devops Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams
Devops C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations
DevOps Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations
AI + ML Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents Always bet on backpropagation
Devops Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future
Devops Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho
Patches Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows
Devops Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor
Devops GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain After Hashicorp co-founder blasts the source shack and numbers slide
AI + ML The future of software development: Now with less software development At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI
AI + ML IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability 80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags
AI + ML Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end
AI + ML Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding
Software OpenTelemetry co-founder tools up for project graduation party We gotta get boring to get graduated
AI + ML Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline
Security Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: 'I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code' Legit-looking website, camera-on interviews, jokes about backdoors ... it worked
Devops GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement
Software Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone
Software New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowball
AI + ML AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in We've been here before. This time, we may not get out
Devops Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director
AI + ML Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed
Security Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software
AI + ML Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform
AI + ML Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work Here comes 'enterprise vibe coding' as CRM giant aims to open development to anyone on the platform
Devops GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs Long-familiar workflow lets developers split big code changes into smaller, easier-to-review chunks
AI + ML Experts and laypeople agree: AI will hurt elections and relationships Latest report from Stanford's AI boffins finds unsafe usage practices, widespread anxiety about impacts, and China catching up to the USA
Devops Cloudflare revamps CLI as agents take over the internet What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human?
Security Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities
AI + ML Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with that
Security Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue
Software Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools
Software Microsoft calls time on ASP.NET Core 2.3 on .NET Framework Tangled tale nears end as Redmond classifies it as a tool, not a library
AI + ML AMD's AI director slams Claude Code for becoming dumber and lazier since last update 'Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks' according to GitHub ticket
AI + ML Anthropic sure has a mess on its hands thanks to that Claude Code source leak Pay no attention to that code behind the curtain, says Anthropic as it scrambles to defend its IPO
AI + ML Anthropic goes nude, exposes Claude Code source by accident Oopsy-doodle: Did someone forget to check their build pipeline?
Devops Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected' Unexpected quota drain prompts complaints, breaks automated workflows
Devops Contracts are in C++26 despite disagreement over their value Inventor Bjarne Stroustrup argues feature is neither minimal nor viable
AI + ML GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager
AI + ML AI will write code, but prepare to babysit it – and be sure you speak its language This week on the Kettle, we predict that AI software development won't make you want to fire your devs anytime soon
Software Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead Agent will capture issues and eventually debug code
AI + ML AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away
AI + ML JetBrains shifts to agentic dev with Central, retires pair programming Bye-bye Code With Me as company focuses on other areas
Software Avalonia bolts Linux and WebAssembly onto .NET MAUI Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edges
Software AI for software developers is in a 'dangerous state' Strong forces tempting humans out of the AI loop, and reducing the experience needed to supervise and review
Devops Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projects
AI + ML Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on-demand credits or $250 per month Ultra plan
Public Sector Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying Government offers £100K to support software forecasting how travelers choose departure hubs
AI + ML Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts The card game bridge could be a bridge too far for Mountain View's AI
Software Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed Brand-new stripped-down fork of the Zed all-Rust code editor
Security Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed
Devops Generic methods arrive in Golang, but they weren't the top dev demand Approved proposal reverses earlier stance, even as survey highlights bigger frustrations
AI + ML OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform
Software Rapid AI-driven development makes security unattainable, warns Veracode Report claims more vulnerabilities created than fixed as remediation gap widens
AI + ML Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious' It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'
OSes Rogue devs of sideloaded Android apps beg for freedom from Google’s verification regime 37 groups urge the company to drop ID checks for apps distributed outside Play
Devops Go library maintainer brands GitHub's Dependabot a 'noise machine' When a one-line fix triggers thousands of PRs, something's off
Devops Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs Russinovich and Hanselman say firms must train juniors to fix agent mistakes – not replace them with prompts
Software Workaholic open source developers need to take breaks A week off for vacation? The nerve of some people
Software EFF policy says bots can code but humans must write the docs 'Just trust us' – Big Tech's hackneyed catchphrase makes an unwelcome return
Devops From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding Security is 'dangerously behind' though, as devs 'treat it as something to solve later'
Devops Agile Manifesto turns 25 – just in time for vibe coding to test it Co-author Jon Kern says AI coding tools amplify strengths and expose weaknesses
AI + ML Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions GitHub itself to blame for AI slop pull requests, say devs
AI + ML Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up
Devops React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components Not everyone's convinced React belongs on the server as well as in the browser
Security Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder The end isn't nigh after all
OSes Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support Many vital open source resources rely on the devotion of a few individuals
Offbeat There's nothing micro about this super-sized Arduino Uno It's 7x the size of the regular board
AI + ML Google's Project Genie could put even more game developers out of work A Labs prototype turns prompts into short, explorable 3D worlds
Offbeat Hacker taps Raspberry Pi to turn Wi-Fi signals into wall art Pipe local wireless noise through an SDR into an RPi, and 64 LED filaments do the rest
AI + ML Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea For trivial projects, it's fine. For serious work, forget about it
Offbeat Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data Yes, London property prices are high. But here's a picture of Boris Johnson
Offbeat Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote Just insert a disk and the TV starts playing three-year-old’s favorite shows
AI + ML AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power
Applications Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars A full-featured, Sixel-capable terminal browser for those who’d rather skip AI assistants
Agentic AI Workers should control the means of agentic production, suggests WorkBeaver boss What if AI vendors focused on the demand side?
Research Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date
Security CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns Plus: automated SBOMs, $250,000 bounties ahead
AI + ML AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankers
Devops Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card Paris Buttfield-Addison literally wrote books on Swift
AWS Re:invent AWS admits AI coding tools cause problems, reckons its three new agents fix 'em Autonomous AI triages DevOps issues and pushes code to repositories, while checking security
Devops Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons
OSes This Thanksgiving, top your turkey with Cranberry sOSS to fund open source Unusual holiday drive raises cash for the people keeping critical code alive
AI + ML Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus) Coding purists once considered BASIC harmful. AI can't even manage that
OSes Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers
Applications Avalonia brings Linux, browser support to Microsoft's MAUI cross-platform app solution Third-party framework builds alternative backend using its own renderer and WebAssembly
Software Google to allow Android users with high pain tolerance to sideload unverified apps Promises some easing of rules that knobble indie devs, eventually
Software Researchers want to kill the vibe, propose better model for AI coding MIT researchers offer cure for illegible software
AI + ML 'Vibe coding' named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant It's not a bug, it's a feeling
AI + ML Coders paired with bot buddies work fast, but take too many shortcuts Trust me bro, says GitHub Copilot. And programmers just... do
Software India to dethrone US for dev numbers as AI reshapes coding, says GitHub TypeScript was ranked top programming language
Systems Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag
Devops Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns
AI Software Development Week Virgin Atlantic is piloting an OpenAI agent in to help with the 'customer journey'
Black Hat and DEF CON Software innovation just isn't what it used to be, and Moxie Marlinspike blames Agile
CSO How did a CrowdStrike file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look at the code
