A new report indicates the web gaming market is rocketing, in stark contrast to the levelling-out of the broader mobile, PC, and console markets. According to research by Playgama, the market for browser-based games has grown 2.7 times in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. This represents a 4.9-fold …
Mistral has rolled out a complete AI coding stack, including Codestral 25.08, that aims to solve the key problems stopping generative AI from taking hold in enterprise software development. The integrated suite of tools is designed to create a secure, customisable, and efficient AI-native development environment. While AI coding assistants have shown immense promise over …
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North Korea’s infamous Lazarus Group hackers are increasing their weaponisation of open-source software, according to a new Sonatype report. The state-sponsored hackers are hiding malicious code inside seemingly normal software packages to steal secrets from developers in advanced supply chain attacks. Since the start of 2025, researchers have found 234 unique malicious packages linked to …
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Developers are adopting AI tools faster than ever before, but their trust in what they produce is also falling off a cliff. This is the core story from Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey, an annual check-in with the global developer community that has become a real bellwether for the industry. Drawing on the experiences of …
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Linus Torvalds has given developers a heads-up that the merge window for Linux kernel 6.17 could be “slightly chaotic”. In his release announcement on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Torvalds confirmed that Linux kernel 6.16 was ready following a calm final week. “It’s Sunday afternoon, and the release cycle has come to an end,” …
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A plan to break the perceived mobile duopoly of Apple and Google, and their respective app stores, has been called “weak” by Epic Games. The UK’s competition watchdog, the CMA, has fired the starting gun on a new regulatory chapter that proposes to designate Apple and Google with “strategic market status” for their dominance over… …
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The Python development team has announced the arrival of 3.14’s first release candidate before its official launch in October. This release, designated 3.14.0rc1, represents the penultimate preview of the next major version. With the release candidate phase now underway, the core team will be locking down the codebase. From this point forward, only reviewed bug… …
Open-source AI sounds like an open door. Developers can grab code for models like Meta’s Llama, Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, or anything from Mistral, and start building. The tools are free to download and use. The idea is to give everyone – from solo programmers to small teams – the same tools big companies have.… …
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In a victory for human intellect, developer Przemysław Dębiak has defeated an AI in a gruelling coding battle. The event, the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025 Heuristic Contest held in Tokyo, pitted human programmers against AI in a formidable 10-hour challenge. Dębiak, a renowned figure in competitive programming, emerged at the top of the leaderboard.… …
The curl open-source project is grappling with an overwhelming deluge of low-quality “AI slop” security reports. The situation has become so severe that curl founder Daniel Stenberg says it threatens the future of its successful bug bounty programme, sparking a vigorous debate within the developer community about how to protect open-source projects from this new… …
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