Eclipse Foundation releases Jakarta EE 11
Moving forward with the development of its enterprise Java application platform, the Eclipse Foundation has released Jakarta EE 11 Platform, which promises simpler data access and streamlined testing processes. Java 21 support also is featured. Rolled...
How to use route constraints in ASP.NET Core minimal APIs
When working with minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core, you can define routes for the HTTP verbs using mapping methods such as MapGet, MapPut, MapPost, and MapDelete. While these methods allow you to route each request to the correct destination, you should a...
Bringing post-quantum cryptography to Windows
Much of what we do to keep our online lives secure relies on public-key cryptography and its complex mathematical operations. At the heart of these techniques are sets of one-way functions that generate the public and private keys used to encrypt and ...
Simulating a neural operating system with Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
A research prototype simulating a neural operating system generates UI in real-time adapting to user interactions with Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, using interaction tracing for contextual awareness, streaming the UI for responsiveness, and achieving statefu...
Google unveils Gemini CLI for developers
Google has introduced Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that brings Gemini AI capabilities right to a developer’s terminal. Unveiled June 25, Gemini CLI is a command-line AI workflow tool that connects to a developer’s tools, understands the dev...
Software development meets the McNamara Fallacy
The McNamara Fallacy is the idea that it is an error to make decisions purely on measurements or quantitative data. Robert McNamara was the US Secretary of Defense during most of the 1960s, during the first half of the Vietnam War. He came to the pos...
AI benchmarking tools evaluate real world performance
A new AI benchmark for enterprise applications is now available following the launch of xbench, a testing initiative developed in-house by Chinese venture capital firm HongShan Capital Group (HSG). According to an analysis of the benchmark posted Tues...
New AI benchmarking tools evaluate real world performance
A new AI benchmark for enterprise applications is now available following the launch of xbench, a testing initiative developed in-house by Chinese venture capital firm HongShan Capital Group (HSG). The challenge with many of the current benchmarks is ...
Imagen 4 is now available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio
Imagen 4, Google's advanced text-to-image model, is now available in paid preview via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, offering significant quality improvements, especially for text generation within images. The Imagen 4 family includes Imagen 4 fo...
Gemini 2.5 for robotics and embodied intelligence
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash are transforming robotics by enhancing coding, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities, including spatial understanding. These models are used for semantic scene understanding, code generation for robot control, and building int...
LLMs aren’t enough for real-world, real-time projects
The major builders of large language models (LLMs)—OpenAI, DeepSeek, and others—are mistaken when they claim that their latest models, like OpenAI’s o-series or DeepSeek’s R1, can now “reason.” What they’re offering isn’t reasoning. It...
Public cloud becomes a commodity
Since the dawn of the public cloud era, the narrative has focused on disruption and innovation. The Big Three providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) have commanded center stage by captivating customers and analysts alike wi...
Google’s Agent2Agent project moves to Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the new home of the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, an open protocol developed by Google to enable agentic AI interoperability and trusted agent communication across systems and platforms. Launched by Google in April, the A2A proto...
Ktor adds dependency injection and HTMX modules
JetBrains has released Ktor 3.2.0, an update to the Kotlin-based framework for building asynchronous applications that brings modules for dependency injection and HTMX and automatic deserialization of configuration files into data classes, among other...
