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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

White head silhouette with blue C++ letters on a yellow background.

C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply

Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations

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

Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents

Always bet on backpropagation

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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

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

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

Welder on a scaffold performing maintenance on the rusty hull of a massive vessel. Pic by: Deniss Dronin / Shutterstock

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

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

Anush Elangovan, corporate VP of software for AMD, at AI Dev x 26

The future of software development: Now with less software development

At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI

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

Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis

The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end

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Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database

Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding

OpenTelemetry co-founder tools up for project graduation party

We gotta get boring to get graduated

Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter

System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline

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

Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain

Rising refusal rate from Acceptable Use Classifier leaves customers paying for nothing

Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar

Down to you to work out the value

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

Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad

Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet

Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot

Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security

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

Apple has an opportunity to rediscover humanity in its push toward AI

John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have been

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch

Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us.

Using the Gemini agent and Android CLI to build an application

New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans

Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowball

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in

We've been here before. This time, we may not get out

Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus

Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director

Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale

Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed

Concept illustration of a AI system trying to understand art and design

Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams

The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model

Screenshot of Chrome's 'Aw, snap!' error message

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

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Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers

Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform

Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal

Large organizations pushed toward metered pricing

Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits

Repair of bug that undercounted token usage leads to rapid exhaustion of subscription allowance

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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

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

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

Cloudflare revamps CLI as agents take over the internet

What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human?

Claude is getting worse, according to Claude

Brief outage follows growing number of quality complaints

I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable

AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew that

Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities

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

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

Juila Liuson, Microsoft president of developer division

Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off

Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools

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

Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it

Fabled Q&A site for devs struggles with its future as AI takes over its original purpose

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

Anthropic closes door on subscription use of OpenClaw

The company is having trouble meeting user demand

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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

Netflix – yes, Netflix – jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene

Combination of Sam Altman and Satya Nadella

Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images

About that partnership...

The EmDash dashboard is reminiscent of WordPress but is built on Astro

Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

Name is a joke but the project is real, said main engineer

Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands

A hard-coded limit on deny rules drops automatic enforcement for concatenated commands

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system

If you loved the data retention of Microsoft Recall, you'll be thrilled with Claude Code

Anthropic goes nude, exposes Claude Code source by accident

Oopsy-doodle: Did someone forget to check their build pipeline?

Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

Unexpected quota drain prompts complaints, breaks automated workflows

Usage pricing leaving software vendors guessing what lands on the invoice

'Converting AI capability into sustainable, auditable revenue remains a challenge' says PwC survey

Contracts are in C++26 despite disagreement over their value

Inventor Bjarne Stroustrup argues feature is neither minimal nor viable

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager

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

The first thing vibe coding builds is confidence it will help you succeed

And developers should be confident it won't kill the craft

Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession

The maker of Claude faces headwinds as it rushes to go public

Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys

Global bank's devs have some cleaning up to do after cloud creds found in website code

Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours

AI biz makes some Claude conversations more costly to manage capacity

Using AI to code does not mean your code is more secure

Use of AI coding assistants has surged, but so has the number of vulnerabilities in AI-generated code

Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead

Agent will capture issues and eventually debug code

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

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out

AI supply chain attacks don’t even require malware…just post poisoned documentation

A proof-of-concept attack on Context Hub suggests there's not much content santization

JetBrains shifts to agentic dev with Central, retires pair programming

Bye-bye Code With Me as company focuses on other areas

Telling an AI model that it’s an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer

Researchers say persona-based prompting can improve works for safety but not for facts