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

Project Valhalla's JEP 401 will bring value classes to JDK 28, removing object identity from Java types in a 197,000-line change twelve years in the making ...

Signal Veterans Want to Encrypt Slack, Google Docs, and Basically Every Other App

Encrypted Spaces provides "verifiable, encrypted, untrusted storage.” ...

Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or ...
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OpenPDF is an open source Java library for PDF files

OpenPDF is an open-source Java library for creating, editing, rendering, and encrypting PDF documents, as well as generating PDFs from HTML. It is licensed under the LGPL and MPL open source licenses.

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source Java testing app to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents. The ...
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Zip4j - A Java library for zip files / streams

Zip4j is the most comprehensive Java library for zip files or streams. As of this writing, it is the only Java library which has support for zip encryption, apart from several other features. It tries ...