The developers at Modal have created the GPU Glossary to help themselves and others get to grips with termionology related to NVIDIA GPU hardware and software. They have managed to collect, clean, normalize and present the dispersed information on the subject.

ENRICH 2025, the European Robotics Hackathon, is open now for team entries. To be held at the Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant in Austria, the aim is to develop robots that can carry out tasks in a nuclear reactor. 

Express.js 5 has been released, ten years after Express.js 4. The new release has dropped support for outdated versions of Node.js, addresses security concerns, and brings simplified maintenance.

Rust 1.84 has been released with changes including a move to a new trait solver and a set of Strict Provenance APIs.

JavaScript is the most widely used programming language in the world. Now in its 30th year, JavaScript is firmly established as the language that powers the web. But it has a problem. Oracle owns the trademark to its name and isn't going to give it up without a fight.

Making hardware secure is more difficult than you might think, which is the reason I was confident that Raspberry Pi would have to pay out its $20,000 bounty offered to anyone who could break the security on the RP2350 - the heart of the Pico.

Stack Overflow Jobs, a site run in partnership with Indeed, is now available outside the US, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the Netherlands. This should provide a revenue stream to support Stack Overflow at a time when its QA traffic is diminishing.

Prometheus 3 has been released, the first major release in seven years. The new version has a new UI and native support in Remote-Write for new elements.

Apache Struts 7 has been released. This version adds support for JEE 9+, and implements stronger security defaults.

Google has made the Android version of its Home APIs available in public developer beta, with the iOS version to follow in the coming months. 

Robot vacuum cleaners swept the floor at CES 2025 and while this might not seem very exciting, think again. Adding AI to these everyday home helpers has already made them more efficient at what they do. Now they are expanding what they do and getting a foot in the door of homes everywhere.

This week comes news that Python is TIOBE Language of the Year for the sixth time. With a new logo proposed for Perl, we look at what happened to it in 2024. We report on new releases for Ruby and Flutter and look back on 50 years of the Intel 8080 microprocessor. Our book extract from Extending & Embedding Python Using C gives instructions on setting up a Windows toolchain.

The Linux Foundation and Google have announced a partnership and launched an initiative in support of Chromium-based browsers.

Harvard professor of Computer Science,Cynthia Dwork, is among the fourteen recipients of the National Medal of Science presented  by President Joe Biden on January 3, 2025.

Gleam 1.7 has been released with faster record updates and more secure package manager credential handling. Gleam is a statistically typed-language the compiles to Erlang or JavaScript.

Google has released Apigee API hub, a central repository for APIs, regardless of where they're hosted or who created them. The aim is to provide a single view onto an entire API ecosystem, making it easier to manage, govern, and observe all the APIs in one place.