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Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

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 ...
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Spring Tools 5.2.0 Adds Experimental Claude Code Plugin and Spring AI Support

The release includes an embedded MCP server that exposes Spring project analytics to AI coding assistants, along with first-class support for Spring AI and automated property refactoring.

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

By registering the LongCat-2.0 repository under the open-source MIT License, Meituan positions the architecture with maximum ...

Safari’s new MCP server lets coding agents inspect and debug websites

Apple is introducing a new MCP server for Safari that lets coding agents inspect websites directly in the browser. Here are the details.

Security, Trust & Governance: Securing Software That Increasingly Writes Itself: SD Times 100

Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. Application security has spent years maturing around a relatively stable assumption: a human ...