Microsoft has announced changes to its Azure database services that will see support dropped for MariaDB and a free tier added for the preview of Azure SQL databases.

News from the recent Open Source Summit Europe is that long term support for the Linux kernel is being reduced from 6 years to 2 years. How disruptive is this likely to be?

DynIBar aka Neural Dynamic Image-Based Rendering is a new approach to synthesizing novel views from mobile phone video footage. Not only does the technique eliminate blur and shake, it can even do bullet time effects to freeze time while sweeping the camera around to highlight a dramatic moment.

This week Google celebrated its 25th Birthday. How different modern life would be without the convenience of Search in all its many forms. Google is also at the forefront of the latest AI breakthroughs and that is the topic of a report by Mike James. Just click for all the rest of the news and the books and articles from this week.

Secure Code Warrior is to host its third annual Devlympics secure coding competition on October 17-18, 2023. Devlympics is a free tournament of coding challenges for developers of all levels of expertise.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Sustainable Web Design Community Group has released a draft report on sustainable web design. The Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0 set out ways to design and implement digital products and services that put people and the planet first.

Despite strong suggestions that a Pi 5 would be delayed until 2024, the Pi 5 has been announced and shipments are promised in the last week in October.

It's the the one-year anniversary of Wolfi, the first community Linux undistro focused on supply chain security. A lot has happened during that year. Let's find out what.

Today Google is celebrating its 25th Birthday. Sundar Pichai tweeted "Thanks to everyone who uses our products and challenges us to keep innovating and to all Googlers!" And there's a Google Doodle depicting the changes to the Google Logo over a quarter century.

As part of Google's 25 year celebration, a blog post lists "Our 10 biggest AI moments...". It is true that Google has pushed AI to get us where we are today, but the reality is more nuanced than just ten greatest hits.

pg_vector is an extension for PostgreSQL that renders it a viable alternative to specialized vector stores used in LLMs. We show you how to use it and report on the latest, faster incarnation, written in Rust, pgvecto.rs.

Apache Pinot 1.0 has been released. The real-time distributed OLAP datastore has been purpose-built for low-latency, high-throughput analytics.

Redocly is an open source tool written in Typescript that
assists in managing your APIs effectively. What can it do?

GitHub has updated its products for importing repositories and CI pipelines. GitHub Enterprise Importer can now be used to import from Bitbucket, and GitHub Actions Importer can now be used for Atlassian's CI/CD products.

Remember the year 2K catastrophe? Well no, neither do I, cos we had more or less fixed the problem by the time the dreaded date arrived. Soon after people were happy to point out that we had a whole 38 years to the next problem. But how long is it now?

Every day I Programmer has new material written by programmers, for programmers. This digest gives a summary of the latest content, which this week includes an extract from Programmer's Python: Data in which Mike James discusses dictionaries, the key data structure in Python. 

I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that a Perl course has been published on FreeCodeCamp. Amongst the myriad of Javascript and Python courses, there it is, a lone star.

Unicode 15.1 has been released, hot on the heels of Unicode 15. The latest standard adds two new scripts and 4,500 new characters, along with 20 new emojis and extended support for hieroglyphs.