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AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime

Suitable for running untrusted code, AI agents, or any long-running task

Vercel debuts eve open source agent framework, tries to fix shadow AI with Passport

Cost premium of using AWS indirectly via Vercel is mitigated by more efficient use of compute resources, CTO claims

Git good with Epic Games' new open source VCS, Lore

Got big binaries? Tired of other version control systems that treat them like inferior files? Lore might be worth a look

AWS hypes continuous agentic DevOps, puts Kiro in your pocket

Trust is the biggest barrier to AI adoption, says AI chief, claiming that new features in Bedrock AgentCore will prevent bad outcomes

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Wooden blocks with the letters L, I, N, U and X on a white background.

Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more

Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us

Java's Project Valhalla finally lands a preview in JDK 28

Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release

Hand-cranked AI box lets you get a workout while you wait for answers

We're all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank-powered AIs?

Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own

Blending containers and VMs but some features half-baked

Camouflaged soldier holding a hand grenade with both hands outdoors.

GitHub pulls pin on npm's auto-run scripts

Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors

An open brass padlock with a bent shackle on a dark tabletop.

Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway

Pressure to deploy wins out over security as four in five orgs confess to breaches from vulnerable apps

Apple courts developers with privacy and context in AI comeback bid

Apple Intelligence stumbled through 2024 and 2025. It's starting to look respectable

Python JIT compiler project under threat after steering council says proper process wasn't followed

No new features to be submitted to main branch, existing code removed in 6 months if new proposal not created and accepted

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TypeScript devs no longer need to tangle with C# to use Aspire dev stack after Microsoft update

Aspire is a powerful tool for developers but not well understood – and pure TypeScript AppHost may broaden its appeal

Remote work – not AI – is killing job prospects for the youth

Young professionals may be perfectly productive while working from home, says the New York Fed, but the quality of their output isn't so great, so companies don't want to hire them

Robot waiter delivering a plate of food to a diner in a modern restaurant.

Agentic AI arrives for Delphi and C++ Builder

Kai is an extension for RAD Studio (Delphi and C++ Builder) that integrates with external AI providers

GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended'

Another day, another GitHub wobble - but the service keeps growing

Close-up of C sharp code with binary numbers.

Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust

Unsafe bits get a warning label in planned low-level coding shake-up

Threat hunters find Google API keys still usable 23 minutes after deletion

Plenty of time for cyber crims to grab data or hit you with a giant bill

Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and they worry it's after their desk too

Most software engineers now use AI for most of their code and fear the existential threat

Bye-bye, Gemini CLI; Google's gone and swapped you for a closed-source AI

Most users lose access June 18 - unless you’ve got enterprise creds or paid API keys

Red padlock lying across laptop keyboard keys.

GitHub says internal repos exfiltrated after poisoned VS Code extension attack

Initial assessment says customer data spared while users wonder what else may have slipped out

Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller

Well, page is more accurate, but the source code is available if you want to try doing something even crazier

TanStack weighs invitation-only pull requests after supply chain attack

Shai-Hulud worm exploited GitHub Actions misconfiguration to poison shared cache, now project weighing nuclear option on unsolicited contributions

Google reimburses Register sources who were victims of API fraud

But it's holding fast on auto-expanding customers' budgets

Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami

An influx of agents is pushing GitHub to the brink

Grad-to-be turns graduation cap into Rust-powered light show

Eric Park tells us he doesn't plan to wear his modified cap to commencement, but his code's available for anyone with no such qualms and an upcoming ceremony

Anthropic’s Bun Rust rewrite merged at speed of AI

Version 1.3.14 of JavaScript toolkit released as last Zig version; a million lines of Rust code merged in gargantuan commit

Microsoft aims to speed Windows with 'leap forward' in WinUI 3 perf

Bittersweet post tells devs what they already knew: The framework is too slow

A woman looks at her smartphone and credit card asking for refunds

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

'What the hell is going on? It's just draining my money'

Cache-poisoning caper turns TanStack npm packages toxic

Six-minute supply chain blitz pushed 84 malicious versions with credential theft and disk-wiping code

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A robotic hand interacts with a code display, illustrating AI-assisted software development.

GitLab promises a different kind of layoff as biz pivots toward AI

Code hosting biz is trimming its global footprint and flattening its management layer

Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line

Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers

Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released

JIT compiler much improved, but no reinstatement for leaky incremental garbage collector

Software developers work at dual monitors in a glass-walled office

Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged

Cybercrooks ruin engineers' weekends with Saturday attack

Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs

The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams

White head silhouette with blue C++ letters on a yellow background.

C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply

Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations

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Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help

Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations

Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents

Always bet on backpropagation

Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked

Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future

Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port

It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho

Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines

This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows

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Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool

Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor

GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain

After Hashicorp co-founder blasts the source shack and numbers slide

Anush Elangovan, corporate VP of software for AMD, at AI Dev x 26

The future of software development: Now with less software development

At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI

IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability

80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags

Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis

The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database

Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding

OpenTelemetry co-founder tools up for project graduation party

We gotta get boring to get graduated

Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter

System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline

Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: 'I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code'

Legit-looking website, camera-on interviews, jokes about backdoors ... it worked

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Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain

Rising refusal rate from Acceptable Use Classifier leaves customers paying for nothing

Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar

Down to you to work out the value

GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not

Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement

Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad

Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet

Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot

Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security

Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan

Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone

Apple has an opportunity to rediscover humanity in its push toward AI

John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have been

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch

Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us.

Using the Gemini agent and Android CLI to build an application

New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans

Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowball

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in

We've been here before. This time, we may not get out

Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus

Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director

Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale

Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed

Concept illustration of a AI system trying to understand art and design

Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams

The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model

Screenshot of Chrome's 'Aw, snap!' error message

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283

Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software

Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers

Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform

Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal

Large organizations pushed toward metered pricing

Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits

Repair of bug that undercounted token usage leads to rapid exhaustion of subscription allowance

Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work

Here comes 'enterprise vibe coding' as CRM giant aims to open development to anyone on the platform

GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs

Long-familiar workflow lets developers split big code changes into smaller, easier-to-review chunks

Experts and laypeople agree: AI will hurt elections and relationships

Latest report from Stanford's AI boffins finds unsafe usage practices, widespread anxiety about impacts, and China catching up to the USA