Trump Tech Directives Are a Cause For Concern, Celebration
IN THIS ISSUE: Trump Tech Directives Cause Concern, Celebration; Chinese AI Model DeepSeek Shakes Up Industry; Mistral in the Gallery; Is it Time for JavaScript Temporal?; Android 16 Takes Measure of Surroundings; Report: 88% of Java Users Want Out
Trump Tech Directives Cause for Concern, Celebration
Love him or hate him, President Trump is keeping promises made during his campaign, and he's doing so bigly. In his first week in office, the 47th president issued record numbers of executive orders, including far-reaching directives on AI and cybersecurity, and repealed Biden-era orders that he says stymie innovation.
DeepSeek: Chinese AI Model Shakes Up the Industry
Claiming it can compete with the likes of front-running AI models ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, upstart DeepSeek claims its like-named model can do just as much in far less time and is open source to boot. Try it for yourself.
Mistral Small 3 is another open-source AI model to hit the scene last month. Release with far less fanfare, perhaps, but its superior performance is catching the attention and preferences of numerous developers. Mistral Small 3 will be licensed under Apache 2.0.
Is it Time for JavaScript Temporal?
Since its inception in 1995, JavaScript and its developers have apparently been burdened with serious deficiencies when it comes to telling time. Despite being replaced early on, the JavaScript date object remains plagued with issues. The temporal object is designed to solve everything.
Android 16 Takes Measure of its Surroundings
An early look at Android 16 has revealed that developers are finally coming around to other ways of thinking, at least when it comes to measurement units. Android settings will support preferences for the metric system as well as imperial measurement settings for the US and UK.
Report: 88% of Java Users Seeking Alternatives
The reason that close to 90 percent of organizations are unhappy using Java can reportedly be summed up in one word: Oracle. The company that bought Sun Microsystems and its revolutionary Java programming language two years ago changed its licensing policy. Things have gone downhill from there.
Edward Correia
