Month: November 2025

Microsoft is focusing on long-term stability and more flexible developer tooling with its new “AI-native” Visual Studio 2026 IDE and .NET 10. These new releases are aimed at two main business goals: first, improving developer productivity with AI help, and second, embedding new AI and security features directly into the applications themselves. AI tools in …

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Author: Or Hillel, Green Lamp The adoption of containerisation has permanently changed the architecture and operations of software systems. As organisations replatform and modernise their applications, container images have emerged as the foundational unit of software delivery. Each image may encapsulate dozens of dependencies, third-party libraries, operating system components, and development tools, layered to streamline …

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AI is changing software engineering faster than anyone expected. In the United States, 6.1% of computer science graduates are unemployed — double the rate of art history majors. According to Ray Kok, CEO of Mendix, a subset of Siemens, this trend shows that traditional software engineering is being redefined by AI. “AI has catalysed the …

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Starting in 2026, Android apps that cause battery drain from excessive wake locks will face reduced discoverability on the Play Store. A great user experience is built on a foundation of strong technical performance. For developers, this principle is moving from a best practice to a direct commercial imperative with battery consumption now potentially impacting …

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Your AI research assistant wants access to your inbox. Google’s Gemini Deep Research can now read emails, scan Google Drive files, and review Chat conversations to generate reports. But the feature, which rolled out to Gemini Advanced subscribers on Nov 7, 2025, comes with notable privacy caveats that users should understand before granting permission. The …

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Security researchers have uncovered malicious packages on NuGet that act as time-delayed time bombs aimed at databases and industry systems. The attack, discovered by Socket, involves nine malicious packages published on the NuGet registry. While several packages target databases with dormant code set to trigger in 2027 and 2028, the most alarming is Sharp7Extend, a …

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At TechEd 2025, SAP showed how AI is becoming part of everyday enterprise software development. The company is weaving AI tools into its platforms to help developers work faster, make better use of data, and connect what they build more closely to business goals. SAP’s latest updates focus on giving developers more flexibility in how …

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For years, the narrative was that cloud-native would consign mainframes to history. To hear about the actual reality, Developer caught up with Dr Elizabeth Maxwell, Global Director of Mainframe Modernisation at BMC Software. “There was a period where mainframes were being reviewed for replacement, but we have seen a complete pivot in this thinking,” says …

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Android developers may soon benefit from a new set of commercial rules following a likely settlement between Epic Games and Google. After years of contentious litigation, Epic Games and Google have reached a “comprehensive settlement” and are now jointly asking the US District Court to approve a new framework for app distribution and in-app billing. …

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A new library, React Native Godot, enables developers to embed the open-source Godot Engine for 3D graphics within a React Native application. Enterprise development teams often have to balance the cross-platform efficiency of frameworks like React Native against rising user demands for the rich and interactive graphics. Standard business apps are fine for data entry …

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