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Friday, August 14, 2026

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Software Development & Open SourceRed Hat

ODC-Noord: Building blocks for an existing government cloud

How did a small team in the east of the Netherlands (Groningen) from the Government Datacenter North (ODC-Noord) grow into a supplier of crucial building blocks for the Netherlands digital government strategy? Jaap Jansma, Manager of ODC-Noord, and Marcel Timmer, Country Director Netherlands at Red Hat, explain.ODC-Noord implements, manages, and operates as a scalable, sovereign cloud service for the Dutch government, and Red Hat provides the fundamental open source software. Together, the 2 com

Software Development & Open SourceRed Hat

Friday Five — August 14, 2026

TechZine: Red Hat tames the open source AI chaosThe AI ecosystem is still in its infancy. This is evident from the regular releases of immature, yet highly imaginative, open source solutions. It’s up to companies like Red Hat to anticipate these developments and help such tools mature into enterprise-ready products. Le

Thursday, August 13, 2026

4 stories
Software Development & Open SourceBleepingComputer

AI 'watermark removers' flood the web. Almost none can prove they work.

Multiple 'watermark removers' have surfaced days after Anthropic began watermarking text generated by Claude, including an open source project with over 4,500 GitHub stars and paid AI detection evasion services. None of the tools' claims about defeating the text watermark can be verified, as Anthropic has not released

Software Development & Open SourceGitHub

What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era

See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, expert guidance, and funding to improve project security. The post What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era appeared first on The Gi

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

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Software Development & Open SourceGitHub

GitHub availability report: July 2026

In July, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: July 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog

Software Development & Open SourceGitHub

Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app

Learn how to write your first prompt in the GitHub Copilot app, choose the right context and model, and start your first task with confidence. The post Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog

Software Development & Open SourceGoogle

Enhance your app for the new Pixel lineup: Unveiled at Made by Google

Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, and Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager, Android Developer Made by Google expands what's possible across the Android ecosystem. With the introduction of the Pixel 11 Pro Fold , Pixel Watch 5 , and the entire Pixel family, us

Software Development & Open SourceGitHub

Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?

AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control. The post Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project? appeared first on The GitHub Blog

Software Development & Open SourceGoogle

Bring one-handed gestures to your Wear OS app

Posted by Chiara Chiappini, Developer Relation Engineer, Android Developer Relations One-handed gestures offer a convenient and touch-free way for users to interact with their watches, enabling them to perform key actions using only the hand on which the device is worn. First introduced on Pixel Watch with Wear OS 6.1,

Software Development & Open SourceJetBrains

When Escape Routes Become Toll Roads: Mapping How Developers Move Between Programming Languages

TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. People switch to Kotlin not because they have to; they switch because

Software Development & Open SourceGoogle

What's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 release

Posted by Nick Butcher, Product Manager, Jetpack Compose Today, the Jetpack Compose August ‘26 release is stable! This release brings version 1.12 across core Compose modules (see the full BOM mapping ), introducing rich visual APIs like Mesh Gradients and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) support, structural layout features like named areas in Grid, seamless integration with Android’s Credential Manager, and significant testing and performance improvements. To update your project to today’s release, upgra

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

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Software Development & Open SourceGitHub

From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer

Developers are owning more of the delivery system around code, not just code itself. Join us during GitHub Universe to meet other devs, learn something new, and explore what's next. The post From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer appeared first on The GitHub Blog

Software Development & Open SourceGoogle Cloud

Accelerate PostgreSQL migrations using Gemini in Database Migration Service

Imagine this scenario: Your team decides to migrate a core application from an existing commercial database like Oracle or SQL Server to open source PostgreSQL or a fully managed service such as AlloyDB for PostgreSQL . The initial phase goes smoothly. Schemas convert, tables populate, and data migration pipelines tran

Software Development & Open SourceRed Hat

Stop preventable outages: Intelligent Windows certificate rotation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Today, Windows Server environments power critical internal portals, application programming interfaces (APIs), and web applications. Every one of them depends on security certificates that expire on a schedule your operations team didn’t choose. When renewal slips, services go dark. When rotation happens at the wrong m

Software Development & Open SourceRed Hat

Red Hat on FHIR: Why an informatics nerd joined Red Hat

I just got back from HL7 FHIR DevDays, a developer conference focused on Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR). I was there to talk about AI transparency in health data and using multi-agent AI to suggest useful care plans for patients. I have been part of the HL7 community for 6 years, working to make sharing health data a reality. But I have been a software architect for a lot longer, almost 30 years in the industry. I have never been as excited about the possibility for computers to

Monday, August 10, 2026

3 stories
Software Development & Open SourceGoogle Cloud

Introducing the Developer Device Platform for agentic mobile app development

Most enterprises connect with their customers through a device. Whether it’s using a mobile app to order a product, contact customer service, view content, or manage their account, the customer experience depends on how well an app can run locally on the customer’s device. For this reason, building and testing applicat

Software Development & Open SourceGitHub

Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java

Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more. The post Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java appeared first on The GitHub Blog

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A practical comparison of network emulators and hypervisors, including why the first lab used PNETLab and ESXi and what to reconsider today.

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