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2026 should be a year of database updates, upgrades, and migrations. Across all of the most commonly used open source databases, end-of-life dates are forcing teams to take stock and move their workloads. The alternative is to stick with what is in place. While staying put might work in the short term, it will lead to more problems and higher costs over time. At the same time, moving too quickly …

Enterprises are embracing cloud-hosted large language models (LLMs) at unprecedented rates. Lured by the promise of rapid deployment, scalability, and transformative capabilities, organizations are becoming increasingly entwined with these outsourced intelligence engines. However, a dangerous underlying pattern is emerging, one too often overlooked until catastrophe strikes. The ease and accessib…

Microsoft’s research arm has long been fascinated with working with large amounts of data at scale . Projects like TerraServer explored how to search and display geospatial data, mixing mapping and demographics to show how we could provide large amounts of information to users’ desktops while working within the bandwidth constraints of the early internet. That research continues, and projects mov…

A growing number of startup founders are raising concerns about unexpected charges incurred while experimenting with AI models through Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry platform, turning what began as an isolated complaint into a broader debate over billing transparency. At least 20 participants in the Microsoft for Startups program have signed a Change.org petition calling on Microsoft CEO Satya Nade…

Threat actors are abusing extension dependency relationships in the Open VSX registry to indirectly deliver malware in a new phase of the GlassWorm supply-chain campaign. Researchers at Socket said they have identified at least 72 additional malicious Open VSX extensions linked to the campaign since January 31, 2026. The extensions appear to target developers by posing as helpful tools, such as l…

Everyone is building “ agents ,” but there is a large disagreement on what that means. David Loker, VP of AI at CodeRabbit, which runs one of the most widely deployed agentic code review systems in production, has a practical definition that cuts through the hype: The company’s code review “happens in a workflow” with “two agentic loops” embedded at specific points where reasoning is actually nee…

During the 2025 holidays, I had some downtime and decided to migrate one of my pet projects from Apache Airflow 2.10.3 to 3.0.6 . This article is based entirely on my hands-on experience with that migration and captures my initial takeaways of what worked well, what felt rough around the edges and where Airflow 3 genuinely changes how we think about workflow orchestration. Rather than covering ev…

Open source has become less of a “thing” in the last few years. Oh, sure, you’ll find the usual suspects waving their “open source is always better” flag, even as the AI community keeps releasing ambitious (and very closed) models and other tools (and as the very nature of open source evolves, as I’ve argued time and time again.). This doesn’t mean open source is fading in importance. It’s not. A…

Enterprises should be more ruthless about cancelling projects. That’s according to project management software company Tempo, which surveyed 667 project planning leaders at the end of last year. It found that those who deployed better scenario planning and acted ruthlessly is assessing a project’s viability would be better off. According to the survey, 90% of organizations claimed that their proj…

Microsoft is speeding up the delivery of its Visual Studio Code updates. Since last summer, the company has been making monthly releases, each with three or four patches and new functionality, but starting from March 9 the changes will come weekly, it announced on GitHub . Visual Studio Code is a free source-code editor that is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS and comes wi…

Databricks has launched Genie Code, a new AI agent, to help enterprise data practitioners automate data science and engineering tasks. Available as a panel inside Databricks’ notebooks, SQL Editor, and Lakeflow Pipelines editor, Genie Code can be used to plan, build, deploy, and maintain end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflows, including automating experiment tracking with MLflow, monitoring p…

For the past few years, I’ve watched a specific story sell itself in boardrooms: “Software will soon be free.” The pitch is simple: Large language models can write code, which is the bulk of what developers do. Therefore, enterprises can shed developers, point an LLM at a backlog, and crank out custom business systems at the speed of need. If you believe that pitch, the conclusion is inevitable: …

Take a wild ride with us, as we use a large language model to convert a Python app to Rust. Also, could Pandas finally compel you to ditch Excel? And, is Python’s native JIT the Python performance booster we’ve all been waiting for? All this and more, in this week’s report. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld What I learned using Claude Sonnet to migrate Python to Rust “Let’s rewrite a Pyth…

Google has added a plan mode to Gemini CLI , its open-source software engineering agent that runs on the command line. With plan mode, announced March 11 , Gemini CLI focuses first on analyzing a request, planning complex changes, and understanding the codebase or dependencies in a read-only mode that is safe from accidental changes or executions. Plan mode will also ask questions to clarify goal…

JetBrains has introduced Tracy, an AI tracing library for the Kotlin and Java languages. Announced March 11 and accessible from GitHub , Tracy helps developers trace, monitor, and evaluate AI-powered features directly from their Kotlin or Java projects, JetBrains said. The open-source Kotlin library provides a unified API to capture structured traces and helps developers debug failures, measure e…