The Epic v Apple legal wrangle seems to have started a long overdue revolt against the Apple App store. Can the Coalition for App Fairness make a difference?

Google Data Studio has been updated with a new connector for Google Surveys, and a new, more intelligent Google Analytics that uses machine learning to automatically bring insights to the surface.

There's a new editorial strategy for MDN Web Docs and a radical platform change is on the cards. Meanwhile the call has gone our for the community to rally round and help out with day-to-day tasks on MDN.

Neo4j has announced a graph machine learning framework that the developers describe as making advanced graph-based machine learning techniques more accessible.

The old Android Java Developer Nanodegree is shelved, making way for the new kid on the block - Kotlin

Node.js, the JavaScript runtime, has been updated with support for npm 7, better handling of rejections, and an experimental abort controller.

Security researchers have demonstrated that Tesla's self-driving  software can easily be fooled into thinking that brief projections of objects are real and so cause it to behave incorrectly. This is worrying, but how worrying?

Our weekly digest lists the week's news, new titles added to our Book Watch Archive and our weekly book review. This week's featured articles are an extract from Programmers Guide to Theory about NP complete problems by Mike James and an exploration of binary trees in JavaScript from Ian Elliot.

MongoDB Atlas has been updated with support for multi-cloud clusters. The developers have also updated MongoDB CLI and say it now offers 'Atlas performance advice on your terminal'.

Many developers work as alone as a single-person team. While there are many advantages to this - no need for meetings or other distractions, it can be difficult to maintain the momentum. Here's a look at what it takes to keep a solo programmer productive!

Lightstep has announced a new GitHub action, Lightstep Pre-Deploy Check, designed to help developers be proactive about ensuring the quality and performance of their software before it’s actually deployed.

With DigitalOcean's new App Platform, setting up and deploying an app to the cloud as easy as point and click.

A new version of any IDE is always an event, but Android Studio's state reflects the current mess that Android developement is in. I look forward to each new release in the hope that something has been done. The sad news is that Android Studio 4.1 brings no relief to worried Android programmers.

The Eclipse Foundation’s IoT Working Group has released the results of its 2020 IoT Developer Survey. Agriculture emerges as the leading industry focus area and security as the top concern. Two thirds of respondents either experiment with, use or contribute to open source projects.

Apache Isis has been updated with improvements, including a new programming model for action parameter negotiation, and a simplified command service.

It's been a long wait, but at last the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 is available and it's quite a departure from earlier compute modules. Is this enough to get the Pi a place at the serious IoT table?

Google has extended the Android Auto options with a library that can be used for creating navigation, parking, and electric vehicle charging apps. Android for Cars App Library has now been released as an open beta, for any developer to use.

The next version of npm, v7, has been completed and will be shipping with Node.js v15 this week. The new release adds several features requested by developers including support for Workspaces.