The Governor of California, Gavin Newsom,  has announced that the state has chosen Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, as the person to represent California on the American Innovation Coin.

Take a break and catch up with the latest articles, book reviews and news posted on this site. In an extract from Programmer's Python, Mike James explains how files and paths should be used when processing data. Our second feature is The Magic Number Seven And The Art Of Programming by Sue Gee. Plus the week's news and books.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) turns 40 this year and, as part of the celebrations, is holding a virtual memorabilia auction that will include the original drawing of the iconic GNU head.

Squid Game is a free challenge inspired by the popular Netflix series with the same name. Instead of engaging in bloodthirsty games, you progress to the next level by solving SQL puzzles.

Apache has released version 4.0 of WSS4J, its Java implementation of the primary security standards for Web Services. This release adds upgrades to OpenSAML v5 and XML Security 4.0.0.

CUDA is of course NVIDIA's toolkit and programming model which provides a development environment for speeding up computing applications by harnessing the power of GPUs. It's not easy to conquer, but here's a few resources to help.

The Rust Foundation conducted its annual survey between December 5th and 23rd, 2024. As in previous years, it was focused on gathering insights and feedback from Rust users which are now presented in its report. 

Neural Networks are great at learning patterns and this makes them potentially very good at controlling difficult things. For example, a neural network can learn to balance a pole on its point. But do we want a neural network to take control of something serious like a power station or a reactor? It turns out that controlling a motor proves its potential.

The Java SDK implementation of the Model Context Protocol gets to pre-release version 0.70, opening the way for Java to enjoy transparent interoperability with AI services.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced that nominations are open for this year's Free Software Awards. These prestigious awards demonstrate appreciation of the efforts of members of the free software community and anybody can make a nomination.

C++ is a language under attack from newer languages such as Rust and from more primitive languages such as C, yet it has a large community of committed and enthusiastic users. How can things be made better? Its creator Bjarne Stroustrup has some ideas.

Go 1.24 has been released. This version adds support for generic type aliases, and is also faster.

This week Christie's is running its inaugural AI art auction. With the title Augmented Intelligence, it is billed as the first ever artificial intelligence-dedicated sale at a major auction house and has a raised vociferous protest from thousands of artists who regard the technology behind the works as committing "mass theft". 

If you've not visited I Programmer before, this Weekly Digest gives you a taster. It has links to the latest feature articles and to our wide ranging news with its mix of analysis and comment. It also lists the week's addition to Book Watch Archive and a full Book Review. In this week's top feature Nikos Vaggalis asks Where's Java Going In 2025?

Microsoft Build is taking place in what has become its "usual" slot - the beginning of the penultimate week of May - and in its "home" location, Seattle. This year Google I/O clashes with it, starting on Day 2 of Build. However, as it is almost entirely virtual, you can "be" at both if you want to.

The Games Development World Championship 2025 is open for entries. The GDWC competition has two new categories this year - Best Discord Game Award and Proceduralism Award, joining the existing categories of Best Indie Game, Best Studio Game, Best Hobby Game, Best Mobile Game, and Best Student Game.

The latest update of Visual Studio Code is now available with free use of GitHub Copilot and the ability to debug Python directly from the terminal.

JetBrains has announced that it is abandoning its plan to create a standalone Kotlin Multiplatform IDE and is planning to deprecate support for KMP on its lightweight Fleet IDE in order to focus its efforts on better KMP support on the IntelliJ Platform.