Indonesian migrant fishers hooked by false promises, reeled into slavery on high seas

Abuse and mismanagement are ‘systemic’ across the Chinese distant-water fishing fleet operating off West Africa, an NGO says.
The Jakarta Post

'No rest': Indonesians overworked, abused on foreign fishing vessels

Indonesia is one of the top contributors of labor for the global fishing industry with several hundred thousand migrant ...
ADTmag

Java Ecosystem Advances with Strict Field Initialization JEP Amid Cross-Platform Malware Threats

The global Java development ecosystem experienced significant structural changes this week following the introduction of a new OpenJDK enhancement draft alongside warnings from cybersecurity ...

Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships

The Microsoft-led TypeScript 7.0 features an order-of-magnitude speed boost, a victory not only for TypeScript itself but ...
Rest of World

China’s AI boom is creating a different kind of entrepreneur

Backed by the state, Chinese workers are using AI to deal with limited resources and drive innovation to compete with Silicon ...
InfoWorld

‘Talk like a caveman’ prompts save tokens, but far less than promised

JetBrains found that the popular AI coding optimization reduced output token consumption without hurting performance, but ...
The Jakarta PostOpinion

The real competitiveness trap

For two decades, capital has been abundant and cheap and corporate profits strong; yet investment, productivity and wages ...
GitHub

Tableau Server Client (Python)

Use the Tableau Server Client (TSC) library to increase your productivity as you interact with the Tableau Server REST API. With the TSC library you can do almost everything that you can do with the ...
The Next Web

Java’s biggest language change in a decade is finally landing. It took 197,000 lines of code.

Project Valhalla’s value classes are heading to JDK 28, a 197,000-line change that rewrites how Java handles object identity. Oracle software engineer Lois Foltan has confirmed that Java Enhancement ...
GitHub

Keycloak user migration plugin

Using this plugin with legacy JBoss distributions of Keycloak might result in a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/codec/binary/Base64 error. It seems ...