WebMCP API extends web apps to AI agents

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) participants including Google and Microsoft have launched the WebMCP API, a JavaScript interface that allows web applications to provide client-side “tools” to AI agents. The API would enable agents to interact directly with web pages and participate in collaborative workflows with human users within the same web interface. WebMCP is…

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New npm worm hits CI pipelines and AI coding tools

A massive Shai-Hulud-style npm supply chain worm is hitting the software ecosystem, burrowing through developer machines, CI pipelines, and AI coding tools. Socket researchers uncovered the active attack campaign and called it SANDWORM_MODE,  derived from the “SANDWORM_*” environment variable switches embedded in the malware’s runtime control logic.” At least 19 typosquatted packages were published under multiple aliases, posing…

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Cloud architects earn the highest salaries

I’ve watched cloud careers rise and fall with each new wave of tools, from the early “lift-and-shift everything” days to today’s platform engineering, AI-ready data estates, and security-by-default mandates. Through all of it, the role that stays stubbornly in demand is the cloud architect because the hardest part of cloud has never been spinning up…

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The ‘Super Bowl’ standard: Architecting distributed systems for massive concurrency

In the world of streaming, the “Super Bowl” isn’t just a game. It is a distributed systems stress test that happens in real-time before tens of millions of people. When I manage infrastructure for major events (whether it is the Olympics, a Premier League match or a season finale) I am dealing with a “thundering…

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