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Adobe backtracks, reanimates Animate following user backlash

Suprise: Adobe Animate, the successor to Flash Professional, still has dedicated users who complained loudly when the company said it would discontinue it

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Adobe backtracks, reanimates Animate following user backlash

Anthropic research: skilled devs make better use of AI, but using AI is bad for learning skills

Kubernetes leadership warns of Ingress NGINX risks, but has also hastened its deprecation

TypeScript inventor Anders Hejlsberg: AI is 'a big regurgitator of stuff someone has done'

WebAssembly gaining adoption "behind the scenes" as technology advances

Microsoft previews command-line tool created because calling modern Windows APIs is too difficult

VS Code tasks config file abused to run malicious code

LLVM project adopts "human in the loop" policy following AI-driven nuisance contributions

Microsoft updates React Native for Windows. Developers ask, 'Why not use MAUI?'

jQuery 4.0 released, first major version since 2016

Vibe coded applications full of security blunders

Code signing Windows apps may be easier and more secure with new Azure Artifact service

Open source MySQL repository has no commits in more than three months

Fly.io introduces Sprites: lightweight, persistent VMs to isolate agentic AI

Tailwind Labs lays off 75 percent of its engineers thanks to 'brutal impact' of AI

Microsoft open sources XAML Studio amid developer discontent with Visual Studio designers

Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready

Dramatic drop in Stack Overflow questions as devs look elsewhere for help

Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome

GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers

Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code

VS Code update brings agent overload, TypeScript 7 preview, and the end of IntelliCode

Research: AI can help or hinder software development, and old-style best practices make the difference

JetBrains abandons Fleet IDE, pins hopes on forthcoming Air agentic development tool

AWS shows Rust love at re:Invent: 10 times faster than Kotlin, one tenth the latency of Go

Akamai buys Fermyon for Wasm-based serverless functions – a possible answer to Cloudflare workers

Bun JavaScript runtime acquired by Anthropic, tying its future to AI coding

AWS Transform revamp uses AI to shift applications from Microsoft’s SQL Server

AWS debuts Lambda managed instances on EC2: more control, lower cost for high volume users

Zig project ditches GitHub for Codeberg but move could be costly

OCaml maintainers reject massive AI-generated pull request

Microsoft Visual Studio shifts to annual releases, raising cost concerns

Google's Chromium team decides it will add JPEG XL support, reverses 'obsolete' declaration

Copilot .Net modernization tool a 'huge downgrade,' devs say – and no longer free

Inside the cloud’s shift to Arm: Why hyperscalers and the industry are making the switch

We take a look at Google's Antigravity: Agentic AI development but some frustrations for early adopters

Google VP of development explains how 'citizen developers' must be tempered by the pros

AWS S3 gets vector buckets with new algorithms for reasonable performance at lower cost, VP tells us

Hands on with Kiro, the AWS preview of an agentic AI IDE driven by specifications

Microsoft shovels extra Copilot features into VS Code amid dev complaints of 'more AI bloat'

Docker adds AI agents to Compose along with GPU-powered cloud Offload service

Despite 30 months work, core developer says Python's JIT compiler is often slower than the interpreter

Things Go better with telemetry: Microsoft adds phone home to its Go build

Zig lead makes 'extremely breaking' change to std.io ahead of Async and Await's return

Security researcher exploits GitHub gotcha, gets admin access to all Istio repositories and more

Microsoft SQL Server MCP tool: 'Leap in data interaction' or limited and frustrating?

Cloudflare container platform in public preview with scale to zero pricing, some initial limitations

Microsoft to finally expunge the Azure AD Graph API

Avalonia UI sponsorship 'completely removes' open source vs commercial conflict claims CEO

Google positions itself for 'next decade' of AI as Gemini CLI arrives with generous free tier

"Serious" MySQL bug celebrates 20 years unfixed - another reason to switch to PostgreSQL?

React ecosystem is fractured but Vercel is not the villain, argues Redux maintainer

CloudBees opens MCP server so agents can infiltrate DevOps

AI is generating code at scale – but human scale code review can’t keep up

CNCF pitched into backup mode as Salesforce pulls free enterprise Slack

Misconfigured GitHub Actions could leave repos and secrets exposed, Sysdig finds

Redefining identity security in the age of agentic AI

TIOBE Index: SQL slides in programmer popularity stakes

GitLab warms up investors for winter release of agentic AI flavoured Duo Workflow

Databricks opens up agentic AI pipelines, fills in Postgres-powered Lakebase

New Relic aims to crack open MCP servers

Apple's Containerization will matter to developers – but Podman devs complain of unfixed issues

Shadow AI in the enterprise: managing risk without slowing progress

Enforced Kotlin, breaking changes, grabbing signing keys: Google makes Android development too hard say devs

Cursor AI editor hits 1.0 milestone, including BugBot and high-risk background agents

Apple developers reject Java, claim big savings from switch to Swift

Angular 20: focus on reactivity and performance, possible solution for deprecated Karma testing

Node.js frustrating and inefficient? OpenAI rewrites AI coding tool in Rust

Microsoft designates Blazor as its main future investment in Web UI for .NET

Microsoft’s Linux-friendly approach to C# scripting is planned for .NET 10

Researchers warn of prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub MCP with no obvious fix

JetBrains previews official VS Code language server for Kotlin, unveils fresh language features at KotlinConf

JetBrains and Azul claim big Kotlin performance gain from costly Zing JDK

Microsoft's .NET Aspire 9.3 adds reverse proxy, enhanced dashboard which phones telemetry home by default

MCP will be built into Windows to make an 'agentic OS' but security will be a key concern

Interview: Chief maintainer of Qt project on language independence, KDE, and the pain of Qt 5 to Qt 6