February 2026 TIOBE Index shows Python still far ahead, C strengthening in second, C# rising, and R holding the top 10 as rankings compress.

Spark, a lightweight real-time coding model powered by Cerebras hardware and optimized for ultra-low latency performance.

AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

Xcode can now connect to external AI coding agents, making it possible to prototype working apps with minimal programming experience.

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software ...

At Spotify, engineers are using an internal system called “Honk” to speed up coding and product velocity, the company told analysts on the call. This system allows for things like remote, real-time ...

Written in Python, Freqtrade is a free, open-source crypto trading bot that works with all major exchanges and can be operated using Telegram or WebUI. It is great at automating tactics through ...

Scott Shambaugh maintains matplotlib, a Python plotting library downloaded about 130 million times a month. Like many open source projects, matplotlib now requires human review of all submissions ...

North Korea-linked Lazarus campaign spreads malicious npm and PyPI packages via fake crypto job offers, deploying RATs and ...

OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark promises ultra-fast, conversational AI coding, if you can tolerate a few trade-offs.

The work of Open Source Mano has been showcased in February at the SNS4SNS 2026 second edition of the ETSI Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services event (SNS4SNS), with a dedicated ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.