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You might’ve missed it amid the spectacle of Gemini demos and AI ethics panels, but Google quietly rewired the front end of the web at its annual I/O conference—and it’s worth your attention. Not just because they streamlined carousels or snuck multimodal prompts into Chrome Canary. No, this is Google laying the groundwork for the next decade of web-native AI.
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At its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft announced a significant update to its AI agent platform, adding support for low-code customization, multi-agent coordination, and new security standards for inter-agent communication in Windows 11.
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CodeRabbit has released a new integration that brings its AI-based code review system directly into Visual Studio Code, along with support for the Cursor and Windsurf IDEs. The extension allows developers to access real-time, in-editor code reviews at no cost, offering a secondary review layer alongside existing Git-based workflows.
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The Citizen Developer
Our columnist envisions a future where citizen developers will be able to create their own "head count" of AI agents performing all manner of tasks for them.
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Microsoft marked the inaugural World Passkey Day (formerly World Password Day) by reaffirming its push toward a passwordless future—signing the FIDO Alliance’s Passkey Pledge and joining other major tech players in accelerating adoption of modern, developer-friendly authentication standards. For engineers, it’s a signal that passkeys are moving from optional to inevitable—and it’s time to start building with them in mind.
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Application delivery platform Harness, in collaboration with recently acquired API security company Traceable, has unveiled Traceable Cloud WAAP, a next-generation Web Application and API Protection platform. The product, launched Tuesday, aims to provide full-stack, context-aware security for cloud-native environments and microservices architectures.
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OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf—formerly known as Codeium—is the company's largest acquisition to date and places the maker of ChatGPT squarely in the heart of the code editor. For developers, this isn’t just news. It’s a direct shift in the tools and platforms that shape their daily workflow.
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Oracle Corp on Tuesday announced the release of Oracle Jipher, a Java Cryptographic Service Provider designed to enable secure deployments of Java applications in U.S. government and enterprise environments that require FIPS 140-2 compliance.
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The OpenJDK community elevated eight new JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposals) to Candidate status during the week of April 14, signaling notable momentum ahead of the upcoming JDK 25 feature freeze. Four of these proposals are slated to be finalized following their respective preview phases.
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The JRuby team has released JRuby 10, a major upgrade of the Ruby implementation on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), introducing compatibility with Ruby 3.4, full support for Java 21, and several performance and startup-time improvements enabled by recent developments in the Java platform.
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OpenAI has made its gpt-image-1 image generation model available through its public API, giving software developers direct access to the same system that powers image creation in ChatGPT. The release allows developers to embed high-quality image generation into their applications, workflows, and tools using a simple API call.
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Our columnist throws a spotlight on the Outsystems Platform because, as he sees it, the introduction of its Mentor AI application generator late last year demonstrates the inevitable intersection of LCAP and Generative AI.
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Google Cloud unveils AI-first developer tools, multi-agent systems, and hyperscale infrastructure to accelerate enterprise app development.
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A new report released by Perforce Software finds that hiring plans for Java developers have slowed significantly heading into 2025, even as businesses continue to rely on Java to power critical applications.
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The Eclipse Foundation has unveiled two major advancements in open-source artificial intelligence development tools: Theia AI and an AI-powered Theia IDE, both aimed at giving developers full control over how AI is integrated into their development environments.
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For software developers, nova.amazon.com is more than a model zoo, the company says, it’s the start of a new way to build.
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Microsoft on Tuesday introduced two new artificial intelligence agents, Researcher and Analyst, for its Microsoft 365 Copilot platform, expanding its use of generative AI to support complex workplace tasks. The agents will begin rolling out to select users in April, the company says.
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Microsoft has supercharged its Security Copilot platform with 11 new autonomous AI agents designed to help developers and security teams triage phishing alerts, remediate vulnerabilities, and secure AI workloads across multi-cloud environments—marking a major step in automated cyber defense tools tailored for modern DevSecOps workflows.