IntelliJ 2026.2 highlights

• logpoints: extend logging breakpoints. They put your logging statements in the IDE (allowing you to put logging in code you do not own). And they allow you to navigate from an execution log to the code producing the log, even if the logging was done from a println in code!
• better dependency completpion  for tools like gradle (finally!)
• Spring Security Inlays for MVC endpoints allowing you to examine appliccable rules and thest them.
• More git conflict resolution proposals
• Better docker)compose.yml support, including the state of running containers 
• typescript 7 support 

Headroom optimizes your AI token use

Headroom is open source software that anaylises the tokens you send to AI and tries to reduce their verbosity before sending them to your AI provider.

Headroom claims to reduce your token consumption by 60-95%. 

OpenAI claims it can decompile binaries

In a move to counter Anthrophic Mythos ApenAI claims it can generate the source code for binaries, with GPT-5.4-Cyber.

Of course, just like Mythos, it is only given to selected companies. 

So... from now on, all software is implicitly open source. 

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windows equivalents for popular unix commands

Some Windows cmd equivalents for common Unix commands and settings for my onw reference

unix	cmd	powershell
echo $variable	echo %variable%	$variable $env:variable //environment variable
~	%USERPROFILE%	$env:USERPROFILE
variable=value	%variable%=value	$variable=value
cp source target	copy source target
cp -r source target	xcopy source target /e/h
find -name '*.txt'	dir /s *.txt
grep text	findstr text
ls -a	dir /a
rm file	del file
rm -rf directory	rmdir /s /q directory
which command	where command	(gcm command).Path

Java 26 released

Java 26 adds HTTP/3 support to the HttpClientApi.

Other features here

How to let AI use a debugger

An interesting read from foojay.io:

Java contains a text base debugger.

As AI also is text based Bruno Borges added a skill to his AI to use the debugger and debug a program.

Check it out! 

European Nato countries can manage their F35 jet software

Dutch defense secretary Gijs Tuinman declared that they can circumvent US restrictions on the software in the F-35 fighter jets they bought in the US, muych like you can jailbrake your phone.

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