Active State has released the latest versions of it cross-platform Komodo IDE and its free open-source counterpart Komodo EDIT. Komodo IDE 11 now features Smart and responsive autocomplete and symbol browser for faster overall performance.

There's a new version of Apple's Swift programming language with a better package manager and improvements to string handling.

Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++, is the 2017 winner of the Faraday Medal is the most prestigious award of the UK-based Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Developers are adopting new streaming data frameworks and turning to microservices to meet the need to use data faster according to a report from Lightbend presented at today's Strata Data Conference being held in New York.

Facebook has, very reasonably, given into pressure from all sides to change the licence of many of its open source project from the contentious BSD+patents to the more familiar and friendly MIT License.

The latest version of Mathematica and the Wolfram language have been released. Version 11.2 improves the options for audio and image processing, as well as adding more functions for mathematical computation, task handling and machine learning.

It is one thing to know that something unlikely is Turing complete; it is quite another to use it to build a computer and then implement something real. This is exactly what has just happened with Conway's Game Of Life with the construction of a computer to play Tetris. This is a remarkable achievement that should send your brain into a tailspin.

The newly unveiled Matternet Station, together with Matternet's cloud platform and its autonomous M2 drones, is a viable solution for delivering small payloads where speed is essential. Its latest demonstration is in delivering vital medical supplies.

As well as sifting through the news, the IProgrammer team does the same for books, selecting titles for Book Watch and for review. We also bring you articles. This week's are on handling negative numbers in binary and building a Weblogic WS-Security enabled clinet on the CLI.

A "Game of Codes" online competition with $20K in prizes is underway, ending on September 24. There is still plenty of opportunity to win a $50 gift card and the number of points required to win one of 500 tee-shirts has been reduced to 5.

If you need convincing that WebAssembly is going to change the way we program web apps take a look at WebSight which shows that it is twenty times faster than JavaScript at a face detection task and twice as fast as asm.js

There is no doubt that bots are a growing problem, but perhaps it is a bigger problem than any of us imagine. Researchers have discovered a Twitter botnet with over 500,000 bots, and it isn't a simple one.

Java SE version 9 is finally released today, following what have seemed like endless delays. The main change to the new version is support for modules, aka Jigsaw..  

One of the problems with neural networks is how long it takes to train them. Researchers have just smashed the training barrier by reducing the time to train ResNet from 14 days to one hour and have claimed a world record of 24 minutes for AlexNet with a lower hardware budget than used for the task by Facebook.

Reporting findings of a survey that some will find controversial, Stack Overflow suggests that developers are increasingly unlikely to recoup the cost of a university education. Stack Overflow urges those hiring to include details of salary in job listings and remove educational requirements in order to attract more applicants.

GitHub has redesigned GitHub Desktop with Electron to provide a way for developers to extend their GitHub workflow beyond their browsers.