Microsoft’s Leslie Miley, technical advisor to the CTO, warns devs of both bias in AI and its environmental cost

QCon London kicked off this week, opening with a sombre keynote from Leslie Miley, Microsoft technical advisor to the CTO on matters including analytics...

Docker subscription revenue 30 times higher than three years ago, CEO claims

Docker CEO Scott Johnston says the company’s annual recurring revenue has increased by 30 times in the past 3 years. At a press briefing...

Despite OpenJDK, 70% of Java fixes and features come from Oracle, Big Red says

Oracle has released Java 20, and says that since Java 11 in 2018 it has contributed over 70% of the fixes and features, measured...

Ten years of React, and new documentation site has framework opinions to share

The React team has released a new documentation site, including recommendations for using “a full stack React framework like Next.js or Remix.” “React will soon...

Microsoft’s Visual Basic: Why it won, and why it had to die

Developer Alan Cooper first conceived Microsoft’s Visual Basic (VB) as a “shell construction kit,” according to a new history written by Retool head of...

Polyglot Notebooks fully released for VS Code, with support for multiple languages – not including Python

Microsoft has declared the Polyglot Notebooks extension to Visual Studio Code ready for business, enabling multiple programming languages to be used in the VS...

Docker to users of Free Team orgs: One month to pay up or we freeze account and images go [Updated]

Update on Friday, March 17: Docker has apologized for the way it communicated its scrapping of free accounts for teams, and sought to clarify...

AWS previews Mountpoint, a specialized open source Rust client to mount S3 storage into the file system

Interview AWS has introduced Mountpoint, an open source client for Linux that connects to S3 (Simple Storage Service) using file APIs, enabling applications to...

Tainted PHP code? JetBrains Qodana has a new detection feature

JetBrains has released a taint analysis feature for PHP in preview, via its early access programme. A “taint”, the company said, is “any value that...

GitHub-extender ZenHub may add GitLab support, claiming platforms are ‘unapproachable’ for non-technical types

ZenHub, which has built its own project management platform on top of GitHub, has enhanced its issue-tracking support. The company also told us that...