It could just be that Apple has made a big mistake and the longed for, or dreaded, dissolution of the App Store is upon us at last. Of course, Apple is appealing, but things don't look good for its position.

The rise and rise of reliance on LLMs for code generation has resulted in a new threat to software supply chains. Dubbed "package hallucination", this occurs when LLMs generation references to non-existent packages.

Pulumi has announced Pulumi IDP, a new internal developer platform built on Pulumi's open source IaC platform. The developers say Pulumi IDP provides the fastest, most secure way for engineering teams to go from idea to cloud in minutes, not months.

To celebrate 30 years of MySQL, Oracle has launched a promotional initiative that grants free training and certifications. The offer runs from April 20 to July 31, 2025.

This major release of the GNU Compiler Collection is the first to include a COBOL front end. It also features improved support for Rust. Developers are also concerned about breaking changes.

At the end of last year Deep Mind did something worth noting - it combined neural networks and a robot arm to beat humans at table tennis. Now we have the paper and the details.

The Altair 8800, the computer that brought computing into homes and small businesses was created by Ed Roberts in 1974 at a time when computers were the preserve of academia, the military and some big corporations. Pre-dating the Apple and the IBM PC it was the very first "personal computer" and you could build it for yourself.

Our weekly digest lists the week's news, new titles added to our Book Watch Archive and our latest book review. In this week's first featured article Mike James looks at Python's approach to class and object-orientation. Then David Conrad demystifies HTML's default layout rules.

A new insect-inspired flying robot has been created by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley. The robot can hover, change trajectory and even hit small targets. It is less than 1  centimeter in diameter, weighs only 21 milligrams, and the Berkeley team say it is the world’s smallest wireless robot capable of controlled flight.

Introducing sqlpremierleague,  another sql playground, but with puzzles specific to sports.

The first is in relation to Github Copilot and the second
to PostgreSQL. They enable seamless integration with any tool that supports the protocol.

Microsoft has announced a new Graph API usage report in a beta API version in Microsoft Graph.

Some very interesting research has just been published that throws a lot of light on the crazy belief that undefined behavior is useful, essential even, to certain types of optimization rather than the huge mistake it really is.

Akka has announced new deployment options for its Akka platform, as well as new solutions to tackle the issues with deploying large-scale agentic AI systems for mission-critical applications.

OpenAI has provided a treasure trove of information for spreading knowledge about AI to the general public; understanding what AI is and learning how to leverage it by using tools like ChatGPT.

Azul has announced JVM Inventory, a new feature of Azul Intelligence Cloud aimed at making it easier to migrate away from Oracle Java.

Amazon has improved the CLI agent within the Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) to provide a faster more interactive coding experience. Amazon Q Developer can now use the information in its CLI environment to provide help on reading and writing files locally, querying AWS resources write code, or automatically debugging issues.

Google has shared the agenda for its annual developer conference. This year Google will live stream two days of sessions, starting with the Keynote at 10:00 AM PT on May 20th, followed by the Developer Keynote at 1:30 PM PT.