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Running PostgreSQL Inside Your Browser With PGLite
Mar 18 | Nikos Vaggalis
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Thanks to WebAssembly we can now enjoy PostgreSQL inside the browser so that we can build reactive, realtime, local-first apps directly on Postgres. PGLite is about to make this even easier.



Visual Studio 17.9 Now Generally Available
Mar 18 | Kay Ewbank
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Visual Studio 17.9 is now fully available with AI assistance and better extensibility. The first preview of 17.10 has also been made available in preview.



Quantum Computers Really Are A One Trick Pony
Mar 17 | Mike James
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Google is offering $5 million if you can think up a use for a quantum computer. Wait, I thought quantum computers were the next big thing, a revolution! Surely we know what they can do?



March Week 2
Mar 16 | Editor
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If you've not visited I Programmer before, this Weekly Digest gives you a taster. It has links to the latest feature articles and to our wide ranging news with its mix of analysis and comment. It also lists the week's addition to Book Watch Archive and our Book Review of the Week.



Chainguard Joins Docker Verified Publisher Program
Mar 15 | Alex Denham
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Chainguard has joined the Docker Verified Publisher (DVP) program, meaning its Chainguard Developer Images are now officially available on Docker's container image registry.



Pi Day - The Great Unanswered Questions
Mar 14 | Mike James
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It's Pi day again, again, again... Even after so many, I still have things to say about this most intriguing number. The most important things about Pi is that it is irrational and one of the few transcendental numbers we can identify, but you only have to scratch the surface to find questions we don't yet know the answers to.



Opaque Systems Introduces Gateway GenAI Solution
Mar 14 | Kay Ewbank
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Opaque Systems has announced an early access program for Opaque Gateway, software designed to address data privacy, security, and sovereignty concerns in managing GenAI implementations.



Edgeless Systems Announces Continuum AI
Mar 14 | Sue Gee
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Edgeless Systems has announced the launch of Continuum, a  security solution that provides cloud-based "Confidential AI" services and enables sharing of sensitive data with chatbots such as ChatGTP.



Open Source Key To Expansion of IoT & Edge
Mar 13 | Sue Gee
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According to the 2023 Eclipse IoT & Edge Commercial Adoption Survey Report, last year saw a surge of IoT adoption among commercial organizations across a wide range of industries. Open source technologies are crucial to this expansion with 75% of organizations are actively incorporating open source into their deployment plans.



Flox Releases Flox Hub
Mar 13 | Kay Ewbank
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Flox has announced that its Command Line Interface (CLI) and FloxHub are now generally available. The CLI is open source and FloxHub is free for anyone to use.



AWS Adds Support For Llama2 And Mistral To SageMaker Canvas
Mar 12 | Nikos Vaggalis
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As part of its effort to enable its customers to use generative AI for tasks such as content generation and summarization, Amazon has added these state of the art LLMs to SageMaker Canvas.



TypeScript 5.4 Adds NoInfer Type
Mar 12 | Ian Elliot
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TypeScript 5.4 has been released, with the addition of a NoInfer utility type alongside preserved narrowing in closures following last assignments. 



GitHub Enterprise Server Adds Deployment Rollout Controls
Mar 11 | Kay Ewbank
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Version 3.12 of GitHub Enterprise Server, the self-hosted version of GitHub that organizations can install on their own servers, has been released with support for restricting deployment rollouts.



Couchbase's Coding Assistant Goes GA
Mar 11 | Nikos Vaggalis
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Capella iQ, the AI coding assistant for developers that makes interacting with Couchbase using natural language possible, has gone from private beta to being generally available.



Crazy Clocks
Mar 10 | Harry Fairhead
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It's that time again when the clocks change and  time is of the essence and I indulge my interest in crazy clocks. I am always surprised that there are still new ideas for how to display the time - but there are and they never fail to delight. This time I have three marble operated clocks for you to consider.



March Week 1
Mar 09 | Editor
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As well as listing the week's news items, this weekly digest also includes the week's Book Review, and additions to Book Watch. Top of the list come the week's feature articles, starting this week with an extract from the new book by Mike James that helps you combine the speed and power of C with the versatility and ease-of-programming of Python. 


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