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Apple to open its garden for developers building Watch widgets

1 week ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

In a somewhat overdue move, Apple plans to open up the Apple Watch Control Centre to widgets from third-party developers with watchOS 26. After years of keeping the Control Centre strictly limited to its own toggles and tools, Apple appears ready to loosen its notorious grip with watchOS 26 by introducing third-party widgets. I’ve been covering Apple’s wearable strategy since the first Watch launched, and this shift represents one of the most meaningful functional improvements in years.
Epic Games notches win as court rejects Apple's App Store appeal

1 week ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

A US appeals court on Wednesday rejected Apple’s attempts to delay changes to its App Store practices demanded by Epic Games. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals wasn’t having any of Apple’s arguments as it denied the company’s request to pause a judicial order requiring immediate changes to how the iPhone maker runs its lucrative digital marketplace.
Stack Overflow survey probes developer AI use and salaries

2 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

Stack Overflow is marking its milestone 15th annual Developer Survey with a probe into developer AI use and salaries. Like many platforms, Stack Overflow faces questions today as users navigate the wild west of AI. Are these new tools becoming trusty companions, or something else entirely? This year’s survey isn’t just about hoovering up new data points, it’s launching developers into a bit of collective reflection.
Package lurking in npm for six years waits to destroy your work

2 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

Socket’s threat researchers have uncovered a package lurking in npm for six years that awaits a remote command to wipe projects. The culprit? A package called xlsx-to-json-lh, which mimics the legitimate xlsx-to-json-lc package. Notice the difference? Just one letter separates them, a ‘h’ instead of a ‘c’ – an easy mistake for even careful developers to make when installing packages. The legitimate package isn’t anything too special, just a useful tool that converts Excel spreadsheets to JSON format.
Factory ‘Droids’ AI agents tackle entire development lifecycle

2 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

Factory’s new ‘Droids’ aren’t typical AI coding assistants, they’re billed as full-blown software development agents. Instead of just focusing on code completion or simple generation tasks, Factory claims to have built AI agents that can handle the often messy reality of the entire development lifecycle. The most eye-catching claim is that these AI agents can build entire production-ready features from just a ticket or specification.
Qt bridges the language barrier gap

3 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

Earlier this month, Qt pulled back the curtain on its new “Bridges” technology at Qt World Summit 2025. As its name suggests, it aims to build bridges between Qt’s UI capabilities and a host of popular programming languages, without forcing developers to abandon their existing codebases. “Our ethos with Qt and cross-platform development has always been ‘build it once, use it everywhere,’” said Juhapekka Niemi, SVP of Product Management at Qt Group.
Mistral Agents API: Transforming complex AI workflows

3 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

Paris-based Mistral has just rolled out their Agents API, through which it aims to make AI “more capable, useful, and an active problem-solver.”Today’s AI can talk a good game, but often falls flat when you need it to take real action. This new API gives AI the ability to do things like search the web or generate images, remember your previous conversations, and even coordinate multiple tasks.
60 malicious npm packages caught mapping developer networks

3 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

The npm registry is once again in the spotlight, this time battling a malware campaign using malicious packages to map developer networks. Expert threat intelligence analysts over at Socket have flagged a coordinated attack involving at least three publisher accounts. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill malicious efforts; these actors have managed to distribute 60 different packages, all embedding the exact same host-fingerprinting code. This isn’t about immediate chaos.
Java at 30: Still brewing success or evaporating?

3 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

Java, which first blinked into existence in 1995, is 30 years old this week and continues to be a stalwart in modern programming. Brian Fox, Co-founder and CTO of Sonatype, puts it perfectly.
JetBrains reveals Kotlin 2.2, Amper, AI tools at KotlinConf 2025

3 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

At KotlinConf 2025, JetBrains showcased Kotlin advancements including language enhancements, the maturation of the K2 compiler, tooling like Amper, strides in KMP, and a push into AI. Eyes are on Kotlin 2.2, which is set to bring some rather useful features to the table. Developers can start getting ready for guard conditions in when-with-subject, multi-dollar string interpolation for more elegant templating, the ability to use non-local break and continue, and context parameters.