In partnership with Hack Club, GitHub has announced Summer of Making, a new free remote, student summer program bringing the science camp experience right to students’ doors for teenagers age 13-18.

TypeScript has been updated with improvements to the latest release centred on performance, polish, and stability, according to the development team. The compiler and editing experience have been worked on to improve speed. 

It is time for Android 4. Something to look forward to and now it's here - not a decimal point upgrade but a full unit. So what's so good?

Google has released an offline emulator for Cloud Spanner, its globally-distributed, and strongly consistent database service built for the cloud. The emulator is designed to make Cloud Spanner more accessible to the broader developer community.

Spot, Boston Dynamics first commercial robot, is finding new roles as a sheep dog in New Zealand, a park warden in Singapore and as a nursing auxiliary in Massachusetts. Good dog. 

Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer. Our weekly digest lists the week's news, new titles added to our Book Watch Archive and our latest review - a 5-star book on  Python Machine Learning . Python also figures in this week's featured articles with an exploration of class and we have a history of Java, which reached its 25th Anniversary this week. 

Well what a surprise! Any C or C++ programmer will tell you that mismanaging memory is the biggest problem that they have. But 70% of all security problems down to memory - that might be more than expected.

Microsoft is open sourcing Fluid Framework, its development platform for collaborative ways to work with documents. Fluid Framework was first announced at the 2019 Ignite conference, and has grown in popularity.

edX has announced a new MicroBachelor's credential. This time in Data Science from Rice University. If you enroll now, in this or any other edX course or program that leads to a Verified Certificate, you can enjoy a 30% discount being offered for the month of May. 

RStudio has been updated with improved security, a real-time spell checker, and big improvements for sight-impaired developers. The Pro version has also been updated so it can be used as a client for RStudio Server Pro.

Microsoft has put the original 8088 assembly language sources  for its GW-BASIC interpreter from 10th February 1983 on GitHub in a repo marked "Archived". Although released under a MIT(OSI) Licence, the files are being open-sourced for historical reference and educational purposes only. So don't consider making any pull requests!

Changes to the Java Release Cycle coupled with Oracle's changes to its licensing model, so that only those with a paid commercial subscription plan receive updates to Java, have provided a market opportunity for Open JDK support vendors, including Azul Systems.

SQLite has been updated twice in quick succession, firstly a planned release that adds support for approximate Analyze using the Pragma analysis_limit command, then an update to fix a longstanding flaw that allows malicious SQL statements to crash the process running SQLite. 

Introducing a tool to search through code for flaws where plain regexes fall flat and using Static Application Security Testing would be overkill.

Designed to give data scientists a more powerful way to store, update, analyze, and share large sets of data, TileDB lets you model data as either a dense or a sparse multi-dimensional array. New features in version 2 include support for heterogeneous dimensions and string dimensions in sparse arrays.

Language extensions - that's SQL Server's way of calling Java programs from within T/SQL and it's very useful.

Microsoft Solitaire has turned 30, and Microsoft is marking the occasion with a world-record breaking attempt for the most games played in a single day. Microsoft estimates that Solitaire is still being played by 35 million people a month, with 100 million games played daily.

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 exploration of Canvas in WebGL mode in JavaScript by Ian Elliot and a Programmer's Guide to Chaos from Mike James.