Development

AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming

Claude passed 80% of tasks assigned in a recent study

AI + ML22 May 2025 | 24

GitHub Copilot angles for promotion from assistant to agent

Build Agent mode arrives, for better or worse

AI + ML19 May 2025 | 7

Socket buys Coana to tell you which security alerts you can ignore

Sometimes, less information is more

Security15 May 2025 |

Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos

AlphaEvolve may optimize your code in ways you hadn’t thought possible. Or not. Not is possible, too

AI + ML15 May 2025 | 12

Today's LLMs craft exploits from patches at lightning speed

Erlang? Er, man, no problem. ChatGPT, Claude to go from flaw disclosure to actual attack code in hours

AI Software Development Week21 Apr 2025 | 19

Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy

Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to int main(enter the void)...

AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 24

Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs

Cloud Next Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure

AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 18

Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel

Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection

Research29 Mar 2025 | 56

Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms

DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software

Software28 Mar 2025 | 22

Open Source Initiative defends disallowing board candidate after timezone SNAFU

Here's another thing AI can do: Cause conflict around whether it's compatible with the very idea of open source

Software28 Feb 2025 | 28

GitLab and its execs sued again and again over 'misleading' AI hype, price hikes

Bosses bragged about Duo Chat bot, buyers weren’t buying it – claim

AI + ML20 Feb 2025 | 7

AI can improve on code it writes, but you have to know how to ask

LLMs do more for developers who already know what they're doing

Software07 Jan 2025 | 34

CAPTCHAs now run Doom – on nightmare mode

As if the bot defense measure wasn't obnoxious enough

Offbeat03 Jan 2025 | 42

GitHub's boast that Copilot produces high-quality code challenged

We're shocked – shocked – that Microsoft's study of its own tools might not be super-rigorous

AI + ML03 Dec 2024 | 58

Everything you need to know to start fine-tuning LLMs in the privacy of your home

Hands on Got a modern Nvidia or AMD graphics card? Custom Llamas are only a few commands and a little data prep away

AI + ML10 Nov 2024 | 18

You have issues with 'Issues' always being called 'Issues' in Jira, so Atlassian now allows them to be called ‘Tasks’

Developers get auto-coding ideas drawn from bug reports, and more AI besides

Devops10 Oct 2024 | 22

Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home

Hands on Here's how to get started with the open source tool Continue

AI + ML18 Aug 2024 | 28

What's going on with AMD funding a CUDA translation layer, then nuking it?

Analysis We guess the House of Zen wants all you HIP kids to ROCm out with its own runtimes instead

Software09 Aug 2024 | 10

CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

Something called 'Content Validator' did not validate the content, and the rest is history

Security24 Jul 2024 | 154

Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up 'reimagining' project

Interview Jon Kern is looking for Agile exemplars, not the 'Agile Industrial Complex'

Devops16 Jul 2024 | 156

Figma pulls AI design tool for seemingly plagiarizing Apple's Weather app

AI is 'like the fast food of creativity'

AI + ML03 Jul 2024 | 12

OpenAI develops AI model to critique its AI models

When your chatbots outshine their human trainers, you could pay for expertise ... or just augment your crowdsourced workforce

AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 6

Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started

Hands on In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story

AI + ML22 Jun 2024 | 6

Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain

No wonder most orgs are slowing their spending

AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 132

By 2030, software developers will be using AI to cut their workload 'in half'

Prepare for the HyperAssistant of the future, maybe

AI Software Development Week28 May 2024 | 98

Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs

Microsoft-backed super-lab gets direct access to answers – and code forum gets its own AI

AI + ML07 May 2024 | 26

Java 17 now developers' favorite brew, with Eclipse Adoptium proving popular, too

New Relic report also sees accelerated uptake of freshly-ground JDK releases

Software01 May 2024 | 6

Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison

The software redemption

Devops25 Apr 2024 | 29

Meet clickjacking's slicker cousin, 'gesture jacking,' aka 'cross window forgery'

Web devs advised to do their part to limit UI redress attacks

Security03 Apr 2024 | 9

Authorities dismantled LockBit before it could unleash revamped variant

New features aimed to stamp out problems of the past

Cyber-crime22 Feb 2024 | 2

Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments

I'd buy that for a $0.00000001

Applications13 Feb 2024 | 105

ANZ Bank test drives GitHub Copilot – and finds AI does give a helping hand

Expert Python programmers saw the most benefit

AI + ML10 Feb 2024 | 40

Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe

Analysis At least web competition will finally be allowed

Software27 Jan 2024 | 80

What is Model Collapse and how to avoid it

Feature We chat to AI expert Ilia Shumailov about the pitfalls of using machines to train machines

Software26 Jan 2024 | 16

Google's AI-fueled IDE Project IDX tries to show you how your app runs on Android, iOS

Work in progress, approach with caution

Software26 Jan 2024 | 3

Simon Willison interview: AI software still needs the human touch

Feature Code assistance is like having a weird intern who memorized the docs

Software24 Jan 2024 | 9

How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers

Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you

AI + ML20 Jan 2024 | 44

Microsoft prepares Visual Studio 2013 for retirement

Tick-tock, developers: End of the road comes on April 9, 2024

Software03 Jan 2024 | 9

Microsoft Forms feature request still not sorted after SEVEN years

Request for time input field was added to project backlog – where it remains

Software13 Dec 2023 | 41

Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge

Memory safety vulnerabilities need to be crushed with better code

Public Sector07 Dec 2023 | 185

Microsoft .NET MAUI devs vent over bugs backlog, response times

New features are great and all, but maybe fix some of the issues too?

Software29 Nov 2023 | 28

Atlassian users complain of cloud migration dead ends, especially in UK

Lack of local clouds and inflexible offers see users depart. Maybe the new ‘Compass’ developer experience tool will be more to their liking

Software18 Oct 2023 | 29

Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in future release

It's PowerShell or something similar in the not too distant future

OSes10 Oct 2023 | 49

Unity CEO 'retires' in the wake of fee fiasco

Ex-Red Hat CEO James M Whitehurst takes the big chair in the interim

Software10 Oct 2023 | 46

Forcing Apple to allow third-party app stores isn't enough

Opinion You're excited about Meta offering iOS apps via Facebook ads? Really?

Applications09 Oct 2023 | 75

Make-me-root 'Looney Tunables' security hole on Linux needs your attention

What's up, Doc? Try elevated permissions

Patches04 Oct 2023 | 47

If you want to fund open source code via Patreon with GitHub, well now you can

Exploited open source maintainers get broader payment pleading options

Devops03 Oct 2023 | 4

And now for something completely different: Python 3.12

Nobody expects more flexible string parsing

Devops03 Oct 2023 | 29

Unity apologizes, tweaks runtime install fees after gaming world outrage

Is this the engine maker's final continue?

Software22 Sep 2023 | 16

The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust

Turns out we can have nice things?

Software02 Sep 2023 | 141

Meta lets Code Llama run riot under almost-open terms

Was this source-generating model used to bang out Threads in a week or something?

AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 4

Magento shopping cart attack targets critical vulnerability revealed in early 2022

Really? You didn't bother to patch a 9.8 severity critical flaw?

Patches11 Aug 2023 | 7

Microsoft wants you to think inside the Dev Box from July

If you like the idea of building software on Windows in the cloud, this may be for you

Devops23 May 2023 | 8

Rust Foundation so sorry for scaring the C out of you with trademark crackdown talk

Should have wrapped proposed rules on name and logo use in unsafe {} ?

Software17 Apr 2023 | 35

Open source Socket Runtime arrives, with aim to drop cloud as a dependency

Interview Web code-based cross-platform app kit offers a P2P alternative

Devops11 Apr 2023 | 3

Pentagon advised to get agile if it wants to keep up with evolving threats

I feel the need, the need for code speed

Public Sector07 Apr 2023 | 14