A full-scale replica of ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose computer, has been built to mark its 80th anniversary next month. Although not functional, the 500 square foot model visually simulates the original and is impressive in its sheer size and attention to detail.

This week saw the release of jQuery 4, almost 20 years to the day (January 14, 2006) since John Resig debuted the JavaScript library he had created single-handedly and almost 10 years since the previosly major release. jQuery, still JavaScript's standard library, is now brought up-to-date and ready for a fresh start, thanks to the efforts of a large team, to whom we send mant congratulations.

Recognizing the importance of AI Agents, industry stakeholders have decided to establish a Foundation that fosters common open standards and collaboration .

Amazon has announced a new AI PhD Fellowship program for PhD students in the area of AI research trhat will support  PhD students at nine universities in the USA. 

Fjall, the Rust-based key-value store, has a new release. Version 3 features better performance for large data sets, improved memory usage, more extensive configuration, and a new disk format made for longevity and forwards compatibility, along with fully revamped APIs.

Microsoft has released the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code on the Visual Studio Marketplace. Copilot Studio is a graphical, low-code tool for building agents and agent flows.

jQuery 4 has been released just after the 20th Anniversary of John Resig unveiling the JavaScript library he had created. Irrelevant? A dinosaur in an age of refinement? Neither of the above. It is still JavaScript's standard library and has been brought up-to-date and made entirely relevant with this long-anticipated new major version. 

FunctionGemma is an open-source Google model fine-tuned for function calling that aims to revolutionize the way we interact with our devices.

This isn't just a course, it's the complete curriculum of Stanford’s CME295 Transformers and Large Language Models from Autumn 2025.

For a few more days at the beginning of 2026,  Coursera has a special offer - 50% off a Coursera Plus annual subscription. Very worthwhile if you love learning new skills or keeping your existing skills up to date. But don't take my word for it. Results of the 2025 Coursera Learner Outcomes Report, show 91% achieved positive career outcomes

pg-aiguide adds AI-optimized PostgreSQL expertise to coding assistants. What does that mean?

Ncurses 6.6 has been released with improved support for Windows Terminal, along with other enhancements including a better terminal mouse driver and improved error handling. 

The latest incarnation of Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot took to the stage at CES 2026. Hyundai announced that it plans to deploy tens of thousands of the humanoid robot in its own manufacturing facilities and a strategic partnership between Hyundai and Google DeepMind means these robots will possess "physical intelligence".

If you want to get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer, our weekly digest summarizes the news written each day by programmers, for programmers. In this week's featured articles, Ian Elliot looks at how to use typed arrays to access graphical data in JavaScript and Mike James explains exactly how to master the Windows console in C#.

An event for API practitioners from around the world covering everything API-related. We're checking the highlights.

On this day 70 years ago, the US government disclosed its plans for SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), the most ambitious computing project of the Cold War. In response to the prospect of a Soviet bomber attack, this massive network of radar and "super-computers" pioneered real-time processing and the interactive display technologies that defined early computing.

Google has released an open standard that can be used to turn AI interactions into sales. The Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) establishes a common language and functional primitives to enable systems to pass data between "consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers".

Google has changed the schedule for its Android Open Source Project (AOSP) from quarterly to half yearly. Until now, the releases have followed those of Google's closed Android operating system. Security updates will continue to be made more frequently.