How must databases adapt to generative AI, and how should databases be integrated with large language models? These are questions that Sailesh Krishnamurthy has grappled with for several years now as VP of engineering for databases at Google Cloud. www.infoworld.com/article/4112...

Deno 2.6, the latest version of the TypeScript, JavaScript, and WebAssembly runtime, adds a tool, called dx, to run binaries from NPM and JSR (JavaScript Registry) packages. www.infoworld.com/article/4111...

The lack of frivolity and handholding is both the command-line’s power and its one major drawback. Now, a new class of AI tools seeks to preserve the power of the CLI while upgrading it with a more human-friendly interface. www.infoworld.com/article/4105...

A native JIT compiler has been added to Python over its last few releases. At first it didn’t provide any significant speedup. But with Python 3.15 (still in alpha but available for use now), the core Python development team has bolstered the native JIT. www.infoworld.com/article/4110...

If you were around for the first big wave of cloud adoption, you’ll remember how quickly the term cloud was pasted on everything. We are now repeating the pattern with agentic AI, this time faster. www.infoworld.com/article/4110...

Lock-in is not new. We have always had to balance managed services with portability. The difference now is the depth and systemic nature of AI-native lock-in. www.infoworld.com/article/4108...

2025 was the year generative AI stopped being theoretical and started doing real work—with a little fun along the way. www.infoworld.com/article/4108...

Here is why your AI agent strategy is probably a security nightmare, and how to fix it with some boring, necessary engineering. www.infoworld.com/article/4110...

Unlike the nostalgia-driven fashion trends that bring back granny dresses or horn-rimmed glasses, there are sound, practical reasons why an older language might be the best solution for a problem. www.infoworld.com/article/4091...

AI code generation appears to have a few kinks to work out before it can fully dominate software development, according to a CodeRabbit report. When compared to human-generated code, AI code created 1.7 times more problems discovered in pull-request analysis. www.infoworld.com/article/4109...

Microsoft is officially deprecating the IntelliCode AI-assisted code completion extensions for the Visual Studio Code editor, and is recommending that C# developers use the GitHub Copilot Chat conversational AI assistant instead. www.infoworld.com/article/4107...

Are you a programmer, coder, developer, or engineer? The names for software makers tell us what it means to be in the software business. www.infoworld.com/article/4107...

Django is a one-size-fits-all Python web framework that was inspired by Ruby on Rails and uses many of the same metaphors to make web development fast and easy. Fully loaded and flexible, Django has become one of Python’s most widely used web frameworks. www.infoworld.com/article/2336...

Kotlin 2.3.0 is now generally available, with the language update offering capabilities such as an unused return value checker and support for Java 25. www.infoworld.com/article/4108...

The votes are in, and the winners are game-changers! InfoWorld’s Technology of the Year Awards celebrate the tools driving agility, automation, and intelligence across the enterprise stack. Meet the 35 honorees and explore the full list of finalists now. spr.ly/63329CKVLD #TOY25

Just-released Visual Studio Code 1.107, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, introduces multi-agent orchestration, a new feature that allows developers to use GitHub Copilot and custom agents together to speed up software development tasks. www.infoworld.com/article/4105...

Rust 1.92, the latest version of the Rust programming language, emphasizes deny-by-default never type lints for compilation. www.infoworld.com/article/4105...

JetBrains is discontinuing its Fleet IDE, stating that it could not justify maintaining two general-purpose IDEs. The JetBrains flagship IDE is IntelliJ, and Fleet did not succeed as a standalone product, the company said. www.infoworld.com/article/4104...

Last week, AWS previewed Interconnect-multicloud, a service that provides direct, high-speed connections to Google Cloud and will soon connect to Microsoft Azure. www.infoworld.com/article/4105...

Enterprises don’t often admit it out loud, but a good share of their cloud bills can be traced back to something deceptively mundane: inefficient code. This silent tax on compute has caught the attention of AI coding assistant providers. www.infoworld.com/article/4104...

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"AI is getting smarter every day, and it won’t be long before large language models (LLMs) write better code than any human But why is coding the one thing that AI agents seem to excel at? The reasons are simple and straightforward." — Nick Hodges. www.infoworld.com/article/4101...

InfoWorld reviewer Martin Heller takes another look at Amazon Q Developer. www.infoworld.com/article/4100...

A security flaw in the widely-used Apache Tika XML document extraction utility, originally made public last summer, is wider in scope and more serious than first thought, the project’s maintainers have warned. www.csoonline.com/article/4102...

"Most organizations are treating agent memory like a scratchpad or a feature behind an SDK. We need to start treating it as a database—and not just any database, but likely the most dangerous (and potentially powerful) one you own." www.infoworld.com/article/4101...

These official MCP servers have emerged across popular devops tools and platforms, offering a cross-section of servers that cater to different devops capabilities. www.infoworld.com/article/4096...

AI agents embedded in CI/CD pipelines can be tricked into executing high-privilege commands hidden in crafted GitHub issues or pull request texts, say researchers at Aikido Security. www.infoworld.com/article/4101...

For European companies and governments, sovereignty is more than data location. Who controls access? Who is legally accountable? Do foreign governments have any claim—however remote—to sensitive business or personal information? www.infoworld.com/article/4101...

Could 2026 be the year of the beautiful back end? We explore the range of options for server-side JavaScript development, from Express to Next and all the rest. www.infoworld.com/article/4100...

OpenAI has agreed to acquire a startup specializing in tools for tracking AI training, Neptune, which promptly announced it is withdrawing its products from the market. www.infoworld.com/article/4101...

Unison, a statically typed functional language with type inference, an effect system, and advanced tooling, has reached its 1.0 release status. www.infoworld.com/article/4100...

Learn how to integrate AI into your Spring applications, start starting with a simple example that sends a request to OpenAI, then use Spring AI’s prompt templates to add support for user-generated queries. www.infoworld.com/article/4091...

At Ignite 2025, Microsoft announced further development of the Windows AI platform. This includes a preview of support for native MCP servers, along with agents that work with the Windows file system and its settings. www.infoworld.com/article/4100...

Developers using the React 19 library for building application interfaces are urged to immediately upgrade to the latest version because of a critical vulnerability that can be easily exploited by an attacker to remotely run their own code. www.infoworld.com/article/4100...

AWS's Nova Forge is a new service that lets enterprises customize a foundation LLM to their business context by blending proprietary business data with AWS-curated training data. www.cio.com/article/4100...

No shame. We are all in this together. www.infoworld.com/article/4099...

We take you on a quick tour of the most popular web frameworks for server development on Node.js. www.infoworld.com/article/2253...

Like AWS's Kiro, Google's Antigravity is built from a fork of Visual Studio Code, which integrates Antigravity’s behavior with VS Code’s in ways that presumably wouldn’t be possible with just an extension. www.infoworld.com/article/4096...

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Managing multiple clouds isn’t just about choice — it’s about control. From governance gaps to security risks, multicloud can derail fast. This spotlight shows you how to avoid the pitfalls and make multicloud worth the investment. Read here: spr.ly/633227IRpo #Spotlight

The era of “vibe coding” is over. Generative AI in the enterprise isn’t about clever prompts anymore—it’s about engineering, governance, and risk-aware design. Are you ready for the shift? Read the full article by Josh Fruhlinger: spr.ly/633207WbUk #MachineLearning

What makes a solid knowledge base for AI agents? My latest for @infoworld.bsky.social picks it apart. www.infoworld.com/article/4091...

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In our study, a novel SAST-LLM mashup slashed false positives by 91% compared to a widely used standalone SAST tool. Read the full piece from #FoundryExpert Contributor, Vaibhav Agrawal spr.ly/633287c6TG#FoundryExpert #Cybersecurity #AIInSecurity #LLMInnovation

Split your metadata from your files, and suddenly your sluggish document system becomes fast, scalable and surprisingly cheap to run. Get the full story by #FoundryExpert Contributor, Prasanna Kumar Ramachandran spr.ly/6332679mVO#FoundryExpert #Databases #NoSQLDatabases #DocumentDatabases

Microsoft is previewing a third PostgreSQL-compatible managed database for its cloud, Azure HorizonDB, that it hopes will prove attractive for modern workloads and for legacy application modernization. www.infoworld.com/article/4092...

C# 14 features extension members, a new syntax for declaring extension properties and extension methods. Overall, C# 14’s enhancements improve developer productivity and performance, Microsoft said. www.infoworld.com/article/4092...

For Java developers, Clojure can be an excellent expansion of their worldview. It offers an entirely different way of understanding and solving problems, while still running on the JVM and interoperating with Java. www.infoworld.com/article/4091...