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Microsoft’s planned TypeScript 7.0 release, an effort to improve performance, memory usage, and parallelism by porting the TypeScript language service and compiler to native code, has made significant progress, Microsoft reports. A planned TypeScript 6.0 release, meanwhile, will be the last JavaScript -based version of TypeScript, bridging the current TypeScript 5.9 release to TypeScript 7.0. In …

Developers using the React 19 library for building application interfaces are urged to immediately upgrade to the latest version because of a critical vulnerability that can be easily exploited by an attacker to remotely run their own code. Researchers at Wiz said Wednesday that a vulnerability in the React Server Components (RSC) Flight protocol affects the React 19 ecosystem, as well as framewo…

Mistral AI’s latest batch of LLMs, officially released Tuesday, includes Mistral Large 3, a 675-billion-parameter model. It’s the company’s first mixture-of-experts model since the Mixtral series released at the end of 2023, and already ranks among the top open-source offerings on the LMArena leaderboard. While Mistral 3 Large model needs many high-powered processors to run, its nine smaller Mini…

AWS has released Kiro powers, an addition to the company’s Kiro AI-driven IDE that provides dynamic loading of context and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, with the intent of providing a unified approach to a broad range of development use cases. Announced December 3 , Kiro powers enables developers to access specialized expertise to accelerate software development. The new capability allows…

Enterprises are no longer asking whether they should adopt AI; rather, they want to know why the AI they have already deployed still can’t reason as their business requires it to. Those AI systems are often missing an enterprise’s specific business context, because they are trained on generic, public data, and it’s expensive and time-consuming to fine-tune or retrain them on proprietary data, if …

Node.js is one of the most popular server-side platforms, especially for web applications. It gives you non-blocking JavaScript without a browser, plus an enormous ecosystem. That ecosystem is one of Node’s chief strengths, making it a go-to option for server development. This article is a quick tour of the most popular web frameworks for server development on Node.js . We’ll look at minimalist t…

Once upon a time, IDEs focused on specific languages, like Visual Studio IDE for Microsoft C++ or IntelliJ IDEA for Java. But now there is a new wave of IDEs dedicated to agentic AI workflows . AWS Kiro has recently become generally available, and now Google has whipped the drapes off its own Antigravity IDE . Like Kiro, Antigravity is built from a fork of Visual Studio Code , which integrates An…

We all want to be thought competent by our peers—to have them think we know what we are doing. And for the most part, we do, right? But come on, let’s be honest. There are a few things that just make our heads spin. Topics that we kind of gloss over and pretend that we really understand, but that are pretty much a strange amalgam of confusion inside our brains. We want to understand them. We buy …

Poetry can be a perplexing art form for humans to decipher at times, and apparently AI is being tripped up by it too. Researchers from Icaro Lab (part of the ethical AI company DexAI), Sapienza University of Rome, and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies have found that, when delivered a poetic prompt, AI will break its guardrails and explain how to produce, say, weapons-grade plutonium or remote…

Does AI-generated code add to, or reduce, technical debt? Amazon Web Services is aiming to reduce it with the addition of new capabilities to AWS Transform, its AI-driven service for modernizing legacy code, applications, and infrastructure. “Modernization is no longer optional for enterprises these days,” said Akshat Tyagi , associate practice leader at HFS Research. They need cleaner code and u…

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new class of AI agents, called frontier agents , which the company said can work for hours or days without intervention. The first three agents are focused on software development tasks. The three agents announced December 2 include the Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS Devops Agent, each focused on a different aspect of the software development…

Imagine it’s 3 a.m. and your pager goes off. A downstream service is failing, and after an hour of debugging you trace the issue to a tiny, undocumented schema change made by an upstream team. The fix is simple, but it comes with a high cost in lost sleep and operational downtime. This is the nature of many modern data pipelines . We’ve mastered the art of building distributed systems, but we’ve …

Many organizations are experimenting with AI agents to determine which job roles to focus on, when to automate actions, and what steps require a human in the middle. AI agents connect the power of large language models with APIs, enabling them to take action and integrate seamlessly into employee workflows and customer experiences in a variety of domains: Field operations AI agents can help outli…

Michigan and Wisconsin are considering proposals that would ban the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) by requiring internet providers to block these encrypted connections. The stated rationale is to control how users access certain online materials, but such a ban would upend the technical foundation of modern work, learning, and communication far beyond any single issue. VPNs are not simply…

Qdrant has released Qdrant 1.16, an update of the Qdrant open source vector database that introduces tiered multitenancy, a capability intended to help isolate heavy-traffic tenants, boost performance, and scale search workloads more efficiently. Announced November 19 , Qdrant 1.16 also offers ACORN, a search algorithm that improves the quality of filtered vector search in cases of multiple filte…