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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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AWS launched a standalone Sustainability console with API access, configurable CSV exports, and Scope 1-3 emissions data by service and Region. The console decouples emissions reporting from billing permissions. AWS CTO Werner Vogels framed carbon as an architectural metric belonging alongside latency, cost, and error rates in the observability stack.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Anthropic has introduced Claude Mythos Preview, its most advanced AI model, improving significantly in reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity. Unlike previous releases, it will not be publicly available. Access is limited to a consortium of tech companies through Project Glasswing. Internal tests revealed the model's ability to discover critical security flaws effectively.
By Daniel Curtis
This week's Java roundup for April 6th, 2026, features news highlighting: the fifth preview of Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof and switch; the proposed release schedule for JDK 27; point releases of Hibernate, LangChain4j, Keycloak and Google ADK for Java; a maintenance release of Helidon; a CVE in Spring Cloud Gateway; and the Junie CLI integrated in JetBrains IDEs.
By Michael Redlich
GitHub has launched Copilot CLI into general availability, bringing generative AI directly to the terminal. Integrated with the GitHub CLI, it offers natural language command suggestions and code explanations. Recent updates introduce "agentic" workflows with Autopilot mode and GPT-5.4 support, alongside new enterprise telemetry for tracking usage across development teams.
By Mark Silvester
The Etsy engineering team recently described how the company migrated its long-running MySQL sharding infrastructure to Vitess. The transition moved shard routing from Etsy’s internal systems to Vitess using vindexes, enabling capabilities such as resharding data and sharding previously unsharded tables.
By Renato Losio
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