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Google Brings Optimized Resource Shrinking in Latest Android Gradle Plugin
The latest version of the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) introduces an optimized resource-shrinking approach that unifies code optimization and resource shrinking, achieving up to 50% reduction in app size for apps that share significant resources and code across different form factor, says Google.
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AWS Integrates LocalStack with VS-Code Toolkit to Streamline Serverless Development
AWS has announced the integration of LocalStack with the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, addressing a long-standing challenge in serverless development where developers needed to juggle multiple tools and complex configurations for local testing of event-driven applications.
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Temporal and OpenAI Launch AI Agent Durability with Public Preview Integration
Temporal has unveiled a public preview integration with the OpenAI Agents SDK, introducing durable execution capabilities to AI agent workflows built using OpenAI's framework.
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Green IT: How to Reduce IT’s Environmental Footprint
Green IT focuses on reducing IT’s environmental footprint, by rethinking how you build, deploy, and power IT systems. At QCon London, Ludi Akue presented how her team did a lifecycle assessment, set a 10% emissions reduction goal, simplified architecture, and optimized frontends, to align with climate goals.
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.NET 10 RC 1: Introduces Persistent State in Blazor, Enhanced Validation, and Production-Ready Tools
Last week, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 10 RC 1, the first of two release candidates ahead of the final version. As stated by the .NET team, this build comes with a go-live license, allowing developers to use it in production environments with official support. It is available alongside Visual Studio 2026 Insiders and is supported in Visual Studio Code through the C# Dev Kit.
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Open Practices for Architecture and AI Adoption
Andrea Magnorsky presented on Byte-Sized Architecture at Cloud Native Summit 2025, as a format for building shared understanding through small, recurrent workshops. Ahilan Ponnusamy and Andreas Spanner discussed the Technology Operating Model for AI adoption. Both approaches drew on the Open Practice Library for human-centred collaboration and driving architectural evolution.
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Improved Application Insights Code Optimizations Identify .NET Performance Bottlenecks Automatically
Microsoft is expanding .NET developers’ toolset with enhancements to Code Optimizations. This feature is part of Azure Monitor offering and now works with the .NET Profiler in Application Insights to automatically detect CPU, memory, and threading issues in production apps and give code‑level recommendations to fix them.
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Hugging Face Brings Open-Source LLMs to GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code
Hugging Face has introduced a new integration that allows developers to connect Inference Providers directly with GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code. The update means that open-source large language models — including Kimi K2, DeepSeek V3.1, GLM 4.5, and others — can now be accessed and tested from inside the VS Code editor, without the need to switch platforms or juggle multiple tools.
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Java 25, the Next LTS Release, Delivers Finalized Features and Focus on Performance and Runtime
Oracle has released version 25 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 18 JEPs, seven of which are finalized having evolved through the incubation and preview processes. Nine of these features are focused on performance and runtime.
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Kaggle Introduces Game Arena to Benchmark AI Models in Strategic Games
Kaggle, in collaboration with Google DeepMind, has introduced Kaggle Game Arena, a platform designed to evaluate artificial intelligence models by testing their performance in strategy-based games.
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Linux Security Tools Bypassed by io_uring Rootkit Technique, ARMO Research Reveals
Security researchers at ARMO have uncovered a significant vulnerability in Linux runtime security tools that stems from the io_uring interface, an asynchronous I/O mechanism that can completely bypass traditional system call monitoring. The research demonstrates how attackers can exploit this blind spot to operate undetected by most existing security solutions.
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PagerDuty's Kafka Outage Silences Alerts for Thousands of Companies
PagerDuty, the incident management platform used by thousands of organisations to alert them to problems on their systems, suffered a major outage itself on 28th August, 2025. In a comprehensive outage report, the company detailed the scope of the problem, the customer impact, and how it is working to prevent a recurrence.
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From Black Box to Blueprint: Thoughtworks Uses Generative AI to Extract Legacy System Functionality
Thoughtworks consultants successfully harnessed generative AI to decode legacy systems lacking source code. Using Gemini 2.5 Pro, they accelerated reverse engineering, creating validated "blueprints" of functionality in just two weeks. The pilot showcased AI's potential to drastically reduce time and risk in modernizing opaque systems while balancing speed with validation.
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Introducing the MCP Registry
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem is enhancing AI development with a public registry for server discovery and a secure gateway for agent interactions. This initiative, featuring the recently launched MCP Registry and the Linux Foundation's Agentgateway project, streamlines the management of AI tools, fostering collaboration and security for engineering teams.
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Pinterest Unifies Engineering Tools with New Pinconsole Platform
Pinterest has introduced PinConsole, a unified internal developer platform (IDP) that centralizes engineering workflows. Built to address fragmented tools for deployment, monitoring, and service management, PinConsole provides a consistent layer that lets engineers focus on business logic instead of infrastructure complexity.