developer-tools

Neovim's Lua standard library gains vim.async, a structured-concurrency module merged into master and milestoned for the 0.13 release.

An insider tip to The Register says Red Hat's R&D unit capped developer AI token spending at $300 a month, arriving months after Gartner warned such costs could soon rival developer salaries industry-wide.

Harper's 5.2 release isolates database commits onto dedicated threads and adds a record cache, while a company benchmark argues single-runtime architecture beats a Vercel-based stack on personalized reads.

GitHub is deprecating six Copilot AI models and reenabling Business and Enterprise sign-ups for credit-card and PayPal payers, both effective September 1, 2026.

UC Berkeley and MIT researchers, with Databricks co-founders Matei Zaharia and Ion Stoica, released an open-source engine that serves up to 753-billion-parameter MoE models on a single workstation GPU.

AWS open-sourced Kiro Crew, an agent-orchestration tool already used internally at Amazon by more than 39,000 developers, under an Apache 2.0 license.

Cursor's principal systems engineer Vicent Martí describes Continuity, a write-ahead-log architecture on S3 that replaces three-phase-commit consensus and powers the Origin hosting platform.

Apple's new M6 and M5 Ultra chips ship alongside Core AI, a new framework for building and deploying AI models on Apple silicon, with M5 Ultra supporting 512GB of unified memory.

A crafted marimo notebook could run an attacker's command as a local subprocess the moment it was opened in edit mode, via a fake MCP server entry in its configuration.

TrendAI found 14 npm packages disguised as calendar utilities quietly installing RedShell, a Linux implant tied to the AI-assisted RedC2 4.0 command-and-control framework.

GNU Emacs 31.1 arrives with the legacy unexec dumper removed, xterm-mouse-mode on by default in compatible terminals, a new user-lisp directory feature, and expanded tree-sitter options.

LinkedIn detailed a Kubernetes-based multi-agent AI code review platform that completes 79,000+ reviews weekly, with a 63.9% developer acceptance rate.