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Popular vibe coding platforms consistently generate insecure code in response to common programming prompts, including creating vulnerabilities rated as ‘critical,’ new testing has found. Security startup Tenzai’s top-line conclusion: the tools are good at avoiding security flaws that can be solved in a generic way, but struggle where what distinguishes safe from dangerous depends on context. The…

Chinese company Zhipu AI has trained image generation model entirely on Huawei processors, demonstrating that Chinese firms can build competitive AI systems without access to advanced Western chips. The model, released on Tuesday, marks the first time a state-of-the-art multimodal model completed its full training cycle on Chinese-made chips, Zhipu said in a statement. The Beijing-based company t…

Developers choose Rust because they can use it to write software that is memory-safe , correct, and—above all— fast . But the Rust compiler isn’t always the fastest car in the garage. The larger a Rust program is, and the more dependencies it has, the longer its compile time will be. A development process that once was a sprint slows to a creep. Now for the good news: None of this is inevitable. …

Last week it was looms . This week it is potato chips. I’m a huge fan of EconTalk , a podcast hosted by Russ Roberts . Russ is a great guy and his guests are invariably interesting. One of my all-time favorite episodes is Brendan O’Donohoe on Potato Chips and Salty Snacks , in which O’Donohoe and Roberts talk about how potato chips are made. Now that might not sound interesting, but I found it fa…

Anthropic has introduced Cowork, a research-preview feature aimed at extending Claude Code’s capabilities beyond programming to everyday enterprise workflows. The new flavor of the coding assistant will enable users to automate tasks such as summarizing calendars, creating reports, and organizing files, once an organization provides it access to a particular folder. Cowork can also connect to rel…

Java Development Kit (JDK) 27, a release of standard Java planned for arrival in September, already has a feature proposed for it: a post-quantum hybrid key exchange capability to bolster network security. The feature, post-quantum hybrid key xxchange for TLS 1.3 , was listed on the OpenJDK page for JDK 27 on January 13. It would enhance the security of Java applications requiring network communi…

Google has published the first draft of Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard to help AI agents order and pay for goods and services online. It co-developed the new protocol with industry leaders including Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart. It also has support from payment system providers including Adyen, American Express, Mastercard, Stripe, and Visa, and online retailers…

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, building agile, scalable and maintainable software systems is paramount. Organizations often start with monolithic applications for their simplicity, but soon face challenges as these systems grow more complex. A distributed monolith , where the application is split into components but remains tightly coupled and interdependent, can hamper agility and scal…

Software development used to be simpler, with fewer choices about which platforms and languages to learn. You were either a Java , .NET , or LAMP developer. You focused on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Full-stack developers learned the intricacies of selected JavaScript frameworks, relational databases , and CI/CD tools. In the best of times, developers advanced their technology skills with their …

For years, enterprises enthusiastically adopted a cloud-first approach, eager to take advantage of the flexibility and rapid innovation public cloud platforms offered. But as artificial intelligence operations transition from experiments to business imperatives, organizations are discovering that the old assumptions about where AI belongs (primarily in the public cloud) no longer hold true. AI is…

Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward milestones including a preview of value types, an incubation of code reflection, shipping AOT (ahead-of-time) code compilation, and finalizing the structured concurrency API. These efforts and many others under OpenJDK projects such as Project Loom , for exploring JVM (Java Virtual Machine) features and APIs for implementing lightweight user-mode thread…

Since 2008, millions of developers around the world have found answers to their programming questions on the popular platform Stack Overflow. Recently, however, activity has declined significantly, and in December, only 3,862 questions were asked on Stack Overflow, which is a 78 percent decrease on an annual basis. According to Dev Class , the decline is primarily due to the increased use of AI, …

When I started integrating AI into my workflows, I was seduced by the promise of “one tool to rule them all.” One login. One workflow. One platform that would manage research, writing, operations and communications — all in one neat package. In theory, it was elegant. But what I found, in the end, was a trap. What broke first were nonnegotiables: depth, nuance and reliability. The moment I tried …

API platform Postman has acquired API documentation- and SDK-generation startup Fern to extend its support for developers around API adoption. The acquisition targets common pain points, including poor documentation and brittle libraries, that slow adoption of APIs and drive up their integration and support costs. “Postman already helps enterprises design, test, and validate APIs internally. What…

As agentic AI takes hold across the technology industry, development tools are rapidly integrating AI-powered features. Experts say there is a rising demand for AI-assisted low-code and no-code development tools . “The demand is huge,” says Marc-Aurele Legoux, owner of Marcus-Aurelius Digital. “These tools allow anyone with zero to little coding knowledge to develop something that would otherwise…