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As an old Delphi guy, I remember well the “language wars” we had with the Visual Basic guys. An early codename for Delphi was “VBK” — VB Killer — and the VB community took exception. They’d come to our Delphi forums and pick fights. Naturally, we brash Delphi guys would fight back, engaging in big flame wars and getting all worked up over what wasn’t much more than a personal preference. Good tim…

Microsoft will end support for its .NET 8 and .NET 9 platforms on November 10 , 2026. The company advises current users of those platforms to upgrade to .NET 10 . After November 10, Microsoft will no longer provide servicing updates, security fixes, or technical support for .NET 8 and .NET 9. “We recommend upgrading to .NET 10 , which is an LTS (long term support) release supported through Novemb…

When you use an AI agent, the more contextual data the agent has about the job, the better it will perform. But agents don’t have much memory, since the large language models (LLMs) they depend on are stateless. When their memory runs out, the agent glitches out, hangs up, or spews out nonsense. Tactics like truncating or compacting agent memory can make up for this, but they’re not real solution…

Autonomous AI engineer agents can deliver software at a scale in multiples of what a human engineering team can do, and that productivity is genuinely valuable. But without proper guardrails at the specification level, these agents can industrialise inefficient infrastructure patterns at the same pace, consistently and at a scale that makes post-deploy remediation impractical. When an agent provi…

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, an update that is substantially improved over predecessor Claude Sonnet 4.6 in coding, reasoning, tool use, and knowledge work, according to the company. Claude Sonnet 5 was introduced June 30 . It can make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals, and run autonomously at a level that required larger and more expensive models a few months ago, Anthropic…

Rust 1.96.0 has arrived, bringing new Range* types to the programming language known for its memory safety . Announced May 28, Rust 1.96.0 can be installed by current users by running the command rustup update stable . In elaborating on the new Range* types, the Rust team said many users expect Range and related core::ops types to be Copy , but this is not the case. These types implement Iterator…

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor has reached version 1.126, which is highlighted by a new security mode for untrusted code. Also with the new release, VS Code now displays total cost for chat sessions (instead of just for individual turns) and allows users to manage multiple chats side-by-side in a single agent host session. Published June 24 , VS Code 1.26 can be downloaded from code.visual…

Microsoft has introduced the Microsoft Binlog MCP Server, which gives AI assistants like GitHub Copilot direct access to MSBuild (.binlog) files. The Model Context Protocol server enables AI-powered build investigation through natural language conversation, Microsoft said. Introduced June 17 and currently in a preview stage, the Microsoft Binlog MCP Server parses .binlog files and exposes 15 spec…

MongoDB has introduced a native reranking capability for Atlas, aiming to help enterprises improve AI retrieval quality without adding another service to their technology stack. The move addresses a longstanding challenge with reranking technology. While it can significantly boost the relevance of AI-generated responses, deploying it has typically required separate vendors, APIs, and orchestratio…

With AI agents increasingly expected to remember conversations, preferences, and decisions over extended periods, Microsoft Research has developed Memora, a memory system designed to provide more scalable and reliable long-term recall than existing approaches. AI agents are increasingly expected to retain context across weeks or months rather than individual chat sessions. Memory can become fragm…

Whether you are using an AI code generator , vibe coding , or applying spec-driven development methodologies, your job doesn’t end with AI writing the code. Whether you’re using AI to develop applications, APIs, data pipelines , AI agents , or other automations, writing the code is just one part of the job. Developers must still perform code validation, test applications, automate deployment, and…

For years, the enterprise narrative focused on moving to the public cloud for flexibility and leaving behind old infrastructure. While the public cloud remains a powerful platform for burst capacity, global reach, and modern application development, leaders now evaluate where each workload can achieve the best financial performance, operational efficiency, and risk. Cloud repatriation is back on …

Kotlin 2.4.0, an update to JetBrains’s statically typed language for building JVM, native, Wasm, and web applications, introduces experimental improvements to compile-time constants, making support for numeric and string types more consistent and easier to use, JetBrains said. Kotlin 2.4.0 was released June 3 . Its experimental improvements to compile-time constants include support for unsigned t…

Azul has introduced free vulnerability risk assessment for Java virtual machines (JVMs). Citing AI models such as Claude Mythos, which can automatically discover vulnerabilities and create exploits long before they’re disclosed, the company says it aims to address the blind spots that these autonomous AI-powered exploitation tools are able to find. Users can request the free JVM vulnerability ris…

Deno Land has published Deno 2.9, an update of the company’s JavaScript / TypeScript / WebAssembly runtime that features deno desktop , a mechanism for building native desktop applications from the web stack developers already know. Introduced June 25 , Deno 2.9 also improves startup time, memory use, and HTTP throughput, the company said. Deno installation instructions can be found at docs.deno.…