Last month in front of an enthusiastic audience at Y Combinator, Fei-Fei Li, often called the godmother of AI, talked to Diana Hu about spatial intelligence and why she considers it the next critical step for AI and essential for achieving Artificial General Intelligence.

MCP has taken the industry by storm just one year after its appearance. And now we have an MCP Summit, run by the trend setters themselves!

GNU Nano 8.5 has been released with improved text anchors and fine-tuned syntax coloring. GNU nano is a command line text editor for Unix and Linux that aims to be simple and easy to use.

In that same way Gemini can produce text, write poetry,  summarize an article, write code, and generate images, it can also generate robot actions with Gemini Robotics. Now, the new Gemini Robotics On-Device model eliminates the need for a network connection, and its full SDK allows roboticists to train robots with new tasks.

Just hot out of the oven, there's a new minor version release of the venerable programming language that is Perl.

Google is introducing Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that offers lightweight access to Gemini, Google's conversational chatbot that is based on Google's multimodal large language model (LLM), also called Gemini, from terminals. 

With the end of support of Windows 10 just three months away, Windows 11 has finally edged ahead of Windows 10 in terms of  Desktop Windows Version Market Share on a Worldwide Basis. In Europe, however, Windows 10 still stays firmly ahead.

Version 21 of Apache Arrow has been released, including the first official Swift implementation of the platform. Improvements to Arrow 21 include exposing gRPC in the Flight client builder and improvements to Avro read consumers. The Swift implementation has been under development for a couple of years now. 

PNG, the Portable Network Graphics specification, has been updated to add support for HDR (High Dynamic Range) images and for animated PNGs.

Four teams of humanoid robots faced off in fully autonomous 3-on-3 soccer matches in the latest event organized to showcase China’s advances in humanoid robot technology. It was the first such competition in China and a preview for the upcoming World Humanoid Robot Games, set to take place in Beijing.

If you've not visited I Programmer before, this Weekly Digest gives you a taster. It has links to our wide ranging news with its mix of analysis and comment, the week's additions to Book Watch and our latest Book Review. This week's featured articles are an extract from Trick of the Mind by Mike James and a Programmer's Puzzle set by Joe Celko.

What do you need to make a celebration noteworthy? You may automatically think fireworks, especially for Independence Day, but an increasing number of celebrations are turning to drone shows instead. 

Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation and designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" which made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s has completed his MSc from MIT's Sloan School of Management, started in 1979.

The tools contradict each other; the first one allows you to write SQL instead of using Mongo's special syntax, while the other allows you to manipulate the database without having to write SQL and by just employing natural language.

The DeepSpeech project started by Mozilla has updated its GitHub page with the message "This project is now discontinued", and a change in the project status to archived. 

As the demand for "entry-level" programmers declines, established university Computer Science (CS) departments are facing a shortfall of students. How should they adapt their admission policies and what should high school students aspiring to a career in software development do to respond to the era of generative AI.

The CISA and the NSA are urging us to adopt memory-safe languages (MSLs) for the sake of cybersecurity. You probably think they mean Rust but things aren't as clear cut as you might expect.

Google has released a new Python client library for Data Commons based on the V2 REST API. They say the new library enhances how data developers can make use of Data Commons.