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Does ICANN Open the Door on Identity Theft by Dropping 3rd Level .name Domains Registrations?
Neil Fraser's disclosure highlights a regulatory change affecting the .name top-level domain. Following ICANN's approval, Verisign will eliminate third-level registrations due to declining usage. This affects about 22,000 registrants and raises security concerns, as released second-level domains could be exploited. Affected users are considering legal options to challenge the decision.
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Zone Redundancy Comes to API Management Standard v2
Microsoft has enabled zone redundancy on the Standard v2 tier of Azure API Management, following its arrival on Premium v2 in December. Standard v2 starts at $700 per month against $2,801 for Premium v2, but carries a 99.95% SLA rather than 99.99%. Zone redundancy can only be configured when creating an instance.
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FreeCORE: TrueNAS Fork Maintaining Deeply Integrated Virtualization, Jails, and OpenZFS on FreeBSD
TrueNAS CORE has been the standard for open-source storage using FreeBSD and OpenZFS. The shift to TrueNAS SCALE, based on Debian, left some users needing alternatives. FreeCORE upgrades TrueNAS CORE to FreeBSD 15.0, restoring essential features like FreeBSD Jails. While it satisfies certain administrators' needs, its long-term sustainability and maintenance by a single individual raise concerns.
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Copilot Code Review Reaches Azure Repos, Billed Per Review with Reporting Two Days behind
Microsoft opened GitHub Copilot code review for Azure Repos to all Azure DevOps customers, after acknowledging that many are not ready to migrate to GitHub. Reviews bill per use through the linked Azure subscription and appear in Cost Management 48 hours later. Budgets notify but do not stop reviews, and concurrency caps at five per organization.
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Cloudflare Adds Optional OAuth Scopes, Letting Developers Mark What Users May Decline
Cloudflare has added optional OAuth scopes, letting client owners mark which permissions users may deselect at consent. The company names MCP servers as the motivating case, since agents request the union of everything they might do. Partial consent exists elsewhere, but developer control over which scopes are droppable does not.
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DoorDash’s Flux Runs 130,000 Engineering Tasks through Cloud-Based Agents
DoorDash has moved engineering agent workloads from developer laptops to its Flux cloud platform. The platform automated 130,000 engineering tasks in one month and supports more than 25,000 automated code reviews weekly. Flux uses isolated Firecracker microVMs, an MCP gateway, reusable playbooks, and multiple invocation surfaces to run agent workflows with scoped access and centralized auditing.
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Foundry Model Router Expands from Two Regions to 28, Refreshing Its Model Pool
Microsoft expanded Foundry's model router from two regions to 28 for global standard and 21 for data zone deployments, while adding Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 and removing four deprecated models. Default deployments receive pool changes automatically; configured subsets exclude new models until added. The effective context window equals the smallest model in the pool.
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Cloudflare Extends AI Search to Make it Easier for Agents and Developers to Search Custom Data
Cloudflare AI Search is a built-in search and retrieval service designed to give AI agents and applications a ready-to-use search engine over custom data. It supports agent integration, multimodal search, and seamless integration with other Cloudflare tools.
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Cloudflare Workers Accept Inbound TCP, with gRPC the First Protocol on Top
Cloudflare Workers can now accept inbound TCP connections through a new connect(socket) handler routed via Spectrum, ending an eight-year restriction to HTTP. Containers get full-duplex gRPC in any language, while Workers get unary and server-streaming through automatic gRPC-web translation. Everything is private beta.
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Google Cloud Launches AI-powered Agents to Simplify Database Lifecycle Management
Google Cloud has introduced AI-powered Database Operations Agents, featuring an Onboarding Agent that streamlines database setup and an Observability Agent that helps automate troubleshooting, performance optimization, and tuning. Integrated with Gemini Cloud Assist, these agents support multiple database services, including AlloyDB, Bigtable, and Spanner.
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Cloudflare Wallets Arrives Late to x402, and the Spending Controls Stop at the Payment
Cloudflare announced Wallets, giving agents a stablecoin balance and spending controls, though only handle claiming is live and squatting complaints have already surfaced. Payments run on x402, now hosted by the Linux Foundation. The controls bound single payments, not sequences, leaving composition to the application above.
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OVHcloud Raises Prices as AI Memory Demand Reprices Non-AI Infrastructure
OVHcloud will raise prices from September, with 2026-edition gaming servers up 87 percent and other recent servers 40 to 59 percent. Founder Octave Klaba says memory cost six times more in June than a year earlier, as RAM suppliers shifted capacity toward high-bandwidth memory for AI. AWS, buying years ahead, has repriced one reserved GPU product.
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Cloudflare Announces Kitesurf, a Browser Engine for Agents
Cloudflare recently introduced Kitesurf, a lightweight browser built for automated workloads. Kitesurf runs browser components in isolated WebAssembly/Rust environments on Cloudflare Workers and supports the Chrome DevTools Protocol, allowing tools such as Playwright and Puppeteer to drive it with lower resource overhead than a full Chromium browser.
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AWS Releases aws-bench to Evaluate Agents on Cloud Tasks
AWS has released aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real AWS tasks such as misconfigurations and infrastructure provisioning. Unlike traditional benchmarks, it uses real resources in disposable AWS accounts, scoring agent performance through automated verifiers.
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Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server Reaches GA, without Support for Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor
Microsoft has made the Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server generally available, offering a hosted endpoint into work items, repos, and pipelines with nothing to install. Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Cursor cannot connect yet because Entra lacks support for dynamic client registration and Client ID Metadata Documents.