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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

Microsoft adds Graph and Maps to Fabric to empower agentic applications

A new MCP Server for Fabric has also been added to enable developers to connect agents to Fabric’s ecosystem to accelerate tasks, such as creating a data pipeline or notebook.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 16, 2025 5 mins

Data Management Generative AI

Survey pinpoints Rust compiler pain points

Although many users are satisfied with Rust build performance, a significant fraction of users report that slow builds and rebuilds in several common workflows are a ‘big problem’ for them.

By Paul Krill

Sep 15, 2025 3 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Databricks at a crossroads: Can its AI strategy prevail without Naveen Rao?

Will the company falter in its expansion plans amid intensifying competition from rivals like Snowflake?

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 13, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Kotlin 2.2.20 boosts WebAssembly support

Latest update of the popular JetBrains programming language features a Kotlin/Wasm beta and Kotlin Multiplatform, Kotlin/Native, and Kotlin/JS improvements.

By Paul Krill

Sep 12, 2025 2 mins

Kotlin Programming Languages Web Development

VS Code 1.104 emphasizes AI model selection, agent security

The latest update to Microsoft’s code editor previews an automatic model selection capability and improvements to agent security.

By Paul Krill

Sep 11, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

JFrog announces ‘agentic repo’ for AI-driven development

JFrog Fly offers small development teams an AI-driven development experience tightly integrated with GitHub and native AI tools like GitHub Copilot, JFrog said.

By Paul Krill

Sep 10, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

.NET 10 moves to release candidate stage

Capabilities for post-quantum cryptography and ASP.NET Core Identity metrics highlight latest update to Microsoft’s app dev platform.

By Paul Krill

Sep 10, 2025 3 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

When AI nukes your database: The dark side of vibe coding

As developers lean on Copilot and GhostWriter, experts warn of insecure defaults, hallucinated dependencies, and attacks that slip past traditional defenses.

By Shweta Sharma

Sep 9, 2025 1 min

Engineer Generative AI Security

Perl programming language rises again – Tiobe

Resurgence may be due to Perl 5 now being viewed as the ‘real’ Perl after decades of confusion over Perl 6, Tiobe exec says.

By Paul Krill

Sep 8, 2025 3 mins

Programming Languages Software Development

Groovy 5 expands Java and JDK support

Latest release of the JVM language also features hundreds of new and improved extension methods including 10x faster arrays.

By Paul Krill

Sep 8, 2025 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Google intros EmbeddingGemma for on-device AI

The multilingual text embedding model suitable for retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search runs on less than 200MB of RAM with quantization.

By Paul Krill

Sep 8, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Mobile Development

Databricks adds Data Science Agent to automate analytics tasks

The new agent upgrades the Databricks Assistant, enabling it to help data practitioners complete repetitive tasks and troubleshoot errors.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 5, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Science Generative AI

Rust Innovation Lab launched, sponsors first project

Citing a growing need for for neutral, community-led governance, the foundation announced Rustls as its inaugural supported project.

By Paul Krill

Sep 5, 2025 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

PostgreSQL 18 to boost OLTP performance, but misses AI readiness

The upcoming release adds asynchronous I/O and UUID v7 for faster transactions, yet lacks features to support HTAP and agentic AI workloads.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 5, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases

Swiss launch open source AI model as “ethical” alternative to big US LLMs

Open-source ‘Apertus’ LLM could appeal to enterprises struggling to meet the privacy and copyright demands of AI regulation.

By John E. Dunn

Sep 4, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model advances AI image generation

Available via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, as well as Vertex AI for enterprise, the image generation and editing tool leverages generative AI capabilities.

By Paul Krill

Sep 4, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Devops Generative AI

Neo4j unveils Infinigraph to merge OLTP and OLAP for Agentic AI

The new distributed graph architecture promises unified transactional and analytical processing, enabling enterprises to scale real-time decision-making for autonomous workflows.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 4, 2025 3 mins

Databases

Zoneless Angular arrives in Angular 20.2

Supplemental point release improvements to the Angular web framework include production-ready zoneless APIs and a new experimental MCP server.

By Paul Krill

Sep 3, 2025 2 mins

JavaScript TypeScript Web Development

OpenAI acquires Statsig to speed up generative AI-based product launches

Statsig is also expected to play a critical role in expediting the iteration of existing products such as Codex and ChatGPT as rivals aggressively vie for more market share.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 3, 2025 3 mins

Generative AI Technology Industry

Senior developers let AI do more of the coding — survey

More than half of code shipped by senior developers could be AI generated, according to survey findings.

By Paul Krill

Sep 2, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Google to add developer verification requirement for Android apps

Scheduled for rollout starting in September 2026, the program aims to restrict malware distribution by requiring developer verification for apps installed on Android devices.

By Paul Krill

Sep 2, 2025 2 mins

Malware Mobile Development Mobile Security

Microsoft signals shift from OpenAI with launch of first in-house AI models for Copilot

MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview models will be used to power consumer applications.

By John E. Dunn

Aug 29, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

OpenAI adds MCP and SIP support to gpt-realtime for smarter voice-based agents

The new API features will help enterprises build autonomous, multimodal voice agents with remote tool access, PBX integration, and enhanced context awareness.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 29, 2025 3 mins

Generative AI

The era of cheap AI coding assistants may be over

With GPU shortages and high model costs keeping prices sticky, CIOs must treat vibe coding tools as a core productivity expense rather than a bargain add-on.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 29, 2025 5 mins

Engineer Generative AI

JetBrains updates Kotlin-based AI agent development framework

Koog 0.4.0 adds native structured output, support for Apple iOS platform and GPT-5 models.

By Paul Krill

Aug 28, 2025 2 mins

Generative AI Kotlin Libraries and Frameworks

Gemini CLI integrates with Zed for AI-powered coding

The integration brings together the Gemini CLI and Zed, a high-performance, Rust-based code editor.

By Paul Krill

Aug 28, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

Wave of npm supply chain attacks exposes thousands of enterprise developer credentials

Attacks on the NX build system and React packages highlight escalating threats to enterprise software development pipelines.

By Gyana Swain

Aug 28, 2025 5 mins

Application Security JavaScript

MariaDB buys back the company it sold two years ago

Acquires SkySQL, returning its DBaaS platform to the product portfolio.

By Paul Barker

Aug 26, 2025 4 mins

Databases Open Source

Microsoft unveils Proxy 4 library for polymorphic coding in C++

Library for runtime polymorphism adds reusable building blocks for composing facades, aliases for non-owning and weak references, and new helpers for creating shared and weak proxies.

By Paul Krill

Aug 26, 2025 2 mins

C++ Programming Languages Software Development

Critical Docker Desktop flaw allows container escape

Missing authentication on the Docker Engine management API for Docker Desktop on Windows and Mac allows attackers to break out from containers and potentially execute malicious code on the underlying host system.

By Lucian Constantin

Aug 26, 2025 4 mins

DevSecOps Kubernetes and Containers Security

Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to drive agentic AI

The new data lakehouse is billed as a single platform for multiple use cases including transactional, agentic, decision support, model training and tuning, and more.

By Lynn Greiner

Aug 26, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Warehousing

Broadcom and Canonical expand partnership, promising accelerated innovation

The combination of VMware Cloud Foundation and Ubuntu Pro offers enterprise-grade container-based and AI applications.

By Lynn Greiner

Aug 26, 2025 2 mins

Kubernetes and Containers Private Cloud

Visual Studio Code update auto-starts MCP servers

Latest release of Microsoft’s code editor also adds support for Git worktrees and the ability to checkpoint and restore different states of Copilot chat conversations.

By Paul Krill

Aug 25, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Databricks buys Tecton to give context to AI agents

The acquisition will enable enterprises to build agents that can leverage real-time data to make better decisions while acting autonomously, the company said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 25, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Warehousing

Microsoft adds MCP support to Visual Studio to boost development of agentic applications

However, approach with caution: MCP servers are increasingly becoming a new way to hijack systems or launch cyberattacks, research shows.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 22, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Anthropic adds Claude Code to its Claude enterprise plans

Analysts see the move as a strategy to increase traction for Claude Code as enterprises scale adoption of AI-based coding agents.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 21, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

GitHub launches Copilot agents panel on GitHub.com

Agents panel allows developers to delegate coding tasks to Copilot from anywhere on the GitHub platform. Agents work in the background and return a draft pull request.

By Paul Krill

Aug 21, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Version Control Systems

JRebel Enterprise speeds configuration, code updates for cloud-based Java development

Software for enterprise Java development teams enables incremental code changes to Java applications, eliminating the need to redeploy entire applications for updates during development.

By Paul Krill

Aug 20, 2025 2 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Java

AWS blames bug for Kiro pricing glitch that drained developer limits

A bug in AWS’ agentic IDE, Kiro, caused tasks to consume multiple requests, leading to the rapid exhaustion of usage limits and developer frustration just days after a pricing overhaul.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 20, 2025 5 mins

Amazon Web Services Engineer Generative AI

.NET 10 Preview 7 adds XAML generator

Latest .NET 10 preview also features improved SQL translation in Entity Framework Core and a WebSocketStream API that simplifies common WebSocket scenarios.

By Paul Krill

Aug 19, 2025 3 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Go language previews performance-boosting garbage collector

Experimental garbage collector is expected to reduce garbage collection overhead between 10% and 40% in programs that rely heavily on garbage collection.

By Paul Krill

Aug 18, 2025 4 mins

Golang Programming Languages Software Development

Google adds VM monitoring to Database Center amid enterprise demand

The latest update brings oversight of self-managed databases, Gemini-powered insights, and expanded historical comparisons.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 18, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Management

Claude Sonnet 4 upgrade enables full codebase processing in a single request

The upgrade could reshape developer workflows while raising new risks around security, compliance, and IP.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Aug 13, 2025 3 mins

Engineer Generative AI

Rubrik unveils ‘undo button’ for AI agent mistakes

Agent Rewind provides visibility into agent actions and an audit trail that allows enterprises to undo agent mistakes by rewinding changes to applications and data, Rubrik said.

By Paul Krill

Aug 12, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data and Information Security Generative AI

Rust 1.89 underscores arguments to const generics

Latest version of fast and safe programming language supports ‘_’ as an argument to const generic parameters, inferring the value from surrounding context.

By Paul Krill

Aug 11, 2025 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Google rolls out AI coding tool for GitHub repos

Gemini CLI GitHub Actions can prioritize incoming issues and review pull requests for quality, style, and correctness, Google said.

By Paul Krill

Aug 7, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Version Control Systems

Anthropic targets DevSecOps with Claude Code update as AI rivals gear up

With GPT-5 on the horizon and Meta ramping up AI hiring, Anthropic’s new security-focused features aim to differentiate Claude in the increasingly crowded GenAI coding space.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Aug 7, 2025 5 mins

Engineer Generative AI Security

Google updates agents in BigQuery to further automate analytics tasks

Also adds a new code interpreter to its conversational analytics agent in Looker to help business users perform more complex data analytics in natural language.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 6, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Science Data Warehousing

TypeScript 5.9 arrives with deferred module evaluation, expandable hovers

Deferred module evaluation imports a module without immediately executing the module and its dependencies, avoiding unnecessary CPU work during initialization.

By Paul Krill

Aug 6, 2025 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages TypeScript