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"In November's edition of the TIOBE Index, Rust has dropped out of Top 10," writes I-Programmer, noting that Rust ceded the #10 position to Go. "At the same time, another Google-originated language, Dart, has entered the top 20 ousting Julia after only one month." TIOBE explains Dart's popularity is mainly being driven by Flutter, Google's framework for building cross-platform mobile applications. In fact, Flutter has become one of the major technologies for cross-platform mobile app development. The Dart language itself is not particularly unique, although it incorporates many modern programming language features. Its success is largely driven by the strength of the Flutter ecosystem and the convenience of developing applications for multiple platforms using a single codebase... [In November's ranking] Visual Basic has also lost two places, making room for R and SQL in the Top 10. Further down the ranking, Assembly has re-entered the Top 20. So TIOBE ranks the top 10 languages in November as Python, C, Java, C++, C#, JavaScript, R, SQL, Visual Basic, and Go. But I-Programmer points out that "At the top of the table, Java is back in the top 3, after over three years in 4th position," pushing C++ down to #4. Are some changes more significant than others? If you think of the ratings as shares of a pie divided into 100 pieces, there is one huge slice - Python, accounting for a over a fifth of the pie, then comes C with a slice slightly less than half of Python's. Java and C++ then have smaller slices... and C#'s share is around half of their average size. Over half the pie has now been shared between just five languages... - Next 5 (#6-10): 10.17% (JavaScript, R, SQL, Visual Basic, Go) - Next 10 (#11-20): 11.12% (Rust, PHP, Fortran, Scratch, Perl, MATLAB, Assembly, Swift, Delphi, Dart) - Next 30 (#21-50): 12.81% - Final 50 (#51-100): 12.93% [So in this month's chart...] Java has overtaken C++, but as you can see from this month's Top 10 chart they are in lock step and the difference between them is insignificant. More obvious is that Python is way ahead of all the competition and that C has an edge over Java and C++. For more discussion of this see TIOBE - Two To Rule Them All in which Mike James argued that this: confirms the standard model of programming - code is written in Python and C and everything else is just noise. Back in July we reported Rust Enters TIOBE Top 10. After four months in #10 Rust is now back at #11, which is still three places above its position, 14, a year ago. Given the way these rankings operate it only takes a very small month-on-month change for a language to lose its position and even, as has happened here it can gain in terms of its percentage ranking while still moving down. So Rust with 1.63% in November is now in #11 when it had been in #10 with 1.44%.

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This week the Linux Foundation's Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) announced it would broaden its AI security resources, including a new guide to finding and fixing vulnerabilities using AI, "from preparing and sandboxing AI to validating, fixing, and preventing issues." The guide "stresses that AI-generated patches should never be trusted without automated tests and human review. An online course (LFD126) is planned for the coming months." OpenSSF also released the State of AI Impact on Software Security and Cybersecurity 2026 report (supported by OpenSSF, ActiveState and the Linux Foundation AI & Data Foundation). And it turns out the 2026 report "found a growing gap between the pace of AI-driven software development and organizations' ability to secure the code being produced." 58% of surveyed teams ship code faster than security reviews can keep up, while 60% say AI coding assistants have increased the number of external packages in their codebases. This data underscores the importance of trusted, reliable guidance as AI deployment continues to grow. Meanwhile the Linux Foundation announced at this week's Web Summit that it was releasing a new study on "how commercial open source companies generate revenue, convert users into customers and build their businesses," emphasizing the question's new relevance in the age of AI. "AI now writes code almost for free, and that raises a hard question for the whole software industry: if code costs next to nothing, where does the value of software lie?" Commercial open source [COSS] companies have been answering that question for more than 30 years. They have built large businesses on code they give away, which makes them a good guide to how software will make money in the age of AI... Seventy-two percent of respondents report a net positive impact from AI, against 8% negative. So far, the gains show up mostly inside companies. Internal productivity is the most cited benefit (73%), ahead of market expansion (46%) and new monetization opportunities (39%). AI roles are the only hiring category growing on net. COSS strategy is mostly unchanged by AI. But when companies do adapt, they are nearly twice as likely to open more of their core product rather than become more closed. When asked what sets them apart, 57% of companies name brand recognition and trust, well ahead of enterprise features, integrations and community size. They turn that trust into revenue through support and services (63%), managed cloud (49%) and open core (43%). Most combine these: 65% run two or more revenue models. Companies stack models as they grow, rather than switching between them: managed cloud rises from 35% of companies below $5 million ARR to 66% above $20 million. Venture-backed companies lean toward open core (53% vs. 38% for others). The report draws on a survey of 225 commercial open source founders and enterprise leaders (published by Linux Foundation Research in partnership with Serena, and with sponsorship from AWS, Red Hat, Futurewei and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. And when it comes to open source, "over half of founders point to brand recognition and community trust as their greatest asset," said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. So "The findings from this year's report prove that AI isn't a threat to commercial open source software - it's an accelerating tailwind. With 72% of companies viewing AI as a net positive primarily driving internal productivity, the ecosystem is leaning further into collaboration." The Linux Foundation's announcement includes an interesting perspective from Matthieu Lavergne, partner at the venture capital company Serena. "Open source won the developer. Next, it will win the agent. The 225 founders we surveyed mostly see AI as a productivity gain today, but that's only the start: agents are set to become open source's largest users, and they choose what is open, proven and trusted. The founders who build and price for these new users will define the infrastructure of the AI era."

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15 Nov 2026 12:34pm GMT

The Associated Press reports: Italy announced an €805 million ($887 million) fine against Meta on Saturday for using photos and videos from Android users' galleries on Facebook without specific consent or adequate disclosure... Investigators found that the feature was enabled by default and that Facebook requested gallery access through a single permission covering multiple app functions with different purposes. The authority gave Meta 60 days to disable the feature and seek separate consent for its use. Italy has about 20 million Android users, notes the BBC, and this fine "is among the largest an Italian authority has ever imposed on a tech giant." The charge is related to a feature which suggests photos and videos from a user's phone gallery as ideas for posts... According to the Italian regulator, a preceding [authorization] notice did not make clear that this would also allow Facebook to generate suggestions based on photos in their gallery. The regulator said it took into account "the high number of people affected" and the fact it is "still ongoing for those who have not updated the app and for those who have already given their consent to the system". It also cited "Meta's lack of co-operation". "A Meta spokesperson told the BBC that it planned to appeal..."

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Nextcloud launches its Euro-Office-powered desktop app, offering offline editing, Microsoft Office format support, and cloud collaboration.

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KDE Plasma 6.9 will introduce on-demand XWayland startup, faster widget loading, redesigned settings pages, and desktop improvements.

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Cloudflare releases Kitesurf under Apache 2.0, offering a lightweight, Rust-based browser engine designed for AI agents and automation.

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