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By John K. Waters
Application security provider Qwiet AI has expanded its integrations with Microsoft Azure and GitHub and introduced new AI-powered AutoFix capabilities aimed at speeding secure software delivery.
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By John K. Waters
A comprehensive analysis of AI development tool usage reveals stark disparities in how developers worldwide are integrating AI assistants into their workflows, with profound implications for the future of software development, according to a new study from Anthropic.
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By John K. Waters
JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new two-year LTS cadence (after 21), and it lands with meaningful language cleanup, startup/perf work, forward-looking security, and a steady drumbeat toward AI-era workloads.
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By John K. Waters
NVIDIA has announced partnerships with several operating system providers and package managers to redistribute its CUDA parallel computing platform, aiming to simplify software deployment for developers working with GPU-accelerated applications.
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By John K. Waters
The DevOps company's new tool promises to streamline how developers manage software built with artificial intelligence assistance—but it's entering a crowded field.
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By John K. Waters
Survey of 300 executives reveals near-universal adoption of artificial intelligence programming aids, but companies insist on human review before deployment.
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By John K. Waters
A comprehensive study of more than 500 developers has quantified what many in the field already experience daily: AI coding tools excel at handling repetitive work, but leave the more complex problems to human developers.
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By John K. Waters
NIST's new cybersecurity framework addresses the challenging choice between patching quickly and breaking everything.
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By John K. Waters
GitHub said Wednesday it has launched a new interface allowing developers to delegate coding tasks to its Copilot AI assistant from any page on its platform and track progress in the background.
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By John K. Waters
SP 800-53 meets machine learning—and it's going to affect your code.
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By John K. Waters
Alphabet Inc's Google said on Tuesday it has added code review capabilities to its artificial intelligence coding assistant Jules, allowing the system to critique and refine code while generating it rather than in a separate review step.
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By John K. Waters
GitHub CEO Thomas Domke announced his resignation on Monday, marking the end of the code repository platform's independent leadership structure as parent company Microsoft moves to integrate it more tightly within its artificial intelligence operations.
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By John K. Waters
OpenAI dropped GPT-5 last week with the usual fanfare, and I've been diving into what it actually delivers versus what the marketing promises. Spoiler alert: it's complicated, and not always in the ways you'd expect.
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By John K. Waters
Employers are paying significantly higher salary premiums for practical artificial intelligence skills than for formal AI certifications, according to new research that tracked compensation data from nearly 5,000 companies.
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By John K. Waters
For decades, Java has been the enterprise world's go-to programming language—the reliable, if somewhat verbose, workhorse powering everything from banking systems to e-commerce platforms. But when the AI revolution hit, Java developers found themselves on the sidelines, watching Python programmers build chatbots and image generators with seemingly magical ease. Now that's changing, thanks to an unlikely duo: Quarkus and LangChain4j.
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By John K. Waters
R Systems, a global provider of digital product engineering services, has announced a strategic partnership with Anysphere to deploy its AI-powered code editor, Cursor, across the company's software development operations. The move aims to embed artificial intelligence into every stage of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and scale up delivery capabilities.
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By John K. Waters
Software licensing compliance has become a costly burden for enterprises, with more than a quarter of organizations now spending over $500,000 annually to resolve licensing non-compliance issues, according to a joint survey by Java platform provider Azul and the ITAM Forum.
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With OpenAI’s deep research model under the hood, Azure AI Foundry shifts from toolkit to think tank—arming developers with agents that analyze like PhDs and scale like cloud services.
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As we continue to hurtle toward the crossroad between Low-Code Application Platforms and Generative AI, our columnist notes, one company has developed a tool that dispenses with development of the classic "functional spec" and goes straight to generating an application.
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By John K. Waters
Google on Wednesday released Gemini CLI, a new open-source command-line interface that integrates its Gemini AI models directly into developer terminals. The tool is available in preview and is designed to support coding, research, and system-level tasks using natural language prompts.
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Our columnist looks at the latest agent-oriented tools that Citizen Developers should know about.
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By John K. Waters
Apple on Monday introduced a broad set of developer-focused software tools aimed at enhancing the integration of artificial intelligence and generative models across its ecosystem.
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By John K. Waters
Azul, known for its Java-focused software platforms, and JetBrains, creator of the Kotlin programming language, are leveraging their respective strengths to address JVM performance bottlenecks. The companies aim to streamline the execution stack for Kotlin applications by combining Azul's runtime optimization expertise with Kotlin’s fine-grained bytecode control.
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By John K. Waters
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.