In the USA, more than a quarter of programming jobs have vanished in the part two years, something that is being attributed to AI. Is this going to get worse? Are all our jobs at risk?

Eighteen items of FSF memorabilia that used to adorn the organization's offices were auctioned of last weekend at the culmination of an online auction. The highest bid, as anticipated, was for the iconic GNU Head portrait, which had a hammer price of $40,000.

This free, video-based, course from DeepLearning.AI is about coding assistants and in particular Windsurf. It shows how we can leverage such tools to become much more productive.

Edera Protect for Kubernetes is now available as a 1.0 release that the company says is generally available and production-ready. Improvements in the 1.0 release include an expanded security model that supports running multiple containers inside a single Edera Protect zone, along with support for fully isolated file system sharing between the host and zones.  

The great hope for AI is that it can solve difficult problems, reducing costs and making solutions widely accessible. Aarvark is a weather forecasting system that can be run on a single desktop computer and gives results as good as those from America’s Global Forecast System (GFS).

Kotlin 2.12 has been released with updates to the kapt and Lombok plugins, a new DSL to replace Gradle's application plugin, and a number of improvements for WASM. 

Here we take a look at Gitingest and Repomix, two tools that render a codebase suitable for LLM ingestion. Why is that useful?

OpenAI, best known for its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence chatbot, has released a set of tools aimed at helping developers and enterprises build useful and reliable agents.

Potpie allows you to chat with your codebase or any public codebase for that matter, to explain it, debug it, or do engineering tasks on it like generating test plans.

GitHub has announced that from April 1, GitHub Advanced Security will be available as two standalone security products - GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security. 

Coming to attention by winning the ImageNet contest in 2012, the AlexNet neural network can be seen as being responsible for many of the subsequent breakthroughs in AI. Now the Computer History Museum, in partnership with Google, has released its source code.

If you want to keep up with what's important from the point of view of the developer, you can rely on the  I Programmer team to sift through the news to select items that are of interest. This week included with Pi Day, an event we cover on an annual basis with musings on transcendental numbers.

A new video from Boston Dynamics and the Robotics and AI (RAI) Institute show the impact reinforcement learning has had on Atlas's fluidity of movement and demos what can be achieved by combining the latest AI with robotics

The IEEE Computer Society has announced the recipients of the 2025 Computer Pioneer Award which is presented annually to outstanding individuals whose main contribution to the concepts and development of the computer field was made at least fifteen years earlier.

OpenSilver 3.2 has been released, and can now be used to create WPF applications for mobile platforms. The open-source alternative to Silverlight is capable of running large, complex legacy applications, as well as newly written C# and XAML applications.

Crescendo has added new agentic AI capabilities to its managed augmented AI platform for customer support software. The additions will let users automate more tasks, and there's also a new conversational CX (customer experience) Data Assistant. 

The TypeScript team at Microsoft has released details of ongoing work they've begun on - a native port of the TypeScript compiler and tools with Go as the language of choice for the project.

The 2025 Java Productivity Report  from Perforce reveals that Java 17 is now the most widely used JDK with Java 21 also well used, indicating a marked trend towards LTS versions. Over 80% of respondents use of AI to aid productivity