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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.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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.
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#TOY25
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#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...
Visual Studio Code adds multi-agent orchestration
With Visual Studio Code 1.107, developers can use GitHub Copilot and custom agents together and delegate work across local, background, and cloud agents.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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.
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Rust 1.92 touts deny-by-default never type lints
In addition to ongoing work to stabilize the never type, unwind tables are now emitted by default and some lint warnings have been disabled.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Rust 1.92, the latest version of the Rust programming language, emphasizes deny-by-default never type lints for compilation.
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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.
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JetBrains discontinues Fleet IDE
While it will no longer support the Fleet IDE, JetBrains said it will continue to evolve the agentic AI workflows and environment developed for Fleet.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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.
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Last week, AWS previewed Interconnect-multicloud, a service that provides direct, high-speed connections to Google Cloud and will soon connect to Microsoft Azure.
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AWS finally listened to its customers
After years of resisting multicloud, AWS has unveiled Interconnect and acknowledged what practitioners have long known: Best of breed is better than single-cloud dogma.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Last week, AWS previewed Interconnect-multicloud, a service that provides direct, high-speed connections to Google Cloud and will soon connect to Microsoft Azure.
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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.
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AI vendors move to tackle the hidden cost of inefficient enterprise code
As inefficient code increases enterprises’ expenditure, vendors are looking at different ways to optimize code — from shrinking model sizes to shifting from basic code generation to full-fledged code ...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
InfoWorld turns 47 today! For decades, we’ve helped IT pros master cloud, open source, data analytics, and AI—the tech shaping modern business. Celebrate with us! Visit spr.ly/63328C8c9w and follow @InfoWorld on X, Facebook, and LinkedIn for expert insights and guides. #InfoWorld47 #CloudComputing
"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.
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Why AI agents are so good at coding
Soon LLMs will write better code than any human, for several simple reasons. Developers should rejoice.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"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.
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InfoWorld reviewer Martin Heller takes another look at Amazon Q Developer. www.infoworld.com/article/4100...
Amazon Q Developer: Everything you need to know
Amazon Q Developer is a useful AI-powered coding assistant with chat, CLI, Model Context Protocol and agent support, and AWS expertise.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
InfoWorld reviewer Martin Heller takes another look at Amazon Q Developer. www.infoworld.com/article/4100...
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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.
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Apache Tika hit by critical vulnerability thought to be patched months ago
The scope of an old PDF parsing flaw has been widened to include more Tika modules.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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.
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"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...
AI memory is really a database problem
If we want to avoid making AI agents a huge new attack surface, we’ve got to treat agent memory the way we treat databases: with firewalls, audits, and access privileges.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"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...
10 MCP servers for devops
Tap these Model Context Protocol servers to supercharge your AI-assisted coding tools with powerful devops automation capabilities.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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.
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AI in CI/CD pipelines can be tricked into behaving badly
Malicious content in issues or pull requests can trick AI agents in CI/CD workflows into running privileged commands in an attack researchers nicknamed PromptPwnd.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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.
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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?
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Local clouds shape Europe’s AI future
European organizations are choosing homegrown, country-focused sovereign cloud providers over global giants’ versions as the region doubles down on digital autonomy and AI innovation.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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...
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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.
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All I want for Christmas is a server-side JavaScript framework
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.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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.
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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.
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OpenAI to acquire AI training tracker Neptune
The experiment tracking platform will no longer be for sale and a hosted version will soon shut down; OpenAI will keep it for internal use.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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.
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Unison, a statically typed functional language with type inference, an effect system, and advanced tooling, has reached its 1.0 release status.
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‘Futuristic’ Unison functional language debuts
Functional language based on ‘content-addressed code’ promises to simplify distributed programming and eliminate builds and dependency conflicts.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Unison, a statically typed functional language with type inference, an effect system, and advanced tooling, has reached its 1.0 release status.
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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...
Spring AI tutorial: Get started with Spring AI
Learn how to configure Spring AI to interact with large language models, support user-generated prompts, and connect with a vector store and simple RAG service in your Spring-based applications.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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...
The first building blocks of an agentic Windows OS
Microsoft rolls out Model Context Protocol support in Windows ML, providing tools to build agentic Windows applications that work with local and remote resources securely.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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...
Developers urged to immediately upgrade React, Next.js
Critical vulnerability in React library should be treated by IT as they did Log4j - as an emergency, warns one expert.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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...
AWS offers new service to make AI models better at work
AWS is trying to position Nova Forge as an infrastructure-first alternative to Microsoft’s IQ vision for enterprise AI by shifting model context into the LLM itself.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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...
Seven coding domains no developer really understands
Maybe you do truly understand one or two of these areas of coding mystery. Most of your fellow programmers are faking it.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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...
The complete guide to Node.js frameworks
Take a tour of the best web frameworks for Node, from minimalist crowd pleasers like Express, Koa, and Fastify to progressive and full-stack options like Nest, Next, SvelteKit, and more.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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...
A first look at Google’s new Antigravity IDE
Google’s agentic AI development environment includes multiple agent models and browser automation with Chrome.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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...