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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

Self-propagating worm found in marketplaces for Visual Studio Code extensions

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading.

By Howard Solomon

Oct 21, 2025 8 mins

Cybercrime Development Tools Malware

.NET 10 RC 2 features .NET MAUI, Android updates

The second .NET 10 release candidate highlights microphone permission for .NET MAUI and supports edge-to-edge display in Android devices.

By Paul Krill

Oct 21, 2025 2 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Mobile Development

Privacy Sandbox discontinues most of its core technologies.

By Maxwell Cooter

Oct 21, 2025 4 mins

Browser Security Endpoint Protection Privacy

Anthropic extends Claude Code to browsers

Preview service allows developers to delegate coding tasks to Claude from their web browsers. The tasks run on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure.

By Paul Krill

Oct 20, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Visual Studio Code taps AI for merge conflict resolution

VS Code 1.105 also introduces a built-in MCP server marketplace and allows users to resume recent Copilot Chat sessions.

By Paul Krill

Oct 20, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers.

By Peter Sayer

Oct 20, 2025 3 mins

Amazon Web Services Databases IaaS

Threat actors are spreading malicious extensions via VS marketplaces

Report from Wiz also says developers are uploading extensions that include access tokens and other secrets.

By Howard Solomon

Oct 17, 2025 9 mins

Cybercrime Development Tools Malware

A mini-CrowdStrike moment? Windows 11 update cripples dev environments

A critical October patch has disrupted many development environments in Windows 11, forcing companies to roll back updates and causing them to question Microsoft’s QA process.

By Taryn Plumb

Oct 17, 2025 7 mins

Software Development

Selective retraining helps AI learn new skills without forgetting, study finds

The approach could transform enterprise AI development by introducing layer-specific retraining that saves both time and cost.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Oct 15, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Oracle debuts Iceberg-compatible Autonomous AI Lakehouse to boost enterprise analytics

The new lakehouse offering marks a significant change in Oracle’s strategy, with the vendor moving from a single-cloud model to recognizing enterprises’ need for flexibility across platforms, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 14, 2025 5 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence

Oracle targets agentic use cases with AI Database 26ai

The latest version of the Oracle database comes with agent builders and MCP Server integration to help developers embed automation into their workflows.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 14, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Management Databases

OpenAI Codex adds SDK, admin tools, Slack integration

OpenAI rolled out several new Codex features in announcing the general availability of its AI coding agent.

By Paul Krill

Oct 10, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Programming Languages

Google’s Jules coding agent adds CLI, API

Jules CLI makes the AI coding agent scriptable, while the Jules API enables integrations into CI/CD pipelines and other workflows.

By Paul Krill

Oct 9, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Starburst pushes lakehouse boundaries with multi-agent AI and unified vector search

The platform’s latest updates enable smarter, more traceable AI workflows and seamless access to diverse vector stores for advanced retrieval tasks.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 9, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Management

Gemini CLI Extensions bring third-party tools into Google’s AI command line

Developers can now access a range of extensions from Google and partners, along with contributions from the open-source community.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Oct 9, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Engineer

Oracle Java Management Service adds application analyzer

New Analyze Applications feature analyzes JAR or WAR files for migrations and JFR recordings for performance optimization. Update also brings task scheduling and Kubernetes support.

By Paul Krill

Oct 8, 2025 2 mins

Application Life Cycle Management Devops Java

React JS library moving from Meta to the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is launching the React Foundation to serve as the home for React, React Native, and supporting technologies.

By Paul Krill

Oct 8, 2025 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Google enhances debugging, performance in Opal, its low-code AI-based app builder

Opal is being rolled out to 15 countries, including Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, and Colombia.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 8, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

With Arduino deal, Qualcomm pushes deeper into open-source and edge AI development

The chipmaker’s acquisition brings its Dragonwing-powered board and new AppLab development environment to a 33 million–strong open-source community.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Oct 8, 2025 5 mins

Engineer Open Source Technology Industry

JetBrains Amper build tool adds Compose Hot Reload

Compose Hot Reload automatically loads UI code changes in Compose Multiplatform apps, allowing developers to see the results instantly without requiring an application restart.

By Paul Krill

Oct 7, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Java Kotlin

IBM integrates Anthropic Claude into AI IDE and other tools

IBM-Anthropic partinership aims to accelerate the development of enterprise AI applications, while incorporating security, governance, and cost controls.

By Paul Krill

Oct 7, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Google DeepMind launches an AI agent to fix code vulnerabilities automatically

CodeMender aims to help developers keep pace with AI-powered vulnerability discovery by automatically patching security flaws.

By Gyana Swain

Oct 7, 2025 1 min

Engineer Generative AI Security

ChatGPT to evolve into an AI operating system as OpenAI opens doors to third-party apps

With its new Apps SDK built on the Model Context Protocol, developers can build data-connected apps that live within ChatGPT.

By Nidhi Singal

Oct 7, 2025 4 mins

Engineer Generative AI

C, C++, Java vie for second place in language popularity

First-place Python extends its lead while C# also gathers steam in the October 2025 Tiobe index of programming language popularity.

By Paul Krill

Oct 6, 2025 3 mins

C Language C# C++

IBM launches Granite 4.0 to cut AI infra costs with hybrid Mamba-transformer models

Built for long-context tasks and edge deployments, Granite 4.0 combines Mamba’s linear scaling with transformer precision, offering enterprises lower memory usage, faster inference, and ISO 42001-certified trust.

By Gyana Swain

Oct 3, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft unveils framework for building agentic AI apps

Open-source Microsoft Agent Framework allows developers to build complex multi-agent workflows using .NET or Python, according to the company.

By Paul Krill

Oct 2, 2025 2 mins

Generative AI Microsoft .NET Python

Chainguard offers malware-resistant JavaScript libraries

Responding to recent NPM malware attacks, Chainguard Libraries for JavaScript seeks to address security vulnerabilities in the JavaScript ecosystem.

By Paul Krill

Oct 2, 2025 2 mins

Application Security JavaScript Web Development

Claude Sonnet 4.5 coding model improves agentic capabilities

New release of Anthropic’s coding model offers greater context awareness, enhanced tool usage, and extended autonomous operations, according to the company.

By Paul Krill

Oct 1, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Microsoft .NET Aspire backs .NET 10 file-based apps

Latest update to Microsoft’s cloud-native application framework allows developers to define an entire distributed application in a single apphost.cs file.

By Paul Krill

Oct 1, 2025 3 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Safe C++ proposal for memory safety flames out

Work on the Safe C++ extensions proposal has been abandoned in favor of safety profiles advocated by C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup.

By Paul Krill

Sep 30, 2025 3 mins

C++ Programming Languages Software Development

JavaFX 25 previews JavaFX controls in title bars

Preview feature in latest update of the Java client application platform defines a Stage style that allows applications to place scene graph nodes in the header bar area.

By Paul Krill

Sep 29, 2025 3 mins

Java Libraries and Frameworks Open Source

From answer engine to infrastructure: Perplexity launches Search API for developers

The new Search API is the latest in a series of rollouts as Perplexity angles to position itself as a leader in the nascent AI-powered search engine space.

By Taryn Plumb

Sep 26, 2025 6 mins

APIs Artificial Intelligence Development Tools

Microsoft Marketplace opens for AI apps, agents

The unified storefront provides a platform for customers to try out and buy solutions, bridging the gap where AI adoption requires a mix of third-party and in-house tools.

By Paul Krill

Sep 25, 2025 2 mins

Generative AI Microsoft .NET Microsoft Azure

GitHub Copilot-backed app modernization available for Java, .NET

GitHub Copilot app modernization is intended to let developers focus on building while AI handles legacy code updates.

By Paul Krill

Sep 25, 2025 1 min

Development Tools Java Microsoft .NET

Google releases MCP server to Data Commons public data sets

MCP Server enables AI agents to handle a full range of data-driven queries of Data Commons data sources, from initial discovery to generative reports, Google said.

By Paul Krill

Sep 24, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Open source registries signal shift toward paid models as AI strains infrastructure

Eight major foundations warn that the donation-based model for critical infrastructure is breaking down.

By Gyana Swain

Sep 24, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Open Source

GraalVM 25 arrives, backed by JDK 25

Enhancements include improved Native Image configuration and polyglot runtime updates for Python, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.

By Paul Krill

Sep 24, 2025 3 mins

Java JavaScript Python

QR codes become the vehicle for malware in new technique

A newly-discovered malicious package with layers of obfuscation is disguised as a utility library, with malware essentially hiding in plain sight in embedded QR codes.

By Taryn Plumb

Sep 23, 2025 4 mins

Development Tools Malware Version Control Systems

Teradata taps open source frameworks to offer agent-building capabilities

The new agent building capabilities are expected to be made available in private preview by the end of the year.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 23, 2025 4 mins

Generative AI

GitHub introduces registry for finding MCP servers

GitHub MCP Registry makes Model Context Protocol servers with GitHub repos discoverable from Visual Studio Code.

By Paul Krill

Sep 22, 2025 2 mins

Generative AI Software Development

Web Codegen Scorer evaluates AI-generated web code

Google’s Angular team has open-sourced a tool that evaluates the quality of web code generated by LLMs. It works with any web library or framework.

By Paul Krill

Sep 22, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Web Development

Rust 1.90 brings workspace publishing support to Cargo

Rust developers now can automatically publish all crates in a workspace in the correct order, without manually ordering individual publishes.

By Paul Krill

Sep 19, 2025 2 mins

Apple Programming Languages Rust

Wasm 3.0 adds 64-bit backing, language support

WebAssembly 3.0 adds support for compiling high-level programming languages, with 64-bit address spacing and the ability to declare multiple memories, among other improvements.

By Paul Krill

Sep 19, 2025 3 mins

Java Kotlin Scala

Replit update sparks developers’ dissatisfaction over pricing

Replit CEO has acknowledged the issues and said that the company was actively working to resolve them.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 19, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

AI Alliance forges agent-native language, knowledge base

Dana is an AI agent-native language and runtime to empower intent-driven development. Other projects include an AI-native wiki for creating shared human-agent knowledge bases.

By Paul Krill

Sep 18, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Programming Languages

San Francisco AI technology conference draws protests

Protesters including Stop AI and Uber and Lyft rideshare drivers called for government bans and regulations on AI to address dangers to jobs, information, climate, and human existence.

By Paul Krill

Sep 18, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Technology Industry

MongoDB adds vector search to self-managed editions to power generative AI apps

With vector search now available in Enterprise Server and Community Edition, enterprises can streamline AI development and reduce operational overhead by avoiding fragmented stacks and external search engines.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 17, 2025 3 mins

Databases

Visual Studio 2026 doubles down on AI-assisted coding

The first preview of Visual Studio 2026, with deeper GitHub Copilot AI integration, is available through Microsoft’s new Insiders channel.

By Paul Krill

Sep 16, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

JDK 25: The new features in Java 25

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally available.

By Paul Krill

Sep 16, 2025 13 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development