TIOBE Index for February 2026: Specialized Languages Gain Ground as Python’s Lead Eases

February 2026 TIOBE Index shows Python still far ahead, C strengthening in second, C# rising, and R holding the top 10 as rankings compress.

After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of curl, has been dealing with AI slop bug reports for the past two years and ...
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An AI agent published a hit piece on the developer who rejected it

Scott Shambaugh maintains matplotlib, a Python plotting library downloaded about 130 million times a month. Like many open source projects, matplotlib now requires human review of all submissions ...
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ETSI Advances Open Source MANO with OSM NINETEEN Release

The work of Open Source Mano has been showcased in February at the SNS4SNS 2026 second edition of the ETSI Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services event (SNS4SNS), with a dedicated ...

How new technologies could transform clinical trial execution

Clinical trials are facing new and evolving challenges as costs increase and approval timelines remain lengthy. Modernisation of processes and utilisation of novel technologies can help overcome such ...

OpenAI upgrades its Responses API to support agent skills and a complete terminal shell

With OpenAI's latest updates to its Responses API — the application programming interface that allows developers on OpenAI's platform to access multiple agentic tools like web search and file search ...

Vybe Guide Launches as the Definitive Open Source Discovery Platform for Vibe Coders and AI-Assisted Developers

New platform indexes over 50,000+ open source projects with daily AI-powered updates, positioning itself as the go-to ...

Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets

Open source packages published on the npm and PyPI repositories were laced with code that stole wallet credentials from dYdX developers and backend systems and, in some cases, backdoored devices, ...
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Anthropic's newest AI model uncovered 500 zero-day software flaws in testing

Anthropic's latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries ...

LimbLab: A tool to visualize embryonic development in 3D

Studying the shape of tissues and organs is critical to understanding how they are formed. Embryonic development happens in ...

Qwen3-Coder-Next offers vibe coders a powerful open source, ultra-sparse model with 10x higher throughput for repo tasks

On SWE-Bench Verified, the model achieved a score of 70.6%. This performance is notably competitive when placed alongside significantly larger models; it outpaces DeepSeek-V3.2, which scores 70.2%, ...