The C struct is a value type and this is often forgotten or ignored? Find out why it has an important role to play in this extract from my book, Deep C Dives.

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It is a shame to let something as fun as this to languish in the archives. "Sorting Algorithms as Dances" is a set of videos by Sapientia University that show how to sort things by dancing the various algorithms. If you missed them, or are ready for a re-run, here's a compilation of the entire set.

As one door opens another closes. Just as we start to see some opening of the Android and Apple walled gardens Google is making a move to restrict who can create code for Android.

Expand your portfolio of skills with a new programming language. Coursera currently has an offer - 30% off an annual subscription to Coursera Plus. This runs until September 22, 2025 and is available to new Coursera Plus subscribers.

The first stable version Oxlint, a Rust-powered linter developed as part of the Oxc toolchain, has been released. The new linter promises a 50 to 100 times performance improvement over ESLint along with support for over 500 ESLint rules.

Apache has released Netbeans 27, with fixes to Gradle handling, Maven updates, and more work on JDK 25 compatibility.

Cactus is a "Cross-platform framework for deploying LLM/VLM/TTS models locally in your app". What does that mean?

The latest preview of .NET 10, the platform created from a combination of .NET Framework and .NET Core, has been released. New in this version are a source generator for XAML in .NET MAUI, and  PipeReader support for the JSON serializer.

The artist who created the Kryptos sculpture that is located in the grounds of the HQ of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is to auction the solution to the currently unsolved fourth message on the sculpture.

Rubrik has developed a tool that can be used to undo AI agent mistakes. Agent Rewind records every action and creates an audit trail back to the source prompt, so users can undo the actions when things go wrong.

Strands is a new Python SDK from Amazon that aims to shorten the time required for developing agentic AI applications.

The latest update to Node.js adds type stripping by default, along with other more minor improvements including the propagation of permission model flags on spawn; and a fix to allow correct handling of burst in fs-events with AsyncIterator.

This book shows how to create and deploy microservices-based applications using the latest versions of Spring Boot, Java, and Spring Cloud. Magnus Larsson starts with simple microservices and progresses to complex distributed applications, explaining essential functionality and deploying microservices using Kubernetes and Istio along the way. This edition covers Java 24, Spring Boot 3.5, and Spring Cloud 2025, featuring updated code examples and replacing deprecated APIs. Topics include Spring’s Ahead of Time (AOT) module, observability, distributed tracing, and Helm for Kubernetes packaging.

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Subtitled "Solving problems with Q# and Qiskit", this book takes you beyond quantum basics and shows you how to take on practical quantum problem solving and programming using Q# and Qiskit. Author Mariia Mykhailova, a principal quantum applications software developer at PsiQuantum, shows how to write quantum programs using Qiskit and Q#, along with how to test your quantum code using common testing tools like pytest.

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In this book, subtitled "Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism", Leif Weatherby presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a convergence of computation and language, Weatherby contends that AI does not simulate cognition, as widely believed, but rather creates culture. This evolution in language, he finds, is one that we are ill-prepared to evaluate, as what he terms “remainder humanism” counterproductively divides the human from the machine without drawing on established theories of representation that include both.

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