What do you need to make a celebration noteworthy? You may automatically think fireworks, especially for Independence Day, but an increasing number of celebrations are turning to drone shows instead. 

Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation and designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" which made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s has completed his MSc from MIT's Sloan School of Management, started in 1979.

The tools contradict each other; the first one allows you to write SQL instead of using Mongo's special syntax, while the other allows you to manipulate the database without having to write SQL and by just employing natural language.

The DeepSpeech project started by Mozilla has updated its GitHub page with the message "This project is now discontinued", and a change in the project status to archived. 

As the demand for "entry-level" programmers declines, established university Computer Science (CS) departments are facing a shortfall of students. How should they adapt their admission policies and what should high school students aspiring to a career in software development do to respond to the era of generative AI.

The CISA and the NSA are urging us to adopt memory-safe languages (MSLs) for the sake of cybersecurity. You probably think they mean Rust but things aren't as clear cut as you might expect.

Google has released a new Python client library for Data Commons based on the V2 REST API. They say the new library enhances how data developers can make use of Data Commons.

Deno has faced a setback in its attempt to get Oracle to relinquish the JavaScript Trademark. The US Patents Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) dismissed Deno's fraud claim which is one the three strands of its case against Oracle. Deno's focus going forward is the other two - genericness and abandonment.

Parasoft has updated its C/C++ Test software with an AI-powered documentation assistant, along with complete support for MISRA C:2025 and auto-suppression of equivalent violations. C/C++ Test can be used for static analysis and unit testing of C and C++ code. 

Rust 1.88 has been released with support for naked functions and for Let chains. In addtion, from now on, Cargo will automatically run garbage collection on the cache in its home directory.

Researchers who break ciphers for fun have been talking about how they broke the coded letters of Mary Queen of Scots using a combination of computer algorithms, linguistic analysis and manual codebreaking techniques.

This week saw the publication of another title in the I Programmer Library published by I/O Press. It was prompted by the recent release of the Pico 2W, the WiFi version of the second generation Pico microcontroller from Raspberry Pi. You'll find details of the new book in BookWatch and we have an extract in which Harry Fairhead deals with a significant problem with the device.

Swift has long lost its position as a proprietary language, but what could Apple be thinking as it makes its move to the Android platform?

This course, provided by Microsoft, is based on a Github repository full of invaluable information that introduces MCP, Model Context Protocol, to beginners.

Ktor 3.2 has been released with new modules for dependency injection and HTMX. This version also adds support for Gradle version catalogs. 

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the general availability of the Jakarta EE 11 Platform. This release has modernised Test Compatibility Kits (TCKs), and introduces the Jakarta Data specification, along with major updates to the existing specifications. 

In the era of AI, the Raspberry Pi Foundation takes the view that learning how to create with technology has never been more important. Last year it revamped its Code Club network of free coding clubs with the aim of reaching 10 million young people over the next decade.

The new proposals for ECMA Script/JavaScript have reached Stage 3, which means they will soon be with us. Is there room for excitement?