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Apple Ends In-App Purchase Promo Codes in App Store Connect Starting March 26

Apple announces that developers will no longer be able to create promotional codes for In-App Purchases in App Store Connect starting March 26, 2026 — impacting testing workflows, reviewer outreach, and promotional strategies for iOS and macOS developers.

Mar 6

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Malicious Laravel Packages on Packagist Deploy Cross-Platform RAT Targeting PHP Developers

Three malicious Packagist packages disguised as Laravel utilities deploy a fully featured PHP remote access trojan on Windows, macOS, and Linux — running in the same process as the web application with access to database credentials, API keys, and .env secrets.

Mar 5

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OpenAI Building Internal GitHub Alternative as AI Boom Strains Code Infrastructure

OpenAI is developing an internal code-hosting platform to rival Microsoft's GitHub, motivated by rising outages that disrupt its engineering workflow — setting up a potential clash with Microsoft, which owns GitHub and remains OpenAI's largest cloud partner.

Mar 4

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AI-Written News Articles Expand at Cleveland Plain Dealer as Industry Debates Automation

The Cleveland Plain Dealer expands its use of AI-drafted articles under the "Advance Local Express Desk" byline, boosting traffic while raising concerns from journalists about editorial standards, attribution, and the future of local news reporting.

Mar 1

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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026 Opens with Expanded AI and DevEx Sections

Stack Overflow opens its annual developer survey for 2026 with significantly expanded sections on AI tool adoption, developer experience metrics, and the impact of AI coding assistants on productivity — reflecting the industry's focus on measuring AI's real-world development impact.

Feb 27

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PostgreSQL 18.3 Released Alongside Coordinated Five-Version Security Update

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group releases PostgreSQL 18.3, 17.9, 16.13, 15.17, and 14.22 in a coordinated update addressing multiple security vulnerabilities across all supported versions — including a high-severity SQL injection flaw in the pg_restore utility.

Feb 26

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Collabora Upstreams Rockchip Video Decoder Support in Linux Kernel

Collabora successfully lands mainline Linux kernel support for Rockchip's VDPU381 and VDPU383 video decoders — bringing hardware-accelerated H.264 and HEVC decode to ARM-based single-board computers without out-of-tree patches.

Feb 24

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Weston 15.0 Ships with Lua-Based Customizable Shell and Experimental Vulkan Renderer

The Wayland reference compositor Weston reaches version 15.0 with a fully scriptable Lua-based shell for custom window management, an experimental Vulkan renderer, and significant improvements to color handling and media playback.

Feb 23

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JDK 26 Enters Release Candidate Phase with Native HTTP/3 Support and Primitive Patterns

JDK 26 reaches its first release candidate ahead of a March 17 general availability, bringing native HTTP/3 support to the Java HTTP Client API, primitive types in pattern matching, and JDBC 4.5 with AutoCloseable interfaces.

Feb 22

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Go 1.26 Ships with Green Tea Garbage Collector Enabled by Default

Go 1.26 enables the Green Tea garbage collector by default, delivering 10-40% lower GC overhead for most programs, alongside a 30% reduction in cgo call overhead and a new crypto/hpke package for post-quantum encryption.

Feb 22

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Astral Launches ty: A Rust-Powered Python Type Checker That Runs 10-60x Faster Than mypy

Astral, the team behind uv and ruff, releases ty in beta — a Rust-powered Python type checker delivering 10-60x speed improvements over mypy, with incremental LSP diagnostics completing in 4.5ms where Pyright takes 370ms.

Feb 21

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Stack Overflow Survey: Developers Use AI More Than Ever But Trust It Less Than Last Year

The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey reveals a growing paradox: 84% of developers use or plan to use AI tools, but trust in AI output has dropped to 29%, with only 3% expressing high trust.

Feb 21