EVA Tech BriefIT/DevOps

2026-05-20 - 7:30 PM PKT

Frontier LLMs

Claude Opus 4.7 launches with 1M context and high-res vision

Anthropic releases Opus 4.7 - adaptive thinking only, sampling parameters removed, 2576px vision. Most capable Claude yet.

GPUs and Silicon

NVIDIA B300 pricing leaked - $35K per unit

Tom's Hardware reports leaked B300 pricing ahead of Q3 availability. 50% more HBM than B200.

Cloud and Infra

AWS us-east-1 elevated errors for 47 minutes

DynamoDB and Lambda affected. RCA pending. Third incident this quarter.

Pakistan Tech

PTA approves Starlink license - rollout Q4 2026

After months of regulatory review, PTA grants conditional license. Rural areas first, urban later.

Security

Critical RCE in popular npm package affects 12M downloads/week

CVE-2026-XXXX allows remote code execution via crafted package.json. Patch available.

Dev Tools

Claude Code 2.2 ships with worktree isolation and background agents

New release adds git worktree support for parallel agent work. Background tasks no longer block the main loop.