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JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up

Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.

Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November

The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data

Oracle pins hopes on 'Star Wars' productivity jump to lightspeed from AI-assisted engineering

Big Red talks up superhuman coders after shedding 21,000 staff

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Insider: Red Hat is capping devs' bot budgets

And no sharing your allowance! What do you think we are, communists?

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Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1

K8s 1.37 also unsticks a Metrics API that has been lodged in beta status for nine years

GitHub Actions was down yet again

Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test

Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose

Eight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces

How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings

S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work

'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up

CTO promises architectural overhaul following second outage of the month

Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords

v 1.27 expands generics to support methods

Software development and tech services in the cross-hairs as AI marches on

Analysts warn of disruption to long-established tech activity

SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs

Remote functions bring type-safe remote procedure calls right into Web page components

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Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore

Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations

Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare

Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure

AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription

Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms

Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death

Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits

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Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests

You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?

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Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages

New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims

As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK

Use it to debug and review, says Big Red, but don't submit its output

Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer

Persistent sessions could be just the beginning

After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres

Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends

Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers

Just don’t call the WinRT projection for Node.js a lock-in

How AI drove Shopify back to clean code

Turns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback

AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI

Hey Claude, optimize this model for me

Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past

Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog

GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team

Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters

Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage

Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over

Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists

Haskell adherents revisit the language's tongue-in-cheek 'avoid success at all costs' mantra

Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’

The port took just 11 days and about $165,000 at API pricing

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HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

New verb carries request content while remaining safe, idempotent, and cacheable

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Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships

10X faster build times could force Slack developers back to their keyboards

Avoid AI atrophy – new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay

Want big muscles? Keep working out. Want big coding skillsets? Flex your dev skills with the Atrophy CLI app before they wither away

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New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead

Fed up with forgetting flags? Let Instagui read --help output and build a browser GUI instead

GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues

A purported jab of Sony's physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself

Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery

Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard

Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy

Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity

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Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out

Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist

No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle

Apple's final break with Chipzilla leaves another platform preparing to wind down support

.NET's long-term support is not long-term enough, dev complains

Three-year lifecycle leaves enterprises with barely a year to adopt each LTS release

Miasma campaign poisons 20-plus npm packages, hunts for developer secrets

Microsoft says latest attack targets Leo Platform and RStreams packages, harvesting creds and going after more maintainers

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FOSS dev builds a BASIC compiler using LLVM

Not just any old BASIC, either: OS-9’s BASIC09

Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency

SPI co-creator Dave Verwer joins Apple, says 'We will be moving away from that model completely'

Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software

Despite warnings of revenue deflation, chairman predicts AI will make more work, not less, for services orgs

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Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen

93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI

Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update

Feature is not yet stable, but will offer easy conversion of web applications

AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime

Suitable for running untrusted code, AI agents, or any long-running task

Vercel debuts eve open source agent framework, tries to fix shadow AI with Passport

Cost premium of using AWS indirectly via Vercel is mitigated by more efficient use of compute resources, CTO claims

Git good with Epic Games' new open source VCS, Lore

Got big binaries? Tired of other version control systems that treat them like inferior files? Lore might be worth a look

AWS hypes continuous agentic DevOps, puts Kiro in your pocket

Trust is the biggest barrier to AI adoption, says AI chief, claiming that new features in Bedrock AgentCore will prevent bad outcomes

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Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more

Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us

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Java's Project Valhalla finally lands a preview in JDK 28

Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release

Hand-cranked AI box lets you get a workout while you wait for answers

We're all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank-powered AIs?

Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own

Blending containers and VMs but some features half-baked

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GitHub pulls pin on npm's auto-run scripts

Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors

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Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway

Pressure to deploy wins out over security as four in five orgs confess to breaches from vulnerable apps

Apple courts developers with privacy and context in AI comeback bid

Apple Intelligence stumbled through 2024 and 2025. It's starting to look respectable

Python JIT compiler project under threat after steering council says proper process wasn't followed

No new features to be submitted to main branch, existing code removed in 6 months if new proposal not created and accepted

TypeScript devs no longer need to tangle with C# to use Aspire dev stack after Microsoft update

Aspire is a powerful tool for developers but not well understood – and pure TypeScript AppHost may broaden its appeal

Remote work – not AI – is killing job prospects for the youth

Young professionals may be perfectly productive while working from home, says the New York Fed, but the quality of their output isn't so great, so companies don't want to hire them

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Agentic AI arrives for Delphi and C++ Builder

Kai is an extension for RAD Studio (Delphi and C++ Builder) that integrates with external AI providers

GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended'

Another day, another GitHub wobble - but the service keeps growing

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Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust

Unsafe bits get a warning label in planned low-level coding shake-up

Threat hunters find Google API keys still usable 23 minutes after deletion

Plenty of time for cyber crims to grab data or hit you with a giant bill

Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and they worry it's after their desk too

Most software engineers now use AI for most of their code and fear the existential threat

Bye-bye, Gemini CLI; Google's gone and swapped you for a closed-source AI

Most users lose access June 18 - unless you’ve got enterprise creds or paid API keys

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GitHub says internal repos exfiltrated after poisoned VS Code extension attack

Initial assessment says customer data spared while users wonder what else may have slipped out

Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller

Well, page is more accurate, but the source code is available if you want to try doing something even crazier

TanStack weighs invitation-only pull requests after supply chain attack

Shai-Hulud worm exploited GitHub Actions misconfiguration to poison shared cache, now project weighing nuclear option on unsolicited contributions

Google reimburses Register sources who were victims of API fraud

But it's holding fast on auto-expanding customers' budgets

Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami

An influx of agents is pushing GitHub to the brink