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Joab Jackson

In the late 1990s, Joab Jackson worked for a military contractor to help sell the public on the benefits of government-sponsored technologies from the ill-fated Star Wars space-shield program. Pizza bag warmers, anyone? He has also been a faithful servant to IDG, Government Computer News, The New Stack and Spock Science Monitor, the only Burning Man news outlet printed on the playa (2006-2008).

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Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP

Homa is a rethink of networks for the AI age

Fresh CSS constructs move web design beyond ticky-tacky little boxes

Let us bury the web's 30-year layout reliance on rectangles

Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust

An experiment is afoot to sidestep C as the language of interoperability with Rust

Shut up and calculate: Jev's new AI primitives for coders

Developers test what they can build with TypeSafe's fast, typed decision model

Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K

The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM

Swift 6.4 unifies building across Linux, macOS, Windows

Swift Build is now the default engine for the Swift Package Manager

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Java 27 grows up, makes better choices

Improvements in JDK garbage collection, header sizes, data security and quantum key support all should minimize developer friction

Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds

Cupertino's $2,000 foldable gives devs more screen, and more UI state to manage

CPython eases Rust requirements as assimilation continues

By making Rust opt-in, the Python builders hope to enjoy Rust bennies without the backlash that roiled the Linux kernel keepers

Microsoft anoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language

Redmond's coders get the tool to help them scrub memory bugs off Windows

JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up

Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.

Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November

The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data

Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1

K8s 1.37 also unsticks a Metrics API that has been lodged in beta status for nine years

How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings

S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work

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Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords

v 1.27 expands generics to support methods

SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs

Remote functions bring type-safe remote procedure calls right into Web page components

Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore

Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations

ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses

Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks

Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare

Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure

AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription

Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms

Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent

Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops

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Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages

New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims

Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer

Persistent sessions could be just the beginning

NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud

Government agency will use Google Cloud H4D VMs to replace HPE Cray machines

After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres

Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends

Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers

Just don’t call the WinRT projection for Node.js a lock-in

How AI drove Shopify back to clean code

Turns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback

Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past

Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog

Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage

Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over

Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists

Haskell adherents revisit the language's tongue-in-cheek 'avoid success at all costs' mantra

Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’

The port took just 11 days and about $165,000 at API pricing

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HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

New verb carries request content while remaining safe, idempotent, and cacheable

Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships

10X faster build times could force Slack developers back to their keyboards

GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues

A purported jab of Sony's physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself

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Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy

Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity

The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators

From academic toss-aside to cloud substrate

Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

Coreutils serves over 75 Unix commands in Windows and PowerShell command lines

Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it

Project Headroom could save you big money, too

Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami

An influx of agents is pushing GitHub to the brink

AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup

Agents to check the work of the agents

CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge

The operating system of the universe isn’t going to debug itself

Dropping a coin into poor homeless beggar's hands

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money

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How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer

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