The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. In the December 2025 index, published December 7, R ranks 10th with a 1.96% rating. R has cracked the Tiobe index’s top 10 before, such as in April 2020 and July 2020, but not

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached an initial rampdown phase for bug fixes, with the feature set now frozen. The following 10 features are officially targeted to JDK 26: a fourth preview of primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch, ahead-of-time object caching, an

IBM has agreed to acquire cloud-native enterprise data streaming platform Confluent in a move designed to expand its portfolio of tools for building AI applications The company said Monday in a release that it sees Confluent as a natural fit for its hybrid cloud and AI strategy, adding that the acquisition is expected to “drive

Amazon’s Nova 2 announcement at AWS re:Invent 2025 is exactly the type of AI offering we expected from AWS and, frankly, exactly what should make thoughtful architects nervous. Nova 2 is positioned as a frontier-grade model, tightly integrated with Amazon Bedrock. It’s part of a growing ecosystem of “frontier agents” and the AgentCore framework unveiled

When I reviewed Amazon Q Developer in 2024, I noted that it was able to generate whole functions in common programming languages with only a few fixes. It was useful for completing lines of code, doc strings, and if/for/while/try code blocks as you type. It could also scan for vulnerabilities and help you fix code

The tidal wave of data Data is undoubtedly a key asset today, but all it takes is a breach to turn it into a dreaded liability. With more data generated than ever, organizations have a hard time tracking and storing it. Approximately 402.74 million terabytes of data are produced each day on average. To put

Windows 11 25H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The Windows

Where Apple is today, silicon has replaced design as the key differentiator on which the company’s success is built. Apple Silicon, the self-designed chips inside all its devices, give the company a core story around performance and energy consumption that means its products stand above much of the competition.  Now Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior VP hardware technologies

For decades, macOS has been admired for stability and security — traits inherited from the BSD Unix underpinnings of Apple’s operating systems. Yet these same foundations now create friction for IT leaders trying to marry Apple’s strong local authentication model with the cloud-based identity providers (IdPs) that support single sign-on (SSO) and other key features

AI browsers including Perplexity Comet and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas present security risks that cannot be adequately mitigated, and enterprises should prevent employees using them, according to Gartner. “Gartner strongly recommends that organizations block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future because of the cybersecurity risks,” analysts Dennis Xu, Evgeny Mirolyubov, and John Watts wrote in