AWS backs Open VSX as Rust survey shows VS Code decline
AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market
Devops03 Mar 2026 | 3
Devops
Generic methods arrive in Golang, but they weren't the top dev demand
Approved proposal reverses earlier stance, even as survey highlights bigger frustrations
Devops02 Mar 2026 | 13
Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware
Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic
Security25 Feb 2026 | 4
Meta frees React to live in its own foundation
Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governance
Devops25 Feb 2026 |
Go library maintainer brands GitHub's Dependabot a 'noise machine'
When a one-line fix triggers thousands of PRs, something's off
Devops24 Feb 2026 | 15
Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs
Russinovich and Hanselman say firms must train juniors to fix agent mistakes – not replace them with prompts
Devops23 Feb 2026 | 41
Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS
Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls'
PaaS + IaaS20 Feb 2026 | 31
From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding
Security is 'dangerously behind' though, as devs 'treat it as something to solve later'
Devops20 Feb 2026 | 15
Agile Manifesto turns 25 – just in time for vibe coding to test it
Interview Co-author Jon Kern says AI coding tools amplify strengths and expose weaknesses
Devops19 Feb 2026 | 80
Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better
Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up
AI + ML17 Feb 2026 | 61
React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components
Not everyone's convinced React belongs on the server as well as in the browser
Devops17 Feb 2026 | 5
Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware
Repo mirrors now open for business
Devops17 Feb 2026 | 13
GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept
Won't replace traditional CI/CD – and still in early development – so use 'at your own risk'
Devops17 Feb 2026 | 4
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
The software doesn't show what files it's working on
Devops16 Feb 2026 | 57
AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request
Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way
AI + ML12 Feb 2026 | 58
GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
Slowdowns, outages, and Copilot problems afflict code shack
Devops10 Feb 2026 | 39
VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files
Versions installed via Snap don't delete files when users empty system trash
Devops04 Feb 2026 | 43
Phones down, brooms up: HashiCorp co-founder lectures business hopefuls
Stock management also important, says Mitchell Hashimoto
Offbeat30 Jan 2026 | 9
Java developers want container security, just not the job that comes with it
BellSoft survey finds 48% prefer pre‑hardened images over managing vulnerabilities themselves
Devops30 Jan 2026 | 17
'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour
Feature Developer behind it is sick with worry he might have changed software development in nasty ways
Agentic AI27 Jan 2026 | 155
Popular
Iran's cyberwar has begun
'Expect elevated activity for the foreseeable future'
South Korea’s tax office apologizes for leaking seed phrase to seized crypto
Went from triumph at having busted tax dodgers to embarrassment at losing the proceeds
AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war
Asia In brief PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia’s WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more!
UK government's Vulnerability Monitoring System is working - fixes flow far faster
Infosec In Brief PLUS: Firefox adds XSS protection; Leadership turnover at CISA; FTC exempts some data collection
Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports
New ThinkPads also come in blue, get perfect fixability score
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction
Who, Me? Oh, the contortions required to debug strange errors!
AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions
UPDATED Multiple zones Middle East in UAE disrupted, with water damage complicating recovery
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go
Browser-based version back on the menu, reopening questions about TDF's relationship with Collabora
Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality
A handy feature you can already try in recent versions
OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic
Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he’s kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrails
STORIES
How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C
feature Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI
Devops26 Jan 2026 | 50
How an experienced developer teamed up with Claude to create Elo programming language
feature Bernard Lambeau, the human half of a pair programming team, explains how he's using AI
Devops24 Jan 2026 | 40
IBM's AI agent Bob easily duped to run malware, researchers show
Prompt injection lets risky commands slip past guardrails
Security07 Jan 2026 | 14
GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners
updated Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.
Devops17 Dec 2025 | 50
Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card
Paris Buttfield-Addison literally wrote books on Swift
Devops15 Dec 2025 | 160
Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons
Devops02 Dec 2025 | 41
PostHog admits Shai-Hulud 2.0 was its biggest ever security bungle
Automation flaw in CI/CD workflow let a bad pull request unleash worm into npm
Devops28 Nov 2025 | 8
Software engineer reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don't save much time
Feature 'Stay in control and think for yourself'
Software14 Nov 2025 | 131
Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere
Faster and easier to use but adopting the dev stack not without risks
Software12 Nov 2025 | 7
Deploying to Amazon's cloud is a pain in the AWS younger devs won't tolerate
They have no need to prove their bonafides
Devops04 Nov 2025 | 52
Docker Compose vulnerability opens door to host-level writes – patch pronto
Windows Desktop installer also fixed after DLL hijack flaw rated 8.8 severity
Patches30 Oct 2025 | 3
India to dethrone US for dev numbers as AI reshapes coding, says GitHub
TypeScript was ranked top programming language
Software29 Oct 2025 | 13
Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached
Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped
Devops27 Oct 2025 | 73
Is PHP declining? JetBrains says yes. And no
24,500 devs polled, two blog posts, one confusion
Devops21 Oct 2025 | 38
Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge
DevOps guru and ex-Googler say vibes beat reading diffs but there are risks
AI + ML21 Oct 2025 | 47
Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day
That's 46 minutes in which more work can be done, not an extended lunch
AI + ML20 Oct 2025 | 129
Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'
Taps Ruby core to oversee RubyGems, Bundler
Devops18 Oct 2025 | 24
Microsoft kills 9.9-rated ASP.NET Core bug – 'our highest ever' score
Flaw in Kestrel web server allowed request smuggling, impact depends on hosting setup and application code
Security16 Oct 2025 | 3
AI startup Augment scraps 'unsustainable' pricing, users say new model is 10x worse
Second huge increase in six months sees some devs heading for the exit
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 25
Bun 1.3 stuffs everything and kitchen sink into JS runtime
All-in-one toolkit or over-ambitious feature creep? You decide
Devops13 Oct 2025 | 5
Meta will move React to Linux Foundation to address vendor dominance fears
Independent technical governance will hope to unite fractured ecosystem
Devops09 Oct 2025 | 5
Python releases version 3.14 – with cautious free-threaded support
JIT compiler included but experimental and can slow performance
Devops08 Oct 2025 | 18
OpenAI tells developers ChatGPT is ready to be their gatekeeper
Integrate your apps via their Apps SDK and maybe they'll send you some business
AI + ML06 Oct 2025 | 6
Kicked from RubyGems, maintainers forge new home at Gem Cooperative
gem.coop server promises continuity after Ruby Central’s takeover of key repos
Devops06 Oct 2025 | 47
Red Hat fesses up to GitLab breach after attackers brag of data theft
Open source giant admits intruders broke into dedicated consulting instance, but insists core products untouched
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2025 | 5
JetBrains wants to train AI models on your code snippets
Dangles free product licenses in return for code-related data for its training
Software01 Oct 2025 | 11
Socket will block it with free malicious package firewall
"sfw" stands for Socket Firewall, but perhaps also "safe for work."
Devops30 Sep 2025 | 10
IBM killing mainframe coding kit for PCs this year
Linux-based System z emulator will go away on Dec. 31, replaced by cloud-based solution from ISVs
Devops30 Sep 2025 | 15
Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts
Ruby Central is accused of ousting maintainers from core gems under pressure from Shopify
Devops25 Sep 2025 | 18
Google-sponsored DORA report reframes AI as central to software development
Most organizations use AI in dev, the question now is how to use it properly, claims report
Devops24 Sep 2025 | 18
AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs
Tried by two-thirds of firms, ignored by most devs, and productivity barely moved
Devops23 Sep 2025 | 63
GitHub moves to tighten npm security amid phishing, malware plague
Hundreds of compromised packages pulled as registry shifts to 2FA and trusted publishing
Security23 Sep 2025 | 7
RubyGems maintainer quits after Ruby Central takes control of project
Long-time contributor Ellen Dash steps down after GitHub access shake-up and governance dispute
Devops22 Sep 2025 | 28
Atlassian drops $1B on company that helps measure dev productivity
Aussie CEO promises AI everywhere, and clearer views of what your devs are up to
Devops18 Sep 2025 | 19
Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns
It's worst when going over older code, one user tells us
Devops18 Sep 2025 | 34
Overmind bags $6M to predict deployment blast radius before the explosion
Exclusive Startup slots into CI/CD pipelines to warn engineers when a change could wreck production
Devops16 Sep 2025 | 10
Atlassian's move to cloud-only means customers face integration issues and more
First, server products go end of life, now datacenter gets the chop, and larger customers will pay more
Devops09 Sep 2025 | 50
Linus has had enough of links that point to 'stupid useless garbage'
'Stop this garbage already!'
OSes08 Sep 2025 | 44
Dev snared in crypto phishing net, 18 npm packages compromised
Popular npm packages debug, chalk, and others hijacked in massive supply chain attack
Security08 Sep 2025 | 8
Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features
Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting options
Devops05 Sep 2025 | 72
Microsoft inches toward Rusty Windows drivers, production use still a no-no
Crates, cargo-wdk, and kernel hooks show progress, but hurdles remain
Devops04 Sep 2025 | 26
Programmers: you have to watch your weight, too
opinion We are drowning in code, but at least some folks are swimming
Devops30 Aug 2025 | 105
GitHub engineer claims team was 'coerced' to put Grok into Copilot
Platform's staffer complains security review was 'rushed'
Devops29 Aug 2025 | 23
Google and Zed push protocol to pry AI agents out of VS Code's clutches
Because not every bot wants to live inside Microsoft's walled garden
AI + ML28 Aug 2025 | 3
Bun JS toolkit adds MySQL driver, secrets API, YAML, and more
Feature bloat, or added value for this JavaScript toolkit?
Devops27 Aug 2025 |
Nx NPM packages poisoned in AI-assisted supply chain attack
Stolen dev credentials posted to GitHub as attackers abuse CLI tools for recon
Devops27 Aug 2025 | 2
Docker Desktop bug let containers hop the fence with barely a nudge
Isolation? We've heard of it
Devops26 Aug 2025 | 5
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp
Hands on Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PC
AI + ML24 Aug 2025 | 7
Python survey shows growth even as Foundation funding falters
But 3.13 adoption lags as most devs stick with earlier releases
Devops19 Aug 2025 | 18
AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy'
Updated Amazon giant blames pricing bug after updated plans way more expensive than initially suggested
AI + ML18 Aug 2025 | 29
Codeberg beset by AI bots that now bypass Anubis tarpit
Nowhere to hide
Devops15 Aug 2025 | 27
GitHub head ankles as Microsoft takes biz by the hand
Code hosting biz takes a back seat within Microsoft's CoreAI division
Devops11 Aug 2025 | 17
GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI
Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React
Devops07 Aug 2025 | 59
NIST discovers DevSecOps, thinks world should really check this out
What's next - gonna tell us it's time to migrate to Windows 8?
Devops31 Jul 2025 | 2
AWS Lambda loves charging for idle time: Vercel claims it found a way to dodge the bill
Startup’s workaround reuses stuck compute slots to rein in runaway function costs
Devops31 Jul 2025 | 12
Not pretty, not Windows-only: npm phishing attack laces popular packages with malware
The "is" package was infected with cross-platform malware after a scam targeting maintainers
Security24 Jul 2025 | 10
GitHub command palette wins stay of execution after dev pushback
Fans say low usage no surprise when obscure but beloved feature disabled by default
Devops22 Jul 2025 | 3
AWS slaps usage caps on Kiro as AI editor preview proves too popular for its own good
'Actually not terrible' says industry watcher Corey Quinn – but pricing plans have disappeared
AI + ML21 Jul 2025 | 2
Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore
AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things
AI + ML21 Jul 2025 | 144
Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years
Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open source
Devops15 Jul 2025 | 45
Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages
'Memory vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure,' say CISA and NSA
Devops27 Jun 2025 | 46
CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on 'black box' code from AIs
interview Learning from the lessons of the past
Devops25 Jun 2025 | 11
New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers
Welcome to bill shock, AI style
Devops20 Jun 2025 | 39
Cisco returns to load balancing market as it chases VMware refugees
Cisco Live Uses eBPF, which both Google and Meta have proven out at scale
Devops11 Jun 2025 | 2
HashiCorp speaks up about adjusting to life under IBM
Freshly acquired cloud darling talks mainframes, Ansible, and influencing Big Blue at HashiDays event
Devops05 Jun 2025 | 7
Anthropic Claude 4 models a little more willing than before to blackmail some users
Open the pod bay door
AI + ML22 May 2025 | 21
AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics
Column Being human and working on a team is the job, not writing code
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 73
Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love
Google I/O Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 6
Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
Cursor, Codium makers lose access as add-on goes exclusive
Devops24 Apr 2025 | 69
Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy
Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to
int main(enter the void)...
AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 24
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
AI Software Development Week12 Apr 2025 | 98
Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs
Cloud Next Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure
AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 18
Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in
Cloud Next Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though
AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 5
DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale
Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky
Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 67
That massive GitHub supply chain attack? It all started with a stolen SpotBugs token
But this mystery isn't over yet, Unit 42 opines
Devops07 Apr 2025 | 7
Public-facing Kubernetes clusters at risk of takeover thanks to Ingress-Nginx flaw
How many K8s systems are sat on the internet front porch like that ... Oh, thousands, apparently
Patches25 Mar 2025 | 1
Show top LLMs some code and they'll merrily add in the bugs they saw in training
One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out
AI + ML19 Mar 2025 | 33
IBM likes Hashicorp, finally puts a $6.4B ring on it
Monopoly watchdogs forever hold their peace, unlike developers still unhappy about Terraform license switch
Devops28 Feb 2025 | 9
Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o
Updated Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity
AI + ML27 Feb 2025 | 127
Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs
Uncle Sam's number-crunchers warn lawyers, customer service reps to brace for change, say techies will be fine
Databases25 Feb 2025 | 11
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