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Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (cjose, kernel, libreoffice, rsync, ruby3.3, telegram-desktop, vim, and zlib), Fedora (bind, composer,…

Never Share Your Password Again — The OAuth 2.0 Solution

Java News Roundup: TornadoVM, A2A Java, Open Liberty, Open J Proxy, Gradle, EclipseStore

This week's Java roundup for November 2nd, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of TornadoVM, TornadoInsight, A2A for Java, Gradle and…

Cloudflare Develops Public Certificate Authority for Post-Quantum Web Security

Cloudflare is developing a public certificate authority for Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) to reduce the bandwidth overhead of post-quantum…

Cursor and Google join OpenAI in giving coding agents a voice. Claude Code stays silent.

Two of the biggest players in the AI coding space are betting that developers want to talk to their agents

AWS Launches TorchNeuron to Run PyTorch Models on AWS Trainium Without Modifications

At the recent PyTorch Conference North America 2026, Amazon introduced TorchNeuron, a native PyTorch backend that enables developers to run existing…

Article: Agentic AI Architecture: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities

Agentic AI architecture extends microservices and cloud-native architectures with AI agents that work with context, memory, and protocols such as MCP…

Real-time state has a cost your memory bill won’t show

Real-time applications often combine tools with distinct roles. A typical setup might use Kafka to handle events, Flink to process

Tokio Releases Topcoat: A Batteries-Included Full-Stack Rust Framework

Topcoat is an open-source, server-rendered full-stack web framework for Rust from the Tokio team, now public at version 0.9.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang under investigation after admitting affair with alleged Chinese spy in company-wide email

Nvidia's board of directors has launched an investigation into its own CEO Jensen Huang, after a report by the New York Times claimed he had been…

How NVIDIA Open Source Tools Are Helping Researchers Build Next-Generation 6G Networks

A year ago, NVIDIA open sourced its Aerial wireless software, joining Sionna and a broader suite of open source tools for accelerating…

Copilot code review: API management and review overview updates

You can now manage GitHub Copilot code review settings through the REST and GraphQL APIs, from enterprise policy down to individual repositories.

Copilot impact dashboard adds chat and VS Code agent usage

The Agent adoption chart in the Copilot impact dashboard now includes Copilot Chat and the VS Code Agents window, so you can see engagement across…

Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide to agentic engineering

Writing code got faster. The work around it didn't. See how you can plan, write code, review changes, and investigate production issues with GitHub…

GitHub Copilot weekly releases — November 2

This week, Copilot comes to JetBrains Air and Xcode’s coding assistant, with updates to help you manage pull requests, settings, and agent sessions.

@GitHub in Slack and Teams is generally available and more

Turn conversations into code with @GitHub in Slack and Teams! Investigate bugs, create issues, implement changes, and open pull requests—all without…

Entire's Git Forge Rethinks Git Collaboration for Coding Agents

Entire is a Git forge designed specifically for collaboration between human developers and AI coding agents.

Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents

Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves…

Scaling an autonomous agent from one team to fifty: A serverless-to-container decision framework

QA teams shipping complex products generate test failures around the clock. Every failure needs a bug ticket with steps, screenshots,

NVIDIA Launches Investigation Into Jensen Huang's Relationship With Suspected Chinese Spy

NVIDIA announced on Sunday that the company's board of directors is launching a full-scale independent investigation into recent reports of founder…

Asahi Linux 7.3 progress report

The Asahi Linux developers have put out a new report on their progress toward a Linux distribution for Apple devices.

Amutable Foundations: A Technical Overview

Lennart Poettering, Michael Vogt, and Joaquim Rocha have put together a detailed overview of what the Amutable Operating System (AOS) and associated…

Cloudflare Scales D1 Control Plane to Millions of Databases

In a recent article, Cloudflare shared the redesign of the control plane of its D1 serverless SQL database to support millions of databases, avoiding…

Notable V8 changes from Node.js 26 to 27 (Alpha)

Usage metrics API adds code review details and addressed rate

The enterprise and organization repository-level Copilot usage metrics reports now show what happens to Copilot code review feedback.

Nier: Automata developer is 'currently investigating' a bizarre update bug that drastically inflated the game's file size from 50GB to 366GB

Square Enix is 'working to resolve the issue'.

Open Source pg_vectorsearch Brings More Scalable Vector Search to PostgreSQL

Tiger Data has released pg_vectorsearch, an open source PostgreSQL extension for vector similarity search, currently in alpha.

Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity

Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified…

Varlock Releases Bumpy: a File-Based Versioning Alternative to Changesets

Bumpy is an MIT-licensed, TypeScript tool for version management and changelogs in monorepos.

WoW: Forever is the biggest launch in World of Warcraft history, says Blizzard

World of Warcraft: Forever is the biggest launch in the MMO's history, pulling in more concurrent players than any previous WoW launch.

In the software factory, engineers become process engineers

For most of software’s history, the scarce resource was people who could write code. Every process the industry built assumed

Why AWS wants developers to stop babysitting their AI agents

AWS first introduced Kiro, its agentic, spec-driven development environment, in July 2025. It also introduced Kiro Crew in August of

Announcing rustup 1.29.3

The rustup team has published a new point release of rustup, 1.29.3. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a programming language that…

Scaling Git at OpenAI

How OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.

[$] User namespaces + file capabilities = trouble

User namespaces are a key part of the kernel's toolkit for assembling containers; processes within a user namespace can appear to have full root…

Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world

Louis Erbkamm built the first prototype in his free time. Now GitHub Copilot helps him maintain it alone.

NVIDIA App Update Adds DLSS Override Support to 19 More Games

NVIDIA has released NVIDIA App 11.0.9.585, a small update that adds DLSS Override profiles for 19 games and Optimal Settings profiles for six.

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 5, 2026

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Kernel cells; Debian LLM reviews; glibc system-call wrappers; Binder in Rust; Kernel CVE flood;…

Welcome to life in the chip age

Ryan sits down with Rakesh Kumar, professor of computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about the astounding complexity…

Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor is laying off staff, a month after it started bringing back furloughed devs

The game sold roughly 1 million copies in its first month and a half

AI agents are getting more complex. Developers shouldn’t have to babysit them.

What if your coding agent could catch its own mistakes before you ever reviewed its work? A few years ago,

Cognition turned an open model into a coding beast. But it won’t release the weights.

Cognition built its newest coding model on a foundation that anyone can download, yet the company is keeping its own

“Most apps never make it off localhost”: Cursor takes on Lovable and Replit with fully managed app deployment

AI coding agents have certainly made it easier to transform an idea into a working application. However, getting that application

Node.js 24.22.2 (LTS)

Securing the agentic insider

In the last few months, concerns have arisen about AI safety as a growing number of incidents were publicly disclosed.

Announcing TypeScript 7.1 Beta

Today we’re excited to announce the beta release of TypeScript 7.1! npm install -D typescript@beta Let’s take a look at what’s new in TypeScript 7.1!

Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement now available

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to support new features and updated policies, and to provide clarification.

Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin

Two engineers shipped Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation.

Announcing Rust 1.99.1

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.99.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and…

OpenIndiana 2026.10 released

Version 2026.10 of the OpenIndiana operating system has been released. OpenIndiana is based on Illumos, which in turn was based on OpenSolaris after…

Python 3.16.0 alpha 1 is now available

The first developer preview of Python 3.16 is ready for testing.

Modernizing the VS Code UI

See how developer feedback is shaping the modern VS Code interface, from layout density and editor tabs to themes and responsiveness.

Better HTTP/1 connection reuse

Go 1.27 includes a change to the HTTP client that can make programs sending many sequential HTTP/1 requests significantly faster.

GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack

Today, we laid out our vision for GitHub as the most comprehensive, end-to-end software delivery system in the world.

Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents

See how a record year of growth reached every industry, every field, and every kind of builder in the 2026 Octoverse report.

Remedy revenue soars by 226% following release of Control Resonant, the developer's fastest-selling game ever

Remedy - the developer behind the recently released Control Resonant - has released a scorcher of a quarterly financial report.

How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @r31n, diving into their research approach, favorite bug classes,…

The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure

We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub's repositories to Azure. Here's how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage…

How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity

Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results.

Father Arrested For Leaving 6-Year-Old Daughter Sleeping In Line For Pokémon Cards

NL used Rage. A 35-year-old South Carolina man has been arrested and accused of leaving his 6-year-old daughter asleep while waiting in line for…