Cursor AI editor hits 1.0 milestone, including BugBot and high-risk background agents

Anysphere has released version 1.0 of its AI editor, Cursor, along with new features including previews of a BugBot that…

Apple developers reject Java, claim big savings from switch to Swift

An internal Apple developer team revealed in a new case study that "Java’s memory management approach no longer aligns with…

JetBrains previews official VS Code language server for Kotlin, unveils fresh language features at KotlinConf

The annual JetBrains KotlinConf is in progress in Copenhagen, with news including the first official LSP (Language Server Protocol) extension…

JetBrains and Azul claim big Kotlin performance gain from costly Zing JDK

JetBrains and Azul have announced a "strategic technical collaboration" to improve the performance of Kotlin applications running on the JVM…

Microsoft's .NET Aspire 9.3 adds reverse proxy, enhanced dashboard which phones telemetry home by default

Microsoft has updated .NET Aspire to version 9.3, including reverse proxy support, MySQL integration, easier integration with Azure blog storage,…

MCP will be built into Windows to make an 'agentic OS' but security will be a key concern

Microsoft’s Build developer conference is under way in Seattle, where the company has revealed plans to make the Model Context…

Interview: Chief maintainer of Qt project on language independence, KDE, and the pain of Qt 5 to Qt 6

Volker Hilsheimer, chief maintainer of the Qt project, says he has learned lessons from the painful Qt 5 to Qt…

Mozilla quietly makes Microsoft’s GitHub the authoritative home for Firefox code

The non-profit Mozilla Corporation has made Microsoft-owned GitHub the "canonical home" for the source code of the Firefox web browser,…

Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers

Stack Exchange, the company behind Stack Overflow and other question-and-answer sites, says it is "embarking on a rebrand process," as…