The AI Note Writer API enables developers to build agents to propose Community Notes on potentially misleading content across the X platform. Community Notes, X’s crowdsourced fact-checking system, allows contributors to add context to posts that might contain misleading information. AI agents can now join the ranks of note writers, though with due human oversight… …
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Privacy firm Proton is joining a lawsuit against Apple on behalf of app developers that claim to have been squeezed by App Store policies. Proton makes it clear this wasn’t a decision they took lightly. So, why now? They point to a string of recent legal blows against Apple. A European court slapped Apple with… …
The NSA and CISA are urging developers to adopt programming languages that reduce the risks of memory safety vulnerabilities. For a long time, the tech world has tried to patch over this problem. The thinking was that with enough training, smart tools, and careful work, developers could avoid these errors. But the evidence shows that… …
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A dedicated crew, the Swift on Android Working Group, has assembled with the mission to make the language a first-class citizen in the Android world. The working group signals a shift away from Apple’s usual approach towards a future where building for Android with Swift is as streamlined and reliable as it is for the… …
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Google is rolling out something for software developers who live in their terminal windows: a Gemini AI CLI tool. Many developers have a special relationship with their terminals, and Google clearly recognises this with the decision to embed Gemini’s capabilities into this environment. “The terminal’s efficiency, ubiquity, and portability make it the go-to utility for… …
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Apple is testing more changes in its second developer beta for iOS 26. The update follows announcements made at WWDC 2025, and include a fresh naming system, interface updates, and small functional changes in apps. All Apple operating systems will now follow a year-based naming format. That means this year’s updates are called iOS 26,… …
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Huawei Cloud has rolled out Pangu Models 5.5 at the Huawei Developer Conference 2025, introducing a new round of updates focused on helping businesses solve real-world problems with AI. The latest version includes upgrades in five key areas: natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV), multimodal modelling, prediction, and scientific computing. Zhang Ping’an, executive director… …
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A threat campaign has been targeting software developers through GitHub repos that, at first glance, look completely legitimate. Security researchers from ReversingLabs found over 60 GitHub repos containing what appeared to be ordinary hacking tools written in Python. But, look a bit closer – or rather, scroll a bit further right – and you’d find… …
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Outdated systems are wearing developers down. A recent survey by headless CMS company Storyblok found that nearly half of senior developers at mid-to-large companies have thought seriously about quitting in the past year. The reason? Tools that don’t work the way they need them to. Legacy code, missing features, and poor integration with modern tools… …
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Author: Emilio Salvador, Vice President, Strategy and Developer Relations at GitLab The rapid acceleration of AI adoption is fundamentally transforming the software development ecosystem. As capabilities advance, they become increasingly integrated into the software development lifecycle (SDLC). The latest GitLab DevSecOps survey found that 78% of respondents globally use AI in their software development processes… …