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The OWASP Foundation has revealed the first Release Candidate for the 2025 OWASP Top 10 list, which ranks the most critical security concerns developers should be thinking about. The top 10 security concerns on the updated list are: Broken Access Control Security Misconfiguration Software Supply Chain Failures Cryptographic Failures Injection Insecure Design Authentication Failures Software or Data Integrity Failures Logging and Alerting Failures Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions This list features many of the same concerns from the 2021 versions, with a few notable changes, such as Server-Side Request Forgery, which was in last place in 2021, being rolled into the Broken Access Control category. Additionally, a new category, Software Supply Chain Failures, was added and includes Vulnerable and Outdated Components (#6 in 2021), and Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions made the list for the first time, containing CWEs related to improper error handling, logical erro...

The web design platform Webflow today announced new updates to its platform to align it more with the vibe coding experience, allowing any user to bring their ideas to life regardless of their coding skills. According to the company, this new capability, App Gen , enables users to move from creating websites into creating web experiences. It builds on the launch of Webflow Cloud, a full-stack platform for hosting apps directly in Webflow that was announced earlier this year. App Gen leverages a site’s existing design system, content, and structure so that each new creation aligns with their brand and can scale up using Webflow’s cloud infrastructure. The new capability automatically applies all of a site’s topography, colors, and other layout variables to provide a consistent visual experience between the existing site and new AI-generated features. It also can reuse existing Webflow components to further ensure brand consistency and can connect to the site’s CMS to turn structured ...

Microsoft has announced the release of .NET 10, the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release of .NET that will receive support for the next three years. As such, Microsoft is encouraging development teams to migrate their production applications to this version to take advantage of that extended support window. This release features several performance improvements across the runtime, workloads, and languages. For instance, the JIT compiler has been improved with better inlining, method devirtualization, and improved code generation for struct arguments. Additionally, enhanced loop inversion and stack allocation strategies have been implemented to optimize runtimes. Several language improvements were made to C# and F# as well. C# 14 introduces field-backed properties to simplify property declarations, extension properties and methods allow devs to add members to types they don’t own, and more. In F# 10, some of the improvements include the ability to use #warnon and #nowarn to enable...

The year is 2030. And hindsight is truly 20/20. We witnessed AI drive the cost of content creation to zero. Illustrations that once cost hundreds, headshots that cost thousands, and blog posts that once needed full creative teams could suddenly be produced in seconds for pennies. That collapse in creative costs reshaped entire industries. And a few short years later, the same dynamic swept through software quality assurance—with equally transformational results. For decades, the cost of testing had been defined by human labor. Traditional automation frameworks required engineers to write, debug, and maintain endless libraries of scripts. Even the best teams struggled to keep up as applications evolved. The work was slow, brittle, and expensive. Global system integrators built multibillion-dollar businesses on that inefficiency, charging (in hours) hundreds of dollars per test script per year across thousands of applications. Then AI arrived. At first, it appeared in small, assistiv...

Over the past several years, the productivity gains of AI have been touted left and right, but just because AI can generate code doesn’t necessarily mean that it helps speed up the software development life cycle. According to a report from GitLab, an “AI Paradox” has emerged. “While AI accelerates coding, fragmented toolchains and new compliance complexities are creating bottlenecks that cost teams nearly a full workday per team member each week,” the company wrote. GitLab’s research, which gathered responses from over 3,000 DevSecOps professionals, found that those workers are losing 7 hours per week to inefficient processes, such as a lack of cross-functional communication, limited knowledge sharing, and use of different tools across teams. Additionally, 60% of respondents use more than five tools for software development and 49% use more than five AI tools. GitLab believes the solution to these issues lies in following platform engineering approaches to address requirements for...

The value of tools integration and model-based integration was the subject of a recent SD Times Live! webinar with Jeff McCollum, vice president of product management at portfolio management platform provider Planview, and Giorgio Leon-Guerrero, a senior solution consultant. This transcript was edited for length and clarity. SDT: What are the key drivers for interest in integration solutions? Jeff McCollum: There are four things that we usually cite when we talk about this. One is fidelity of work items across the tool chain. So just making sure that if you’re working in different systems, that the things that you’re working on, the description of a story or the description of a defect or feedback from a customer, that remains consistent across your entire tool chain. Next, it’s important to maintain a single system of record for analytics, which means allowing users to run queries on one integrated system to gather all necessary information for reports, rather than querying multi...

Creating and updating geo targeted APIs may seem easy, but there are countless challenges involved. Every country, every city, and every mobile network can respond differently and will require distinct adjustments. When pricing endpoints contain location-based compliance features and payment options, testing them will require more than one physical location. Proxies are a crucial part of the developer’s toolkit–they enable you to virtually “stand” in another country to observe what the users see. Developers encounter many problems when it comes to testing geo targeted APIs and it is the use of proxies that addresses this concern. In this article, we will outline the proxy use case and its benefits, the different proxy types, and potential challenges. We will maintain a practical approach so that you can pass it to a QA engineer or a backend developer and they will be able to use it directly. What Are Geo Targeted APIs and Why Do They Matter? A geo targeted API is an API that custom...

Syncfusion Code Studio now available Code Studio is an AI-powered IDE that offers capabilities like autocompletion, code generation and explanations, refactoring of selected code blocks, and multistep agent automation for large-scale tasks. Customers can use their preferred LLM to power Code Studio, and will also get access to security and governance features like SSO, role-based access controls, and usage analytics. “Every technology leader is seeking a responsible path to scale with AI,” said Daniel Jebaraj, CEO of Syncfusion. “With Code Studio, we’re helping enterprise teams harness AI on their own terms, maintaining a balance of productivity, transparency, and control in a single environment.” Linkerd to get MCP support Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd, announced its plans to add MCP support to the project, which will enable users to get more visibility into their MCP traffic, including metrics on resource, tool, and prompt usage, such as failure rates, latency, and volum...

Dataminr , the leader in AI-powered real-time event, threat & risk intelligence, today announced the launch of the Dataminr Developer Portal and an enhanced Software Development Kit (SDK). This new developer-centric resource delivers a centralized knowledge hub, providing developers and product leaders with everything needed to quickly and confidently integrate Dataminr’s revolutionary AI real-time intelligence directly into customer- and partner-facing applications. The Dataminr Developer Portal dramatically streamlines the entire integration journey. Users now have frictionless access to API documentation, tools, support resources, and code samples, significantly reducing the time and complexity to build and ship Dataminr-powered solutions and workflows. By providing a clear and comprehensive view of how to integrate with Dataminr’s API, the SDK helps developers rapidly build and test customer solutions. Partners can also use the SDK to access Dataminr’s latest AI-enriched cont...

Earlier this week, Google came to a settlement in its five-year lawsuit with Epic Games, creator of the popular video game, Fortnite. Epic Games initially filed a lawsuit in 2020 against Google, saying that Google was violating antitrust laws with how it managed its app store, Google Play. Google takes a 30% cut of revenue for all purchases made through the Google Play Store, but Epic Games believed it could operate a similar storefront with a 12% revenue share. Epic Games then started allowing Fortnite players to buy in-game currency directly through its app, which caused the Android and iOS versions of Fortnite to be removed from their respective storefronts for violating the terms of use. As part of the settlement, Google has proposed a number of changes to the Play Store, Reuters reported , that will make it easier for Android users to download and install third-party app stores. One of the changes is that Android developers will be able to offer users alternative payment metho...

Somewhere, a boss-guy is banging on a conference table, shouting into the conference phone: “Bring me more AI projects! The next person who suggests buying anything, even a pencil, that doesn’t have AI in it, is fired!” Next, the EVPs and SVPs will scurry out of the room, then blast out instructions to their VPs and directors that they had better start searching for AI solutions to all of the things that managers used to do without AI, so they can reduce headcount by 50%. Unfortunately, their search for AI will land on an infinite number of results. Here’s a plan: go look at the websites of the stodgy old vendors that we already used from before AI, figure out what exactly we were doing with them, and then buy or build the AI that can do that. But when you get to their websites, every single one of them is doing AI now! Not only that, each claims to be some combination of the first, leading, easiest, best rated, and most powerful AI vendor in their space. To figure it out, let’s hi...

Vibe coding has taken off in the past year, and it’s not just a way for developers to play around with side projects. Just as low-code had in the past, vibe coding is another evolution of the movement to bring the power of software development to people without a coding background. In the latest episode of our podcast, we spoke with Angie Jones, VP of engineering for AI Tools & Enablement at the financial services company Block, about this movement and how it’s happening within Block. Here is an edited and abridged version of that conversation: Q: One of the things that people talk about AI is how it can empower everyone to create code and do things they couldn’t do before, when it isn’t now just about software engineers. So how is that changing the way organizations are working, you know, creating now an army of people who can create code that may or may not have any governance behind it, any security, any testing, things like that? A: I think that engineers are adopting thes...

Microsoft has announced that Aspire is now polyglot and can be used across multiple languages, frameworks, and services. “Whether you’re building in C#, Python, JavaScript, or integrating services like Redis, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Aspire provides a unified way to develop, observe, and deploy any application,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post . This evolution of Aspire has been in the works for two years and was initially an effort to streamline distributed app development. In that time period, the platform has grown into a “thriving, community-driven, extensible, code-first platform for effortless, observable development and deployment of modern cloud apps,” according to Microsoft. Aspire allows developers to orchestrate front ends, APIs, containers, and databases entirely in code from a single CLI. The Aspire AppHost allows developers to define their app and its dependencies, and whenever a new resource is added to the AppHost, it is automatically added to the Aspire Dashboard so...

English is only spoken by about 20% of the world’s population, yet existing AI benchmarks for multilingual models are falling short. For example, MMMLU has become saturated to the point that top models are clustering near high scores, and OpenAI says this makes them a poor indicator of real progress. Additionally, the existing multilingual benchmarks focus on translation and multiple choice tasks and don’t necessarily accurately measure how well the model understands regional context, culture, and history, OpenAI explained. To remedy these issues, OpenAI is building new benchmarks for different languages and regions of the world, starting with India, its second largest market. The new benchmark, IndQA, will “evaluate how well AI models understand and reason about questions that matter in Indian languages, across a wide range of cultural domains.” There are 22 official languages in India, seven of which are spoken by at least 50 million people. IndQA includes 2,278 questions across 1...

Testlio, a company that offers crowdsourced software testing, has announced a new end-to-end testing solution designed specifically for testing AI solutions. Leveraging Testlio’s community of over 80,000 testers, this new solution provides human-in-the-loop validation for each stage of AI development. “Trust, quality, and reliability of AI-powered applications rely on both technology and people,” said Summer Weisberg, COO and Interim CEO at Testlio. “Our managed service platform, combined with the scale and expertise of the Testlio Community, brings human intelligence and automation together so organizations can accelerate AI innovation without sacrificing quality or safety.” The AI testing solution allows customers to validate AI model behavior in real-world conditions spanning different 100+ languages, 600k+ devices, and 150+ countries; detect and mitigate hallucinations, bias, or other harmful automation; simulate red team scenarios to find prompt injection, jailbreak, and compl...