I used ChatGPT to generate a single prompt that managed to create a personal operating system for me—I used it to make some ...

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...

Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

The new trend of "vibe coding" allows people to program software without writing a single line of code. Now, a new study by ETH Zurich published in the Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human ...

A new ETH study investigates which skills are needed to create simple apps and computer programs using AI agents. According to the study, knowledge of computer science had the biggest impact on ...

BiglyBT has two main folders, the installation-folder and the user-folder. The defaults for these are generally as follows: Windows systems are highly customizable. As such, the following assumes the ...

Alibaba has released OpenSandbox, an open-source tool designed to provide AI agents with secure, isolated environments for code execution, web browsing, and model training. Released under the Apache 2 ...

Many organisations are turning to virtualisation of apps and desktops. This often involves virtualisation platforms such as Citrix to deliver these services. Get your configuration or lock-down wrong ...

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...

a2ps-4.15.7: GNU a2ps converts almost anything to a PostScript file, ready for printing. It accomplishes this by being able to delegate files to external handlers, such as Groff and Gzip. It handles ...

There’s nothing worse than installing your favorite Java-based application — such as Minecraft, Maven, Jenkins or Apache Pig — only to run into a JAVA_HOME is ...

Zig is a popular systems-oriented language that is serious about replacing C. Here's what you need to know about Zig. The Zig programming language continues its gradual advance into the world of ...