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MetalBear is launching a new tool that allows development teams to run CI tests against Kubernetes environments without needing to deploy code to it or spin up test environments. sdtimes.com/test/metalbe...
MetalBear launches mirrord for CI to improve testing process for cloud native apps
Mirrord for CI securely connects a runner to a Kubernetes cluster, and then runs a test suite with real services, dependencies, and traffic.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:42 PM
MetalBear is launching a new tool that allows development teams to run CI tests against Kubernetes environments without needing to deploy code to it or spin up test environments. sdtimes.com/test/metalbe...
Cloudflare's 2026 App Innovation Report found that organizations that have modernized their applications are three times more likely to see a clear ROI on their AI investments compared to those that haven’t.
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Report: Companies with technical debt unlikely to see benefits from AI adoption
The 2026 App Innovation Report found that 93% of leaders believe that updating their software was “the single most important factor in boosting their AI capabilities.”
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January 16, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Cloudflare's 2026 App Innovation Report found that organizations that have modernized their applications are three times more likely to see a clear ROI on their AI investments compared to those that haven’t.
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Chainguard is adding 10 new open source projects to EmeritOSS, its program for supporting mature open source projects that don’t require continuous upkeep or whose maintainers need to step away.
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Chainguard adds 10 new projects to EmeritOSS program for prolonging the life of open source tools
Chainguard is adding 10 new open source projects to EmeritOSS, its program for supporting mature open source projects.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Chainguard is adding 10 new open source projects to EmeritOSS, its program for supporting mature open source projects that don’t require continuous upkeep or whose maintainers need to step away.
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Read on to catch up on some of the AI-related software development news we covered in the past week.
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This week in AI updates: Google’s UCP standard, a redesigned Slackbot, and more (January 16, 2026)
Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).
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January 16, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Read on to catch up on some of the AI-related software development news we covered in the past week.
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Box announced the launch of Box Extract, which intelligently pulls information from content and saves it as metadata, helping organizations automate workflows and accelerate decision-making by making information more easily accessible. sdtimes.com/data/box-ext...
Box Extract intelligently pulls information from unstructured content to help with workflow automation
Box Extract intelligently pulls information from content and saves it as metadata, helping organizations automate workflows and accelerate decision-making.
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January 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Box announced the launch of Box Extract, which intelligently pulls information from content and saves it as metadata, helping organizations automate workflows and accelerate decision-making by making information more easily accessible. sdtimes.com/data/box-ext...
Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code, which allows developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents directly from within their IDE.
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Copilot Studio Extension now available in VS Code
The Copilot Studio Extension allows developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents directly from within VS Code.
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January 15, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code, which allows developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents directly from within their IDE.
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Kaggle has announced that it now offers Community Benchmarks, enabling AI practitioners to design, run, and share their own benchmarks for evaluating AI models.
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Kaggle introduces Community Benchmarks to allow for custom evaluations of AI models
Kaggle now offers Community Benchmarks, enabling AI practitioners to design, run, and share their own benchmarks for evaluating AI models.
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January 14, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Kaggle has announced that it now offers Community Benchmarks, enabling AI practitioners to design, run, and share their own benchmarks for evaluating AI models.
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Listen in to the latest episode of our podcast, where we interview Dan Lorenc, CEO and co-founder of Chainguard, about what happens when open source projects are abandoned.
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January 13, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Listen in to the latest episode of our podcast, where we interview Dan Lorenc, CEO and co-founder of Chainguard, about what happens when open source projects are abandoned.
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Software teams have spent years treating accessibility like technical debt—something to address in the backlog when there's time, budget and organizational will.
That approach has failed.
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That approach has failed.
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Your accessibility strategy is missing a product manager
An Accessibility Product Manager operates at the intersection of business strategy, user experience, and technical implementation.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Software teams have spent years treating accessibility like technical debt—something to address in the backlog when there's time, budget and organizational will.
That approach has failed.
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That approach has failed.
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Salesforce announced that the newly redesigned Slackbot is now generally available, offering users an out-of-the-box AI agent that lives within Slack.
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Newly redesigned Slackbot is now generally available
The newly redesigned Slackbot is now generally available, offering users an out-of-the-box AI agent that lives within Slack.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Salesforce announced that the newly redesigned Slackbot is now generally available, offering users an out-of-the-box AI agent that lives within Slack.
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Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers.
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Google unveils new open-source standard for agentic commerce
UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers.
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Unit testing company Typemock has released the latest version of its C++ testing solution, Isolator++.
Isolator++ 5.4 features a completely redesigned API built around modern C++ constructs and lambdas, rather than on macros.
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Isolator++ 5.4 features a completely redesigned API built around modern C++ constructs and lambdas, rather than on macros.
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Typemock releases Isolator++ 5.4 for improved C++ testing
Isolator++ 5.4 features a completely redesigned API built around modern C++ constructs and lambdas, rather than on macros.
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January 12, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Unit testing company Typemock has released the latest version of its C++ testing solution, Isolator++.
Isolator++ 5.4 features a completely redesigned API built around modern C++ constructs and lambdas, rather than on macros.
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Isolator++ 5.4 features a completely redesigned API built around modern C++ constructs and lambdas, rather than on macros.
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Even after massive investments in automation, analytics, and low-code platforms, most leaders still struggle with an uncomfortable truth: they cannot fully see their enterprise.
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Eliminating enterprise blind spots: The new imperative for AI-driven leadership
Blind spots emerge when inefficiencies, disconnected systems, and data silos block leaders from seeing how their operations truly run.
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January 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Even after massive investments in automation, analytics, and low-code platforms, most leaders still struggle with an uncomfortable truth: they cannot fully see their enterprise.
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Percona announced it is open sourcing Everest, its platform for automated database provisioning and management, and donating it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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Percona donates its database provisioning platform OpenEverest to the CNCF
Percona announced it is open sourcing Everest, its platform for automated database provisioning and management.
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January 8, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Percona announced it is open sourcing Everest, its platform for automated database provisioning and management, and donating it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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Microsoft has announced that it has open sourced XAML Studio, a developer tool that can be used to quickly prototype UWP XAML before adding code to Visual Studio.
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XAML Studio is now open source
XAML Studio is a developer tool that can be used to prototype ideas before adding them to the rest of the application in Visual Studio.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Microsoft has announced that it has open sourced XAML Studio, a developer tool that can be used to quickly prototype UWP XAML before adding code to Visual Studio.
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Microsoft has announced it is acquiring the agentic AI data engineering platform, Osmos, and plans to incorporate the new technology into its data platform Microsoft Fabric.
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Microsoft to acquire Osmos to bolster Fabric platform
According to Microsoft, Osmos’ AI agents turn raw data into analytics and AI-ready assets that can be used by OneLake.
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January 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Microsoft has announced it is acquiring the agentic AI data engineering platform, Osmos, and plans to incorporate the new technology into its data platform Microsoft Fabric.
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As AI native systems become foundational to products and operations, the traditional SBOM model no longer captures the full scope of supply chain risk.
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From SBOM to AI BOM: Rethinking supply chain security for AI native software
An AI BOM extends the logic of an SBOM to reflect how AI systems are actually built and operated.
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January 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
As AI native systems become foundational to products and operations, the traditional SBOM model no longer captures the full scope of supply chain risk.
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Catch up on all of the AI updates we covered in the past month in our latest article.
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December 2025: AI updates from the past month
Skills—a capability that allows users to teach Claude repeatable workflows—was first introduced in October, and now Anthropic is making it an open standard.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Catch up on all of the AI updates we covered in the past month in our latest article.
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The leading 10 to 20% of organizations are racing ahead, standing up internal “agent platforms” that handle planning, tool selection, long running memory, workflow coordination, and human in the loop approvals.
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Agentic AI breaks out of the lab and forces enterprises to grow up
Enterprises are making faster progress with agentic AI than many expected, not because the tooling is mature, but because companies have realized they can’t afford to wait.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The leading 10 to 20% of organizations are racing ahead, standing up internal “agent platforms” that handle planning, tool selection, long running memory, workflow coordination, and human in the loop approvals.
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When people receive workslop, 53% report feeling annoyed, 38% confused, and 22% offended. But the real damage runs deeper than hurt feelings. This is organizational necrosis.
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AI workslop: The golden touch that's killing productivity
When people receive workslop, 53% report feeling annoyed, 38% confused, and 22% offended. But the real damage runs deeper than hurt feelings.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
When people receive workslop, 53% report feeling annoyed, 38% confused, and 22% offended. But the real damage runs deeper than hurt feelings. This is organizational necrosis.
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As 2025 comes to a close, SD Times is looking back at the top software development news stories of the year across the industry.
Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year:
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Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year:
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The top software development news of the year
This article contains 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year on SD Times.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
As 2025 comes to a close, SD Times is looking back at the top software development news stories of the year across the industry.
Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year:
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Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year:
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Research from design company OCTO shows that 55% of organizations now prioritize and protect UX budgets during market uncertainty while other functions face reductions.
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Why AI isn't replacing UX designers – it's making them indispensable
Our research shows that 55% of organizations now prioritize and protect UX budgets during market uncertainty while other functions face reductions.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Research from design company OCTO shows that 55% of organizations now prioritize and protect UX budgets during market uncertainty while other functions face reductions.
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Articles about AI dominated media coverage in 2025, but AI wasn’t the only thing on the minds of developers and their managers. Here’s a look at the top trending stories on SD Times for 2025.
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Our top trending opinion and analysis articles from the past year
AI wasn't the only thing on the minds of developers and their managers. Here's a look at the top trending stories on sdtimes.com for 2025.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Articles about AI dominated media coverage in 2025, but AI wasn’t the only thing on the minds of developers and their managers. Here’s a look at the top trending stories on SD Times for 2025.
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Patronus AI has announced Generative Simulators, which are simulation environments that can create new tasks and scenarios, update the rules of the world over time, and evaluate an agent’s actions as it learns.
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Patronus AI announces Generative Simulators to provide adaptive training environments to agents
Generative Simulators are simulation environments that can create new tasks and scenarios and update the rules of the world over time.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Patronus AI has announced Generative Simulators, which are simulation environments that can create new tasks and scenarios, update the rules of the world over time, and evaluate an agent’s actions as it learns.
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Flaky tests have long been a source of wasted engineering time for mobile development teams, but recent data shows they are becoming something more serious: a growing drag on delivery speed.
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Why flaky tests are increasing, and what you can do about it
Flaky tests have long been a source of wasted engineering time for mobile development teams, but recent data shows they are becoming something more serious: a growing drag on delivery speed.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Flaky tests have long been a source of wasted engineering time for mobile development teams, but recent data shows they are becoming something more serious: a growing drag on delivery speed.
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