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How the Bonneville Power Administration's 1930s grid built on Columbia River dams laid the technical and political foundation for the Pacific Northwest's data center boom, including AWS's us-west-2.
An independent researcher finds that Meta's Stable Signature watermark algorithm produces massive false-positive clusters, contradicting its claimed 1-in-1-million collision rate.
Josh Long interviews Francesco Ciulla on developer advocacy, DevRel engineering, and the Spring ecosystem.
Spring Boot 3.5.16 is out with three dependency upgrades, and it's the last OSS release for the 3.5.x generation. Time to plan your upgrade to 4.0.x or 4.1.x.
vertx-lang-typescript lets you run TypeScript verticles on the JVM, bringing ES6/7 features like arrow functions, classes, and the exponentiation operator to Vert.x 3.2.
Josh Long interviews Sébastien Deleuze on the latest in Spring AI, Kotlin support, and framework improvements.
GitHub's advisory database team reports record-breaking vulnerability disclosures, highlighting the growing challenge of supply chain security at scale.
Microsoft and the Spring team announce Spring AI 2.0 GA, bringing vector search, memory management, and agent support to Azure Cosmos DB. Plus: Spring Boot 4.1 features, CVE surge, and self-correcting structured output.
GitHub and the UNDP are collaborating to leverage open source for development priorities in Ghana, focusing on digital public goods and local capacity building.
GitHub's Open Source Programs Office shares how they manage license compliance and supply chain integrity for open source dependencies.
A practical guide for engineers on the value of deliberate practice, the discomfort of learning, and the long-term payoff of acquiring new skills.
A no-nonsense, practical guide to threat modeling for software engineers, covering the essential questions and common pitfalls.