A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
Spencer Gibb
@spencer.gibb.us
Software Engineer, Dad, Geek, Co-founder and Lead of #SpringCloud Core on the @spring.io team at Broadcom
What does AI development look like for Spring developers? Sébastien Deleuze explains how Spring AI brings models, vector stores, MCP, and agentic workflows into the familiar Spring ecosystem—without losing sight of security, consistency, and control. 🎥 Watch: https://youtu.be/mCOGZGV48hU
New: Link an Android tablet, Android phone, or iPhone as a linked device to your Signal account. The most important links are with the people who matter to you, but if you want two phones, a tablet, and a laptop linked to your Signal account, we’ve got your back. signal.org/blog/linked-...
More linked devices are on the table (and the Android tablet)
The latest update for Signal Android introduces comprehensive support for linked devices. Now you can easily link another Android phone or Android tablet to your Signal account. Thanks to significant ...
signal.org
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." — George Orwell, 1984
This week’s Spring roundup's packed: idempotency keys for Boot, AI/OSS security, agent loops, RabbitMQ Streams, AI ontologies, Spring Cloud dynamic config + microservices, DynamoDB integration, great chats with Phil Webb & more. 🚀 https://spring.io/blog/2026/08/04/this-week-in-spring-august-4-2026
spring.io
A bit over half of the repositories using setup-java action, are using Eclipse Temurin (public repos), and they benefit from GitHub Hosted Runners Tool Cache. The rest? Download the JDK every single workflow run. Coming to v6 is JDK Caching: github.com/actions/setu...
Add default JDK caching by brunoborges · Pull Request #1201 · actions/setup-java
Summary add a default-on cache-jdk input with an explicit cache-jdk: false opt-out restore resolved JDKs before download and save tool-cache entries in the post action, independently of dependency...
github.com
“The problem most companies struggle with is that they're "terminally bad at running software projects effectively." Adding AI to the mix doesn't solve this problem – it just adds a whole new range of ways that software deployment can fail.” — pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/d... #AI
Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/
Spring Boot cofounder Phil Webb joins the show to discuss Spring Boot 4.1, including Spring gRPC support, the MongoDB batch starter, and improvements to security, observability, service connections, and more. https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-89x3m-1b23874
Spring Boot founder and lead Phil Webb
Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Spring Boot cofounder Phil Webb who joins the show to unpack the latest Spring Boot 4.1 release, from the long-awaited Spring gRPC support and MongoDB batch starter to security, observability, service connections, and other polished improvements.
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Upgrade Rails immediately, kids, this is a big one. github.com/rails/rails/...
Possible arbitrary file read and remote code execution in Active Storage variant processing
### Impact In its default configuration, a Rails application that displays image variants may allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from the server, including the process envi...
github.com
JEP 532 in #Java27 brings exact conversion checks to primitive patterns in switch and instanceof. A pattern matches only when the value can be converted without losing information. No manual range checks or lossy casts. Fifth preview.
Look who is on the show… The awesome @starbuxman.joshlong.com - by far the greatest dev advocate you can imagine, what an honor to be on the same team with him
Who is actually accountable when AI-generated code ships to production? @starbuxman.joshlong.com (Spring Developer Advocate) has a 1970s IBM answer that's hard to argue with, and a case for why the JVM is better positioned for the AI era than most developers think. 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/_ftzJ33mCTI
Who is actually accountable when AI-generated code ships to production? @starbuxman.joshlong.com (Spring Developer Advocate) has a 1970s IBM answer that's hard to argue with, and a case for why the JVM is better positioned for the AI era than most developers think. 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/_ftzJ33mCTI
GraalVM 25.2 is here!🎉 It brings sandboxed application plugins, reduced memory usage, G1 in Native Image across all platforms, and more — see what's new: medium.com/graalvm/graa... Download: www.graalvm.org/downloads/
GraalVM 25.2 is here! 🎉
Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of GraalVM 25.2!
medium.com
Spring devs, this week’s roundup is packed: smarter Spring Tools/MCP, IntelliJ updates, Spring AI persistence & workflows, Spring Batch + MongoDB repos, Java 27 chat, and more. Dive in for the best links and updates 👇 https://spring.io/blog/2026/07/28/this-week-in-spring-july-28-2026
spring.io
damn, @protobase.at is the pds-as-a-service we've all been asking for since the start, good stuff @aka.dad
There's a reason Elon Musk rarely does interviews with real news outlets.
Elon Musk Melts Down Over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview
"Maybe some people do loathe me. And that's probably true. I don't care," said Musk.
gizmodo.com
Buttigieg: The fact that the Trump admin deleted references to 4 American service members killed in action b/c that simple and tragic reality complicates their narrative that we're not at war, when everybody knows that we are, shows how far from reality they are. I think voters are fed up with it.
Wrote up some thoughts earlier (hope you don't mind the HN screenshot) but I do think Luke is giving some good feedback that we need to look at
"Bluesky’s Atmosphere Protocol has the chance to become the base for a whole generation of applications. But it's developing in surprising and disappointing ways." - Building on ATProto by @luke.kanies.com lukekanies.com/writing/buil...
Luke Kanies | Building on ATProto
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"I don't want to use software which has slop in it. I do what I can to avoid it, and sadly even Vim now comes under scrutiny in that effort as both Vim and NeoVim are relying on LLMs to develop the software." - A Eulogy For Vim drewdevault.com/blog/Forking...
A eulogy for Vim
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🎯 JEP 401 proposed to target JDK 28 Title: Value Objects (Preview) Type: feature Component: spec Release: 28 See openjdk.org/jeps/401
Java security updates are moving beyond the familiar quarterly cycle. The industry is shifting toward a faster cadence, and BellSoft intends to follow with Liberica JDK and Liberica NIK, starting with an additional August security release between the usual July and October updates.
Liberica JDK and Liberica NIK Are Moving Toward Monthly Security Updates
The pace of Java security updates is set to increase. The industry is moving from the long-standing quarterly rhythm of January, April, July, and October toward more frequent, monthly security release...
bell-sw.com
« The Wasm GC and exceptions proposals are both enabled by default in today’s Wasmtime 47 release! » 🎉 bytecodealliance.org/articles/was...
GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime
The Wasm GC and exceptions proposals are both enabled by default in today’sWasmtime 47 release! We are excited to help bring more languages to WebAssemblyand everywhere that Wasmtime runs. Getting to ...
bytecodealliance.org
"Clean room builds of the entire Java dependency tree for Spring Boot 2.7.x, 3.x, and 4.x"