This week's roundup includes news from OpenAI with new speed capabilities, Functionalize's MCP and Java SE pricing.

When writing programs in Java, errors are something you simply cannot avoid.You write code, run it, and an error occurs. Even ...

I gave an AI agent one prompt and scored the codebase after every commit. Health 50 to 61, 10,000 lines gone, and a hard stop ...

You don’t need it anymore because VS Code added native bracket pair colorization in version 1.60 and turned it on by default ...

More than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries have been found and fixed by IBM and Red Hat, ...

IBM and Red Hat's Lightwell fixed over 400 Java library vulnerabilities, but the libraries, CVEs and severity ratings are ...

AI agents are transforming legacy application modernization, but they still fail at three things. A grounded 2026 guide to ...

Google Cloud Modernize uses an AI-assisted agent to translate AWS EKS configurations for GKE with human review.

That old Java icon had a much bigger résumé than I gave it credit for.

Project Zenith proves that a bloat-free Windows 11 can exist. Why is Microsoft reserving it for developers with 64GB of RAM?

Malicious spreadsheets can make LibreOffice and OpenOffice run Java code with Java enabled; LibreOffice has fixed the flaw.

I'm not a developer, but I was able to use locally-installed AI to create a writing app suited to my needs. Here's how.