OpenAI has unveiled a new series of AI models that can reason through complex task and solve hard problems. The first fruit of OpenAI's "Strawberry Project", o1-preview is now available in ChatGPT and the OpenAI API and will be included in ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu next week.

Today, September 12th, is designated as Programmers Day, a tradition we do our best to uphold. We even designed a card! 

JFrog has announced new products and closer integration with GitHub at its annual conference, SwamUp.

Safe Superintelligence, the company co-founded by Ilya Sutskever after he resigned from Open AI, has raised $1billion in cash funding, despite the fact that it intends not to release any products for at least 2 years.

The TIOBE index is always fun and often provides a talking point. This month sees C falling by one place and Java going up by one. What can this mean?

The Rust Foundation has released a new report on recent initiatives including its Security Initiative. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and sustaining the Rust programming language, and the Security Initiative aims to advance the state of security within the Rust programming language ecosystem.

Microsoft has released version 8.1 of the Windows Community Toolkit, with support for .NET 8 alongside new controls and initial AOT annotations.

Apache has released version 0.3 of Iceberg-rust, an official Rust implementation of the Iceberg high-performance format for huge analytic tables.

Microsoft has released version 8.2 of .NET Aspire, a stack for building observable, production-ready cloud-native applications. Aspire is included as part of .NET 8.

Gen Z-ers, those born between 1997 and 2012 and who have grown up with smartphones, are probably the most tech-savvy generation. But when it comes to working with computers, there is an important skill they tend to lack - being  able to type without looking at the keys.

If you've not visited I Programmer before, this Weekly Digest gives you a taster. It has links to our news with its mix of analysis and comment and to the books we've selected. This week Mike James introduces two of Python's data structures, named tuples and counters, and Harry Fairhead builds an SNTP time client in C#.

The keynote topics for this year's RustConf, the largest annual gathering of the Rust programming language community, have been announced, with topics ranging from "Making Open Source Secure By Design" to "Rust For Linux".

A new version of the Open Source AI Definition has been released by the Open Source Initiative. The update is part of the drive to have a stable release of the definition ready by the end of October 2024. The plan is to release it at the All Things Open technology conference.

There's an updated version of Uno that includes enhancements to its Hot Reload UI feature along with full support for JetBrains Rider IDE. Uno can be used to write C# and XAML once to create an app that will run on Windows, Android, macOS and iOS devices, as well as in web browsers via WebAssembly.

This is thanks to sqlite-vec, a new vector search extension for SQLite written entirely in C and with no dependencies.

It is always interesting to hear what Linus Torvalds is thinking, and it's always about Linux, well nearly always. Find out what is going on before it happens in this recent interview.

Dozens of rare historic computers are currently up for auction. As well as a room-sized PDP 7, there's an Altair, an Apple I, a Cray I and an Enigma machine on offer to the highest bidder as the private collection of the late Paul Allen, is sold by Christies, New York.

Is Bash still relevant in this age of AI? Many wanted the command line bashed (pun intended), deprecated or replaced by something else. If you think it's still worth using, here's a free course from Learn Linux TV that takes you from total novice to advanced Linux CLI user.