CompTIA released its State of the Tech Workforce 2025 report, showing a 1.2% growth in the US tech workforce in 2024 to 5.9 million, projected to reach 6.1 million in 2025.
Top states for tech employment include California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Virginia with cities like NYC and Orlando seeing significant growth.
Meta joined the Kotlin Foundation to advance Kotlin development, contribute to open-source library grants, and support student innovation initiatives.
Percona launched Transparent Data Encryption for PostgreSQL, an open-source solution enabling data security at rest without licensing fees or vendor lock-in.