Google has launched a new Google Colab extension for Visual Studio Code. Colab is Google's platform for AI/ML development. 

Microsoft has announced support for more languages in Aspire. The .NET part of its name has also been dropped, and there's a new website rather than just the GitHub repository.

There's a  drop-in upgrade to Vite with additional features. The developers say Vite+ is a command-line developer tool you can install from npm, just like Vite itself.

It's Advent, the time of year when we countdown the days to Christmas having fun doing daily coding challenges. Advents, in the programming sense, are events hosting programming puzzles announced every day till Christmas, aimed at a variety of skill levels.

For its Octoverse event, GitHub recorded an interview with Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python. From it we learn about the origins of Python and its name and its role in the age of AI.

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Fundación Biodiversa in Colombia has become the first pilot of Microsoft's Project SPARROW. SPARROW, developed by Microsoft's AI for Good Lab, is an AI-powered edge computing solution designed to monitor and protect wildlife in the most remote regions of the world.

A new course, thanks to Andrew Ng and his partnership with Box, that shows how you can leverage MCP servers to offload otherwise laborious and custom-made work.

Kotlin 2.3 is available now as a release candidate. The new version adds a new checker for unused return values, and changes to context-sensitive resolution. The release candidate adds support for Java 25, and improved interop through Swift export. 

Google has announced the public preview of BigQuery-managed AI functions. The three new functions let developers use generative AI for common analytical tasks directly within their SQL queries. 

It could have been good news that Qualcomm had taken over Arduino. Adding its financial muscle and processor resources to the very popular development environment could have, and still could, produce something rewarding for everyone. But Arduinophiles are panicking over some changes to the licensing.

GitHub saw tremendous growth in 2025 with more than one new developer on average joining GitHub every second - over 36 million in the past year, bring the total for the GitHub community to over 180 million developers. Due to the explosion in the use of AI-assistance, Typescript is now the most used language on GitHub.

Scrimba has added a Backend Developer Path, focused on the JavaScript ecosystem, to its catalog. It is very project-focused, which is perfect for building a portfolio. It is one of Scrimba's Pro courses so now is the time to take advantage of Scrimba's Black Friday deal - save 35% on a Pro subscription.

The Android workgroup has announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android. The Android workgroup is open group, free for anyone to join, that aims to expand Swift to Android.

The official release of Vaadin MCP server is a reality.
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Google has released a Log Analytics query builder, a new tool designed to ease access to observability data in Google Cloud.

Google is now providing users of Google Search, Gemini and Pixel Weather faster, more accurate and higher resolution weather forecasts thanks to WeatherNext 2, a forecasting model based on a new Functional Generative Network.

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