The latest release of Apache Kafka delivers the queue-like consumption semantics of point-to-point messaging. Here’s the how, ...

Autocratic development governance dismantles public engagement, facilitates human rights violations, and exacerbates social ...

Arrow-Based SQL Engine for Iceberg: Dremio's query engine was built natively on Apache Arrow, the open columnar standard Dremio co-created, making it uniquely suited for Iceberg workloads. It ...

As some Chinese AI labs (most notably Alibaba’s latest Qwen models, Qwen3.5 Omni and Qwen 3.6 Plus) have begun pulling back ...

Like past versions of its open-weight models, Google has designed Gemma 4 to be usable on local machines. That can mean ...

Google's Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI - even on phones ...

Several widely used Java frameworks and tools released new versions in the weeks surrounding Oracle's March 17 launch of JDK 26, as the Spring ecosystem and related projects continued iterating toward ...

Google's Gemma 4 is its most powerful open-source model family to date. It beats rivals 20x its size, runs locally on ...

The biggest story of the week is a new massive supply chain breach, which appears to be unrelated to the previous massive supply chain breaches, this time of the Axios HTTP project. Axios was ...

Previous versions used a custom license that has been criticized as too restrictive. With Gemma 4, Google is moving to the Apache 2.0 license, which is much more permissive and widely used by ...

One of the great technical breakthroughs in late 19th century mining occurred with the introduction of nitroglycerin, a colorless, earth-shattering liquid used initially in quarrying. Nitro, a high ...