This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license. In doing so, he may ...

Using an AI coding assistant to migrate an application from one programming language to another wasn’t as easy as it looked. Here are three takeaways.

In 2025, something unexpected happened. The programming language most notorious for its difficulty became the go-to choice ...

Java turned 30 in 2025. That's a good time to look back, but also forward.