with John Hopfield, for "foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks."

Microsoft has released an update to Dev Proxy, its command-line API simulator. The updated version, v0.21, adds the ability to simulate authentication and authorization using API keys and OAuth2 among other improvements.

Mojo, the new language from Chris Lattner and his AI-focused company Modular, has entered the top 50 of the TIOBE index, even though it it was only launched in 2023.

MongoDb 8 has been released, and the developers have said this is the most secure, durable, available, and performant version of MongoDB yet, with significantly reduced memory usage and query times, and more efficient batch processing.

A Turing Machine is one of those abstract ideas that is much easier to undertand if you can see it working. Now there's a proposal on the LEGO Ideas site for a Working Turing Machine. Lend it your support and it might become a commercial kit. Now that's something I would build.

This week's top featured article is an extract from Programmer's Python: Everything is Data devoted to the tricky topic of dates. Sticking with dates and times, we also pose another puzzle - this time in C#. Plus the week's news and books.

The sessions from this year's SpringOne conference covering everything and anything concerned with the Spring framework are accessible online for free.

Auction house Christie's of New York broke existing records for sales of rare and iconic computers when it sold the collection that the late Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, had assembled to preserve vintage and heritage computers for posterity. 

CouchDB 3.41 has been released with stronger password hashes, a Lucene-based full text search implementation, and QuickJS as a JavaScript option.

Apache Wicket has been updated to version 10.2, following the major release of Wicket 10 earlier this year. The open source Java web framework is now built on top of Java 17, and has a new module tester to improve JPMS adoption. It also has HTTP2 support within the Wicket core module.

After early indications that AI-powered coding assistants increase developer productivity, findings are emerging that challenge this and suggest code quality may be reduced by their use. At the same time, a majority of developers now feel their jobs are threatened by AI.

RPi recently announced the Pico 2, but while we are all waiting for the more useful Pico 2W, with WiFi, the tiny Pimoroni outfit has produced something better - the Pico Plus 2 with WiFi. What is going on?

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the second public draft of the proposed new version of its Digital Identity Guidelines. It includes updated rules regarding passwords that seem refreshingly sensible. 

Tcl/Tk 9 has been released with changes including 64-bit capacity, and improvements to the handling of Unicode and encodings.

It was in April 2024 that we had Java 22. Now after just 6 months there's version 23, which is a STS release with lots of features in preview status.

GitHub has announced an option offering tighter control over where data is stored to meet regional requirements. The GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency feature will launch on October 29 for the European Union, with additional regions including Australia, Asia and Latin America to be added later.

The recent Christie's auction sale of historic computers collected for his Living Computer Museum by Paul Allen saw a Cray 1, sell for over $1million, four times higher than its estimate. The computer that exceeded its estimate by the highest margin was an Apple Lisa that realized $882,000, 44 times its estimate.

For those interested in electronics projects,  this week's first featured article shows how to use the ESP32-S3's onboard RGB NeoPixel LED via a simple GPIO line. We also have an interview with Flavio Glock who tells us about his brand new project, PerlOnJava, a native compiler that turns Perl into Java bytecode and runs it.