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GitHub @github.com · 22h

A Supreme Court case could change how you build and share code.

At stake are the "safe harbors" that protect platforms from copyright enforcement overreach.

We're advocating for clear rules that protect developers. Here's what you need to know. 👇
https://gh.io/AAy5up2

How GitHub protects developers from copyright enforcement overreach

Why the U.S. Supreme Court case Cox v. Sony matters for developers and sharing updates to our Transparency Center and Acceptable Use Policies.

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 19h

Works for cheaper prices as well.

Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 1d

Original message x.com/ijuma/status...

Ismael Juma on X: "Well done to the folks that diagnosed JDK-8369506 (Bytecode rewriting causes Java heap corruption on AArch64), looks like a painful one." / X

Well done to the folks that diagnosed JDK-8369506 (Bytecode rewriting causes Java heap corruption on AArch64), looks like a painful one.

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 1d

JDK Memory corruption on AArch64 Byte code Rewriting, this can lead to impossible branch being taken among other issues.
(via Ismael Juma on Twitter)
bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8...
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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 1d

I blogged again: cowtowncoder.medium.com/jackson-3-0-...

Jackson 3.0.0 (GA) released

(October 3, 2025)

cowtowncoder.medium.com

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 2d

Yes indeed. Well done, MIT. All of our universities should have been reacting in this manner to all of the Trump administration's illegal overreach (looking at you, Columbia).

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't see this drone usage coming!

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Aleksey Shipilëv @shipilev.bsky.social · 2d

Ever seen a verbose render how a very small GC operation looks like in the context of larger safepoint? Here it is: (I need to blog about things you can see there)

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 2d

Seen in twitter from @tanelpoder.com :)

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Moritz Halbritter @0.5ritter.de · 2d

And the recording is now here, too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h16n...

Supercharge your JVM performance with Project Leyden and Spring Boot by Moritz Halbritter, Ana Maria

YouTube video by Devoxx

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, just noticed that Netty 5 will have the Java 25 baseline !

github.com/netty/netty/...
#netty #java #java25

bump netty5 java version requirement to 25 by derklaro · Pull Request #15676 · netty/netty

Motivation: With the addition of MemorySegment into the JDK the Unsafe and ByteBuffer based Buffer implementations are no longer needed. Due to a bug on jdk versions before 25 the nio buffers creat...

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John Sterling @mejkarsense.se · 4d

Thanks for 50k downloads of Finicky! github.com/johnste/fini...

Some download stats showing 50,040 downloads total for Finicky

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Vadim Hansen @vadimhansen.bsky.social · 7d

L'automatisation, ce n'est pas remplacer ton cerveau.

C'est virer les tâches qui te vident.

Pour garder l'énergie là où tu comptes.

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 7d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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joschi @joschi.xyz · 6d

I'm surprised that there wasn't more noise around the license change of #Liquibase from Apache License 2.0 to Functional Source License (FSL) in Liquibase 5.0.0.
github.com/liquibase/li...

Is just nobody using it anymore? 😅

#Java #OSS #licensing

Release Liquibase v5.0.0 · liquibase/liquibase

Liquibase Community 5.0 is a major release See the Liquibase Community 5.0 Release Notes for the complete set of release information. ⚠️ MAJOR CHANGES IN COMMUNITY AND COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTIONS Liqu...

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 8d

Jackson 3.0.0 (GA) release now starting!

github.com/FasterXML/ja...

#java #json #xml #csv #cbor #csv

Jackson Release 3.0

Main Portal page for the Jackson project. Contribute to FasterXML/jackson development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Aleksey Shipilëv @shipilev.bsky.social · 9d

Using narrowband filters (Baader Solar Continuum 7.5nm in this case) does improve Moon contrast quite a bit, even though it pushes the exposure times way up. A doublet with heavy chromatic aberration gets fairly monochromatic light :P [Downsampled 4x here for preview:]

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Tristan K. @tristankamin.bsky.social · 10d

www.liberation.fr/sciences/ce-...
J'hallucine

« Révélé par le Monde, cet incident grave... »

Révélé par le Monde !?!?!

Bon, ça vous dit qu'on abandonne toutes les lois sur la transparence du nucléaire ? 'toute façon, les Journalistes sont l'alpha et l'oméga de l'information, le reste est futile.

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Les Voix du Nucléaire @voixdunucleaire.org · 11d

Ce soir à 12:00 le réacteur belge Tihange 1 sera mis à l’arrêt. Celui de Doel 2 suivra le 1er décembre. En l’espace de 5 ans la Belgique a donc perdu 3.8GW de capacité bas-carbone, malgré une population à 73% favorable à l’utilisation du nucléaire pour la production d’électricité.

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Per Minborg @pminborg.bsky.social · 11d

You can't have both laziness and immutability at the same time in #java ... until Lazy Constant arrives ...

JEP 526: Lazy Constants (Second Preview) is now a Candidate for JDK 26!

Read all about it here: openjdk.org/jeps/526

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JEP Tracker @jeptracker.bsky.social · 11d

🏗️ JEP 522 integrated to JDK 26
Title: G1 GC: Improve Throughput by Reducing Synchronization
Type: feature
Component: hotspot / gc
Release: 26
See openjdk.org/jeps/522

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JUnit Team 💙💛 @junit.org · 12d

#JUnit 6.0.0 is released!

✨ Java 17 and Kotlin 2.2 baseline
🌄 JSpecify nullability annotations
🛫 Integrated JFR support
🚟 Kotlin suspend function support
🛑 Support for cancelling test execution
⏭️ New `--fail-fast` mode for ConsoleLauncher
🧹 Removal of deprecated APIs

docs.junit.org/6.0.0/releas...

JUnit Release Notes

docs.junit.org

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 12d

Hehe!

That said, I wish that Swing was easier in many more cases. Sometimes it’s just way to hard to achieve something that would be a breeze in other UI systems.

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 12d

It’s never too late, this submitted JEP (openjdk.org/jeps/8368874) just landed, it’s about adding a date picker in #Swing (preview). Using the `java.time.*` types.

JEP draft: JEP: Add a JDatePicker UI Component to the Swing UI Toolkit (Preview)

openjdk.org

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Michael Simons @rotnroll666.bsky.social · 16d

Enjoy my new, artisanal blog post about #JSpecify and #NullAway, a fresh take on null safety in the #Java world. Be warned, may contains #Lombok. Happy weekend you all.

info.michael-simons.eu/2025/09/26/j...

JSpecify and NullAway: A fresh take on nullsafety in the Java world

Introduction Sir Antony Hoare[1] introduced the concept of Null-references or Null pointer[2] back in 1965 with the release of ALGOL W. In 2009 he spoke about it as his “Billion Dollar Mistake”[3]. De...

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