Augment shifts to usage-based pricing as users report 10x cost spike
TL;DR Augment changed pricing for its AI coding assistant, moving from a message-count model to a credit-based system tied to…
Microsoft patches 9.9-rated Kestrel request-smuggling bug in ASP.NET Core
TL;DR Microsoft has released a patch for a critical ASP.NET Core vulnerability in the Kestrel web server (CVE-2025-55315) that enables…
Ruby Central hands RubyGems and Bundler repos to Ruby core to ease fallout
TL;DR After a contentious takeover of Ruby project repositories, Ruby Central says it will transfer ownership of the RubyGems and…
Lloyds Banking Group says Microsoft Copilot saves employees 46 minutes daily
TL;DR Lloyds Banking Group reports that users of Microsoft 365 Copilot save an average of 46 minutes per day, based…
Kim and Yegge argue developers should ‘trust the AI’ in new coding manifesto
TL;DR Gene Kim and Steve Yegge have published a book, Vibe Coding, urging developers and organisations to adopt AI-driven 'vibe…
JetBrains survey sparks debate: PHP and Ruby flagged as ‘in decline’
TL;DR JetBrains published its State of the Developer Ecosystem survey with over 24,500 responses, highlighting heavy AI adoption and a…
Python Software Foundation rejects $1.5M NSF grant over DEI restriction
TL;DR The Python Software Foundation declined a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation after the award terms would…
GitHub: India to Overtake US Developer Ranks by 2030 as AI Changes Coding
TL;DR GitHub's Octoverse 2025 projects India will have the largest developer community by 2030, driven by strong growth in APAC…
Docker Compose path-traversal bug lets attackers write to host — update now
TL;DR A path traversal vulnerability in Docker Compose's OCI artifact handling (CVE-2025-62725, NIST severity 8.9) could let attackers cause Compose…
Younger developers are abandoning AWS over a needlessly painful deploy UX
TL;DR An industry commentator argues that AWS’s onboarding and deployment workflow is needlessly complex, and that newer developers prefer platforms…