C#, Microsoft’s object-oriented, cross-platform, open source language for the .NET platform, has become the fastest-growing language on Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. C# may eventually surpass Java in popularity, Tiobe surmised. In the latest Tiobe Programming Community index, published November 10, C# was rated at 7.65%, an increase of 2.67 percentage points from

Pervasive, evasive malware thought to have been eliminated has wormed its way back into development environments. Just a little over two weeks after GlassWorm was declared “fully contained and closed” by the open source OpenVSX project, the self-propagating worm is once again targeting Visual Studio Code extensions, add-ons that enhance open source VS Code, providing

Efforts by the European Union to wrest control of its digital infrastructure from American cloud companies have become a flashpoint in the debate over sovereignty and innovation. The proposed European Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services (EUCS), with its controversial “sovereignty requirement,” is a bold initiative aimed at reducing Europe’s reliance on US-based hyperscalers such

If you like coding agents, such as Gemini CLI and its competitors, but you get tired of supervising them closely and you would like to see a coding agent that does more on its own, safely, then consider Google Jules. The goal here is to have a tool that is an amplifier for your software

For decades, the database has been the silent partner of commerce—a trusted, passive ledger. It was the system of record, the immutable vault that ensured every action had an equal, auditable reaction. This model underwrote the entire global economy. But that era of predictable, human-initiated transactions is over. We are entering the agentic era. A

The European Commission is preparing sweeping revisions to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that could redefine how enterprises handle personal data — from cookie tracking to AI model training — in what privacy advocates warn could weaken the EU’s privacy framework. According to a leaked draft reported by German advocacy group Netzpolitik.org, the Commission’s

As the company introduced the new M5 MacBook Pro, I got a chance to speak with Jeremy Butcher, who handles business product marketing at Apple, and his colleague Colleen Novielli, who focuses on MacBook product marketing, to talk about Apple’s place in the business world. It’s no surprise that these new Macs offer the advanced performance businesses need

It’s been an uncomfortable few days for  AI vendors. On Friday, the big tech companies saw $1.2 trillion wiped off their market valuations, reflecting the concerns of many analysts that AI valuations are too high and the market is heading for a serious crash. Just a few days earlier, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar suggested that

Later this month, Microsoft plans to enhance its M365 productivity suite with “Agentic Users,” autonomous AI agents with their own identities and access to enterprise IT systems that can collaborate with one another and with humans. “These agents can attend meetings, edit documents, communicate via email and chat, and perform tasks autonomously,” Microsoft said in

In case you hadn’t noticed, change is in the air. Over the past few years, every day seemingly brings new tales of how businesses are still trying to integrate generative AI (genAI) tools, figure out what agentic AI can do for them, and decipher what genAI firms are really saying about the new features they routinely unveil.