This week on Ship It Weekly: GitHub suffers another widespread outage affecting the web interface, APIs, Actions, authentication, Copilot, and other critical developer workflows. Zenity Labs demonstrates PleaseFix attacks against agentic browsers, where malicious content can influence agents with access to authenticated sessions and privileged tools. AWS Certificate Manager is moving away from email validation, and Cloudflare is experimenting with CI pipelines defined as TypeScript instead of YAML.

The bigger theme this week is dependencies and boundaries we tend to ignore until something breaks. GitHub is no longer just where the code lives. Agentic browsers are no longer just displaying webpages. Certificate renewal is not something you want depending on someone checking an inbox. And CI pipelines have become software sys ...