Tech Debt Blocks 56% of Firms From AI Investment: KPMG 2026
US companies are investing $190 million annually in digital technology—more than any other region—yet 56% can’t fund new innovation because they’re drowning in ...
RAG vs Long Context 2026: Is Retrieval Really Dead?
In January 2026, a viral claim erupted across AI development communities: “RAG is DEAD!” The ...
AI Code Quality Crisis: 1.7x Bugs, 4.6x Review Wait
The AI productivity promise is collapsing under scrutiny. LinearB’s 2026 benchmarks—analyzing 8.1 million pull requests ...
WhatsApp EU Interoperability: Third-Party Messaging Goes Live
WhatsApp enabled third-party messaging interoperability in the EU last November, with BirdyChat and Haiket as ...
Database Industry 2025: PostgreSQL Wins, MCP Security Crisis
PostgreSQL absorbed $1.25B in 2025 acquisitions while 13,000 MCP servers shipped without auth. Industry analysis: ...
Android Sideloading Gets “High-Friction” Warnings in 2026
On January 19, 2026, Matthew Forsyth, Google’s Director of Product Management for Play, publicly confirmed what Android developers feared: a high-friction sideloading process ...
Windows 11 Emergency Patch Fixes Shutdown Bug
Microsoft released emergency KB5077744 and KB5077797 updates on January 17 to fix critical Windows 11 ...
Vectorless RAG Hits 98.7% Accuracy: PageIndex Challenges Vectors
PageIndex achieves 98.7% RAG accuracy without vector databases using LLM reasoning and tree search—a 48.7 ...
Boring Tech Rebellion: SQLite Beats Kubernetes in 2026
A viral January 2026 manifesto on DEV.to just lit a fire under the developer community. ...
Rust Enterprise Adoption 2026: 40% Growth, Production ROI
Rust crossed the enterprise chasm in 2026—not through hype, but through production results. Adoption surged ...
