Tim Anderson
Google VP of development explains how ‘citizen developers’ must be tempered by the pros
At Google’s London Summit last week, developer news included three new AI-related features in Firebase Studio, a browser-based […]
AWS S3 gets vector buckets with new algorithms for reasonable performance at lower cost, VP tells us
Updated: AWS has previewed a new bucket type for S3 (simple storage service), designed for AI workloads, and […]
Hands on with Kiro, the AWS preview of an agentic AI IDE driven by specifications
AWS has previewed Kiro, a fork of Code OSS (the open-source part of Visual Studio Code) which promotes […]
Microsoft shovels extra Copilot features into VS Code amid dev complaints of ‘more AI bloat’
Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to version 1.102 with another bundle of Copilot features including […]
Docker adds AI agents to Compose along with GPU-powered cloud Offload service
Docker has added AI agent support to its Compose command, plus a new GPU-enabled Offload service which enables […]
Despite 30 months work, core developer says Python’s JIT compiler is often slower than the interpreter
Ken Jin, a CPython core developer who works on the experimental JIT (just in time) compiler optimizer, says […]
Things Go better with telemetry: Microsoft adds phone home to its Go build
Microsoft will add telemetry collection to its build of the Go language compiler and tools, used for FIPS […]
Zig lead makes ‘extremely breaking’ change to std.io ahead of Async and Await’s return
Zig programming language inventor and lead developer Andrew Kelley has pushed a breaking change to std.io.Reader and std.io.Writer, […]
Security researcher exploits GitHub gotcha, gets admin access to all Istio repositories and more
A security researcher investigated an archive of commits on GitHub, which developers had likely thought they had deleted, […]
Microsoft SQL Server MCP tool: ‘Leap in data interaction’ or limited and frustrating?
Microsoft has previewed an MCP tool for SQL Server, implemented both for Node.js and .NET. The notion of […]