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OpenAI’s desktop superapp: The end of ChatGPT as we know it?

A product consolidation raises bigger questions about where OpenAI is really headed.

By Gyana Swain

Mar 20, 20265 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsSoftware Development

Warning to developers: Stay away from these 10 VSCode extensions

Malicious extensions that install a cryptominer were released just as the weekend started.

By Howard Solomon

Apr 7, 2025 1 min

Development Tools Engineer Malware

Cloudflare unveils agentic AI development tools

As its Developer Week kicks off, the company introduced new tools for building AI agents on the Cloudflare platform and announced the acquisition of Outerbase.

By Lynn Greiner

Apr 7, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity – Tiobe index

Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby have dropped from their top 20 positions in the language popularity index and seem to be in decline, according to Tiobe.

By Paul Krill

Apr 7, 2025 3 mins

Kotlin Python Ruby

Critical deserialization bug in Apache Parquet allows RCE

Successful exploitation could allow attackers to steal data, install malware, or take full control over affected big data systems.

By Shweta Sharma

Apr 4, 2025 1 min

Analytics Big Data Vulnerabilities

Sonatype warns of 18,000 open source malware packages

Over half of the malware Sonatype discovered in Q1 2025 was designed to exfiltrate sensitive information from infected systems, the company said.

By Paul Krill

Apr 3, 2025 2 mins

Java JavaScript Microsoft .NET

Rust language adds trait upcasting

Long-wanted ability to upcast trait objects to trait objects of supertraits arrives in Rust 1.86, the latest update to the fast and safe programming language.

By Paul Krill

Apr 3, 2025 3 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

GitHub upgrades tooling to help developers stop leaking secrets

Developers get free and targeted advanced secret scanning features on GitHub to protect organizations from exposed secrets.

By Shweta Sharma

Apr 3, 2025 3 mins

Data and Information Security Security Version Control Systems

Django 5.2 release touts automatic model importing

Users are asked to update to this latest version of the Python web framework, as support is phasing out for earlier 5.x versions.

By Paul Krill

Apr 2, 2025 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Python Web Development

Informatica readies new Claire Copilot capabilities for IDMC

Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is getting a host of new AI features, although some of them are still only in preview.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 2, 2025 4 mins

Data Integration Data Management Generative AI

Google fixes GCP flaw that could expose sensitive container images

The flaw could allow attackers to access restricted container images, potentially leading to privilege escalation, data theft, and espionage attacks.

By Shweta Sharma

Apr 2, 2025 1 min

Cloud Security Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes and Containers

Red Hat Developer Hub adds analysis dashboard

Red Hat also introduced a lightweight, self-contained version of Developer Hub that can be run on a local machine without Kubernetes.

By Paul Krill

Apr 1, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Java plan prepares to restrict final field mutation

Proposal would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final flelds, preparing for a future Java release that disallows mutation of final fields by default.

By Paul Krill

Apr 1, 2025 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

New Python lock file format will specify dependencies

Human-readable and machine-generated lock file will specify what direct and indirect dependencies should be installed into a Python environment.

By Paul Krill

Mar 31, 2025 2 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

Apple’s Swift language gets version manager

Swiftly, a longtime community tool now officially supported, eases installing, managing, and updating the Swift tool chain sans Xcode on Linux and macOS.

By Paul Krill

Mar 31, 2025 2 mins

Programming Languages Software Development Swift

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 reasoning models

Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is Google’s most advanced model for coding, math, science, and complex tasks, Google said.

By Paul Krill

Mar 28, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

Adobe announces AI agents for customer interaction

Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator and a suite of purpose-built customer experience agents are coming soon, Adobe said.

By Paul Krill

Mar 27, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Microsoft lauds Hyperlight Wasm for WebAssembly workloads

A virtual machine “micro-guest,” Hyperlight Wasm can run WebAssembly component workloads in C, Python, Rust, and other languages.

By Paul Krill

Mar 26, 2025 3 mins

C Language JavaScript Python

Critical RCE flaws put Kubernetes clusters at risk of takeover

The vulnerabilities, dubbed IngressNightmare, can allow unauthenticated users to inject malicious NGINX configurations and execute malicious code into the Ingress NGINX pod, potentially exposing all cluster secrets and leading to cluster takeover.

By Lucian Constantin

Mar 26, 2025 1 min

Kubernetes and Containers Vulnerabilities

Databricks’ TAO method to allow LLM training with unlabeled data

Test-time Adaptive Optimization can be used to increase the efficiency of inexpensive models, such as Llama, the company said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 26, 2025 5 mins

Databases Generative AI

Open-source Styrolite project aims to simplify container runtime security

A programmable sandboxing tool, Styrolite locks down Linux kernel namespaces to provide lightweight sandboxes for container-based workloads.

By Travis Van

Mar 26, 2025 4 mins

Application Security Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers

Oracle releases ML-optimized GraalVM for JDK 24

GraalVM JDK release features a new generation of ML-enabled profile inference that boosts peak performance nearly 8% on average on microservices benchmarks.

By Paul Krill

Mar 25, 2025 3 mins

Java Libraries and Frameworks Machine Learning

Warning for developers, web admins: update Next.js to prevent exploit

Install the latest version to close critical authorization bypass vulnerability.

By Howard Solomon

Mar 25, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Vulnerabilities Web Development

Fauna to shut down FaunaDB service in May

The database provider said that enterprises subscribing to the database will receive support from the company to migrate their workloads.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 25, 2025 3 mins

Databases

Cosmonic uses WebAssembly to manage apps

Cosmonic Control is an enterprise control plane that works with cloud, edge, Kubernetes, or on-premises deployments.

By Paul Krill

Mar 25, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Devops Kubernetes and Containers

Kotlin bolsters K2 compiler plugin support, WebAssembly debugging

Kotlin 2.1.20 brings updates to the new kapt and Lombok compiler plugins and makes the K2 implementation of kapt the default.

By Paul Krill

Mar 21, 2025 2 mins

Kotlin Programming Languages Software Development

OpenSilver extends to iOS and Android

Open-source Silverlight replacement integrates .NET MAUI Hybrid to enable WPF-compatible apps on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

By Paul Krill

Mar 21, 2025 2 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Nvidia launches AgentIQ toolkit to connect disparate AI agents

The toolkit is designed to help developers save time by acting as a connective tissue between agent frameworks.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 21, 2025 3 mins

Generative AI Software Development

Developers: apply these 10 mitigations first to prevent supply chain attacks

Current cybersecurity development risk frameworks don’t cover all of the tactics hackers used to compromise SolarWinds, log4j, or XZ Utils, says report, which offers a 'starter kit' of critical tasks.

By Howard Solomon

Mar 20, 2025 6 mins

Development Approaches Devops Threat and Vulnerability Management

Microsoft .NET 10 Preview 2 shines on C#, runtime, encryption

Latest update to the flagship development platform rounds out partial members in C# 14 and enhances the JIT compiler’s devirtualization capabilities.

By Paul Krill

Mar 20, 2025 3 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Programming Languages

Ex-Sun CEO Scott McNealy reflects on Java’s founding

McNealy and Oracle luminaries reflect on the early days and staying power of the 30-year-old programming language and platform.

By Paul Krill

Mar 20, 2025 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

GitHub suffers a cascading supply chain attack compromising CI/CD secrets

CISA confirms cascading attack from reviewdog to tj-actions exposed sensitive credentials across 23,000+ repositories.

By Gyana Swain

Mar 19, 2025 5 mins

Build Automation Data Breach Engineer

SAP introduces Joule for Developers

The AI coding assistant is trained in coding for SAP but is meant to be a helper, not to replace developers.

By Lynn Greiner

Mar 19, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Oracle reveals five new features coming to Java

The Java enhancement proposals include both language enhancements and performance optimizations, starting with a stable values API in JDK 25.

By Paul Krill

Mar 18, 2025 3 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Oracle, Nvidia partner to add AI software into OCI services

The integration will provide developers and enterprises easier access to AI tools, better UI, support, and increased productivity, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 18, 2025 4 mins

Databases

JDK 24: The new features in Java 24

Java 24 arrived today in a production release, packed with two dozen features. It’s a short-term support release eligible for six months of premier support.

By Paul Krill

Mar 18, 2025 13 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Baidu’s ERNIE launches ‘signal a global AI race’

Chinese vendor says its latest foundation models will deliver performance on par with DeepSeek R1 at half the price.

By Paul Barker

Mar 17, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Open Source

GCC 15 compilers move toward completion

C++, Cobol get attention in update due to arrive this spring. C compilation switches to C23 by default.

By Paul Krill

Mar 17, 2025 3 mins

C Language C++ Programming Languages

Thousands of open source projects at risk from hack of GitHub Actions tool

Researchers say compromised tool in the GitHub CI/CD environment stole credentials; infosec leaders need to act immediately.

By Howard Solomon

Mar 17, 2025 5 mins

Data Breach Version Control Systems Vulnerabilities

Attackers attempted hijacking 12,000 GitHub accounts with click-fix alerts

The fake alerts trick users into authorizing a malicious OAuth application capable of a full account takeover.

By Shweta Sharma

Mar 17, 2025 1 min

Engineer Security

Java hiring plans slip, survey says

Only about half of Java shops plan on adding developers in 2025, while use of AI for Java development has soared, per Perforce’s 2005 Developer Productivity Report.

By Paul Krill

Mar 13, 2025 3 mins

Devops Generative AI Java

Gemma 3 supports vision-language inputs and text outputs, handles context windows up to 128k tokens, and understands more than 140 languages.

By Paul Krill

Mar 12, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

GitHub to unbundle Advanced Security

GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security will extend access to advanced code and secret scanning to organizations of all sizes.

By Paul Krill

Mar 12, 2025 2 mins

Application Security Software Development Version Control Systems

At long last, OpenStack (now known as OpenInfra Foundation) joins Linux Foundation

After operating as an independent open-source foundation since 2012, OpenInfra and the OpenStack project are moving to the Linux Foundation.

By Sean Michael Kerner

Mar 12, 2025 1 min

Cloud Computing Open Source

OpenAI takes on rivals with new Responses API, Agents SDK

OpenAI engineers say the new tools will help enterprises more easily build agents with advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 12, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

JavaOne 2025 heralds Java’s 30th birthday

Oracle’s annual Java conference set to showcase the past, present, and future evolution of the Java platform. Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy to keynote.

By Paul Krill

Mar 11, 2025 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Technology Industry

Go-based TypeScript to dramatically improve speed, scalability

Microsoft expects its port of the TypeScript compller, tools, and code base from JavaScript to Go will be completed by the end of 2025.

By Paul Krill

Mar 11, 2025 2 mins

Golang JavaScript TypeScript

Weaviate adds agents to its tech stack to ease gen AI app development

The agents could help developers automate their processes for building AI applications and enable natural language interactions with data.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 11, 2025 4 mins

Development Tools Engineer Generative AI

Fortran, Delphi rise in Tiobe popularity index

The two ‘dinosaur’ languages are competing for a top 10 spot in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. They’re still critical in legacy systems, Tiobe says.

By Paul Krill

Mar 10, 2025 3 mins

Programming Languages Software Development

Databricks’ new updates aim to ease gen AI app and agent development

Analysts view the updates as Databricks’ strategy to get closer to enterprise users and increase stickiness of its offerings.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 10, 2025 6 mins

Data Management Databases Generative AI

Microsoft previews AI chat template for .NET

AI Chat Web App template aims to make AI development in .NET easier with scaffolding and guidance in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and the .NET CLI.

By Paul Krill

Mar 8, 2025 2 mins

C# Generative AI Microsoft .NET