Eight intermediate certificates with recoverable private keys, four root CAs to distrust. After following JetBrains’ own guidance I found the official workaround removes two of them, my machine had all four, and not one of my three JVMs was patched.
On Android 16 every app can declare functions like an MCP server. I sent a message from outside my own app with zero screen touches, and dug out the internal|privileged permission gate.
The same screen: a 77 KB screenshot the model has to guess at, versus 4,184 bytes of text that states the structure. I ran both on an emulator, and hit the parts it still cannot do.
JetBrains analyzed 4,782 real IDE sessions: splitting one request into three messages more than doubles cost and barely moves the resolve rate.
Compose code on both sides, but Tencent picked native rendering over Skia: six platforms, four renderers, 155,000 lines of platform glue.
The version on npm is not the newest one. You have to pin the version number to get it. Once installed, three plugins were rejected on the spot. Not a bug. An exact-version lock doing its job.
The IDE terminal has a new engine: JediTerm, thirteen years old, steps aside for Ghostty’s core library. The reason is written on the AI agent line. I unpacked the new build and checked.
In October, Google gave Google Play a new entrance: an app you generate by talking to AI needs no developer account, no $25, and no review — just scan a QR code. The catch is that only you can install it.
1,778 lines of documentation, 3,498 lines of validation. The heaviest part of Cloudflare’s open-source audit skill is not finding bugs, it is stopping the agent from inventing them.
1.13 has one new feature and a pile of fixes. The heavy part shipped two months earlier, when hot reload got an MCP server.
On September 10, Shopify’s head of mobile published a post.
On October 21, Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta2 shipped. Most people open the notes, read the four promoted and two experimental language features, decide it is unremarkable, and close the tab.