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Big Tech has entered an arms race to dominate the artificial intelligence space, with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft investing more than $600 billion into AI development between 2023 and 2025. This massive surge in AI spending reflects their belief that AI will revolutionize the tech industry and reshape the global economy. Executives and investors may be prioritizing AI at the expense of traditio…

In the early days of generative AI , AI-driven programming seemed to promise endless possibility, or at least a free pass to vibe code your way into quick wins. But now that era of freewheeling experimentation is coming to an end. As AI works its way deeper into the enterprise, a more mature architecture is taking shape. Risk-aware engineering , golden paths , and AI governance frameworks are qui…

PHP 8.5 has been released, adding an extension for securely parsing URIs and URLs to the now-30-year-old server-side scripting language. Described as a major update , PHP 8.5 was released November 20 and can be accessed at PHP.net . The URI extension featured in the update is always available and provides APIs to securely parse and modify URIs and URLs based on the RFC 3986 and WHATWG ( Web Hyper…

The newest version of Microsoft’s multi-paradigm language features a much-sought ability to suppress warnings in specified code sections. With the scoped warning suppression capability, the compiler now supports the #warnon directive, which is paired with #nowarn to disable or enable warnings within a specific code span. The F# 10 update was introduced along with .NET 10 on November 11. Developer…

The promise of static application security testing (SAST) has always been the “shift-left” dream, catching vulnerabilities before they ever hit production. But for too long, that promise has been undermined by a frustrating reality with an overwhelming volume of alerts and high false-positive rates. This noise can lead to alert fatigue, wasted developer time and a loss of trust in the very tools …

Data science and machine learning teams face a hidden productivity killer: annotation errors. Recent research from Apple analyzing production machine learning (ML) applications found annotation error rates averaging 10% across search relevance tasks. Even ImageNet , computer vision’s gold standard benchmark, contains a 6% error rate that MIT CSAIL discovered in 2024—errors that have skewed model …

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and any cloud without breaking the bank. There aren’t many options. You might be able to use MySQL or any of its forks for most purposes, but it struggles to support large databases that run over multip…

Microsoft Agent 365 has been introduced as a control plane to help organizations deploy and manage AI agents at scale. Unveiled November 18 , Agent 365 is available through Microsoft’s Frontier program for early access to AI technologies. Agent 365 lets users manage an organization’s agents at scale, regardless of where these agents are built or acquired, Microsoft said. Agent 365 integrates with…

With Fabric IQ, Microsoft is adding new semantic intelligence capabilities to its unified data and analytics platform, Fabric, that it says will help enterprises maintain a common data model and automate operational decisions. We’ll be hearing a lot more about “IQ” from Microsoft, which has also just introduced Work IQ, the semantic intelligence layer for Microsoft 365, and Foundry IQ, a managed …

Microsoft is previewing a third PostgreSQL-compatible managed database for its cloud, Azure HorizonDB, that it hopes will prove attractive for modern workloads and for legacy application modernization. The company already offers two databases compatible with PostgreSQL, the database interface proving popular with developers of AI applications: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for…

Google has launched Gemini 3 and integrated the new AI model into its search engine immediately, aiming to push advanced AI features into consumer and enterprise products faster as competition in the AI market intensifies. The release brings new agentic capabilities for coding, workflow automation, and search, raising questions about how quickly businesses can adopt these tools and what impact th…

When I was tasked with modernizing our enterprise document management system, I knew the stakes were high. We were managing millions of documents, and our legacy architecture was buckling under the load. Query times were unpredictable, scaling was a constant battle and costs were spiraling out of control. The breakthrough came when I stopped thinking about documents as monolithic entities and sta…

Text editors and IDEs tend to inspire devotion from their users. Vim and Emacs have long-standing power-user bases. Visual Studio Code , despite being far newer, has exploded in popularity thanks to its cross-platform support and overall flexibility. Any new editor, like any new programming language, faces a lot of incumbent competition. Zed , a new editor built using Rust , is being pitched by i…

Clojure is one of the most fascinating branches of the programming family tree. It unites the high-design heritage of Lisp with practical, modern capabilities. For Java developers, Clojure can be an excellent expansion of their worldview. It offers an entirely different way of understanding and solving problems, while still running on the JVM and interoperating with Java. The four key concepts of…

Software development is fraught with peril. For any development task, there are a million ways to do it wrong, and the one correct way is a small, narrow trail that winds quietly through the forest. It takes experience to know the path and to avoid the dangerous pitfalls along the way. The following is a list of seven hard-won lessons from many trips into the dark forest. It is an opinionated loo…