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Adrian Bridgwater

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Adrian Bridgwater

Adrian Bridgwater is a UK-based technology journalist with over three decades of press experience, working primarily as a news-analysis writer focused on the software application development beat. His career began in print media before extending into television and digital publishing. He has previously written for Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, BBC Middle East, ZDNet UK, The Register, TechRepublic, Raconteur, and IDG Connect. For a decade and a half, he has also maintained developer and open-source columns for Computer Weekly, and he continues to write for The New Stack and the Dutch/English technology publication Techzine. His reporting covers enterprise software development, data management, open source software, analytics, data science, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Based in London, Bridgwater describes himself as a journalist who tracks developer and data trends. He now writes across the Techstrong Group family of publications, contributing to devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Security Boulevard, and Techstrong.ai, where he covers software development, cloud, AI, and enterprise technology topics for the network.

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Atlassian Underpins Code Creation With New Agentic Insight Channels

Atlassian used its Team ’26 user conference this month in Anaheim to explain how its platform has now further evolved to underpin the reality of what the company defines as the AI‑native organization. This still-emerging entity is a company (or indeed a department, an individual team or working group) where human teams are co‑creating alongside […]

May 6, 2026 · 3 min

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Claude’s Code Quality Conundrum Continues

Anthropic admits to a month-long degradation in Claude’s output due to reasoning “effort” tradeoffs, cache bugs, and verbosity prompts. As Opus 4.7 rolls out with mixed developer reviews, the company is doubling down on “frontier safety” with the restricted Mythos model while leaning on high-profile advisors like Rishi Sunak to navigate global AI regulation.

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How Much Is That AI Subscription in the Window?

An analysis of the escalating AI subscription wars between Anthropic and OpenAI, highlighting the “Single Prompt Sinkhole” phenomenon where power users exhaust $100/month limits in hours and the industry’s shift toward observability to justify opaque, agentic-heavy pricing models.

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OpenTelemetry Gets Kotlin Multiplatform API & SDK

OpenTelemetry expands its observability reach with a native Kotlin Multiplatform API and SDK. Contributed by Embrace, this update enables vendor-neutral telemetry across JVM, iOS, and web, offering idiomatic Kotlin support and optimized performance for mobile and client-side applications.

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Tekton Kubernetes-Native CI/CD Project Reaches CNCF Incubation

The CNCF TOC has voted to accept Tekton as an incubating project. As a Kubernetes-native framework for CI/CD, Tekton enables developers to build, test, and deploy across clouds by treating pipelines as standard K8s resources. Originally part of Knative, it now offers a modular ecosystem including Triggers and Chains for supply chain security, integrating deeply with Argo CD and Sigstore.

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Please Grow Up, Coder Launches AI Maturity Self-Assessment Tool

Coder introduces an AI maturity self-assessment service to help organizations evaluate their AI adoption in software development. As teams transition from ad hoc usage to structured workflows, this tool addresses the need for governance and oversight in AI-driven projects.

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Eficode Unifies Operations to Join AI Software Development Landgrab

The march to build comprehensive software application development platforms aligned and optimized for the AI-first era is running at a breakneck pace. Latest to join the current land grab and pledge allegiance to the delivery of high-value AI-driven outcomes is Helsinki, Finland-based Eficode. Pronounced (exactly as it sounds) Eficode in American English, but presumably given […]

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AWS Transform Modernizes Any Codebase, App, API or Runtime

Platforms, paradigms, processes and processing itself all evolve. Because the information technology industry crosses from one chasm to another on an apparently endless loop of perpetual change, applications and wider systems need to be almost continually modernized. Amazon Web Services wants to enable that process with AWS Transform, a service that now ships with new […]

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Coralogix MCP Server Offers Observability View Into AI Agents

Full-stack observability platform company Coralogix has detailed the launch of its new Model Context Protocol Server technology. The product is designed to allow third-party AI agents to connect directly to Coralogix’s observability data services to provide a deeper view into the new fabric of agentic AI connections. Breaking down the observability viewfinder on offer here, […]

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Java at 30 Years Old: An Industry Perspective

Java is 30. If that makes you feel old, cheer up. Remember how groundbreaking and appealing the Java software language and platform has been over the years, think about how it has helped nurture a huge proportion of enterprise open source development (not to mention how it has essentially underpinned the web itself) and – […]

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Endor Labs Forks Semgrep to Opengrep for Static Code Analysis

Software application development lifecycle (SDLC) analysis company Endor Labs has worked with a cadre of industry partners to now launch Opengrep, a toolset designed to ensure static software application code analysis remains open and accessible.

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