Beyond the terminal: Gemini CLI comes to Zed
Google and Zed have partnered to integrate Gemini CLI directly into the Zed code editor, bringing AI capabilities directly into the editor for developers and allowing for faster and more focused coding, enabling tasks like in-place code generation, ins...
Hands-on with Solid: Reactive programming with signals
Solid.js takes a unique approach to reactive state management that has broadly influenced other reactive front-end JavaScript frameworks. It provides a compact set of reactive primitives built on signals, rather than state, and leverages those to supp...
The discipline of great code
One of my favorite TV shows is The Bear. It’s a show about a troubled yet brilliant chef, his family, his friends, and the restaurant they all start together. It’s also about excellence and growing into greatness. The Bear includes what might b...
MariaDB buys back the company it sold two years ago
MariaDB, a company that as recently as last year was very much in transition due in part to the fact its new CEO, Rohit de Souza, is a specialist in preparing organizations for acquisition and resale, went in another direction Tuesday by making an acq...
Microsoft unveils Proxy 4 library for polymorphic coding in C++
Microsoft has released Proxy 4, an update of its Proxy library for runtime polymorphism in the C++ language. The new release introduces building blocks for composing facades, aliases to express borrowing and weak ownership patterns, helpers for effici...
Critical Docker Desktop flaw allows container escape
Users of Docker Desktop on Windows and Mac are urged to upgrade to the latest version to patch a critical vulnerability that could allow an attacker to break the container isolation layer and potentially take over the host system. The flaw could also ...
How to avoid the risks of rapidly deploying AI agents
In a recent poll of technology executives, 92% said they expected to increase AI spending over the next year. Half expected more than 50% of their organization’s AI deployments to be autonomous within the next 24 months. These AI investments include...
How does AI affect cloud attack vectors?
Drawing on key insights from the paper “AI Risk Atlas: Taxonomy and Tools for Navigating AI Risks,” it’s clear the industry faces a crucial challenge. The authors provide a comprehensive framework for understanding, classifying, and mitigating t...
A wake-up call for identity security in devops
In early 2025, GitHub lit up with confusion and more than a little panic. Thousands of developers found suspicious issues posted in their public repositories, flagged with a GitHub-style “Security Alert: Unusual Access Attempt” warning. The proble...
Visual Studio Code update auto-starts MCP servers
The newly released Visual Studio Code 1.103, also known as the July 2025 version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, adds the ability to configure auto-start behavior for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Announced August 7, VS Code 1.103 ...
Databricks buys Tecton to give context to AI agents
To perform tasks as well as a human, AI agents need context — something that has been lacking in many systems to date, according to Databricks. It hopes to fill that gap with a new acquisition, that of San Francisco-based machine learning startup T...
OpenHarmony Technical Conference - Speaker spotlight
OpenHarmony Technical Conference - Speaker spotlight We're excited to share a comprehensive look at the upcoming Oniro event in Florence! We've gathered all of our recent speaker spotlights into one place to give you a full overview of the groundbreaki...
What alternative clouds are good for
Alternative clouds are having a moment. Nearly 75% of organizations are using two or more alternative cloud providers, according to a HostingAdvice.com survey of 500 IT leaders from May 2025. These alternative clouds refer to cloud providers outside t...
Enterprise essentials for generative AI
Every day brings a new, better large language model (LLM) or a new approach to finding signal in all the AI noise. It’s exhausting to try to keep up. But here’s a comforting yet uncomfortable truth about enterprise AI: Most of what’s loud today ...
