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Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core 2.3, a version of the company’s open source web development framework for .NET and C# , will reach end of life support on April 7, 2027. Following that date, Microsoft will no longer provide bug fixes, technical support, or security patches for ASP.NET Core 2.3, the company announced on April 7 , exactly a year before the cessation date. ASP.NET Core 2.3 packages—the late…

Too many executives are cutting software engineering teams because they bought into the fantasy that AI can now build and maintain enterprise applications with only a few people around to supervise the machine. That idea isn’t bold. It isn’t visionary. It’s reckless, and more executives will suffer the consequences of their mistakes beyond just a bad quarter. Yes, AI can write code. That much is …

Amazon Web Services is making its S3 object storage service easier for AI agents to access with the introduction of a native file system interface. The new interface, S3 Files, will eliminate a longstanding tradeoff between the low cost of S3 and the interactivity of a traditional file system or of Amazon’s Elastic File System (EFS). “The file system presents S3 objects as files and directories, …

Chinese AI company Z.ai has launched GLM-5.1, an open-source coding model it says is built for agentic software engineering. The release comes as AI vendors move beyond autocomplete-style coding tools toward systems that can handle software tasks over longer periods with less human input. Z.ai said GLM-5.1 can sustain performance over hundreds of iterations, an ability it argues sets it apart fro…

Microsoft has quietly introduced the Agent Governance Toolkit, an open source project designed to monitor and control AI agents during execution as enterprises try, and move them into production workflows. The toolkit, which is a response to the Open Worldwide Application Security Project’s (OWASP) emerging focus on AI and LLM security risks, adds a runtime security layer that enforces policies t…

Only very rarely does Python add a new standard data type. Python 3.15, when it’s released later this year, will come with one—an immutable dictionary, frozendict . Dictionaries in Python correspond to hashmaps in Java. They are a way to associate keys with values. The Python dict , as it’s called, is tremendously powerful and versatile. In fact, the dict structure is used by the CPython interpre…

I don’t need to tell you that agentic coding is changing the world of software development. Things are happening so quickly that it’s hard to keep up. Internet years seem like eons compared to agentic coding years. It seemed like just a few short weeks ago that everyone very suddenly stopped writing code and let Claude Code do all the work because, well, it was a few short weeks ago that it happe…

GitHub has introduced an experimental Rubber Duck mode in the GitHub Copilot CLI . The latest addition to the AI-powered coding tool uses a second model from a different AI family to provide a second opinion before enacting the agent’s plan. The new feature was announced April 6 . Introduced in experimental mode, Rubber Duck leverages a second model from a different AI family to act as an indepen…

Terraform promised us a better world. Define your infrastructure in code, version it, review it, and deploy it with confidence. For small teams running a handful of services, that promise holds up beautifully. Then your organization grows. Teams multiply. Modules branch and fork. State files balloon. And suddenly, that clean declarative vision starts looking a lot like a sprawling monolith that n…

Nvidia’s recent acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the Slurm workload manager, is raising concerns among AI industry executives and supercomputing specialists who fear the chip giant could use its new position to favour its own hardware over competing chips, whether through code prioritization or roadmap decisions. The concern, as industry sources frame it, is straightforward: Nvidia now …

When a coding assistant starts looking like it’s cutting corners, developers notice. A senior director in AMD’s AI Group has publicly needled Anthropic’s Claude Code for what she calls a tendency to skim the hard bits, offering answers that land but don’t quite stick. The gripe isn’t about outright failure so much as fading rigor, with complex problems drawing responses that seem quicker, lighter…

Many enterprise devops teams struggle to deploy frequently, increase test automation, and ensure reliable releases. What can they learn from SaaS companies, where developing and deploying software for thousands of customers is core to their revenue and business operations? SaaS companies must have robust testing, observability, deployment, and monitoring capabilities. One bad deployment can disru…

WebAssembly targets for Rust will soon face a change that could risk breaking existing projects, according to an April 4 bulletin in the official Rust blog. The bulletin notes that all WebAssembly targets in Rust have been linked using the --allow-undefined flag to wasm-ld , but this flag is being removed. Removing --allow-undefined on wasm targets is being done in rust-lang/rust#149868 . That ch…

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.114. The update of Microsoft’s popular code editor streamlines the AI chat experience, offering previews of videos in the image carousel for chat attachments, adding a Copy Final Response command to the chat context menu, simplifying semantic searches of codebases by GitHub Copilot, and more. Introduced April 1 , VS Code 1.114 can be downloaded from the…

Is your generative AI application giving the responses you expect? Are there less expensive large language models —or even free ones you can run locally —that might work well enough for some of your tasks? Answering questions like these isn’t always easy. Model capabilities seem to change every month. And, unlike conventional computer code, LLMs don’t always give the same answer twice. Running an…