A new documentary, 'The Java Story: The Official Documentary,' chronicles the 30-year history of the Java programming language, from its origins at Sun Microsystems through its resurgence under Oracle…
JetBrains released PyCharm 2026.2, introducing a Rust plugin for building Python extensions, debugpy as the default debugger, and support for uv, Poetry, and Hatch multi-project workspaces. The update…
GitHub began rolling out Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash to Copilot on July 21, 2026, covering paid individual and business plans across major editors, the CLI, the cloud agent and the Copilot app. Business…
Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash model is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, offering improved task-completion rates and token efficiency over Gemini 3.5 Flash for coding and agentic workflows. The model, bi…
JetBrains launched JetBrains Context, a repository intelligence layer for coding agents, now available in early access at no additional cost with JetBrains AI subscriptions. The tool integrates with C…
Google released AlphaEvolve, a DeepMind-born AI agent that automates code optimization, as a generally available tool on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, using evolutionary algorithms and Gemini …
Anthropic's Claude Code CLI ships with sensible defaults, but sustained agentic work requires manual configuration of three key files—CLAUDE.md, project-level .claude/ settings, and global ~/.claude/ …
JetBrains AI tested the rtk (Rust Token Killer) CLI proxy, which claims to cut agent tokens by 60–90%, and found that most agent bytes never touch the hook, with measured token savings far below adver…
JetBrains was recognized in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms for Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. The company focuses on code quality, CI/CD, and project management t…
Google has made AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary code optimization agent from DeepMind, generally available on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, allowing any Google Cloud customer to optimize their ow…
JetBrains released PhpStorm 2026.2, adding native support for more third-party AI providers, an agent skills manager, and native GitHub Copilot integration through a partnership with Microsoft. The up…
JetBrains Research's Human-AI eXperience (HAX) team conducted expert interviews with 13 senior researchers from institutions including Cambridge, Aarhus, Stuttgart, and Meta, identifying five overarch…
A developer details a 2026 setup for running coding models like Qwen Coder and DeepSeek locally on a 16GB laptop, using Ollama and Continue.dev to replace paid services like GitHub Copilot. The setup …
JetBrains released CLion 2026.2, the latest version of its IDE for C and C++, featuring a new debugger skill for AI agents, debug profiles for simplified debugger configuration, and support for C++26 …
JetBrains released DataGrip 2026.2, introducing three AI agent skills for database work, MCP tools for data source management, and CLI commands for managing connections and drivers. The update also in…
JetBrains released WebStorm 2026.2 with native TypeScript 7 support, delivering up to a 4x faster project load time on large codebases like Kibana (from ~12 seconds to ~3 seconds). The update also inc…
JetBrains released GoLand 2026.2, introducing a new Go Optimization tool window that unifies profiling, escape analysis, and struct optimization for Go applications. The update adds pprof profiling fo…
Nuru launched Ipek, a visual workflow builder for desktop automation that lets non-technical teams run API calls, Excel/CSV parsing, OCR, and LLM tasks locally without server-side dependencies. The JV…
GitHub announced on July 14, 2026 that Copilot for JetBrains expanded bring-your-own-key capabilities. A proposed accessibility test plan outlines how keyboard and screen-reader users should interact …
A developer tested three AI agents—GitHub Copilot with GPT-5.6, Cursor, and Windsurf—that can read entire codebases, propose multi-file changes, and execute commands. The agents use frontier models li…