AWS Graviton5 Reaches General Availability with 192 Cores and Formally Verified VM Isolation

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:05:00 GMT

AWS made Graviton5-powered EC2 M9g and M9gd instances generally available with 192 ARM cores, formally verified VM isolation via the Nitro Isolation Engine, and DDR5-8800 memory. ClickHouse reported 36% better performance with zero code changes. Meta committed tens of millions of cores. On-demand pricing is 9% above Graviton4, translating to roughly 15% better price-performance.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Athena Coalition Brings Coordinated Defence to Open Source Security

Matt Saunders — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Cybersecurity firm Chainguard has announced the launch of Athena, an industry coalition to use artificial intelligence to find and fix vulnerabilities in widely-used open-source software before attackers can exploit them. The coalition focuses on libraries, containers and other components that underpin web browsers, data centres, smartphones and payment systems.

By Matt Saunders

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AWS Graviton5 Reaches General Availability with 192 Cores and Formally Verified VM Isolation

Athena Coalition Brings Coordinated Defence to Open Source Security