Fresh developments in software, AI and security — full articles from open-license publishers, alongside source news excerpts.
A survey conducted by independent research firm Coleman Parkes on behalf of Undo, a company focused on scaling AI-powered root-cause analysis, found that while AI coding agents have accelerated code generation, they have shifted the…
The Podman and Fedora Quality teams are organizing a test week from Monday, October 12, through Sunday, October 18, 2026. We want your help testing conmon v3, the Rust-based container monitor used with Podman. If…
On October 14, InfoQ will host a free 60-minute panel with five practitioners on running AI in production. They'll discuss agent autonomy and human approval, how to verify AI-generated changes, sensitive-data exposure, and production RAG.…
Grab migrated its high-volume Counter Service from a wide column database to Aerospike using storage abstraction, shadow traffic, data parity validation, and gradual traffic migration. The redesigned data model consolidated time buckets into map-based records.…
Cloudflare placed frontier AI models inside a controlled testing harness to probe its Web Application Firewall (WAF), using blocked attacks as starting points for models to generate and refine new variations. By Matt Foster
Google has made Spanner Omni generally available, running its distributed SQL database on-premises, across clouds or on a laptop. Doing so meant replacing Colossus with a Colossus-like abstraction layer and TrueTime with software-based time synchronization.…
A preview of the 15-track QCon London 2027 program, covering agent evaluation and guardrails, AI-era architecture, distributed-system debugging, modern data platforms, high-performance engineering, and Staff+ leadership. By Artenisa Chatziou
OpenTelemetry has promoted its Kubernetes Attributes Processor to v1.0.0, marking a significant step in making Kubernetes telemetry more predictable and stable across observability pipelines. By Craig Risi
Cloudflare recently launched the open beta of cf, a new open-source, agent-focused command-line interface for interacting with Cloudflare services through a unified CLI. Written in TypeScript, it provides structured output and command discovery to make…
Przemyslaw Alexander Kaminski created RACE, a Rust terminal multiplexer on an infinite canvas that detaches child shells into background processes. When he launched an ad campaign, automated scanners suspended his account for malware despite clean…
This week's Java roundup for September 28th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JobRunr 9.0 and OpenXava 8.0; point releases for Quarkus, Micronaut, LangChain4j, Eclipse JNoSQL; ADK for Java and ADK for Kotlin;…
Akka used 65 open-source projects to examine how specification structure, context, model selection, automated validation, and delivery guardrails affect AI assisted software porting. The experiment measured time, token use, code size, test parity, and performance,…