The beta of Biome 2 has been released with improvements including support for custom lint rules using GritQL; support for domains in link rules; and multi-file analysis.

Because so much of his work was top secret, Alan Turing was very much an unsung hero during his lifetime. Recognition of his many achievements dawned gradually and now his reputation is worldwide, as evidenced by the record prices realized last week when a collection of Turing papers were sold at auction with online bidders from the US and China willing to pay well above the estimated values. [ ... ]

Today marks the 115th anniversary of Konrad Zuse. Although his name may not be familiar in English-speaking circles, in Germany he is known as "der Vater des Computers". He does indeed have a strong claim to having invented the very first working computer. 

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Generative AI is having an revolutionary impact across the board. Some jobs will be lost but more will be created and to get in on the ground floor now is the time to gain a credentials to show employers that you have the skills needed for building AI Applications on the AWS Cloud.

This year's ACM SIGMOD competition winners have been announced ahead of the annual ACM SIGMOD PODS conference which is being June 22-27, in Berlin, Germany. 

Microsoft has just released jaz, a JVM launcher optimized for Azure that promises to speed up your cloud-based applications.

The developers of ScyllaDB have announced an updated version of the managed version of its database that is aimed at meeting workloads based on demand.

I've been saying that Android development is a mess for a few years and as a result I don't write about it anymore, but I do still suffer the actual task. Now I seem to have some backup for my position in the form of an ex-Android-Googler.

Swift 6.2 has been released with features to enhance performance, concurrency, and interoperability with other languages like C++, Java, and JavaScript. It also adds support for WebAssembly.

JetBrains has made special arrangements with Spring to facilitate the framework's better integration with the Kotlin language. What can we expect from this new partnership?

.NET 10 Preview 5 has been released with enhancements to C# 14 and additions to the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) library. The .NET runtime has also been improved.

Apple has announced a range of improvements to its developer tools at this year's WWDC (WorldWide Developers Conference), including a new foundation models framework and updates to Xcode, Apple's integrated development environment for macOS.

Boston Dynamics next generation electric, as opposed to hydraulic, Atlas Robot is less messy than its predecessor which left a thin film of hydraulic fluid in its wake. Thanks to AI, Atlas is quickly becoming more capable of everyday tasks as demonstrated in a recent video.

Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer with our weekly digest. Find out how to understand and work with CSV files in Python and learn about the computer designed by Alan Turing. For those interested in Turing's legacy, we have news of a forthcoming auction of his personal papers.

A virtual conference packed with sessions on the intersection of software engineering and AI. Let's take a look at this year's conference.

Matt Pidden, a computer science student at the University of Bristol, UK, has broken the world record for solving a 4x4 Rubik's Cube using a robot he designed, built and trained in just 15 weeks.

If you thought that legacy apps are not used anymore in this day and age, think again. With pre-4 version CheerpJ you could run legacy Java apps on browsers. With version 4+ you can run modern apps too.