Hashtag Jakarta EE #272
Hashtag Jakarta EE #272 Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Jakarta NoSQL 1.0 has passed its release review and is now publicly available. This is a major milestone for the project. Congrats to the team! It seems...
JDK 25: The new features in Java 25
Java Development Kit (JDK) 25, a planned long-term support release of standard Java due in September, now has two features officially proposed for it. The first is a preview of an API for stable values, a feature that promises to speed up the startup ...
Stupendous Python stunts without a net
In this week’s Python Report: Sly tricks for setting up Python on a machine with no network, snappier Python code with asyncand await, swifter Python programs with Zig, and slicker web apps with HTMX and Django. Top picks for Python readers on InfoW...
Java hiring plans slip, survey says
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How DeepSeek innovated large language models
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Speeding up .NET application development with Uno Studio
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IT leaders are driving a new cloud computing era
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Google unveils Gemma 3 multi-modal AI models
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GitHub to unbundle Advanced Security
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OpenAI takes on rivals with new Responses API, Agents SDK
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Experiment with Gemini 2.0 Flash native image generation
The experimental native image generation feature of Gemini 2.0 Flash – allowing for the combination of text and images, conversational image editing, and leveraging real-world knowledge for contextual visuals – is now available for developers to te...
Airgapped Python: Setting up Python without a net(work)
The vast majority of modern software development revolves around one big assumption: that you always have a network connection. If you don’t, it’s typically because you’re on an airplane with no Wi-Fi, and that’s temporary. But what about when...
