The new distribution of ROS2, code named "Dashing Diademata", is the first Long Time Support release following last year's "Crystal". 

For the third year running JetBrains has conducted its Developer Ecosystem Survey and has reported on some of the answers from 7,000 developers from 17 countries. Here's a look at just a handful of the findings.

There are new versions of both the commercially supported subscription and free versions of MariaDB.

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN, is stopping using Microsoft products in favor of open-source. The decision has been taken following big increases in license fees by Microsoft.

Who said that only humans can collaborate? AI not only managed to break this barrier too, but it also managed to beat humans at their very own game.

Microsoft has handed Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to the community in the form of the .NET Foundation.

Neural networks are good at spotting patterns and correlations in data, but are they good enough to recreate the face that produced a particular voice?

Huawei needs a new mobile operating system and is busy trademarking HongMeng, but what more can we say about it other than its name?

If you want to get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer, our weekly digest summarizes the articles, book reviews,and news written each day by programmers, for programmers. This week we start with an extract from Harry Fairhead's brand new book "Applying C for the IoT with Linux". Then Mike James tackles Information Theory.

Developers wanting to use Python on Windows now have an easier way to get it up and running after an update to Windows 10.

A collection of APIs designed to make it easier to add real-time information about public transit services has been added to Azure Maps. The APIs can be used to add options such as searching for public transit stops, or finding shared bikes or cars around a given location.

The June TIOBE index is out and it's Python causing the stir. It looks set to knock C and Java from their top positions. Python  really does seem to be the language we all not only want to use, but are actually using.

Amazon has released a preview of Alexa Conversations as a new AI-driven approach to natural dialogs through the Alexa Skills Kit.

Apple seems to not know the old saying about "when you are in a hole stop digging". Or is it more like lighting another fire when the house isn't quite an inferno?

Packt has shared the results of its 2019 Skill Up Survey. As well as providing information on the languages programmers use, it investigates why they choose them. It also reveals what programmers regret having learned.

There's a new version of PureScript with a completely rewritten parser. The developers say they hope this release will open up a lot of opportunities for syntactic tooling, either using the existing parser or even using alternative parsers.

To celebrate the 50th aniversary of the discovery of NP-complete problems by Stephen Cook, a Symposium was organized by the Fields Institute. Scott Aaronson gave a talk on the the role of physics in solving NP hard problems and it is a fascinating account.

Apache Storm 2.0 has been released with better performance, new features, and integration with external systems. It has also had its core features rewritten in Java.