Who were the original programmers? We often credit Ada Lovelace with this breakthrough, but her programs remained theoretical. Like Lovelace, the individuals who programmed ENIAC, one of the very first computers, were all women who, for decades, received no credit for their achievements.

Are you always speaking the same syntax as your compiler? This C++ puzzle looks at how you can put things together thinking they mean one thing when in fact they mean another...

The latest version of MicroPython has some significant improvements which make it even better as the first choice for a platform-independent language for IoT and embedded computing.

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Version 2.18 of the Linkerd service mesh has added features aimed at making the software better at handling problematic situations, along with an experimental build of the proxy for Windows environments. Linkerd can be used to add security, reliability, and observability features to cloud native applications, particularly those that use Kubernetes.

Despite being tagged as a minor upgrade, NET Aspire 9.2 has additions. Since the last major release, NET Aspire 9 has offered new control over the lifetime of containers on local developer environments. This upgrade has added a preview of publishers, a new way of integration making it easier to package and deploy .NET Aspire apps to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and Azure.

Pure Virtual C++ is Micorosft's free, one-day, virtual conference  for the whole C++ community. This year, it is running on April 30th.

JRuby 10 has been released with support for Ruby 3.4 (including 3.2 and 3.3 updates as well). The minimum Java version has also been increased to Java 21, allowing the language to support more modern JVM features.

The Open Source Project Security Baseline, or OSPS Baseline for short, is a new initiative by OpenSSF in an attempt to bolster the security posture of open source software projects.

Yesterday more than 20 robots raced against thousands of human runners in a half-marathon in Beijing organized to showcase China’s advances in humanoid technology.

It is 20 years since Linus Torvalds wrote Git, regarding it as a tool necessary for building the Linux Kernel. Looking back says that it was never a big thing for him and that the credit for Git should go to Junio Hamano and the others who have been involved in the project.

Google has updated its Play Console to provide developers with a dashboard for workflows and new metrics. Play Console is Google's tool for developers where subscribers can manage the apps and games they've published.

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.

Author: Charles P. Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Lizzie Coles-Kemp
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pages: 1040
ISBN: 978-0137891214
Audience: General
Rating: 4
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This is an updated version of a classic text on security in computing. It would be a good read for a student starting a course on computer security, but is it as useful for the rest of us?
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This book demonstrates how to interact with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, CM5. Harry Fairhead shows both the use of Linux drivers, the accepted way of accessing external devices, and via Gpio5, a new open source IoT library specifically for the Raspberry Pi 5 and CM5 that provides direct access to the CM5’s hardware, with functions for working with GPIO, PWM, I2C, SPI and more.

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This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration into the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence and its societal implications. Written by leading scholars Soenke Ziesche and Roman V. Yampolskiy, the book delves into topics that address the rapid technological advancements in AI and the ethical dilemmas that arise as a result. The topics explored range from an in-depth look at AI welfare science and policy frameworks to the mathematical underpinnings of machine intelligence.

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This book is a comprehensive history of computer graphics in Hollywood cinema. As the first such work of its kind, it is an essential reference for anyone interested in the history of cinema, visual effects, or computer graphics, and the industries of which they are a part.

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