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European developers got a new Git hosting option that promises full data residency within the EU, responding to growing concerns over cross-border data jurisdiction.

Meanwhile, central banks are quietly relocating gold reserves out of North America, a geopolitical signal that resonated widely with engineers weighing infrastructure sovereignty risks.

The AI-assisted code review landscape has shifted with a detailed evaluation of GPT-6 Astra highlighting 30% faster review times and stricter privacy controls, though costs remain roughly 2.5x higher than prior models. Reviewers noted that while fixed bugs were caught more reliably, the model occasionally hallucinated linting errors that required manual dismissal. These trade-offs are fueling a broader debate in the comments about whether AI review tools save more engineering time than they burn in verification overhead.