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The php.internals vote on April 4 approved moving PHP 9.0 to the permissive 3‑clause BSD license, replacing the dual PHP v3.01 and Zend Engine licenses, and the article explains the historical reasons, legal benefits, comparisons with other BSD variants, PostgreSQL’s approach, and broader open‑source licensing trends.
Zed 1.0, a Rust‑written cross‑platform code editor, adds bookmarks, Git commit view, extensive LSP support and optional AI assistance while letting users disable all AI features, but it faces ecosystem challenges compared to VS Code's massive extension market.
IBM unveiled Bob AI, an LLM‑powered coding assistant that reportedly raised productivity by 45% for 80,000 internal users, offers multimodal model selection, embeds security to catch new risk categories, and promises measurable gains such as 10× ROI, 300 k automated test payloads, while facing concerns over CLI‑based malware execution and IDE data‑theft vulnerabilities.
Chris Wellons, a veteran open‑source engineer with 24 years of experience, announced his departure from Emacs after two decades, detailing his shift to Vim, the creation of stackcalc and Elfeed2 in C++ with wxWidgets, and the efficiency gains that drove the change.
Oracle is expanding its partnership with Bloom Energy to install a 2.45 GW fuel‑cell power plant near a new desert data‑center complex in New Mexico, positioning the move as a greener alternative to its earlier gas‑diesel "Jupiter" plan despite reliance on natural‑gas‑based fuel cells.
Microsoft and OpenAI have shifted to a non‑exclusive cloud partnership that keeps Azure as the primary platform, extends Microsoft's licensing rights to 2032, removes revenue‑share obligations, and allows OpenAI to use other clouds if needed, marking the third major restructuring of their relationship.
The GNU project announced coreutils 9.11 on April 20, adding multibyte support to cut, nl and expand, new cut options, zero‑copy I/O in cat and yes for up to 15× speed gains, faster wc and shuf, a new date format, plus numerous bug fixes and stability improvements, with source available on the GNU website.
Google’s new Android CLI, designed for AI agents, claims a 70% reduction in token usage and three‑fold faster task completion, offers command‑line tools for app templating, SDK and emulator management, integrates with Android Studio, includes a '--no‑metric' flag to disable telemetry, and has drawn mixed early developer reactions while promising future skill expansions.
Microsoft has rolled out Copilot across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, enabling the AI to not only suggest but actually perform edits, while default‑enabling the feature, sparking criticism over forced integration, trust concerns, and prompting Microsoft to stress new visibility and control options.
In the early hours of April 24, 2024, GitHub suffered a global outage that knocked out Copilot, Webhooks, and Actions, later exposing a regression bug in the Pull Request merge queue that caused incorrect merges, with full service restoration completed by 05:43.
