Kolosal is a new player in the LLM ecosystem, heralded as the lightweight alternative to LM Studio by requiring fewer system resources while offering similar functionality.

Kafka 4.0 has been released, with major changes. This is the first version to operate entirely in KRaft mode by default. It also adds a new consumer group protocol designed to dramatically improve rebalance performance, and includes early access to Queues for Kafka, enabling Kafka to support traditional queue semantics directly. 

Programmers have embraced AI to aid their productivity. But how should they adjust to really benefit? What skills are required for a successful relationship with AI?

April 14th was World Quantum day and the most noticeable thing that happened was that Google presented us with a nice doodle. Should you get excited?

Google has added an Agent Development Kit (ADK) to Vertex AI, along with an agent engine and an Agent2Agent protocol that provides agents with a common, open language for collaboration.  The announcement was made at Google's annual Google Cloud Next conference, saying it will make it possible to build an AI agent in under 100 lines of Python code.

Applications are now open for Summer 2025 participation in the Linux Foundation Mentorship Program, a program that provides structured guidance and opportunities for newcomers to contribute to the Linux kernel and other open-source projects.

GitHub has released an agent mode and MCP support for VS Code, along with a new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan with premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, next edit suggestions for code completions and the Copilot code review agent.

LLM Knowledge Graph Builder is an application designed to turn
unstructured data such as pdfs, text documents, YouTube videos, and web pages, into a knowledge graph stored in Neo4j, promising much better accuracy than simple RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).

If you're on social media, you'll probably have seen a lot of 'action figure' posts, where people show off images of themselves, their dog or their cat in the form of an action figure, complete with suitable accessories. The sort of thing you probably wanted to get for your birthday present back when you were seven or eight.

Take time to catch up with the latest content on I Programmer, the website that is written by programmers by programmers. In the news this week, to celebrate 50 years of Microsoft Bill Gates shared the original Altair BASIC Source Code as a pdf of the scanned fanfold paper! It certainly takes you back.

Kawasaki has released a video of a robotic horse powered by hydrogen. Corleo is large enough to be ridden, and a full-sized concept model is due to be shown off at the Osaka-Kansai Expo 2025 in Japan next week.  

Find out everything there's to know about GPUs. This Cornell Virtual Workshop will be helpful for those who program in CUDA.

Google has announced the public preview of Application Design Center, a service that combines combines Gemini Cloud Assist chat with a visual, canvas-style interface for app development.

GitHub has announced measures making it easier to protect yourself from exposed secrets. They include a standalone version of Secret Protection and organization-wide scanning. 

Claude Code, right now in research beta, is an Agentic coding assistant addressing the CLI Warriors. It is well worth knowing about.

In March, over 1,000 developers and technologists responded to a survey conducted by Stack Overflow to discover developers' feelings about open-source AI. The results reveal a generational  divide.

The official Microsoft Azure SDK for Rust is a collection of libraries that make Rust developers' life that little bit easier in accessing various Azure services.

Camunda has announced new agentic orchestration capabilities that companies can use to model, deploy, and manage AI agents in their end-to-end processes. Camunda is also introducing AI-powered features for dynamic, intelligent decision making and process generation.