A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.

Releases

  • .NET 11 is announced: Microsoft has announced the next major .NET release, a significant platform update for C# and .NET teams to start evaluating. .NET Blog
  • Blender 5.3 adds Gaussian Splat support: The new release brings Gaussian splatting, a popular technique for capturing real-world scenes, into the open-source 3D tool. Blender

AI & tooling

  • Gemini 4 Carbon is available: Google has released the new Gemini model, and says it was used to prove properties of Signal's encryption in a matter of weeks. Google / The New Stack
  • DeepMind introduces AlphaProof Code: A new DeepMind effort applies proof-style reasoning to code. DeepMind
  • Adobe adds AI agents and an MCP server: Photoshop, Premiere and Firefly get agentic features, plus an MCP launch so other AI tools can drive Adobe apps. TechCrunch
  • Grok API text watermarking now off by default: The change was made without much announcement, which matters for anyone relying on watermarks to detect generated text. The New Stack
  • CNCF: 75% of cloud-native developers ship AI-assisted code: A new survey report quantifies how widespread AI coding has become in cloud-native teams. The New Stack
  • Google announces two specialized AI chips: The company is widening its AI hardware lineup beyond its existing accelerators. TechCrunch

Security

  • N-able pulls remote access service offline after zero-day dump: A researcher published dozens of zero-day bugs, and the vendor took the service down. Customers should watch for advisories. TechCrunch
  • Hugging Face warns cyberattacks could make open-source AI less open: An executive says attacks on model hosting may push platforms toward tighter restrictions. TechCrunch
  • Research on running modified native code on IBM i: Silent Signal details how the Program Validation Value mechanism can be bypassed. Silent Signal

Engineering & industry

  • Pinterest and Intel take open-source profiling to internet scale: The two companies describe continuous profiling work for large fleets. InfoQ
  • Anthropic sets IPO price range: The range of $70 to $78 per share implies a valuation of about $1.4 trillion. TechCrunch

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