As another year draws to a close, experts have begun looking ahead to how the technology landscape will evolve over the course of the next one. Forrester today released its 2026 predictions, with many of them relating to how software development will continue to be impacted by AI. Vibe coding took off in 2025, but … continue reading
Microsoft has announced a public preview for a new feature that aims to enable Copilot in Visual Studio to tackle more complex projects. With its new planning capability in Agent Mode, Copilot will research the codebase to break down big tasks into smaller and more manageable tasks, while also iterating on its plan as it … continue reading
AWS has announced updates to its Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT), its solution that allows customers to track the carbon emissions their AWS usage causes. The CCFT uses the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s classification system that groups emissions into three categories. Scope 1 measures direct emissions, such as those from company facilities or vehicles, while Scope … continue reading
Mabl announces updates to Agentic Testing Teammate The Agentic Testing Teammate works alongside human testers to make the process more efficient. New updates include AI vectorizations and test semantic search, improvements to test coverage, and enhancements to the MCP Server that enable testers to do a number of tasks directly within their IDE, including Test … continue reading
Foxit, a company that provides PDF and eSignature tools, has brought its document capabilities to developers with several APIs. Foxit APIs allow developers to embed document capabilities into their applications, customer portals, and digital workflows. For example, traditionally, a user might need to leave an application to interact with a PDF, as they are often … continue reading
Harness is on a mission to make it easier for developers to do database migrations with its new AI-Powered Database Migration Authoring feature. This new capability allows users to describe schema changes in natural language to receive a production-ready migration. For example, a developer could ask “Create a table named animals with columns for genus_species … continue reading
Anthropic today announced that the recent memory feature in Claude is being rolled out to Pro and Max plan users, making it available to all paid users now. Memory was initially announced in early September, but was only available to Team and Enterprise users to begin with. Memory allows Claude to remember your projects and … continue reading
Red Hat is helping development teams speed up their workflows with the launch of a new portfolio of generative AI solutions called Red Hat Developer Lightspeed. “As the business world moves toward more specialized, domain-specific AI assistants, the demand for raw generative power evolves to delivering trustworthy, reliable and contextually relevant assistance. Red Hat Developer … continue reading
MariaDB’s Enterprise Platform 2026 release was announced today, with the promise that it will act as “the definitive database platform for building next-generation intelligent applications.” According to MariaDB, this latest release combines transactional, analytical, and vector databases into a single database platform. To support agentic AI, the company added native RAG for grounding LLMs with … continue reading
Spotify today announced that Spotify Portal for Backstage is now generally available, providing developers with a ready-to-use version of Backstage, its open source solution for building internal developer portals (IDPs). “Built on a decade of experience improving developer experience at scale, Spotify Portal combines developer velocity, operational insight, and AI-powered assistance into a single pane … continue reading
The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) today announced a new open source orchestration platform for process automation. The project, Fluxnova, provides audit-ready workflows so that companies can visualize and automate their processes, which is a crucial foundation for being able to modernize operations and maintain strong governance. It comes with a toolkit that developers can … continue reading
Sonar, a company that specializes in code quality, today announced a new solution that will improve how LLMs are trained for coding purposes. According to the company, LLMs that are used to help with software development are often trained on publicly available, open source code containing security issues and bugs, which become amplified throughout the … continue reading
