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Microsoft has acquired AI-based data engineering firm Osmos for an undisclosed sum, as part of its effort to reduce data engineering friction inside Fabric, its unified data and analytics offering, as enterprises continue to push analytics and AI projects into production. Osmos’ technology, which applies agentic AI to turn raw data into analytics and AI-ready assets in OneLake, will help customer…

The advent of Model Context Protocol (MCP) APIs hints at a coming era of agent-driven architecture. In this architecture, the chat interface becomes the front end and creates UI controls on the fly. Welcome to “generative UI.” The new portlet Once upon a time, the portal concept promised to give every user a personalized view. Finally, the promise of a web where the user was also the controller c…

In the early 19th century, the invention of the loom threatened to turn the labor market upside down. Until then, cloth was made by skilled artisans, but the loom enabled more cloth to be made more quickly by less-skilled workers. One could even argue that the Jacquard loom , a loom that allowed for complex weaving patterns via punch cards, was the first computer. This technology had a disruptive…

Human coders may have a temporary reprieve from losing their jobs to AI. According to a new report from LessWrong, it will be between five and six years before we reach full coding automation . This pushes back the online community’s previous predictions that the milestone would be reached much sooner, between January 2027 and September 2028. The extended timeline comes just eight months after Le…

Researchers have developed a tool that they say can make stolen high-value proprietary data used in AI systems useless, a solution that CSOs may have to adopt to protect their sophisticated large language models (LLMs). The technique , created by researchers from universities in China and Singapore, is to inject plausible but false data into what’s known as a knowledge graph (KG) created by an AI…

Ruby 4.0.0 has arrived as the newest release of the interpreted, object-oriented Ruby programming language . The update features a new just-in-time compiler, ZJIT, and an experimental “Ruby Box” capability for in-process separation of classes and modules. Released on December 25, 2025 , Ruby 4.0.0 can be downloaded from ruby-lang,org . Ruby Box is a new feature designed to provide separate spaces…

Security researchers have flagged a high-severity flaw in Open WebUI , a self-hosted enterprise interface for large language models, that allows external model servers connected via its Direct Connections feature to inject malicious code and hijack AI workloads. The issue, tracked as CVE-2025-64496, stems from unsafe handling of server-sent events (SSE), enabling account takeover and, in some cas…

How must databases adapt to generative AI , and how should databases be integrated with large language models (LLMs)? These are questions that Sailesh Krishnamurthy has grappled with for several years now. As VP of engineering for databases at Google Cloud, Krishnamurthy leads the database team for Google Cloud and all Google services including Google Search and YouTube. He also leads a program t…

Consider a fictitious company, DeltaSite, and an all-too-common scenario for rapidly expanding SaaS providers. Within months, DeltaSite embarked on an ambitious multicloud migration, deploying critical workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. DeltaSite’s board approved a seven-figure investment in the latest cloud security tools, including AI-powered monitoring and automated compliance fram…

Microsoft’s C# has won the Tiobe Index Programming Language of the Year designation for the second time in three years, with the largest year-over-year increase in ranking in the company’s programming language popularity index. Meanwhile, another Microsoft language, TypeScript , may crack the index’s top 20 this year, according to Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen. Tiobe announced C# as its language of the y…

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on,” says Prospero in The Tempest . While he was reflecting on humanity’s fleeting existence, he could just as well have been describing the tech industry’s fascination with shiny new objects that come and go. Over the decades, countless software leaders have fallen into the age-old trap of chasing “the next big thing,” only to find themselves trying to fit a…

It’s time to wake up from the fever dream of autonomous AI. For the past year, the enterprise software narrative has been dominated by a singular, intoxicating promise: agents. We were told that we were on the verge of deploying digital employees that could plan, reason, and execute complex workflows while we watched from the sidelines, which Lena Hall, Akamai senior director of developer relatio…

Artificial intelligence and its promise to revolutionize programming —and possibly overthrow human sovereignty—is a central story of the post-Covid world. But for JavaScript developers, it is only one of the forces contending for center stage. Among the notable trends in 2025 was the emergence of increasing power, importance, and stability on the server side. This was partially driven by the univ…

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The second part of Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s “Azure Innovations” Ignite 2025 presentation covered software and a deeper look at the platforms he expects developers will use to build cloud-native applications. Azure was born as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, providing the plumbing for your applications so you didn’t have to think about infrastructure, as it was all automated and hi…