The ‘Java Man’, the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus, is now home

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

30 Years of Java – Interview with Community Representatives (Part 2)

Java will be 30 years old in 2025. This is a good time to look back, but also forward.
CNET

I Tried Vibe Coding With Different Gemini Models. Here's What I Learned

A slower "reasoning" model might do more of the work for you -- and keep vibe coding from becoming a chore.

Apache Commons Text: Code injection vulnerability in older versions

Apache Commons Text is used for processing character strings in Java apps. A critical vulnerability allows the injection of ...
The Hacker News

Researchers Find Malicious VS Code, Go, npm, and Rust Packages Stealing Developer Data

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new extensions on Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace that are designed to infect developer machines with stealer malware. The VS Code ...
GitHub

jAST: Analyzing and Modifying Java ASTs with Python

The jast module helps Python applications to process trees of the Java abstract syntax grammar. An abstract syntax tree can be generated by using the parse() function from this module. The result will ...
National Geographic news

'Java Man,’ the first Homo erectus discovered, is finally going home

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...
Bleeping Computer

Glassworm malware returns in third wave of malicious VS Code packages

The Glassworm campaign, which first emerged on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces in October, is now in its third wave, with 24 new packages added on the two platforms. OpenVSX and ...