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EU DMA: Apple and Meta hit with first major fines

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

The EU has flexed its regulatory muscles under the new Digital Markets Act (DMA), imposing hefty fines on Apple and Meta for non-compliance. In its first enforcement actions of this kind, the Commission levied a €500 million fine against Apple and a €200 million fine against Meta.
Endor Labs deploys AI agents to counter vibe coding risks

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

Endor Labs is expanding its application security (AppSec) platform with agents to address development risks posed by AI and vibe coding. Bolstered by agentic AI and what the company claims is the industry’s most comprehensive security dataset, the platform moves beyond mere risk identification to prioritise threats, propose solutions, and even implement fixes automatically. The move comes amid a dramatic shift in software development practices.
Skills gaps hinder UK software deployment success

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

UK teams are struggling to keep pace with software deployment standards due to skills gaps, leading to inefficiencies and costly delays. According to Salesforce DevOps platform Gearset, UK software deployments are 26 percent more likely to be delayed than delivered ahead of schedule. These delays are not isolated incidents and impact 82 percent of UK businesses surveyed. The financial impact is considerable, costing organisations an average of £107,000 annually due to stalled software rollouts.
Mozilla open-source tools help developers build ethical AI datasets

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

Mozilla has unveiled open-source tools to help developers build ethical AI datasets and avoid training models on copyrighted material. The reliance of many popular large language models (LLMs) on vast datasets scraped from the internet, often encompassing copyrighted works used without permission, presents a significant ethical and legal challenge. A growing contingent within the developer community believes creating high-quality, ethically sound alternatives is not only possible but necessary.
Google found guilty of ad tech monopoly in antitrust case

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

A US District Court has delivered a verdict in a major antitrust case, finding Google liable for monopolising key segments of the digital advertising technology (ad tech) market. The ruling, following a three-week bench trial, concluded that Google unlawfully acquired and maintained monopoly power in the markets for publisher ad servers and ad exchanges for open-web display advertising.
JetBrains debuts free AI tier and Junie coding agent in IDEs

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

JetBrains has announced the integration of its AI tools – including the upgraded AI Assistant and new coding agent Junie – into its IDEs under a single subscription model, complete with a free tier. Love it or loathe it, there’s no denying that AI is disrupting the software development industry. JetBrains, for its part, views it as an opportunity to redefine developers’ roles.
Masquerading payment npm package installs backdoor

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

Cybersecurity researchers at Socket have uncovered a malicious npm package that hijacks server control during payment transactions. The package, @naderabdi/merchant-advcash, masquerades as a legitimate integration for the digital payment platform Advcash (now rebranded as Volet). The package embeds a reverse shell activated after successful payments that enables attackers to remotely commandeer systems.
Microsoft Research teaches AI tools how to debug code

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

Microsoft Research has introduced debug-gym, a novel environment designed to train AI coding tools in the complex art of debugging code. As AI’s role in software development expands, debug-gym aims to address a critical bottleneck: while AI can generate code efficiently, debugging remains a major time sink for developers. The proliferation of AI coding assistants is enhancing developer productivity.
Google enhances Android Studio with enterprise Gemini AI tools

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

Google has unveiled new enterprise Gemini AI tools in Android Studio, tailored to meet their privacy, security, and management demands. The update aims to empower organisations by integrating AI-powered coding assistance while addressing concerns around data protection and intellectual property (IP).
Open-source AI matches coding abilities of proprietary models

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

Agentica and Together AI are releasing DeepCoder-14B-Preview, an open-source model boasting coding abilities on par with proprietary models. The development is a notable advancement in applying reinforcement learning (RL) to coding, an area that has traditionally lagged behind progress seen in mathematical reasoning models. The key challenge has been sourcing high-quality, verifiable coding datasets essential for effective RL training.