Visual Studio Code stabilizes agent mode
Visual Studio Code 1.99, the latest release of Microsoft’s popular code editor, is now available. Highlights of the update center on GitHub Copilot agent mode, Next Edit Suggestions, and Copilot chat. Developers can access Visual Studio Code 1.99, a...
Cloudflare unveils agentic AI development tools
Following on its February release of the Agents SDK JavaScript framework for building AI agents, Cloudflare began its Developer Week today by announcing a series of tools and features designed to accelerate agentic AI development. And to pull all of t...
Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity – Tiobe index
The Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby languages have slipped from their top 20 positions in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. All three seem to have lost traction and to be in decline, according to Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen. Published April 7, the...
Build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in C#
Learn how to build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server using the C# SDK to enable seamless communication between AI models and applications. The post Build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in C# appeared first on .NET Blog.
10 Java-based tools and frameworks for generative AI
Java is not the first language most programmers think of when they start projects involving artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Many turn first to Python because of the large number of Python-based frameworks and tools for AI, ML, ...
Language models in generative AI – does size matter?
Generative AI applications revolve around the large language model, or LLM. From the launch of ChatGPT through to today, LLMs were the focal point for generative AI. They attracted billions in funding and innovation was rife. But are they as essential...
AI demands more software developers, not less
It’s time we officially bury the idea that AI means we won’t need software developers. For years, we’ve heard that generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are coming for our jobs. In software development, that supposedly means fewer human...
Critical deserialization bug in Apache Parquet allows RCE
A flaw in code for handling Parquet, Apache’s open-source columnar data file format, allows attackers to run arbitrary code on vulnerable instances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-30065, is a deserialization issue (CWE-502) in Parquet’s Ja...
Google Cloud Next ’25: What to expect
Google Cloud Next ’25, which runs from April 9-11 in Las Vegas ,will showcase the latest advancements and future directions of Google Cloud Platform and cloud computing in general. Naturally, you can expect a strong emphasis on artificial intelligen...
Blissfully fast and simple JavaScript frameworks
Simple and fast. That’s all we want from our software tools. And meeting the requirements, of course. You can’t go without that. Also, we’d like them to be pleasant to use, with a good developer experience. It would be really great to have a...
Basking in JavaScript refinements
Simple and fast. That’s all we want from our software tools. And meeting the requirements, of course. You can’t go without that. Also, we’d like them to be pleasant to use, with a good developer experience. It would be really great to have a...
Enterprises are getting worse at multicloud
In the initial years of multicloud adoption, enterprises took cautious, calculated steps to build and manage infrastructures that spanned multiple cloud providers. The objective was flexibility, performance optimization, and risk mitigation. Yet, in 2...
Sonatype warns of 18,000 open source malware packages
Software supply chain security company Sonatype uncovered 17,954 open-source malware packages during Q1 2025, the company revealed in its Open Source Malware Index. Sonatype’s Open Source Malware Index for Q1 2025 was introduced April 2. A prolifera...
Rust language adds trait upcasting
The Rust team has announced Rust 1.86, an update of the language that now features trait upcasting, or the ability to upcast trait objects. Rust 1.86 was announced April 3. For users with a previous version of Rust, the update can be accessed via the ...
Hyperlight Wasm points to the future of serverless
Back when I first wrote about Hyperlight, Microsoft’s minimal hypervisor, I speculated that it had a possible role as a WebAssembly-based alternative to serverless computing tools like Azure Functions, using Kubernetes as a host. So it wasn’t too ...
Accelerate cloud infrastructure initiatives with Lucid Software
Cloud and development operations (devops) teams are under constant pressure to do more, faster. They have outdated systems to update and manage, new systems to build, and requests from business units who need their support. It’s a velocity problem, ...
How to use guard clauses in C#
We always strive to write source code that is clean, maintainable, and devoid of any errors. However, we may often find that our application’s code is cluttered because we’ve used too many nested constructs or branches to validate our business rul...
Django 5.2 release touts automatic model importing
The latest version of the Python web framework features an automatic model-importing capability in the shell. This release also spells the end of support levels for previous version 5.x releases. Unveiled April 2 by the Django Software Foundation, t...
