In 1894, Eugene Dubois, brushing sediment in Java, unexpectedly found Java Man that still shapes human origins debates

A 1894 discovery on Java's Solo River, initially dubbed Java Man, has reshaped our understanding of early human origins.
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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 ...