There is a fuss at the moment about a security problem that could allow a Trojan to enter the code of any language. It is the "any language" part that seems to be the scary bit. What is going on? In fact, it's all very simple.

Microsoft has released .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022. .NET 6 is a Long Term Support release, while Visual Studio 2022 promises developer productivity improvements.

Amazon has announced the availability of RStudio for SageMaker. The move is designed to make it easier to use RStudio with SageMaker’s machine learning and deep learning capabilities, and to incorporate RStudio into the data science infrastructure on SageMaker.

Apache Bigtop,used for packaging, testing, and configuration of the open source components that make up the Hadoop infrastructure, has been updated with a major new version. Bigtop 3 now has support for continuous integration testing based on Jenkins. 

Stack Overflow has announced improved integration with Microsoft Teams, which they are describing as being their latest step in serving their paid and enterprise customer base. Stack Overflow for Teams can be used by development teams to ask questions and find answers asynchronously.

For data science and AI professionals, experience with less frequently used and growing, tools, frameworks and platforms commands a generous premium.

It is said that the US and UK are divided by a common language, but what about Australia? Could Aussie ++ go mainstream and legitimize strine?

The team behind Pyston, the high-performance Python implementation originally developed by cloud storage provider Dropbox, has announced plans for the future, including 64-bit ARM support and a proper CI/CD system.

The 1.0 release of Red Hat's extension for Java for Visual Studio Code is now available on VS Code Marketplace. Language Support for Java provides Java language support via Eclipse JDT Language Server, which itself uses Eclipse JDT, M2Eclipse and Buildship.

The PaSh Project gives your POSIX script superpowers by utilizing parallelization in order to speed up execution times. This leads to faster results for data scientists,  engineers,  biologists,  economists,  administrators,  and programmers.

GitHub Universe 2021 has now ended, with a wide ranging set of improvements and new features announced at the conference. These ranged from making the new GitHub Issues a public beta, through improved CI/CD with GitHub Actions, to improvements to GitHub Codespaces.