Dev News Digest: 4 Nov 2026, 11:00

A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.

Security & infrastructure

• Puppet RCE write-up: Neodyme details a remote code execution chain in Puppet, a useful read if you run configuration management servers. Neodyme
• Docker pushes isolation for AI agents: Docker argues that agents should run in isolated environments with clear governance rules, rather than directly on developer machines. InfoQ
• Amazon ECS Gateway arrives: The new gateway generates hostnames for services but does not support custom domains yet, which limits production use for now. InfoQ
• GitHub incident hits pull requests and git operations: GitHub reported a disruption affecting pull requests, git operations and issues. GitHub Status

Tools & hardware

• Osewa, an open-source alternative to SSH and Mosh: A new remote shell project aimed at replacing both tools. Osewa
• Milkman pitches itself as a Postman alternative: Another open-source API client appears, following recent concerns about Postman's behaviour. Milkman
• Kitty 0.50 released: A new version of the GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. Kitty changelog
• Nvidia RTX Spark firmware reportedly slows Linux inference: A report claims encrypted firmware limits inference speed to about 35% on Linux. MindStudio

Industry

• Geoffrey Hinton questions whether AI was worth it: The AI pioneer says we might have been better off without it, adding to the ongoing debate. The Guardian

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