Software engineering stories

Datadog's new MCP Server pipes live telemetry into AI agents and dev tools, promising real-time debugging under existing governance controls.

University of Sydney swaps ageing plastic cards for tap-and-go digital IDs, transforming access, security and sustainability across campus.

Datadog launches an MCP Server to give AI agents governed, real-time access to observability data across live development and operations.

Svitla and Cloudera team up to strengthen governed AI and hybrid data infrastructure for healthcare providers across Australia and New Zealand.

Women engineers say AI is accelerating careers but remain wary of bias and blurred accountability for machine-generated code at work.

Persistent has opened a Melbourne innovation hub to drive AI-led cloud modernisation and regional delivery for enterprise clients across ANZ.

Lancom Technology has appointed Aimee Lin as its first Chief Technology Officer to steer cloud, AI and security strategy across three markets.

Endor Labs unveils AURI, a security intelligence platform embedding reachability-led checks into AI coding assistants and CI/CD pipelines.

Digital.ai launches Quick Protect AI to harden Android and iOS apps post-build, embedding automated security into CI/CD pipelines.

OpenAI brings its Codex desktop app to Windows, targeting the nearly half of professional developers who use the platform daily.

Archipelo and Checkmarx partner to fuse dev workflow signals with app security scans, giving teams origin evidence to prioritise fixes.

JFrog warns 13 GitHub CI/CD workflow flaws, mostly critical, could let attackers hijack pipelines and steal secrets at scale.

Elastic's Ken Exner insists “software is not dead” as the firm touts AI-powered search, context engineering and new agent-building tools.

Claude Code flaws found by Check Point could let malicious repos run code and grab API keys before developers confirm a project is trusted.

As AI automates routine coding, architects who design systems and exercise judgement build the most durable, bias-resistant tech careers.

As my bandwidth shrank with motherhood and caregiving, my ambition didn't - but workplaces quietly rationed away the complex work.

Endor Labs has launched AURI, an AI-aware security platform that embeds continuous code checks directly into agent-driven development workflows.

Australia's digital edge will hinge not on flashy AI tools, but on Chief AI Officers uniting AI-native talent with deep public sector know-how.

From photography side project to full‑stack career, Livia Gu shows how curiosity and mistakes can build real confidence in tech.

From Argentina to Adelaide, data analyst Jessica Molina Calabrese reveals how global experience can power a tech career in Australia.