C++ guru Herb Sutter has a new take on taming the UB monsters in C++, but there is a sense in which the monster is of our own creation and slaying it isn't essential - just tell it to begone.

The findings of RevenueCat's State of Subscription Apps Report show wide discrepancies in revenue potential between the top percentile of apps and the rest. Travel and photo apps are best earners.

Microsoft has released Hyperlight Wasm, a Hyperlight virtual machine (VM) "micro-guest" that can run Wasm component workloads written in many programming languages.

MotherDuck, DuckDB's makers, having listened to its users, has
released a local GUI for easier interaction with the database.

Microsoft has announced the second preview release of .NET 10 with enhancements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET MAUI. 

Google has added a new tool to Gemini. Canvas is a new interactive space within Gemini that can be used to create and refine documents or code. 

This is the time of year when the clocks change to provide us with daylight saving and a significant trauma. The time is ripe to think of innovative clocks and one thing about clocks is that they suit a round display.

Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer with our weekly digest which has links to our news, book reviews and new titles selected for Book Watch. In this week's featured article Sue Gee digs deep intop the TIOBE Index to discover why so many 20th Century programming languages are still among its Top 10. 

In the USA, more than a quarter of programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, something that is blamed on 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 2.1.20 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.