Development

As millions flee Twitter for Mastodon, the decentralized social protocol ActivityPub faces its biggest real-world scalability challenge yet.

GitHub Universe 2022 puts AI front and center with Copilot for Business, while Codespaces and Actions get meaningful upgrades.

Ubuntu 22.10 ships with updated toolchains and GNOME 43, but the real story is what it previews for the next LTS cycle.

Linux 6.0 arrives with Rust language support, performance improvements, and new hardware enablement — but the real story is what the version bump signals about

OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of data that approaches human-level accuracy across multiple languages.

Google announced Carbon as an experimental successor to C++. After the initial hype settles, what does this mean for the systems programming landscape?

Rust 1.63 brings scoped threads to stable, finally making it ergonomic to share stack references across threads without Arc or cloning.

Bun, a new JavaScript runtime built on JavaScriptCore and written in Zig, is making waves with extraordinary benchmark numbers.

Python 3.11 is in beta with impressive performance improvements. The Faster CPython project is delivering real results, with benchmarks showing 10-60% speedups.

GitHub Copilot is now generally available as a paid product. After a year of technical preview, AI-assisted coding moves from experiment to everyday tool.

GitHub Copilot exits technical preview and becomes generally available at $10/month, marking the first mainstream AI coding assistant.

Microsoft officially retired Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022, ending a 27-year era that shaped — and sometimes hindered — web development.