Plainsight has launched OpenFilter, an open source project for developing, deploying, and scaling production-grade computer vision applications. The launch took place at the Embedded Vision Summit, the conference for innovators incorporating computer vision and AI in products, taking place in Santa Clara, California.

After 5 years of banishment, Fortnite is back in the US App Store.  Has Apple turned over a new leaf and is now playing nice? Probably not.

Use this Neo4J GraphRAG library to build your own knowledge graph-based applications.

Day 1 of Microsoft Build 2025 was, as expected, an AI-focused event with Satya Nadella devoting much of the keynote to artificial intelligence agents giving us a picture of a future in  which these agents perform tasks and make decisions on behalf of users and organization. 

LiteCLI, a very handy SQLite client for the CLI diehards, is upgraded by getting a LLM feature that helps you write SQL.

This is a storm in a Rust bucket. Prosimo decided that a good test of Rust was to convert the existing dav1d decoder from C to Rust. Everything seems to have gone well, but the Rust version is still 5% or so slower than the C version. There is $20,000 waiting for you if you can speed it up.

This year the Free Software Foundation is marking its 40th Anniversary and is running a global online Hackathon open to everyone in the free software community. For projects interested in participating the deadline for submissions is May 29th.

Rust reached the milestone of Version 1.0 becoming generally available on May 15, 2015. Version 1.87 has just been released on the 10th anniversary with a celebratory event in Utrecht during Rust week, its annual developer conference.

Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer with our weekly digest which summarizes the week's news together with links to the latest book review and our additions to Book Watch. This week's top feature is our second extract from Harry Fairhead's new book on using the Gpoi5 library with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, this time for controlling pulse width modulation.

We continue the lowdown of Java conferences that took place in the first half of 2025. Last week we explored three Voxxed sessions, this week it's Devoxx Greece, Devoxx UK and JavaOne.

NVIDIA adds native support to CUDA for Python, making it more accessible to developers at large.

Apollo GraphQL has announced the Apollo MCP Server, 

designed to connect GraphQL APIs to AI models such as Claude and ChatGPT using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Large Language Models are fascinating and are probably practically important, but if you know how they work what they manage to achieve is remarkable. Is it possible that a language model can both see and hear without further training?

CodeRabbit, an AI-powered code review tool designed to automate the code review process is now integrated in VS Code, the first tool to deliver full-context reviews both in the IDE and in Git, helping teams catch bugs earlier and ship faster.

Computer science and the theory of computation has much to say about philosophy and mathematics. In particular, what is computable is closely connected to what is provable and hence what is knowable in mathematics.

This month's TIOBE Index shows another jump up in Python's popularity, resulting in the widest ever gap between it and all other languages. Perl, R and Ada are also notable in terms of moving up the rankings.