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Once envisioned as a bridge between Java and JavaScript , the Detroit project never got off the ground. Now, there are efforts at reviving it, adding a Python engine to the mix. Intended to enable using JavaScript as an extension language for Java applications, the Detroit project fizzled out after losing its sponsoring group around 2018. But according to a new proposal dated February 25, there s…

Inception has introduced Mercury 2, calling it the world’s fastest reasoning LLM. Intended for production AI, the large language model leverages parallel refinement rather than sequential decoding. Mercury 2 was announced February 24 , with access requests available on Inception’s website . Developers can also try Mercury 2 using the Inception chat . Inception says Mercury 2 is intended to solve …

Microsoft says it has uncovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessments. The campaign employs carefully crafted lures to blend into routine workflows, such as cloning repositories, opening projects, and running builds, thereby allowing the malicious code to execute undetected. Telemetry col…

MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork , following Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL, but with time it’s charted its own path. Over the last few major revisions, the open source RDBMS has added unique functions, greater compatibility with MySQL, and a suite of behaviors designed to make it a migration target for Oracle SQL users. Here’s a quick look at some of the best and most powerful new feature…

It’s tough out here for a dev/tech writer. Back in the before days (that is, about two months ago), you could always find a variety of topics to write about. “Seven ways to improve your database design,” say. Or “Five things I never do in code.” There were a ton of things that developers were concerned about when it came to writing code. The study of clean code and how to write it was a constant …

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached its second release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set having been frozen in December. 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…

Google has added an agent step to its Opal tool for building AI-powered mini-apps. Powered by the Gemini 3 Flash model, the new agent in Opal enables autonomous workflows that plan, reason, and execute on the user’s behalf, Google said. Introduced February 24 and available to all Opal users, the agent step upgrades Opal workflows from static model calls to agentic intelligence, according to Googl…

A massive Shai-Hulud -style npm supply chain worm is hitting the software ecosystem, burrowing through developer machines, CI pipelines, and AI coding tools. Socket researchers uncovered the active attack campaign and called it SANDWORM_MODE, derived from the “SANDWORM_*” environment variable switches embedded in the malware’s runtime control logic.” At least 19 typosquatted packages were publish…

Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI developers of running large-scale campaigns to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude model to improve their own systems. The company claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used a distillation technique, where a less capable model is trained on the outputs of a more advanced one. More than 16 million interactions were generated with Claude through ar…

High inference latency and spiraling GPU costs have emerged as the primary bottlenecks for IT leaders deploying agentic AI systems. These workflows often generate thousands of tokens per query, creating a performance gap that current hardware struggles to bridge. Now, researchers from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University, and TogetherAI say they can tr…

Snowflake has extended support for Cortex Code CLI, its terminal-based AI coding agent, to dbt and Apache Airflow to help data practitioners streamline engineering workflows. “With this extended support, developers unlock secure, context-aware AI assistance within their preferred data engineering systems — empowering teams to work with data wherever it lives, and build, manage, and optimize produ…

Standardizing on a single cloud infrastructure is much easier than pursuing a multicloud strategy . In a single-cloud environment, IT leaders can optimize skill sets, centralize data more easily, secure infrastructure with fewer tools, and gain many other operational benefits. Yet 89% of enterprises report they are pivoting to multicloud adoption. Reasons for choosing to operate across multiple c…

With every passing year, data continues to grow more important and more central to practically every aspect of corporate operations. As the AI race continues full-steam ahead, it will be mission-critical for CIOs and other technical business decision-makers to get things right when it comes to their data infrastructure. Without the right plumbing, even the best, most robust data estate can become…

The tech industry always values innovation, but Microsoft’s latest adoption of new technology may come at an unusually high cost. The company’s aggressive moves to embed its AI assistant, Copilot, into Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 have polarized users and drawn regulatory scrutiny. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking at whether Microsoft’s tactics in the AI arms race, and its cloud and …

Microsoft has introduced C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code . The C++ code understanding improvements were announced on February 19 . The updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code bring the same C++ intelligence as the Microsoft’s C/C++ and CMake Tools extensions directly into agent mode by surfacing key language and build system capabil…