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Download the December 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World.

AWS kicked off re:Invent 2025 with a defensive urgency that is unusual for the cloud leader, arriving in Las Vegas under pressure to prove it can still set the agenda for enterprise AI. With Microsoft and Google tightening their grip on CIOs’ mindshare through integrated AI stacks and workflow-ready agent platforms, AWS CEO Matt Garman and his lieutenants rolled out new chips, models, and platfor…

When I reviewed Amazon Q Developer in 2024, I noted that it was able to generate whole functions in common programming languages with only a few fixes. It was useful for completing lines of code, doc strings, and if/for/while/try code blocks as you type. It could also scan for vulnerabilities and help you fix code problems. However, it could not generate full functions for some use cases, but ins…

Amazon’s Nova 2 announcement at AWS re:Invent 2025 is exactly the type of AI offering we expected from AWS and, frankly, exactly what should make thoughtful architects nervous. Nova 2 is positioned as a frontier-grade model, tightly integrated with Amazon Bedrock. It’s part of a growing ecosystem of “frontier agents” and the AgentCore framework unveiled at re:Invent 2025. The story is compelling:…

IBM has agreed to acquire cloud-native enterprise data streaming platform Confluent in a move designed to expand its portfolio of tools for building AI applications The company said Monday in a release that it sees Confluent as a natural fit for its hybrid cloud and AI strategy, adding that the acquisition is expected to “drive substantial product synergies” across its portfolio. Confluent connec…

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached an initial rampdown phase for bug fixes, with the feature set now frozen. The following 10 features are officially targeted to JDK 26: a fourth preview of primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch , ahead-of-time object caching , an eleventh incubation of the Vector API , second previews of …

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. In the December 2025 index, published December 7 , R ranks 10th with a 1.96% rating. R has cracked the Tiobe index’s top 10 before, such as in April 2020 and July 2020 , but not in recent years. The rival Pypl Popularity of Programming Language Index , meanwhile, …

A security flaw in the widely-used Apache Tika XML document extraction utility, originally made public last summer, is wider in scope and more serious than first thought, the project’s maintainers have warned. Their new alert relates to two entwined flaws, the first CVE-2025-54988 from August, rated 8.4 in severity, and the second, CVE-2025-66516 made public last week, rated 10. CVE-2025-54988 is…

Enterprises are testing AI in all sorts of applications, but too few of their proofs of concept (PoCs) are making into production: just 12%, according to an IDC study . Amazon Web Services is concerned about this too, with VP of agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian devoting much of his keynote speech to it at AWS re:Invent last week. The failures are not down to lack of talent or investment, but how …

Today’s AI coding agents are impressive. They can generate complex multi-line blocks of code, refactor according to internal style, explain their reasoning in plain English, and more. However, AI agents will take you only so far unless they also can interface with modern devops tools. This is where the Model Context Protocol (MCP) comes in. MCP is a proposed universal standard for connecting AI a…

The pace at which large language models (LLMs) evolve is making it virtually impossible to keep up. Allie Miller, for example, recently ranked her go-to LLMs for a variety of tasks but noted, “I’m sure it’ll change next week.” Why? Because one will get faster or come up with enhanced training in a particular area. What won’t change, however, is the grounding these LLMs need in high-value enterpri…

AI agents embedded in CI/CD pipelines can be tricked into executing high-privilege commands hidden in crafted GitHub issues or pull request texts. Researchers at Aikido Security have traced the problem back to workflows that pair GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD with AI tools such as Gemini CLI, Claude Code Actions, OpenAI Codex Actions or GitHub AI Inference. They found that unsupervised user-supp…

A grumpy Scrooge of a developer might complain about the wealth of options in JavaScript, calling it “tech decision overwhelm.” But the truth is, the JavaScript ecosystem works. In an ecosystem that encourages innovation, new tools are regularly introduced and naturally find their niche, and excellence is rewarded. As developers, we get to sit back and mouse-wheel through hundreds of thousands of…

It’s a foggy morning in Munich. Marie, CIO of a fictional, forward-thinking European healthcare startup, pores over proposals from cloud vendors. Her company is on the verge of launching AI-powered diagnostics but must keep every byte of patient data within EU borders to comply with strict regional privacy laws. On her desk are slick portfolios from Microsoft, AWS, and Google, all touting soverei…

Unison, a statically typed functional language with type inference, an effect system, and advanced tooling, has reached its 1.0 release status. Announced November 25 , Unison 1.0 marks a point where the language, distributed runtime, and developer workflow have stabilized, according to Unison Computing. Billed as “a friendly programming language from the future,” Unison is purported to bring bene…