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Britain's military satellite upgrade program is in serious trouble. The Skynet six project, priced at over eight point three five billion pounds, has been rated red by the government's own infrastructure authority, meaning successful delivery is considered unachievable in its current form. For a program meant to modernize the UK's military communications backbone, that is a stark and uncomfortable verdict.
Shifting to the software world, GitLab's version nineteen point two is taking direct aim at the security backlog that AI coding tools have quietly been making worse. As automated systems generate code faster than developers can review it, GitLab is deploying AI agents to handle dependency scanning, automated remediation, and security review workflows. It is, in a sense, using AI to clean up after AI.
And a story worth watching closely for anyone who stores passwords in third-party software. An investigation has found that a European password manager shares origins and receives updates from a firm that holds state certification in Russia. The security implications of that supply chain connection are significant, and the timing, given the broader conversation about password managers this week, makes it land with particular weight.
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