Oracle has formally refused to restructure control of the Community Edition of MySQL, following a request that it do so from a consortium of database companies providing forks of the database, and from MySQL users. The decision comes after the consortium’s major players, Percona and VillageSQL, met Oracle earlier this month to discuss the changes…
Businesses of all sizes depend on “office” suites for their day-to-day tasks and for collaboration. AI, for its part, promises significant productivity gains for knowledge workers and for anyone who works with documents. According to studies, we spend over half our time using “office” software. And the global market for productivity applications is worth $22.5…
The world of software development is changing very rapidly, and agentic coding is the catalyst. And by “very rapidly,” I mean “so fast that things are basically spinning almost out of control.” What a fantastic time to be alive. With Claude Code, I have become (if I do say so myself) a 10x developer. Sometimes it feels…
I’ve asked GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and other large language models (LLMs) to help me construct a nuclear weapon. All of them said no. Let’s be clear, my lack of knowledge is not the real barrier to constructing one. The knowledge is public, free, and well-documented. You can read The Manhattan Project’s declassified…
Ever since Electron’s first release, developers have both rejoiced and lamented. Electron offers a convenient way to package a web-UI application across platforms, with almost exactly the same behavior, UI/UX, and underlying codebase everywhere. But it also imposes a large memory and disk-space footprint, bundling a full copy of a web browser and JavaScript runtime…
Amazon reportedly convened an engineering meeting Tuesday to discuss “a spate of outages” that are tied to the use of AI tools, according to a report in the Financial Times. “The online retail giant said there had been a ‘trend of incidents’ in recent months, characterized by a ‘high blast radius’ and ‘gen-AI assisted changes’”…
Anthropic has introduced Code Review to Claude Code, a new feature that performs deep, multi-agent code reviews that catch bugs humans often miss, the company said. Introduced March 9, Code Review is available in a research preview stage for Claude for Teams and Claude for Enterprises customers. Dispatching agents on a pull request, Code Review…
TypeScript 6.0, a planned update to Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, has reached the release candidate (RC) stage, with the RC adding type checking for function expressions in generic calls. The last TypeScript release based on the JavaScript codebase, before TypeScript 7.0 introduces a compiler and language service based on the Go language for better…
AI took center stage at Reltio DataDriven 2026, where global data and AI leaders aligned on one urgent priority: turning trusted, real-time, contextual data into scalable AI and measurable business impact. Reltio made a clear strategic bet: The next enterprise AI bottleneck isn’t model choice or orchestration but shared context — rebranding its platform around…
JetBrains has introduced two new tools for AI-assisted software development: Air, an environment for delegating coding tasks to multiple AI agents and running them concurrently, and Junie CLI, an LLM-agnostic coding agent. Both were announced on March 9. Air, in public preview, can be downloaded from air.dev, while Junie CLI, in beta, is accessible at…
