OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...
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9 reasons Java is still great

Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this technology so great, and what does the future hold for Java?
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OpenAI buys Python tools builder Astral

Astral tools and expertise will be leveraged in OpenAI Codex agentic coding app to expand AI capabilities across the software development life cycle.

Amazon security boss says crims abused max-security Cisco firewall flaw weeks before disclosure

Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, ...
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Java 26 Delivers Language Innovation, Library Improvements, Performance and Security

Oracle has released version 26 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first non-LTS release since JDK ...

This open-source app turns Microsoft's GitHub into an app store for your Android phone — and your Windows PC, too

GitHub has a ton of amazing projects within, and this app helps you find interesting ones you might want to use on your ...
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Chainguard Launches Commercial Builds with Industry Leaders, Setting a New Standard for Verifiable, Zero-Vulnerability Software

Azul, Chainloop, Elastic, Expanso, F5 NGINX, Grafana Labs, Mattermost, Nirmata, Percona, Smallstep, and Tiger Data trust Chainguard for verifiably secure software with zero known ...
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QCon London 2026: The Hidden Power of Boring Problems

At QCon London 2026, Yinka Omole, Lead Software Engineer at Personio, presented a session exploring a recurring dilemma engineers face, whether to spend time mastering the newest technologies and ...