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The story of GraalVM in early 2026: a project settling into a quarterly cadence, tightening its support matrix, and—thanks to Oracle—being very explicit about what it is no longer going to be.
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In the AI developer boom, some of the most important battlegrounds are not glamorous models or splashy chatbots. They are the quiet pipes that keep modern coding tools fed and up to date.
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Red Hat on Tuesday introduced the Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, a co-engineered software platform that combines Red Hat AI Enterprise with NVIDIA AI Enterprise to help organizations deploy and operate AI systems at scale.
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If you’ve been using AI copilots to build on fast-moving platforms like Firebase, Android, or Google Cloud, you’ve probably hit the same wall: the model sounds confident… and is still wrong. Not because it’s “bad,” but because documentation changes faster than a model’s training cycle—and web-scraping your way to “freshness” is brittle at best. Google’s answer is a new public-preview pairing: the Developer Knowledge API and an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—a machine-readable, canonical gateway to Google’s official developer documentation.
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Cloud security teams are increasingly struggling less with whether they can secure the cloud and more with keeping up with it. That is the central message of Fortinet’s 2026 Cloud Security Trends: Closing the Cloud Complexity Gap, which draws on a survey of 1,163 security leaders and practitioners.
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OpenAI is pitching GPT-5.3-Codex as a long-running “agent,” not just a code helper: The company says the model combines GPT-5.2-Codex coding strength with GPT-5.2 reasoning and professional knowledge, and runs about 25% faster to better handle multi-step work on a computer.
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Container security incidents remain a routine problem for software teams, and many of the day-to-day choices developers make to keep Java services easy to build and troubleshoot can increase security exposure, according to a new survey released by OpenJDK vendor BellSoft.
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Oracle Java reconsideration is widespread: 88% of Oracle Java users surveyed said they are considering alternatives, driven mainly by cost and licensing concerns.
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JHipster 9.0.0-beta.2 deprecates the first beta to fix generator stability issues while advancing the platform to Spring Boot 4.0.2 and a new baseline of Java 21 (plus updated WebSocket security and modernized full-stack tooling).
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Microsoft has made a Bicep-based set of Azure Verified Modules generally available for its Platform Landing Zone, a move aimed at giving customers a more modular, standardized way to deploy Azure Landing Zones with Infrastructure as Code while starting the phase-out of the older "classic" ALZ-Bicep approach.
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Software developers are using AI tools more than ever, but many say their confidence in the results is slipping, according to Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey, which tracked rising adoption alongside growing demands for verification.
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Anthropic is widening access to the computer-using capabilities behind its Claude Code tool with a new research preview called Cowork, aiming to let non-technical workers delegate file-heavy tasks on their Macs while warning about the risks of giving an AI system the ability to act on local files.
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Human in the Loop
Our columnist explores the new "AI continuum" from a developer's perspective, dispels some misconceptions, addresses the skills gap, and offers some practical strategies for marshaling the power of agentic AI systems.
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Java held its position near the top of a closely watched ranking of programming language popularity, even as Microsoft's C# won Tiobe's Programming Language of the Year honors for 2025, highlighting a continuing contest for influence in business software development.
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The Eclipse Foundation, an international non-profit that hosts hundreds of open-source software projects, and Germany’s automotive industry association, VDA, say they have expanded an industry memorandum to build an "automotive-grade" open-source software ecosystem for software-defined vehicles.
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TornadoVM, an open-source plug-in for OpenJDK and GraalVM that compiles and offloads Java code to accelerators such as GPUs, released version 2.0 last month, adding support for new data types and memory-handling features to improve performance and reduce overhead on heterogeneous systems.
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Java platform provider Azul has acquired Payara, an application server company focused on Jakarta EE, as the vendor looks to expand beyond the Java runtime and sell a broader, commercially supported open-source stack to large enterprises.
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Microsoft is bringing GitHub Copilot’s most advanced Visual Studio integration to C++, allowing the AI assistant to tap into the compiler's understanding of whole C++ codebases.
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Human in the Loop
Time for a column update! The Citizen Developer is now Human-in-the-Loop!
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Protegrity, a data security company, has released software designed to help organizations secure artificial intelligence agent systems as businesses grapple with data protection concerns in AI deployments.