A member of the .NET Foundation board who resigned, disillusioned with an organization that doesn't appear to support its members or foster open source sustainability, has made his views public.

New Python releases come as no surprise as we all know about them during their development and many opt to use them before they are finally released. Python 3.10 has a few welcome improvements, but I'd say none are major - see if you agree.

With Google sponsorship, the Linux Foundation has launched the Secure Open Source Rewards pilot program to incentivize improvements that proactively harden critical open source projects and their supporting infrastructure against application and supply chain attacks. Rewards range from $505 to $10,000 or more.

Swift 5.5 has been released with new features for asynchronous code and concurrency including async/await, structured concurrency, and Actors.  Swift is Apple's language that was originally developed as an alternative language to Objective C.

JetBrains is organizing a free virtual event covering a variety of aspects of the JavaScript ecosystem. It takes place on October 14th with all presentations being streamed live on You Tube, where they will remain available after the event.

Amazon has released a natural language query tool for use with its QuickSight BI service. QuickSight Q is for use with the Enterprise Edition of QuickSight.

A keypad just for Copy and Paste. Who would have thought of that? The third key is the clue - Stack Overflow. Having started out as Stack Overflow's April Fool's joke, The Key Macropad has now become a real commodity from tech retailer Drop.

DeepMind has proved once again the outstanding prowess of  neural networks. Working with the UK Met Office it has developed a deep-learning tool that can accurately predict the likelihood of rain in the next 90 minutes, one of weather forecasting’s toughest challenges.

The latest release of PostgreSQL has new and exciting features. We look the most worthwhile of them identified by Umair Shahid, Head of PostgreSQL at Percona while referring to the past ideas that shaped their foundation.

Microsoft is taking the unprecedented step of allowing other vendors to set up shop within the app store that launches next week. Amazon and Epic Games have already accepted Microsoft's invitation to integrate into the open-to-all Microsoft Store on Windows.

GitLab, the web-based repository manager for Git, has been updated with improvements including project-level security scan execution policies and improved SAST to reduce Ruby false positives. GitLab provides issue-tracking, continuous integration, and deployment pipeline support.