.5 to v3.6. This bug can cause the cluster to report "zombie members", which are etcd nodes that were removed from the database cluster some

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ExternalDevOps
Kubernetes Blog

Kubernetes 1.35: In-Place Pod Resize Graduates to Stable

This release marks a major step: more than 6 years after its initial conception, the In-Place Pod Resize feature (also known as In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling), first introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.27, and graduated to beta in Kubernetes v1.33, is now stable (GA) in Kubernetes 1.35! This graduation is a major milestone for improving resource efficiency and flexibility for workloads running on Kubernetes. What is in-place Pod Resize? In the past, the CPU and memory resources allocated to a c

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ExternalFrontend Development
Vercel Blog

Our $1 million hacker challenge for React2Shell

In the weeks following React2Shell's disclosure, our firewall blocked over 6 million exploit attempts targeting deployments running vulnerable versions of Next.js, with 2.3 million in a single 24-hour period at peak. This was possible thanks to Seawall, the deep request inspection layer of the Vercel Web Application Firewall (WAF). We worked with 116 security researchers to find every WAF bypass they could, paying out over $1 million and shipping 20 unique updates to our WAF in 48 hours as new t

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ExternalFrontend Development
Vercel Blog

Introducing vercel.ts: Programmatic project configuration

Vercel now supports , a new TypeScript-based configuration file that brings type safety, dynamic logic, and better developer experience to project configuration.vercel.ts lets you express configuration as code by defining advanced routing, request transforms, caching rules, and cron jobs, going beyond what static JSON can express. In addition to full type safety, this also allows access to environment variables, shared logic, and conditional behavior.vercel.ts All projects can now use (or , ,

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ExternalCloud
DigitalOcean Blog

Speed Up Your JavaScript Apps: Native Bun Support is Now Available on App Platform

The JavaScript ecosystem is rapidly evolving to meet the growing performance and integration demands of modern, AI-driven applications. Bun is a popular framework for developers that offers an all-in-one runtime, bundler, and package manager and is considered a drop-in replacement for Node.js. With its faster startup times and lower memory usage than traditional runtimes, Bun is a top request from our customers. Today, we’re excited to announce native Bun support on DigitalOcean App Platform. No

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ExternalCloud
Cloudflare Changelog

Cloudflare Fundamentals, Terraform - Terraform v5.15.0 now available

Earlier this year, we announced the launch of the new Terraform v5 Provider. We are aware of the high number of issues reported by the Cloudflare community related to the v5 release. We have committed to releasing improvements on a 2-3 week cadence to ensure its stability and reliability, including the v5.15 release. We have also pivoted from an issue-to-issue approach to a resource-per-resource approach - we will be focusing on specific resources to not only stabilize the resource but also ensu

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