I’ve been going to the Harold Washington Library Center diligently since I was 18. The summer between high school and college ...

If you haven't seen the latest Java developer productivity report from Perforce, you should check it out. Written by Perforce CTO Rod Cope and developer tools exec Jeff Michael, the "2025 Java ...

Microsoft delivered fixes for issues affecting everything from Windows to Office, .NET, and SQL Server, and several patches ...

When Ja'Kobi Lane visited Baltimore about 10 days before the NFL Draft, he told General Manager Eric DeCosta that he has a tight relationship with legendary Raven Todd Heap. DeCosta was skeptical, so ...

JEP 533, Structured Concurrency, has reached integrated status for JDK 27. It refines exception handling and type safety in ...

An LLM-powered system found 4 security bugs, including a critical one in the web server’s URL rewrite module. Researchers have found a critical vulnerability in the widely used Nginx web server that ...

Over the last several years, Apple has dramatically improved how it handles lithium-ion battery charging in iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. Across multiple system releases, the company moved ...

The federal mileage rate for 2026 just hit a record: 72.5 cents per mile. The IRS announced the 2.5-cent jump on December 29, 2025, and it kicks in January 1. That rate matters whether you're a W-2 ...

The phrase “cash is king” may not have the same ring as it used to, now that more than 40% of Americans, per the Pew Research Center, regularly go a week or more without paying for anything using ...

Before the flames lit up the sky over his Maryland town on Valentine's Day, Charles “Chip” Heaps was known for something else entirely. Steady leadership. A 42-year marriage. A lifelong devotion to ...