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Decoding Origin: Cursor’s GitHub rival that was launched during the latter’s outage

Cursor’s AI-native approach could simplify software development, but gaps in enterprise controls, security and ecosystem depth mean GitHub remains the safer system of record for now, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 19, 20265 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsSoftware Development

AI’s attribution problem gets worse as models scale

By Taryn Plumb

Aug 18, 20266 mins

Artificial Intelligence

DuckDB 2.0 coming this fall with client/server mode

By Serdar Yegulalp

Aug 18, 20262 mins

AnalyticsData ManagementDatabases

GitHub restores services after nearly 8-hour outage disrupts Actions, APIs, PRs and Copilot

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 18, 20263 mins

Development ToolsSoftware Development

GlassFish 8 Java server boosts data access, concurrency

Update implements Jakarta EE 11 platform and brings support for Jakarta Data repositories and virtual threads.

By Paul Krill

Feb 18, 2026 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

GitHub readies agents to automate repository maintenance

A technical preview promises to take on the unrewarding work in DevOps, but questions remain about controls over costs and access.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 18, 2026 6 mins

Devops GitHub Version Control Systems

Flaws in four popular VS Code extensions left 128 million installs open to attack

Three of the four vulnerabilities remained unpatched months after OX Security reported them to the maintainers.

By Gyana Swain

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins

Code Editors Development Tools Security

Mistral AI deepens compute ambitions with Koyeb acquisition

Serverless integration and GPU efficiency become central as Mistral expands beyond models into enterprise AI infrastructure.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Claude Sonnet 4.6 improves coding skills

Latest update to Anthropic’s popular AI model also promises improvements for computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.

By Paul Krill

Feb 17, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

WebMCP API extends web apps to AI agents

W3C proposal backed by Google and Microsoft allows developers to expose client-side JavaScript tools to AI agents, enabling collaborative workflows between users and agents within the same web interface.

By Paul Krill

Feb 17, 2026 2 mins

APIs Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 targets enterprise agent workflows with expanded multimodal support

The new model claims benchmark improvements and agent capabilities as competition among Chinese AI vendors accelerates.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Feb 17, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Open source maintainers are being targeted by AI agent as part of ‘reputation farming’

AI agent OSS activity opens the door to future supply chain attacks, says security company.

By John E. Dunn

Feb 16, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Software Development

OpenAI hires OpenClaw founder as AI agent race intensifies

Peter Steinberger will lead personal agent development, while the viral open-source project will continue under an open-source foundation.

By Gyana Swain

Feb 16, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Software Development

Google adds automated code reviews to Conductor AI

The Conductor extension now can generate post-implementation code quality and compliance reports based on developer specifications.

By Paul Krill

Feb 13, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Code Security Generative AI

Last JavaScript-based TypeScript arrives in beta

TypeScript 6.0 is intended to be the last release based on the current JavaScript codebase, before a Go-based compiler and language service debuts in TypeScript 7.0.

By Paul Krill

Feb 12, 2026 4 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages TypeScript

Visual Studio adds GitHub Copilot unit testing for C#

GitHub Copilot testing for .NET in Visual Studio 2026 v18.3 can generate tests for the xUnit, NUnit, and MSTest test frameworks.

By Paul Krill

Feb 12, 2026 2 mins

App Testing C# Devops

Researchers propose a self-distillation fix for ‘catastrophic forgetting’ in LLMs

LLMs tend to lose prior skills when fine-tuned for new tasks. A new self-distillation approach aims to reduce regression and simplify model management.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Feb 12, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development

Go 1.26 unleashes performance-boosting Green Tea GC

New garbage collector promises a 10% to 40% reduction in garbage collection overhead in real-world programs that rely heavily on garbage collection.

By Paul Krill

Feb 12, 2026 3 mins

Golang Programming Languages Software Development

Microsoft unveils first preview of .NET 11

Next version of Microsoft’s software development platform brings improvements for JIT compilation, WebAssembly, C#, and F#.

By Paul Krill

Feb 11, 2026 4 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Google Cloud launches GEAR program to broaden AI agent development skills

The learning pathway, housed within the Google Developer Program, aims to equip developers with hands-on expertise in building and deploying AI agents using the Agent Development Kit.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 11, 2026 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Developer IT Skills and Training

Java use in AI development continues to grow – Azul report

Nearly two-thirds of Java users surveyed rely on Java for developing AI applications, with JavaML, Deep Java Library, and OpenCL being the most-used libraries.

By Paul Krill

Feb 10, 2026 2 mins

Generative AI Java Programming Languages

GitHub previews support for Claude and Codex coding agents

Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise users now can run multiple coding agents directly inside GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code.

By Paul Krill

Feb 10, 2026 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI GitHub

Single prompt breaks AI safety in 15 major language models

The GRP‑Obliteration technique reveals that even mild prompts can reshape internal safety mechanisms, raising oversight concerns as enterprises increasingly fine‑tune open‑weight models with privileged training access.

By Gyana Swain

Feb 10, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Security

Python is slipping in popularity – Tiobe

The world’s most popular programming language is losing market share to more specialized languages such as R and Perl, Tiobe says.

By Paul Krill

Feb 9, 2026 3 mins

Programming Languages Python R Language

Salesforce may be prepping to phase out Heroku

Salesforce’s decision to halt new enterprise sales for Heroku most likely signals a strategic de-prioritization of the once-prominent PaaS as the company pivots towards AI-led growth, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 9, 2026 6 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Microsoft bumps .NET Framework 3.5 from Windows installers

Legacy .NET Framework version is now available as a standalone installer for applications that require it on newer versions of Windows.

By Paul Krill

Feb 6, 2026 1 min

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Claude AI finds 500 high-severity software vulnerabilities

Anthropic is reporting the flaws to developers — but only after having humans verify them.

By Maxwell Cooter

Feb 6, 2026 2 mins

Generative AI Vulnerabilities Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Google unveils API and MCP server for developer documentation

Developer Knowledge API and Model Context Protocol server. Together connect AI agents to Google’s developer and Google Cloud documentation.

By Paul Krill

Feb 5, 2026 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

Visual Studio Code update shines on coding agents

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple agent sessions in parallel.

By Paul Krill

Feb 5, 2026 3 mins

Development Tools Integrated Development Environments Visual Studio Code

Databricks adds MemAlign to MLflow to cut cost and latency of LLM evaluation

By replacing repeated fine‑tuning with a dual‑memory system, MemAlign reduces the cost and instability of training LLM judges, offering faster adaptation to new domains and changing business policies.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 5, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development

Deno Sandbox launched for running AI-generated code

Deno Sandbox works in tandem with Deno Deploy—now in GA—to secure workloads where code must be generated, evaluated, or safely executed on behalf of an untrusted user.

By Paul Krill

Feb 5, 2026 2 mins

Code Security JavaScript TypeScript

Apple’s Xcode 26.3 brings integrated support for agentic coding

Apple platform developers can leverage AI coding agents such as Claude Agent and Codex directly in the IDE and throughout the application development workflow.

By Paul Krill

Feb 4, 2026 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Swift

GitHub eyes restrictions on pull requests to rein in AI-based code deluge on maintainers

GitHub is weighing tighter pull request controls and AI-based filters after maintainers warned that a surge of low-quality, AI-generated submissions is overwhelming open-source projects.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 4, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Azure outage disrupts VMs and identity services for over 10 hours

A misconfiguration in Microsoft-managed storage accounts triggered cascading failures across virtual machine operations, managed identities, and developer workflows.

By Nidhi Singal

Feb 4, 2026 5 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Software Development

Vercel revamps AI-powered v0 development platform

Platform has been rebuilt to close the prototype-to-production gap for vibe coding in the enterprise, Vercel said.

By Paul Krill

Feb 3, 2026 2 mins

Development Approaches Development Tools Web Development

Snowflake: Latest news and insights

Stay up-to-date on how Snowflake and its underlying architecture has changed how cloud developers, data managers and data scientists approach cloud data management and analytics

By Dan Muse

Feb 3, 2026 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Management

OpenAI launches Codex app as enterprises weigh autonomous AI coding tools

The app gives developers a centralized workspace to manage multiple AI coding agents across projects without losing task context, OpenAI said.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Feb 3, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Snowflake debuts Cortex Code, an AI agent that understands enterprise data context

By understanding sensitive tables, costly transformations, and mission‑critical pipelines, Cortex Code helps teams move from prototypes to governed, production‑ready data and AI workloads faster.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 3, 2026 4 mins

Code Editors Development Tools Generative AI

Wasmer beefs up Python support

WebAssembly runtime introduces experimental async API and support for dynamic linking in WASIX, enabling much broader support for Python packages and native modules.

By Paul Krill

Feb 2, 2026 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Python WebAssembly

AI use may speed code generation, but developers’ skills suffer

As companies move to more AI code writing, humans may not have the necessary skills to validate and debug the AI-written code if their skill formation was inhibited by using AI in the first place, researchers find.

By Taryn Plumb

Jan 30, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools IT Skills and Training

Google expands BigQuery with conversational agent and custom agent tools

The additions let data teams ask progressive, context‑aware questions in natural language while enabling developers to deploy governed analytics agents across applications via unified API endpoints.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jan 30, 2026 4 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Data Warehousing

Who profits from AI? Not OpenAI, says think tank

New research from Epoch AI suggests any revenue surplus from one model ‘gets outweighed’ by the expense of developing the next.

By Paul Barker

Jan 29, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Microsoft previews GitHub Copilot app modernization for C++

GitHub Copilot app modernization for C++ helps to streamline the process of adopting the latest version of the MSVC Build Tools.

By Paul Krill

Jan 29, 2026 2 mins

C++ Development Tools Generative AI

Suse offers cloud sovereignty assessment tool

Web-based self-assessment tool measures an organization’s compliance with the 2025 EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework.

By Paul Krill

Jan 29, 2026 2 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management IT Governance

New PDF compression filter will save space, need software updates

PDF readers and open-source libraries used in document processing will all need updating to handle the Brotli compression filter.

By John E. Dunn

Jan 29, 2026 5 mins

Software Development

Apiiro’s Guardian Agent guards against insecure AI code

Application security agent rewrites developer prompts into secure prompts to prevent coding agents from generating vulnerable or non-compliant code.

By Paul Krill

Jan 29, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Code Security Generative AI

Crooks are hijacking and reselling AI infrastructure: Report

Researchers at Pillar Security say threat actors are accessing unprotected LLMs and MCP endpoints for profit. Here’s how CSOs can lower the risk.

By Howard Solomon

Jan 28, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cybercrime Vulnerabilities

Google’s LiteRT adds advanced hardware acceleration

New GPU engine in the on-device AI framework delivers comprehensive GPU and NPU support across Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, and web platforms.

By Paul Krill

Jan 28, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

Teradata unveils enterprise AgentStack to push AI agents into production

AgentStack targets the biggest blocker in enterprise AI, operationalizing multi‑agent systems without locking developers into a single cloud or data platform.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jan 28, 2026 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Gemini Flash model gets visual reasoning capability

Agentic Vision combines visual reasoning with code execution to ground answers in visual evidence, delivering a 5% to 10% quality boost across most vision benchmarks, Google said.

By Paul Krill

Jan 27, 2026 2 mins

Generative AI Programming Languages Python

OpenSilver 3.3 runs Blazor components inside XAML apps

New version of the open-source replacement for Microsoft Silverlight also brings support for .NET 10 and C# 14.

By Paul Krill

Jan 27, 2026 2 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Anthropic integrates third‑party apps into Claude, reshaping enterprise AI workflows

The new capability allows tools like Asana, Figma, Slack, and Canva to run directly inside Claude’s interface, reducing integration friction and advancing agentic AI adoption.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jan 27, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max-Thinking expands enterprise AI model choices

The company claims the model demonstrates performance comparable to GPT-5.2-Thinking, Claude-Opus-4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jan 27, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Unplugged holes in the npm and yarn package managers could let attackers bypass defenses against Shai-Hulud

A researcher at Koi Security says the two key platforms have not plugged the vulnerabilities enabling the worm attacks, and ‘the JavaScript ecosystem deserves better.’

By Howard Solomon

Jan 26, 2026 4 mins

Development Tools GitHub JavaScript