A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.
Releases & tools
- Structured concurrency finalized in JDK 28: JEP 543 turns the structured concurrency API into a permanent feature after seven preview rounds, so Java teams can adopt it without preview flags. InfoQ
- Wine ported to OpenBSD: A patch series on the OpenBSD ports list brings Wine to the platform, a long-requested option for running Windows software there. OpenBSD ports list
- KiviDB, a Redis-compatible store: A Show HN project pitches a faster in-memory database and vector cache that speaks the Redis protocol. GitHub
- Pinterest finalizes huge partitions with event-time watermarks: Engineers describe how watermarks decide when petabyte-scale data partitions are complete. InfoQ
AI & tooling
- Mistral releases Timestral: A new family of time-series foundation models, popular on both Hacker News and Lobsters. Mistral
- Nvidia launches open models for agents: New open models target running AI agents in enterprises and on PCs. TechCrunch
- EmbeddingGemma 2 goes multimodal: The embedding model now handles code, images, video and audio in addition to text. InfoQ
- Google Research publishes Harness2: A repository for recursive agent harnessing, aimed at structuring how agents orchestrate their own sub-runs. GitHub
- DeepSeek undercuts search API rivals: After cheap models, DeepSeek is now pricing its web search API below competing providers. The New Stack
Security & infrastructure
- Let's Encrypt adds two more validation perspectives: Domain validation will check from two additional remote network vantage points, making BGP-hijack-based certificate attacks harder. Let's Encrypt community
- Hardening NetScaler gateways beyond patching: Cloudflare explains how to protect Citrix NetScaler gateways against future vulnerabilities, not just the current ones. Cloudflare
- The distroless security gap: An argument that bottom-up built containers are the next step beyond distroless OCI images. The New Stack
Industry
- Disney acquires Character.AI without its lawsuits: The deal is structured to avoid inheriting the startup's pending litigation. Ars Technica
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