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JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

JetBrains has defended its removal of negative reviews and feedback for its AI Assistant on its plugin marketplace, […]

GNU compiler collection 15.1 released: COBOL support, improved Rust, compatibility concerns

GCC (GNU compiler collection) 15.1 is out, a major new version and the first to include a COBOL […]

The hidden cost of dev stack diversity within an enterprise: ‘Engineering chaos’

A survey of over 100 enterprises reported by DevOps startup Earthly showed that the top CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous […]

Docker introduces MCP Catalog and Toolkit as vendors scramble to support the protocol despite security concerns

Docker has introduced its own MCP (Model Context Protocol) catalog alongside an MCP Toolkit for managing MCP tools. […]

Next.js 15.3 released with near-complete Turbopack support – but React Server Components are under fire

Next.js 15.3 is out with near-complete Turbopack support – but React Server Components (RSCs) are under fire in […]

JetBrains goes live with Junie AI agent, updates AI assistant, adds free tier

Developer tools maker JetBrains has declared its Junie AI coding agent production-ready, updated its older AI Assistant with […]

JRuby 10 released with jump to Ruby 3.4, Java 21, despite loss of Red Hat sponsorship

The team behind JRuby has released version 10 with a jump compatibility to Ruby 3.4, a minimum Java […]

PHP security audit of critical code reveals flaws, fixed in new release

The PHP Foundation has reported the results of a security audit of the most critical parts of the […]

20 years of Git: ‘Never a big thing for me,’ says inventor Linus Torvalds 

Git, the dominant version control system for code, is 20 years old this month, but inventor Linus Torvalds […]

QCon London: Microsoft’s C# now a contrarian choice?

Sam Cox, co-founder and CTO of a start-up called Tracebit, spoke at QCon London about his decision to […]