The 2024 edition of the State of CSS has been posted, revealing that the latest features of the language not only do away with extra tooling, but even start taking on tasks that previously required complex JavaScript workarounds.

At last ISO C23 has been published, but at $250 you probably aren't going to read it. Can we really tolerate this sort of profiteering on the work of others? This is worse than academic publishing!

One of developers who worked on the Flutter team at Google has created an open-source form of the framework. Matt Carroll says Flock will be "Flutter+", will remain constantly up to date with Flutter, and lock will add important bug fixes and popular community features, which the Flutter team either can't, or won't implement.

Google is offering a 5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course designed to equip data scientists with the knowledge and skills to tackle generative AI projects with confidence. It runs on the Kaggle platform from Monday, November 11 to Friday, November 15 with a time commitment of around 3 hours per day.

Kotlin Ktor 3 is now available with better performance and improvements including support for server-sent events and CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) protection.

Amazon has added a new code editing option for AWS Lambda in the AWS console based on the Code-OSS, Visual Studio Code Open Source code editor.

Introduced to the world in 2004 by its creator Bruno Maisonnier the kid-sized, autonomous humanoid robot NAO, turns 20 this year. At less than 2 ft tall, it is small in stature, but plays a big role in the areas of education, research, entertainment and football. Here we look forward to NAO 7, its seventh generation.

We delve in to our History section this week to explore the pre-history of Microsoft. We also take a look at Kotlin classes, which can be a source of confusion. Read on for a round up of the week's news and books.

Google has announced updates to the Responsible Generative AI Toolkit to enable it to be used with any LLM model. The Responsible GenAI Toolkit provides resources to design, build, and evaluate open AI models, and it can now work with any LLM, whether it's Gemma, Gemini, or any other model. 

Sotheby's Digital Art Day Action, now underway, features a large-scale portrait of  Alan Turing created by Ai-Da, the humanoid robot artist whose work, including this canvas, was exhibited at the United Nations in May 2024 during the AI for Good Global Summit.

Sequin is a tool for capturing changes and streaming data out of your Postgres database, guaranteeing exactly once processing. What does that mean?

Apache Fury has been updated to add GraalVM native images and with optimized serializers for Scala collection. The update also reduces Scala collection serialization cost via the use of  encoding.

This year's Octoverse Report reveals how AI is expanding on GitHub and that Python has now overtaken JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub. The use of Jupyter Notebooks has also surged.

GitHub has announced several improvements for developers at Universe, its annual conference. Developers will get multi-model Copilot and GitHub Spark, an AI-native tool for building applications in natural language.

Apollo has added a simpler way to integrate REST APIs into a federated GraphQL environment. Available now in public preview, can be used to map REST API endpoints to their GraphQL schema using a declarative syntax.

JetBrains has launched Mellum, a proprietary large language model specifically built for coding. Currently available only with JetBrains AI Assistant, Mellum is claimed to provide faster, smarter, and more contextually aware cloud code completion.

Inject middleware functionality into NGINX with the expressive power of Javascript. NGINX JavaScript or NJS for short is a dynamic module under which you can use scripting for hooking into the NGINX execution model.

IBM has released new Granite models that it says provide state-of-the-art performance relative to model size. The Granite 3.0 collection includes a new, instruction-tuned, dense decoder-only LLM.