Google’s Android developer verification program draws pushback

Google’s planned Android developer verification program, requiring Android apps to be registered by verified developers, is getting pushback, with opponents urging developers not to sign up for the program and to make their opposition known. An open letter opposing the verification program was posted February 24 at Keep Android Open, a consortium that is fighting…

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Lightrun unveils AI SRE to find and fix software production errors

Lightrun has announced Lightrun AI SRE, an AI-powered site reliability engineering (SRE) assistant designed to detect software production errors and performance degradations. Introduced February 25, the Lightrun AI SRE correlates the service-level issues it finds with proven root causes to propose solutions. Drawing on on live, in-line runtime context, the AI SRE allows AI agents…

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The browser is your database: Local-first comes of age

Once upon a time, we had mainframes with simple, nonprogrammable consoles. All the power was centralized. Then, Gates and Jobs put a personal computer on every desk. The power was distributed. Then, the internet came along, and the browser became the most popular application in the world. The power moved back onto the server, the…

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Three web security blind spots in mobile DevSecOps pipelines

We know that mobile development in 2025 was different. It shifted from a “front-end” concern to a massive, distributed headache in which the most vulnerable component could be any unmanaged, hostile endpoint. In fact, 43% of organizational breaches originate at the mobile edge. The problem lies with the outdated web-centric security models that app developers…

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Abandoned project linking Java, JavaScript makes a comeback

Once envisioned as a bridge between Java and JavaScript, the Detroit project never got off the ground. Now, there are efforts at reviving it, adding a Python engine to the mix. Intended to enable using JavaScript as an extension language for Java applications, the Detroit project fizzled out after losing its sponsoring group around 2018….

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Inception’s Mercury 2 speeds around LLM latency bottleneck

Inception has introduced Mercury 2, calling it the world’s fastest reasoning LLM. Intended for production AI, the large language model leverages parallel refinement rather than sequential decoding. Mercury 2 was announced February 24, with access requests available on Inception’s website. Developers can also try Mercury 2 using the Inception chat. Inception says Mercury 2 is…

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