Tim Anderson
JetBrains abandons Fleet IDE, pins hopes on forthcoming Air agentic development tool
Developer tools company JetBrains is discontinuing its Fleet IDE, which was introduced in 2021 but never made it […]
AWS shows Rust love at re:Invent: 10 times faster than Kotlin, one tenth the latency of Go
At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas last week, AWS described how it now uses Rust by default […]
Akamai buys Fermyon for Wasm-based serverless functions – a possible answer to Cloudflare workers
Akamai, a long-established content delivery network (CDN) company, has acquired WebAssembly start-up Fermyon, with the aim of attracting […]
Bun JavaScript runtime acquired by Anthropic, tying its future to AI coding
The Bun JavaScript runtime has been acquired by Anthropic, which already uses the product for deploying Claude Code. […]
AWS Transform revamp uses AI to shift applications from Microsoft’s SQL Server
AWS has revamped its AI-based Transform tool, which assists with application modernization and migration, adding the ability to […]
AWS debuts Lambda managed instances on EC2: more control, lower cost for high volume users
At the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, the cloud giant has introduced Lambda managed instances, […]
Zig project ditches GitHub for Codeberg but move could be costly
The Zig project is migrating from GitHub to Codeberg, a non-profit Git hosting company based in Berlin, Germany, […]
OCaml maintainers reject massive AI-generated pull request
The maintainers of OCaml, an open-source functional programming language, rejected an AI-generated pull request (PR) with more than […]
Microsoft Visual Studio shifts to annual releases, raising cost concerns
Microsoft is accelerating Visual Studio’s update cycle, moving from quarterly to monthly feature updates and introducing annual major […]
Google’s Chromium team decides it will add JPEG XL support, reverses ‘obsolete’ declaration
The Google Chromium team, responsible for the browser engine used in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and more, has […]