Appreciation or appropriation? How Black culture is shaping Gen Z slang

Linguistics experts say many words and phrases coined by Gen Zers have roots in African American Language that date back ...

Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google just released the latest version of its open AI model, Gemma 4, on Thursday. Crucially, Gemma 4 is a fully open-source ...
Developer Tech

Axios npm attack causes JavaScript supply chain chaos

Security teams are grappling with a major supply chain attack on Axios, a popular JavaScript library with over 100 million ...
ADTmag

Java's Steady Evolution Continues Amid AI Positioning and Licensing Tensions

Recent developments around the Java platform and programming language follow a familiar pattern: incremental technical progress paired with broader strategic repositioning. Together, these changes ...
InfoWorld

How Apache Kafka flexed to support queues

The latest release of Apache Kafka delivers the queue-like consumption semantics of point-to-point messaging. Here’s the how, ...