The death of the $8 coffee! As pricey Starbucks scales back, $2 java jolts from Chinese coffee giants are the hot new NYC way to wake up

New Yorkers tired of being overcharged for coffee are turning away from Starbucks and other increasingly pricey shops — ...

AI is creating an identity crisis for coders: 'I focused on this one thing, and now it doesn't matter anymore.'

AI is shifting software engineers from being crafters of "elegant code" to overseers of agents. That change can dampen workers' job satisfaction.

30 Years of Java – Interview with Community Representatives (Part 5)

Java turned 30 in 2025. That's a good time to look back, but also forward.

IBM's $40B stock wipeout is built on a misconception: Translating COBOL isn't the same as modernizing it

Investors wiped $40 billion from IBM's market cap after Anthropic released COBOL translation tools. Analysts say the market ...
InfoWorld

The browser is your database: Local-first comes of age

The thick client is making a comeback. Here’s how next-generation local databases like PGlite and RxDB are bringing ...
Communications of the ACM

Safe Coding

Safe coding is a collection of software design practices and patterns that allow for cost-effectively achieving a high degree ...
CIO

21 agent orchestration tools for managing your AI fleet

Enterprises seeking to make good on the promise of agentic AI will need a platform for building, wrangling, and monitoring AI agents in purposeful workflows. In this quickly evolving space, myriad ...
diginomica

How Druid is approaching agentic AI with a governance and composability mindset

Druid AI CEO Joe Kim weighs in on why the future of enterprise agents needs a governance-first mindset that supports composability and extensibility.
InfoWorld

WinterTC: Write once, run anywhere (for real this time)

The unified JavaScript runtime standard is an idea whose time has come. Here’s an inside look at the movement for server-side JavaScript interoperability.