The great programming transformation: How AI and Rust are quietly dethroning C in Linux - and Windows

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

Nearly a billion active Android devices are security targets due to outdated software

About a billion active Android devices are potential targets, with many users still running outdated Android versions.

MiniMax Unveils M2.1 to Bring Multilingual Programming Gains to Open AI Models

Chinese AI startup’s release is a major update to its open-source model series, aimed at multi-language programming and ...

MiniMax releases M2.1 AI model for multi-language programming versatility

MiniMax M2 was released in late October this year. The company stated that M2.1 demonstrated significant improvements in ...

5 Essential Android Apps That Can Replace Clunky Gadgets

Barcode readers, document scanners, and sound meters are just a few clunky gadgets you can ditch by installing these ...
AZ Central

$33B data center development in Pinal County clears key hurdle

A $33 billion data center development proposed in Pinal County, planned for about 3,300 acres, is moving forward. The Pinal County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a major amendment to its ...
The Hill

Cities starting to push back against data centers: Study

At least 16 data center projects, worth a combined $64 billion, have been blocked or delayed as local opposition mounts to the developments, according to a new study. Research collected by Data Center ...
InfoWorld

Swift SDK arrives for Android development

The Swift Android workgroup has announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android, a tool kit for developing Android mobile applications with Apple’s Swift language. Instructions for ...
MacRumors

Developers Can Now Make Android Apps With Apple's Swift

The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official tooling and making it easier to share code across iOS ...
InfoWorld

Introduction to Java records: Simplified data-centric programming in Java

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...
Hackaday

Going Native With Android’s Native Development Kit

Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated environment. Compared to platforms like iOS with Objective-C, which is just C ...
Bisnow

Rising Opposition To Data Center Development Brings Together Both Sides Of The Political Spectrum

A growing wave of pushback to data center construction is coming from both sides of the aisle — creating significant risk for developers. As an unprecedented data center construction boom sweeps ...