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EKS clusters lag on an AWS auth deprecation, per The New Stack

The New Stack reports that 81% of Amazon EKS clusters still run an AWS EKS authentication method the vendor has deprecated. For platform teams whose deploy pipelines target EKS, the number reads as a migration flag against the auth path baked into kubeconfigs, CI service accounts and IaC modules.

Aug 20, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Security & supply chain

Copilot CLI drops the PAT requirement inside GitHub Actions

GitHub says Copilot CLI, when invoked from a GitHub Actions workflow, will now accept the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN. That retires one of the last long-lived personal tokens teams were carrying just to script Copilot from CI.

Jul 4, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Security & supply chain

libcurl drops NTLM in September 2026, and on-prem Azure DevOps Git over HTTPS goes with it

Microsoft has warned Azure DevOps Server customers that Git operations over HTTPS will break for anyone still authenticating with NTLM once libcurl removes the protocol in September 2026. Build agents, workgroup boxes and service accounts are the ones most likely to hit the wall.

Jul 3, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Security & supply chain

Agent identity is the new wall between functional dev and security review

A New Stack analysis argues agentic systems pass functional review and then stall at the security gate because no one scoped identity, permissions or audit at the platform layer first. For CI/CD owners, it pushes a familiar workload-identity problem onto a much larger fleet of callers.

Jun 28, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo