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C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup argues that AI coding tools produce bloated, insecure, and unverifiable code, eroding programmers' foundational skills and industry quality, and that natural language programming is fundamentally flawed due to ambiguity.
Quartex Pascal releases a new compiler with Delphi-compatible generics, full RTTI, binary records for low-level memory access, near-doubled compilation speed, and self-hosting capability, demonstrated by porting the Reticulum network protocol from C to Object Pascal.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison established then withdrew a 10b5-1 plan to sell up to 50 million shares worth ~$7.5B, a move that highlighted tensions between U.S. insider-trading safe harbors and EU blackout rules, while Oracle's AI-driven cloud growth, rising debt, and Ellison's personal financing commitments for his son's media deals added pressure on the stock.
Sam Altman endorses Dario Amodei's proposal to slow frontier AI development and allow competitors to coordinate on safety, with OpenAI committing to give external evaluators near-internal access while seeking antitrust exemptions for such collaboration.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publishes 'We Must Pace the Frontier' calling for slowing frontier AI development due to risks from recursive self-improvement, announces embedded external evaluators with employee-level access, and outlines a three-step plan for democratic and global coordination, prompting immediate support from Musk, Hugging Face, and OpenAI.
Switzerland launches a 9 million Swiss franc pilot to test the German open-source suite openDesk on 3,000 government workstations as a Microsoft 365 alternative, part of a wider European shift toward digital sovereignty and cost savings seen in France's Linux migration and a German state's move to LibreOffice.
Microsoft has officially designated Rust as a Tier-1 programming language alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript, providing full toolchain support and MSVC integration, enabling Rust's use in core services like Microsoft 365 and Azure, and aiming to eliminate memory vulnerabilities in Windows.
NVIDIA PAIR is an open-source tool that distributes AI inference tasks across multiple local devices via Ollama or LM Studio, demonstrating up to 2x speedup in multi-agent workloads but with no guaranteed linear scaling, supporting Windows, Linux, macOS on RTX 20+ or Apple M4+ hardware.
This article examines how PHP 8 features like constructor property promotion and short arrow functions can mask God objects and cause memory leaks, arguing that developers must replace lost friction with static analysis and architecture enforcement tools.
This article traces jQuery's 20-year journey from its 2006 debut as a cross-browser DOM simplification tool to its enduring presence on 66% of websites today, examining how it lowered barriers to web development, shaped modern frontend practices, and remains foundational despite the rise of frameworks like React and Vue.
