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Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s Build 2026 developer conference in Seattle, Coreutils is about reducing what Microsoft terms the “cognitive load” faced by developers when moving between Windows and other platforms. Currently, accessi…

For the past two years, enterprises have focused on grounding AI systems in internal documents, databases and knowledge repositories. Microsoft now contends that the next challenge is giving those systems reliable access to the outside world as they move into production. At its ongoing annual Build conference, Microsoft unveiled Web IQ , a new suite of AI-native APIs designed to connect AI agents…

Google has released new tools that allow developers to run agentic AI workflows locally using Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter model from Google DeepMind. In a blog post, the company said the model, combined with the Google AI Edge stack, can be used to build and test applications on everyday machines. The model-runtime combination supports capabilities such as autonomous data processing, visu…

For enterprises embracing AI-assisted development, writing code is no longer the hardest part. Operationalizing it is. Microsoft is targeting that challenge with Rayfin, a new open-source SDK and CLI unveiled at Build 2026. “ Rayfin turns backend development into a code-first workflow. Developers and coding agents can define a full application backend in code, including databases, business logic,…

Artificial intelligence does not advance at the same pace across industries. It presses forward in some directions while lagging behind in others. Spend time with today’s most advanced AI applications, and this contrast becomes obvious. In software development, AI is quickly becoming ubiquitous. It writes production-ready code, explains obscure libraries, and iterates at a pace human teams have d…

Angular’s introduction of Signals has generated both excitement and confusion. For many developers, Signals appear to be “simpler observables” or a more convenient way to trigger updates without subscriptions. Others attempt to map them directly onto familiar RxJS patterns, expecting emissions, operators, and event-style coordination. Both interpretations miss the point. Signals are not primarily…

AI governance is an ongoing game of catch-up for enterprises. Model updates and iterations are rolling out at a rapid clip, often making governance frameworks obsolete before they’re battle-tested. To evolve beyond this paradigm, OpenAI is introducing Active sessions . This new ChatGPT security feature allows users to review and log out of one or more sessions through a simple interface. The feat…

A vulnerability in GitHub’s browser-based VSCode editor could lead to the theft of a developer’s token under certain circumstances, says a researcher. The issue, revealed this week in a blog by Ammar Askar , has apparently been already addressed by GitHub owner Microsoft. But it raises a questions about both DevOps security, and about the researcher’s allegation that, because Microsoft doesn’t tr…

A veritable garden of linters and type checkers has blossomed in the Python ecosystem. Pyright and Mypy are two of the most popular, while Astral’s ty and Meta’s Pyrefly are two promising Rust-based newcomers. We compared early-stage ty and Pyrefly last June . One year later, Meta has released Pyrefly 1.0 . Pyrefly is intended to stand out from the pack by way of a few key features. It’s written …

Cloud computing has reached a crossroads. The high cost and data sensitivity of AI workloads are raising the appeal of private clouds, even as neoclouds and sovereign clouds shake up the cloud provider landscape. New cyberthreats, shifting compute requirements, and management complexity are adding to cloud complications. Download the June 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of…

When I was a kid, we all marveled at the notion of the Star Trek computer that you’d just talk to and that would answer all your questions. It seemed impossibly fantastic and categorically impossible. Well, we have that now. In one episode, Captain Kirk used a universal translator to communicate with an alien (never mind that the aliens always seemed to speak English..). Today, everyone’s phone c…

As enterprises move from AI experimentation to production deployments, one challenge is becoming increasingly apparent: AI systems are only as reliable as the business context they operate in. Snowflake is attempting to address that problem with Horizon Context, a new set of semantic and metadata-management capabilities, currently in preview, that it unveiled Tuesday at its annual Snowflake Summi…

Workday is aiming to help customers to develop and deploy agentic systems without compromising corporate security or compliance, unveiling a series of AI tools at its DevCon event this week. Chief among them is Agent Passport, which validates an agent’s safety and compliance both before it is deployed, and continuously during its operation. When an agent attempts a task, Agent Passport can allow,…

Most enterprises already have access to AI models, so that is no longer the differentiator. The real challenge begins after the demo ends. Organizations are now trying to determine how AI agents interact with ERP systems, supply chains, approvals, security policies, customer records, and operational environments that were never designed for autonomous systems. The reality is that ERP remains the …

Developers who pulled packages from Red Hat’s @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace over the weekend got a secret-stealing worm instead. Security researchers from several cybersecurity outlets are warning of a new supply chain attack compromising over 30 Red Hat Cloud Services-related npm packages to steal credentials, authentication tokens, and other secrets from developer environments. The campa…