Fresh developments in software, AI and security — full articles from open-license publishers, alongside source news excerpts.
Microsoft has released a public preview of dotnetup, a cross-platform toolchain manager that installs and updates .NET SDKs and runtimes in the user’s own directory without admin rights. It tracks channels such as latest, lts,…
Cilium 1.20 has been released with broader Kubernetes Gateway API support, an extensible eBPF datapath and further work on sidecarless mutual TLS. The release also makes the newer netkit network device easier to introduce across…
TornadoVM, an open-source heterogeneous programming framework for Java, has reached version 7.0. It automatically accelerates Java programs on multi-core CPUs and GPUs and provides a rich GPU programming ecosystem in Java that can be used…
Full article · CC BY 4.0In a victory for data privacy, a federal court in New York definitively ruled that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) violated the law when it disclosed millions of federal employee records to DOGE agents.…
GitHub has released Actions Runner Controller (ARC) 0.15.0, introducing reliability, scalability, and observability improvements for organisations running self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on Kubernetes. By Craig Risi
Full article · CC BY 4.0This post was co-written by Andi Cao, an EFF legal intern. Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are mass surveillance. They photograph every passing car and log where and when it was captured, building a searchable…
This week's Java roundup for October 12th, 2026, features news highlighting: three OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 28; the October 2026 edition of Azul Payara; point releases of Gatherers4j, Yupiik Fusion, Google ADK for Java…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Free Tracker Blocker Used by Millions Will Protect Even More Users' Privacy SAN FRANCISCO—Privacy Badger, the award-winning tracker blocker made by the member-supported digital rights nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), is now available for Safari…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Exciting news for Safari users: Privacy Badger is now available on Safari for macOS! You’ll need Safari version 26.5 or higher to use it. Whether you want to protect yourself from data brokers or just…
JDK 28 finalizes structured concurrency through JEP 543, with no API changes from JDK 27. Teams on JDK 27 only need to drop --enable-preview and recompile. Code written for JDK 25 or 26 must adapt…
Pinterest has introduced event time-based partition finalization for its database ingestion framework. The mechanism uses Apache Flink to track event time and Apache Iceberg metadata to publish a non-regressing watermark, helping downstream jobs determine when…
Based on Gemma 4 and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 is a compact, open-weight, multimodal embedding model designed to make semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) more efficient while optimizing performance…