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The evolution of Java is the subject of a just-released documentary about the programming language and development platform. “The Java Story: The Official Documentary” tells the story of Java through interviews with the engineers who created it and shepherded it through three decades. Produced by CultRepo and sponsored by Oracle, JetBrains, IBM, and Azul, the documentary follows Java from its set…

A new version of Python’s native package management tool, pip, will remove a limitation that has frustrated Python developers for years. If you wanted to install the dependencies for a given package, but not install the package itself, you were stuck. Either you had to extract the dependency list from the package and install it by hand, or you had to build the whole package anyway. Why was this a…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has sought to allay concerns over the delayed release of the Gemini 3.5 Pro large language model. He dodged questions about it in Google’s quarterly earnings call on Wednesday by focusing on the company’s next frontier AI model, Gemini 4, and plans to release subsequent LLMs at an almost monthly cadence. His comments came a day after Google unveiled Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3…

Running containers on Windows has never been as easy as it should be. While there are versions of Docker Desktop and Podman that work with both the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Hyper-V, I’ve found both overly complex and unstable. Where they have worked, it’s turned out that Hyper-V has been the best option, using a Linux virtual machine to host my containers. That all adds up to overhea…

Leadership wants to scale AI. Budgets are tripling. Adoption is up. Then the CFO asks the question every board now asks: which of these initiatives is actually profitable? Most organizations cannot answer that question, not because they lack visibility into cost, but because the cost data they have was never designed to produce that answer. Applying lessons learned from managing cloud spend won’t…

G# (GSharp) is moving forward as a programming language for Microsoft’s .NET platform, touted as bringing Go -, Kotlin -, and Swift -style ergonomics to the CLR (Common Language Runtime). The language is described by its creators as modern, simple, and accessible. Although pre-1.0 and still growing, G# aims to be for people who want a small, predictable language with direct access to the .NET eco…

Oracle’s July 2026 Critical Patch Update, its largest ever, contains 1,449 new security patches spanning 32 product families, from Oracle Database and E-Business Suite to PeopleSoft, GoldenGate, Java SE, and Fusion Middleware. Fusion Middleware was particularly hard hit, with new security patches for 355 security vulnerabilities, 219 of them remotely exploitable without authentication, meaning th…

Oracle is expanding its Cloud@Customer on-premises portfolio with a managed database offering that it says will enable enterprises to run databases, applications, and AI agents in their own data centers, helping CIOs modernize mid-sized workloads while meeting data residency, regulatory, and low-latency requirements. The hybrid cloud offering, Base Database Cloud@Customer, combines existing datab…

Cisco has revealed a family of open-weight AI models called Antares that, it said, can help security teams isolate potentially vulnerable parts of a software repository before deeper investigation begins. Rather than detecting a specific CVE or generating a patch, these models search a codebase using only a Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) description and return the files most likely to contain …

GitLab has released GitLab 19.2 , an update to the company’s devsecops platform that allows teams to fix vulnerable dependencies automatically, use Security Review Flow to catch logic flaws that scanners miss, and run AI agents straight from the terminal, the company said. Highlights in GitLab 19.2 include the following: Dependency Scanning Auto-Remediation, in public beta, uses AI to fix build-b…

A client called me last week with a problem I have been hearing about more often lately. They had made significant reserved instance commitments with a major cloud provider, overbuying for what they thought would be heavy AI training workloads. Now they were sitting on thousands of dollars in idle capacity every month. Their plan was simple: resell it to someone else. Except they couldn’t. I have…

I use a very cool and relatively new web framework called Astro . The keen insight that the Astro team had was that most websites are made up of static content, so they made it really easy to add content to a website. To add a blog post to my personal website , all I have to do is create a Markdown file with some front matter, deploy it, and the blog post automatically appears. If I need to reach…

If you ask us in an official setting, our official position is that software engineering norms still apply. Rigorous CI/CD pipelines, elegant architectural patterns, and an unyielding commitment to maintainable code remain the standard. We will use weighty words like “determinism,” “scalability,” “idempotency,” and “domain-driven design.” But behind closed doors, late at night, bathed in the glow…

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.129, an update to its free, popular code editor that features a dedicated agent host and an editor panel in the Agents window. The updated editor also allows users to run terminal commands from chat prompts with a ! prefix and offers a preview of a modern UI for the workbench. Released July 15, VS Code 1.129 can be downloaded from code.visualstudio.com …

Ever since Chinese AI startup DeepSeek launched three years ago, enterprise executives have been nervous about relying on Chinese AI models . But now that the latest Chinese AI offerings, Alibaba’s 2.4-trillion-parameter model Qwen3.8 Max and Moonshot’s 2.8-trillion-parameter model Kimi K3 , are promising even more powerful performance, those IT executives are being forced to again ask if these m…