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Google Brings Its Developer Documentation Into the Age of AI Agents
Google has announced the public preview of the Developer Knowledge API. It comes with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This gives AI development tools a simple, machine-readable way to reach Google's official developer documentation.
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AWS Drops Patent Infringement Protection for Video Encoding Services
AWS has removed its legal protections for customers using its video transcoding and streaming services, potentially exposing them to patent infringement claims from codec rights holders. The change affects six services, including the popular file-based video processing service MediaConvert and live video encoding service MediaLive.
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Apple Researchers Introduce Ferret-UI Lite, an On-Device AI Model for Seeing and Controlling UIs
Apple's Ferret-UI Lite is a 3B-parameter model optimized for mobile and desktop screens, designed to interpret screen images, understand UI elements such as icons and text, and interact with apps by, e.g., reading messages, checking health data, and more.
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Platform Engineering Labs Expands formae with Multi-Cloud Support
Platform Engineering Labs today announced a major update to its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, adding beta support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and OVHcloud.
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AI "Vibe Coding" Threatens Open Source as Maintainers Face Crisis
Daniel Stenberg shut down cURL's bug bounty after AI submissions hit 20%. Mitchell Hashimoto banned AI code from Ghostty. Steve Ruiz closed all external PRs to tldraw. Economic research shows "vibe coding" weakens the user engagement that sustains open source. As developers delegate to AI agents, documentation visits and bug reports collapse—threatening the ecosystem's viability.
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Quesma Releases OTelBench to Evaluate OpenTelemetry Infrastructure and AI Performance
Quesma has launched OTelBench, an open-source suite to benchmark OpenTelemetry pipelines and AI-driven instrumentation. It evaluates collector performance under stress while testing how accurately LLMs handle complex SRE tasks like context propagation. Initial data shows AI agents often achieve success rates below 30%, highlighting the gap between code generation and production observability.
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Java News Roundup: JDK26-RC2, Payara Platform, Hibernate, Quarkus, Apache Camel, Jakarta EE 12
This week's Java roundup for February 16th, 2026, features news highlighting: the second release candidate of JDK 26; an update on Jakarta EE 12; the February 2026 edition of Payara Platform; a point release of Apache Camel; and maintenance releases of Hibernate Search and Quarkus.
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Uforwarder: Uber’s Scalable Kafka Consumer Proxy for Efficient Event-Driven Microservices
Uber has open-sourced uForwarder, a push-based Kafka consumer proxy built to handle trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data daily. The system introduces context-aware routing, head-of-line blocking mitigation, adaptive auto-rebalancing, and partition-level delay processing to improve scalability, workload isolation, and hardware efficiency in large-scale event-driven microservices.
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TSSLint 3.0: Final Major Release with Reduced Dependencies
TSSLint 3, the lightweight TypeScript linting tool by Johnson Chu, enhances performance with a reduced dependencies and improved migration paths from legacy linters. As a spiritual successor to TSLint, it offers near-instant diagnostics and fixes, leveraging native Node support for .ts imports. Enhanced developer tooling and a new TSL compatibility layer simplify linting in large-scale projects.
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Anthropic Study: AI Coding Assistance Reduces Developer Skill Mastery by 17%
Anthropic research shows developers using AI assistance scored 17% lower on comprehension tests when learning new coding libraries, though productivity gains were not statistically significant. Those who used AI for conceptual inquiry scored 65% or higher, while those delegating code generation to AI scored below 40%.
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Rivet Launches the Sandbox Agent SDK to Solve Agent API Fragmentation
Rivet Sandbox Agent SDK provides a universal API for coding agents, allowing developers to work with different agent runtimes like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp without rewriting their integration for each one. It addresses the fragmentation across agent APIs, session handling, and streaming formats that has historically made agent integrations complex and difficult to maintain.
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Spring News Roundup: Second Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, Modulith, AMQP
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of February 16th, 2026, highlighting the second milestone releases of: Spring Boot; Spring Security; Spring Integration; Spring Modulith; and Spring AMQP; along with the first milestone releases of Spring Session, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring LDAP.
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Databricks Introduces Lakebase, a PostgreSQL Database for AI Workloads
Databricks has recently announced the general availability of Lakebase, a serverless, PostgreSQL-based OLTP database that scales compute and storage independently. Lakebase is designed to integrate with the Databricks platform, providing a hybrid solution that combines both transactional and analytical capabilities.
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TypeScript 6 Beta Released: Developers Invited to Upgrade to Prepare for the Go Rewrite
The TypeScript team recently released TypeScript 6 in beta. The release serves as a key transition point rather than a full feature release. It focuses on technical debt elimination and standardization, preparing the ecosystem for TypeScript 7, a rewrite of the TypeScript code in Go that seeks to address core performance issues that ballooned over time.
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OpenAI Introduces Harness Engineering: Codex Agents Power Large‑Scale Software Development
OpenAI introduces Harness Engineering, an AI-driven methodology where Codex agents generate, test, and deploy a million-line production system. The platform integrates observability, architectural constraints, and structured documentation to automate key software development workflows.