Spotify More Than Doubled Monthly Code Changes as AI Accelerated Development

Leela Kumili — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:57:00 GMT

Spotify reports that AI-assisted development more than doubled monthly merged changes, prompting a review of quality and reliability controls across its engineering organization. The company describes changes to testing, observability, rollback capacity, workload prioritization, and automated maintenance as it adapts to higher software change volume.

By Leela Kumili

GitLab Vulnerability under Active Exploitation Enables Unauthenticated Data Exfiltration

Sergio De Simone — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT

CVE-2026-85706 is a critical GitLab path-traversal vulnerability that has moved beyond theoretical risk into confirmed exploitation. It affects self-managed GitLab CE/EE and could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to read arbitrary files from the GitLab.

By Sergio De Simone

InfoQ - Continuous Deployment - News

Spotify More Than Doubled Monthly Code Changes as AI Accelerated Development

GitLab Vulnerability under Active Exploitation Enables Unauthenticated Data Exfiltration