The ActiveState catalog grew to 40 million components in mid 2025 when it introduced coverage for Java and R in addition to Python, Perl, Ruby, and Tcl. As of January 2026, the company has expanded ...

Using an AI coding assistant to migrate an application from one programming language to another wasn’t as easy as it looked. Here are three takeaways.

Just like algae blooms in the ocean and pollen in the spring, there’s been an explosion in the past year or two of new software, related tools and lingo from the IT and mainstream/consumer side. Some ...

Soldered Electronics has made ESP32-based e-paper displays for years, starting with the launch of the Inkplate 6 in 2019. The ...

Enterprises seeking to make good on the promise of agentic AI will need a platform for building, wrangling, and monitoring AI agents in purposeful workflows. In this quickly evolving space, myriad ...

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It might come as a shock to some that many open source projects have a "benevolent dictator for life" governance model.

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Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to ...

In the AI developer boom, some of the most important battlegrounds are not glamorous models or splashy chatbots. They are the quiet pipes that keep modern coding tools fed and up to date.