News

• Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 28, Azul Payara, Gatherers4j, Google ADK, Yupiik, Apache Camel CVEs
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/java-news-roundup-oct12-2026/
• JEP 543 Finalizes Structured Concurrency in JDK 28, Ending Seven Preview Rounds
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/jep-543-jdk-28/
• TornadoVM 7 Enables GPU-Native Workloads from Java Applications
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/tornadovm-7-gpu/

Articles

• Distributed Spring Batch Without a Message Broker
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/spring-batch-without-broker/
• Plan Your Java Upgrade Ahead of Microsoft’s 2027 Support Milestones
  https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/plan-your-java-upgrade-ahead-of-microsofts-2027-support-milestones/
• Beyond API Compatibility: Building a Tool to Measure the Blast Radius of Library Changes
  https://netflixtechblog.com/beyond-api-compatibility-building-a-tool-to-measure-the-blast-radius-of-library-changes-9474f2fd4f90
• Cloudflare is rewriting everything in Rust
  https://kerkour.com/rust-at-cloudflare
• The Hidden Challenges of Rust Infrastructure: Interview with Marco Ieni
  https://serokell.io/blog/the-hidden-challenges-of-rust-infrastructure-interview-with-marco-ieni
• AI in Software Engineering: The Reliability Paradox
  https://www.bain.com/insights/ai-in-software-engineering-the-reliability-paradox/
• Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/10/19/production-grade-llms-and-agents-a-field-guide/
• The Thin Orchestrator: How We Made Our AI Agents More Reliable by Giving the Router Less to Do
  https://engineering.fb.com/2026/10/19/ml-applications/thin-orchestrator-ai-agent-architecture/
• AI adoption by industry shows what other sectors can learn
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145423/ai-adoption-by-industry-shows-what-other-sectors-can-learn/
• How Shopify turns open models into task experts
  https://shopify.engineering/open-model-task-experts
• Empowering frontline maternal care with AI-assisted ultrasound
  https://research.google/blog/empowering-frontline-maternal-care-with-ai-assisted-ultrasound/

Videos

• What’s Going Wrong with My JVM?! A Guide to First-Time Failure Diagnosis
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx4K7RjBvmU
• Reflect, Transform, Accelerate: Bringing GPU Computing to Java
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1fi5GaWXxY
• Inside Gradle: Build Scans, Flaky Tests, and AI Agents – Stefan Wolf | IntelliJ IDEA Tech Talks
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBNBjYH-foE
• Stop debugging Rust with print statements
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9DAvRvHWwI
• Someone just found an 11-year-old hole in Rust’s borrow checker…
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iAi5exNHv8
• Is Rust the perfect language for LLMs?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx9Q66VNCWA
• AI agents can now write idiomatic Rust (or can they?)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n83pvFuZ5fo
• NVIDIA’s new way to program GPUs with Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg6MgDnHlrU
• The revised rules of engineering management with Will Larson
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prl858_AovM
• Why Inference Matters 12x More Than Training | YC Paper Club
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHNKuH-9OxU
• Why AI Writing Still Reads Like Slop — Louis-François Bouchard, Towards AI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dTF3NpPzGo
• Does Code Quality Still Matter? It Depends on This — Max Kanat-Alexander, Capital One
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5gDVyu_28
• Is the Agent Harness Dead? — Jediah Katz, SpaceXAI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y4sbZgBdnc
• Stop Telling Agents How
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T-gldvgfpo
• How OpenAI Built ChatGPT for Bankers and Analysts — Joseph Kim, OpenAI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opHmX7qClzE
• AI and the Holy Organ: Inside Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins | Amazon Web Services
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cDvaWDwD00

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News

• Java News Roundup: Grails 8, Open Liberty, GlassFish, Infinispan, LangChain4j, Spock
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/java-news-roundup-oct05-2026/
• This Week in Spring – October 13th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/10/13/this-week-in-spring-october-13th-2026
• Helidon 27 Introduces Restructured Programming Models and New Messaging and Data Modules
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/helidon-27-released/
• Announcing Rust 1.99.1
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/10/15/Rust-1.99.1/
• Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale
  https://netflixtechblog.com/ontology-driven-observability-building-an-end-to-end-knowledge-graph-at-netflix-scale-421392cf5adf
• Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems
  https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-argon/

Articles

• Server-Side DPoP and Token Exchange in Spring Security 7
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/spring-security-7-server-side-dpop-token-exchange/
• How Signal and WhatsApp deploy Rust to billions of Android and iOS devices
  https://kerkour.com/rust-ios-android-signal-whatsapp
• Redesigning source control at Anthropic
  https://www.anthropic.com/research/redesigning-source-control
• Reverse Engineer Anything Project Brings AI Agents to Binary Analysis
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/reverse-engineer-anything/
• State of AI Report 2026
  https://www.stateof.ai/2026-explore/
• How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI?
  https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026/08/20/how-much-of-the-internet-is-written-with-ai/
• The Gender Gap in AI
  https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/10/16/the-gender-gap-in-ai/
• What will the next generation of developers do when AI writes the code?
  https://commandline.microsoft.com/praise-preceptor-ai-accelerated-software-engineering-cmu/
• What 25 Trillion Tokens Reveal about How Developers Actually Adopt AI Agents
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/agentic-ai-developer-trust-adoption/
• Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough
  https://commandline.microsoft.com/ai-agent-copilot-autopilot-layered-model-production-network-incidents-on-call-engineers/
• He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art
  https://www.quantamagazine.org/he-wants-ai-benchmarking-to-be-a-science-not-a-dark-art-20261016/
• A proposal for better informing the public about loss-of-control risks from frontier AI development
  https://metr.org/blog/2026-10-14-better-informing-the-public-about-loss-of-control-risks/#crucial-gaps-in-the-public-understanding-of-loss-of-control-risks
• Analyzing technical documents with Deep Review
  https://research.google/blog/analyzing-technical-documents-with-deep-review/

Videos

• OpenJDK Bug Fixing, JavaOne, and JDK 28 – Inside Java Newscast #116
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn2lsyvzMvE
• Everyday JSON in Java
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws_t0rxnv4Y
• Structured Concurrency Looms
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS01pSRWKmg
• How does Java fit into the world of AI—and how can it become an even better fit?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL3sWS_8b-g
• Someone hacked the Rust compiler and made it faster…
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-GDQJHuvu0
• Why Apache chose Rust to build it’s new query engine
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICj25gpQ5-A
• 11.Reborrowing and Rust’s Invisible Lifetimes
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaDvLfljbMk
• Uber’s AI infra, from the inside
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDUYSMJmi8A
• AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7oI4Umt3DU
• Sandboxes Aren’t Optional: 4 Ways to Isolate Coding Agents — Robert Brennan, OpenHands
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH_wV8BbS24
• Scott Aaronson: The Mathocalypse, Will Intelligence Matter Anymore?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORlscppGGh4
• Activation Functions in Machine Learning
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCXigVQ6r9o
• The math behind the mind’s mistakes | with Kit Yates
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqtXiABMj3A

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News

• Java News Roundup: JobRunr 9, OpenXava 8, Quarkus, LangChain4j, JNoSQL, Introducing Lathe
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/java-news-roundup-sep28-2026/

Articles

• The Missing Piece in Rust Error Handling
  https://mcmah309.github.io/posts/the-missing-piece-in-rust-error-handling/
• Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development
  https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/building-git-infrastructure-for-agent-scale-development/
• Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things
  https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/using-ai-for-just-10-minutes-erodes-your-ability-to-persist-at-hard-things/
• What Top Performers Do Differently with AI—and Why They See the Biggest Benefits
  https://hbr.org/2026/10/what-top-performers-do-differently-with-ai-and-why-they-see-the-biggest-benefits
• AI Is Not ‘Super Intelligence.’ Why No One Should Use Trump’s Term
  https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ai-not-super-intelligence-no-one-should-use-trumps-term/
• Infinite Potential—Insights On Artificial Intelligence Loss of Control Across Five Scenarios
  https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4767-3.html
• We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/09/1145728/we-are-putting-too-much-faith-in-ai-to-say-no/
• Building Smarter Wearable Technologies with AI
  https://seas.harvard.edu/news/building-smarter-wearable-technologies-ai
• Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/agent-lightning-v1-0-a-3500-line-lightweight-agentic-rl-framework-for-training-agents-with-real-harnesses/

Videos

• Java – The Year of the Runtime!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXBGBovpH88
• OOP vs. Data-Oriented Programming: Which One to Choose?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMdxiVYyMtU
• Codepocalypse Now LangChain4j vs JetBrains Koog by Baruch Sadogursky and Viktor Gamov
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkF30sJfrw
• Here we go again…
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Aup1LwPhQ
• Rust Release Changelog – 1.99.0
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLV9AJxnb1U
• Making Rust structs as small as humanly possible
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G6heF_Hxk0
• Rust Async & Pin, Finally Visualized (Full Course)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhRDN5YXIsk
• Rust Stack & Heap – Visualized, Frames, Vec, Memory Bugs
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g14iDOHxh88
• Ratatui Tutorial for Beginners: Build a Rust System Monitor
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U20S5pxTUhU
• This is why you can’t trust AI…
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4lmBchwGHc
• Building resilient systems with Sam Newman
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0sZV0qIbI0
• The state of the tech industry in 2026 – LDX3 New York
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru99FGJ_yuE
• Spring Office Hours: S5E25 – Future of Software Development with Josh Long
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQK6gdbCWDQ
• Agentic Search vs Vector Search for Coding Agents: We Ran the Eval — Braintrust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3SS931wU0I
• JetBrains | Rust Foundation AI Livestream Series – OpenAI: Performance, Safety & Scale
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTnK7Hms1E
• Harness Engineering: How to Build a Software Factory — Dru Knox, Tessl
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6l4lpA0_NY
• What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/what-ai-gets-wrong-and-what-failure-teaches-us/
• Can AI solve the hardest problems in mathematics? | PuzzlingScience with Yang-Hui He
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiBboUqdD-4

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News

• Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 7.0, Groovy 6.0, GraalVM, Hibernate, Quarkus, Gradle, Maven
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/java-news-roundup-sep21-2026/
• This Week in Spring – September 29th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/09/29/this-week-in-spring-september-29th-2026
• Spring News Roundup: Second Milestone Releases of Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Integration
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/spring-news-roundup-sep21-2026/
• Announcing Rust 1.99.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/10/01/Rust-1.99.0/

Articles

• Spring AI Modular RAG and TypeSafe Jev: Retrieve More, Keep Only What Answers
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/10/02/spring-ai-modular-rag-typesafe-jev
• Practical Rust API Design
  https://corrode.dev/blog/practical-rust-api-design/
• A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/10/01/a-look-back-before-we-look-forward-a-developer-survey-retrospective/
• AI Now Writing Code That Humans Can’t Even Understand
  https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-writing-code-humans-cant-understand
• Changing the game: Using agentic AI to secure infrastructure code
  https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/using-ai-agents-to-secure-google-infrastructure
• Generative Artificial Intelligence, Productivity, and the Future of Work: Why AI Is More Likely to Change Jobs Than Eliminate Them
  https://economics.td.com/gen-ai-intelligence
• Designing MCP Gateway Uber’s MCP Management Platform
  https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/designing-mcp-gateway
• Scaling AI in Legal: Building Uber’s Redlining Agent
  https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/building-ubers-redlining-agent
• Introducing SynthID Bio
  https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-synthid-bio/

Videos

• Agent Helidon: License to Scale
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewSwIZvN9lY
• How To Write Great Java Apps With LLMs and Agents
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMIPCyXZDAk
• Now and Next Java for AI by Ana Maria Mihalceanu | IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_mnefsBF8
• 3 way to structure your Rust projects
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkW3dTxBmm0
• Cloudflare saved 100 terabytes with just 5 Rust optimizations
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHugujESp_s
• Rust Strings, Finally Visualized (Full Course)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0PVgJQTTBk
• How to write effective unsafe Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91uStPBLibc
• Co-Creator of Kubernetes: Is a PhD Worth It & Career Reflections | Brendan Burns
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ70tKLbOEo
• Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/infrastructure-financial-services-platform/
• The State of AI in Software Development: Data from 400+ Orgs — Justin Reock, DX
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se8jHLliLXE
• The Death of the Code Review: What the Data Actually Says — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mi3alkqy4s
• Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering — Zach Lloyd, Warp
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUPPVhBBcoM
• What It Actually Takes to Build a Software Factory — Tereza Tížková, Factory
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGCJ7diEtrw
• Webinar: What AI Can and Cannot Do: Intelligence Augmentation in Practice with Michael Bernstein
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4xvZnl102w
• MCP Doesn’t Suck. Your Agent Does. — Jan Čurn, Apify
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAnLpiAG6Es
• Get Out of the Model’s Way — Kevin Hou, Google Antigravity
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buHC7bQE1X4
• Building Self-Improving Agent Software Factories — Suraj Gupta, Warp
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN3mj92oZ8I
• How Uber’s AI Agent Debugs Production Issues
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CacTDGs-If4
• What If We Stopped Using GPUs? | YC Paper Club
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc2FTBGRSJo

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