It took two and a half years, but the NetBeans Java-based IDE has finally graduated to Top-Level Project (TLP) status at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The popular open source development ...

One of the best ways to protect your software project from avoidable bugs is the use of Java static code analysis tools. These tools can help identify and fix problematic code before it reaches ...

The regular monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code adds support for the latest edition of the language, Java 18. Microsoft's Java on Visual Studio Code dev team maintains extensions, including ...

The April 2021 update to Java on Visual Studio Code mainly improves debugging and testing. In VS Code, Java tooling is provided via various extensions that are bundled in the Java Extension Pack ...

Java has always been criticized for being too verbose. While that criticism is largely unfounded, language architects and community enthusiasts have always strived to make the language simpler and ...

Minecraft, created by Markus "Notch" Persson long before it became the most successful game of all time and a $2bn payday to Microsoft, was written in Java. Notch obfuscated the code to prevent others ...

Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore? By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Sigrid Jin was waiting to ...

May 9, 2026 • The passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act marked what many historians mark as the actual beginning of democracy in the US. But last week the Supreme Court gutted what was left of the ...

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...

Anthropic caused a stir among developers with what appeared to be a surprise change to its pricing plan: The company signaled that Claude Code, the popular agentic development tool, would no longer be ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Eric's career includes extensive work ...

Morse code is a method of encoding words that was invented in the 19th Century as a way of transmitting messages over long distances. This was before the era of telephones and way before smartphones!