Explore weekly curated summaries and expert analyses highlighting the latest trends in cloud technology.

  • RPKI now covers 70 percent of internet routes

    Routing security hit a number that has been a decade in the making. IPinfo measured the internet on September 28 and found 70.3 percent of routed IPv4 prefixes are now RPKI-valid, up from 54.0 percent a year earlier. Previous years moved 3 to 4 points annually. This year moved 16.4. The fine print on that…

  • Targeted ads became a zero-click spyware pipeline

    The Citizen Lab published research this week describing something that sounds like a threat model from a decade of worst-case thinking, except it is documented, evidenced, and apparently been running for years: targeted online advertising used as a delivery pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware. The report, called AdFection, centers on an Israel-registered company named Discover…

  • Azure Storage Mover can now copy Azure Files across regions

    Azure Storage Mover has spent most of its life doing one thing: dragging file data out of on-premises NAS and SMB servers and landing it in Azure. That is still its day job. But on October 15 Microsoft opened a public preview of something different, a cross-region copy and synchronization mode for Azure Files shares.…

  • Passkeys are not a trap: the backlash post gets WebAuthn wrong

    A post titled “Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them.” has been making the rounds on Hacker News this week, and Scott Helme’s rebuttal is the best response to it I have read. The short version: the trap argument rests on a misunderstanding of how WebAuthn attestation actually works, and the alternative it recommends,…

  • OpenCode 2.0 turns the open source coding agent into a platform

    OpenCode 2.0 shipped this week, and it is not a version bump. The open source coding agent, which sits at 213,000 stars on GitHub, rebuilt its server API from scratch, made its background service a first-class citizen, and folded almost everything into a plugin system. The upgrade path includes real breaking changes. If you script…

  • Azure Site Recovery now protects Arc-enabled Windows servers

    Hybrid shops just lost one of their more annoying trade-offs. Azure Site Recovery is now generally available for Azure Arc-enabled Windows VMware virtual machines and on-premises physical servers, according to the October announcement on the Azure Updates roadmap. The machines you manage with Arc can now be protected with enterprise-grade disaster recovery without the agent…

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