Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey
Friday, August 29, 2025 by Austin Harris
The 2025 Developer Survey from Stack Overflow gathered input from over 49,000 developers in 177 countries. The survey covered 62 questions on 314 technologies, with new focus areas including AI agent tools, large language models (LLMs), and developer community platforms. Now in its fifteenth year, it provides a broad look at the state of software development worldwide.
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College is not necessary for big tech jobs
Wednesday, August 27, 2025 by Austin Harris
Code, culture, and competitive edge: Who’s winning the engineering talent game? Every Engineering Leader Wants to Build a Company That Attracts Top Developers
In 2025, attracting top developers is more challenging than ever. A competitive pay package is table stakes, remote flexibility is expected, and AI is reshaping how teams operate and what engineers value.
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Clean architecture development for mobile
Tuesday, August 26, 2025 by Austin Harris
According to Netguru, consumer spending on mobile applications is projected to reach $288 billion in 2025, growing to approximately $626.4 billion by 2030. In such a highly competitive and fast-paced environment - particularly in regulated industries like fintech, healthcare, and insurance - architectural mistakes are costly. They result not only in bugs and technical d...
Cracking the live ops code
Monday, August 25, 2025 by Austin Harris
Sensor Tower recently released a report called Cracking the Live Ops Code: How Mobile Games Can Leverage Live Ops Insights, following its acquisition of Playliner, a company focused on live ops intelligence. This report combines app analytics, event data, and revenue trends to offer a clearer look at what’s really happening in the world of mobile game monetization...
Salesforce breach let hackers steal Google customer data
Monday, August 25, 2025 by Richard Harris
In June, one of Google’s corporate Salesforce instances was affected by activity consistent with the UNC6040 campaign described in the post. Google responded by conducting an impact analysis and implementing mitigation steps. The affected instance stored contact information and related notes for small and medium-sized businesses. Investigators confirmed that data ...
Jules coding agent from Google now available
Friday, August 22, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Google has officially launched Jules, an autonomous asynchronous coding agent, for general availability. Previously in beta, Jules is now accessible globally anywhere the Gemini model is available, with no waitlist. Jules is powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro and was first introduced in December 2024 via Google Labs as a preview of what a fully autonomous coding agent could beco...
Error-correcting code named Rosetta stone of quantum computing lands
Thursday, August 21, 2025 by Richard Harris
Research recently published in Nature Physics demonstrates this as a physical reality, tapping into the natural oscillations of a trapped ion (a charged atom of ytterbium) to store GKP codes and, for the first time, realising quantum entangling gates between them.
Led by Sydney Horizon Fellow Dr Tingrei Tan at the University of Sydney Nano Institute, scientists have ...
Network API revenue to exceed 8 billion by 2030
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 by Austin Harris
A new study from Juniper Research, the foremost experts in telecommunications and connectivity markets, has found operator revenue from network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) globally will exceed $8 billion by 2030. This is a substantial increase from the $284 million operators are forecasted to generate in 2025; with Juniper Research identifying KYC as key t...
Google Developer Program evolves with new tools
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 by Trey Abbe
Google recently announced a significant evolution of its Developer Program, building on the momentum of its April enhancements. These changes introduce new ways for developers to join, connect, and code, focusing on flexibility, productivity, and integration of AI-powered tools.
The Google Developer Program evolves with new tools, community features, and AI benefits
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Alibaba Introduces Qwen3-Coder
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 by Austin Harris
Alibaba has launched Qwen3-Coder, its most powerful and agentic code model to date. The flagship version, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, is a 480B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 35B active parameters. It supports a 256K token context natively and up to 1M tokens via extrapolation, achieving state-of-the-art results in Agentic Coding, Browser Use, and Tool Use,...
AI theft leads WalletHub to remove 40k pages from Google
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 by Austin Harris
In response to AI companies using publishers’ content without compensation, WalletHub announced today that it has removed 40,000 pages of financial content from the reach of Google and other AI search engines. This content will now be exclusively available to logged-in WalletHub users.
AI theft leads WalletHub to remove 40k pages from Google index plus new AI s...
State of AI Apps 2025 report
Thursday, August 14, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Sensor Tower has recently published its highly anticipated State of AI Apps 2025 report, providing an in-depth look at the mobile AI ecosystem and digital advertising dynamics for the first half of 2025. This extensive report reveals unprecedented growth in generative AI usage, shifting user demographics, app monetization strategies, and the increasing overlap between m...
OpenAI launches ChatGPT study mode for students
Wednesday, August 13, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
A new way to learn in ChatGPT that offers step by step guidance instead of quick answers. OpenAI recently introduced study mode in ChatGPT, a learning experience that helps you work through problems step by step instead of just getting an answer. Starting on July 29th, it’s available to logged in users on Free, Plus, Pro, Team, with availability in ChatGPT Edu com...
Google Labs launches Opal
Wednesday, August 13, 2025 by Austin Harris
Google Labs recently announced the release of Opal, an experimental tool designed to make creating AI-powered mini-applications more accessible than ever. Developed by a team including Senior Product Manager Ali Modarres, Staff Research Scientist Bill Byrne, and Staff Software Engineer Paul Lewis, Opal empowers users to build, prototype, and share functional AI apps wit...
Wayback 0.1 released
Wednesday, August 13, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
The development team behind Wayback has announced the first preview release of version 0.1, marking a significant milestone in its journey toward becoming a full Xorg replacement. Wayback is a compatibility layer for X11 that enables the operation of traditional, X11-only desktop environments under Wayland. Functioning as an X11 server backed by Wayland, it leverages wl...
ChatGPT agents bridging research and action
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 by Austin Harris
You can now ask ChatGPT to handle requests like “look at my calendar and brief me on upcoming client meetings based on recent news,” “plan and buy ingredients to make Japanese breakfast for four,” and “analyze three competitors and create a slide deck.” ChatGPT will intelligently navigate websites, filter results, prompt you to log in...
Simple rules to fix code reviews
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 by Richard Harris
In a software development landscape increasingly augmented by AI-generated code, code reviews remain a critical safeguard for quality, collaboration, and team coherence. Yet despite decades of collective experience, code reviews often become inefficient bottlenecks. Sergey Tselovalnikov, a seasoned engineer, proposes that we don’t need more checklists or “be...
Google OOS Rebuild announced
Friday, August 8, 2025 by Austin Harris
Google has unveiled OSS Rebuild, a new initiative aimed at enhancing trust and transparency across open source package ecosystems. As software supply chain attacks continue to threaten widely-used dependencies, OSS Rebuild offers a scalable and low-friction solution that supports reproducible builds, independent verification, and provenance generation, all without burde...
Python 3.14 release candidate 1
Thursday, August 7, 2025 by Austin Harris
The Python Software Foundation recently announced the availability of Python 3.14 Release Candidate 1 (3.14.0rc1), marking the penultimate preview of the upcoming Python 3.14 series. The release is now live and available for download. With this milestone, Python 3.14 enters the release candidate phase. From this point forward, only reviewed code changes that constitute ...
WebGPU in iOS 26
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 by Austin Harris
While much of the attention surrounding iOS 26 focused on Apple’s new “glass” UI system and enhanced lock screen, a more profound change quietly reshaped the technological landscape for developers and creatives. iOS 26 introduces full WebGPU support, a move that completes a long-standing puzzle in browser-based media and AI processing, and enables a ne...
How AGI tags help developers and players
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 by Richard Harris
The Microsoft Game Dev blog recently highlighted the launch of the Accessible Games Initiative (AGI), a collaborative effort led by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and major industry players like Xbox, Electronic Arts, Google, Nintendo of America, and Ubisoft. The AGI introduces a set of standardized “tags” that clearly communicate the accessibi...
Guitar Center unveils in-store AI shopping assist
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 by Austin Harris
Now live in locations nationwide, Guitar Center's Rig Advisor is a mobile-based tool that helps customers discover, compare, and explore gear in real time by prioritizing products available at that specific store location. It enhances the in-store experience by giving musicians an easy way to navigate options and make more confident decisions, whether they’re ...
How Nightdive Studios is future-proofing the video game past
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 by Austin Harris
Video games are a form of art, and their preservation is in trusted hands at Atari’s Nightdive Studios, regarded as the premier game remastering studio in the industry. System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Edition recently launched on Xbox Series X|S, reviving a seminal sci-fi horror classic for a new generation. For Nightdive Studios, however, this release ...
New Xbox certificates and courses on Coursera
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 by Austin Harris
As part of a broader Microsoft initiative to expand access to in-demand tech training, Xbox has partnered with Coursera to launch online programs that help learners explore creative and technical roles in gaming. Whether someone is switching industries or just starting out, these flexible programs cover everything from graphic design and product management to AI-assiste...
Your AI chat isn't safe
Monday, August 4, 2025 by Austin Harris
ChatGPT users are facing unexpected privacy risks as shared conversations with the AI tool have started appearing in Google search results. The issue stems from ChatGPT’s “shared link” feature, which allows users to generate public URLs for individual conversations. While the feature was originally intended for collaboration, those shared URLs are now ...
Better code quality starts with AI developer tools says Greptile
Thursday, July 31, 2025 by Richard Harris
Greptile, the provider of AI-powered code review solutions, recently announced its vision for transforming software development through artificial intelligence (AI) developer tools, emphasizing the growing necessity of integrating these technologies into modern development workflows to improve code quality.
Better code quality starts with AI developer tools says Grep...
Microsoft SharePoint hit by widespread zero-day attacks
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 by Austin Harris
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has reported active exploitation of a newly identified remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting on-premise Microsoft SharePoint servers. The vulnerability, cataloged as CVE-2025-53770, is a variant of the previously known CVE-2025-49706 and presents significant risks to organizations by enabling unau...
X Ads AppsFlyer SRN Launch
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 by Austin Harris
X Ads and AppsFlyer have announced the launch of an Advanced Self-Reporting Network (SRN) integration for iOS, marking a significant advancement in mobile advertising measurement. AppsFlyer becomes the first mobile measurement partner (MMP) to deliver this capability with X Ads, joining an expanding suite of privacy-preserving solutions alongside partners like TikTok, S...
Build with Veo 3 in the Gemini API
Monday, July 28, 2025 by Richard Harris
Google recently announced that Veo 3, its advanced AI video generation model, is now available for developers through a paid preview in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. This launch enables developers and creators to produce high-quality videos complete with synchronized dialogue, music, and sound effects, all generated from a single prompt.
Build with Veo 3 in th...
iOS fitness app Fitify exposes 138K user private photos
Friday, July 25, 2025 by Austin Harris
Fitify’s publicly accessible Google cloud storage bucket has exposed hundreds of thousands of files. Some of the files were user-uploaded progress pictures that individuals upload to track their body changes over time. After Cybernews contacted the company, the unprotected instance was closed.
iOS fitness app Fitify exposes 138K user private photos: Key takeawa...
Modeling natural conversational dynamics
Friday, July 25, 2025 by Austin Harris
Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team has introduced a family of audiovisual behavioral motion models designed to advance human connection technology. These models generate facial expressions and body gestures based on audio-visual inputs from two people, aiming to create more natural and interactive virtual agents. The models enable fully embodied avatars in...
DOGE API key leak
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 by Austin Harris
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), inadvertently exposed a private API key for xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, in a public GitHub repository over the weekend. The leak granted potential access to over 50 large language models (LLMs) developed by xAI, raising serious concerns about operat...
Quickcode.ai expands around the globe
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Quickcode.ai, the AI-powered trade compliance platform transforming how companies manage tariff classifications and regulatory changes, today announced sweeping updates that will significantly expand its impact on global trade. With the platform now supporting HS codes for every country and enabling users to manage millions of SKUs at scale, Quickcode.ai is redefining w...
Jack Dorsey unveils Sun Day
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 by Austin Harris
Jack Dorsey, known globally as the co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Block, has been on a creative tear lately, launching back-to-back experimental apps. The latest addition to his portfolio is Sun Day, a simple yet intriguing app aimed at helping users track their sun exposure, monitor UV levels, and estimate vitamin D synthesis, all from their smartphones.
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State of Unreal 2025 recap
Friday, July 18, 2025 by Austin Harris
https://appdevelopermagazine.com/fortnite-returns-to-ios/The State of Unreal 2025 recently concluded, offering the audience a first look at the cutting-edge technologies Epic Games is developing and releasing to help developers and creators build immersive experiences.
All the big news and announcements from the State of Unreal 2025
The show began with a technical...
