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WACO — Texas’ AI boom and the tide of data center companies chasing it have arrived in the Waco area. Lacy Lakeview, a suburban town five miles north of downtown Waco, and McLennan County are ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

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Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

AI is changing how organizations use data, but it's also creating new risks along the way. Sensitive data flows into model pipelines, training sets, third-party APIs, and generative ...