Tech Blog: AI, Security, Infrastructure & Open Source

Salesforce’s $27.7 billion acquisition of Slack signals a consolidation wave in enterprise software. Developers should pay attention.

DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 achieves near-experimental accuracy in protein structure prediction at CASP14. This is what AI breakthroughs actually look like.

TypeScript 4.1 ships template literal types, key remapping, and recursive conditional types — pushing the boundaries of what a type system can express.

Apple just shipped their first ARM-based Mac chips. The M1 looks impressive on paper, but what does this transition actually mean for developers?

OpenAI’s GPT-3 API is spawning a wave of developer tools and startups. The implications for software development are becoming clearer — and more nuanced — than the initial hype suggested.

Docker Hub’s new rate limits take effect November 1st. If you haven’t prepared your build pipelines, you’re about to find out the hard way.

A joint NSA/CISA advisory details 25 CVEs actively exploited by Chinese state-sponsored actors. The uncomfortable truth: most are well-known and patchable.

HashiCorp announced two new open-source tools at HashiConf Digital — Waypoint for application deployment and Boundary for secure remote access. Here’s why they matter.

Python 3.9 dropped this week with new parser, dict merge operators, and type hinting improvements — here’s what actually matters for production code.

Python 3.9 arrives with dictionary merge operators, relaxed type hint syntax, and a new parser that sets the stage for the language’s future.

Vue.js 3.0 ships after two years of development with a TypeScript rewrite, Composition API, and significant performance improvements.

GitHub CLI 1.0 is here, bringing pull requests, issues, and repo management to the terminal. A look at what it means for developer workflows.