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AWS Security Agent can now hard-cap autonomous pentest spend and revalidate individual fixes

AWS’s agentic pentesting service can run multiple security tasks in parallel, so billable task-hours may exceed wall-clock test duration. New per-run task-hour limits stop a test gracefully at the ceiling and preserve findings, while targeted revalidation checks specific fixes without rerunning the entire pentest.

GitHub’s OAuth apps get short-lived tokens, multiple callbacks — and a wildcard setting worth auditing

GitHub OAuth apps can now use eight-hour access tokens with rotating refresh tokens, register up to 10 callback URLs, and explicitly control wildcard callback matching. New apps default to expiring tokens, while existing single-callback apps should review a legacy wildcard setting GitHub has now made visible.

Cloud Run adds singleton instances for long-lived, individually addressable workloads

Cloud Run instances sit between autoscaling serverless services and a small VM. They run one individually addressable container continuously, can be stopped and restarted, and use shared CPU economics; Google’s launch example prices 1 vCPU plus 1 GiB running for 30 days at $5.70.

Amazon ECS now separates control-plane failures from auxiliary-daemon failures on managed capacity

The newer `critical=false` daemon control changes ECS Managed Instances from an all-daemons-are-instance-critical model to an explicit reliability trade-off: logging, metrics or security agents can fail without forcing application workloads off the host, while ECS still emits health events and action logs.

Cloudflare links AI code scanning to live edge exposure before proposing a fix

The interesting part is not another AI scanner. Cloudflare is connecting source-code evidence to what is actually deployed and being attacked at the edge, validating findings outside the model, then preparing both a code patch and, where appropriate, a narrowly scoped WAF mitigation for customer review.

Gemini 3.8 Flash raises agent capability at the same token price — but may use more tokens per task

Gemini 3.8 Flash keeps 3.7 Flash’s promotional per-token rate and Flash-tier latency, but early independent analysis suggests harder reasoning can increase tokens consumed per task. A separate 3.8 Flash Cyber model is available only through Google’s Fairwind defensive-security program.

Federal court blocks the Pentagon’s Anthropic supply-chain blacklist, removing one Claude procurement barrier

The Anthropic ruling is not merely a political dispute: a procurement classification that could prevent defense contractors from using Claude on Pentagon work has been struck down. Builders serving government customers still need to watch separate directives and appeals, but one material supplier-risk constraint is no longer enforceable under the current ruling.