Google has announced a columnar engine for Spanner to extend  analytical capabilities in Spanner databases. 

After a period of inactivity, the EC Open Source Programme Office (EC OSPO) has awarded a contract for organizing bug bounties on open source software.

this lecture. Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, recently gave a talk at the prestigious Royal Institution and while it is fairly introductory as far as AI goes, you really do need to see it.

From the very outset I Programmer had published book reviews and after fifteen years we have nearly 2,000 reviews in almost 50 categories plus over 3,000 entries in Book Watch. Going forward however, as Book Review editor Kay Ewbank explains, we are deprecating regular book reviews. Read on to find out why.

edX is again offering a discount of up to 30% on selected courses and program bundles until September 10th. Since AI is currently the hot topic we look at what is on offer.

A robot crab called Wavy Dave has been having a rough time as his real life rivals ripped his claw off.

.NET Aspire 9.4 has been released with improvements including new integrations, interactive dashboard-based inputs, and a standalone, native AOT command line tool for creating and running Aspirified apps.

Introducing a Github repository that delves into ways of constructing prompts that squeeze performance out when building AI Agents 

Following closely on the similar decision in Epic v Apple, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has rejected Google's appeal. Is this the end of the monopoly of the app stores?

It is with regret and nostalgia that we have decided to stop reviewing books. The reasons are complicated but unavoidable. Book Watch will continue to bring new titles to your attention, but full reviews are now deprecated.

While developers are using AI tools they are by no means satisfied with them. While LLMs are widely used, fewer than half of developers are making use of AI agents. And Vibe Coding is ruled out by the vast majority. These findings come from the 2025 Stack Overflow Survey, which we are covering with multiple reports.

Apache Flink has been updated with a new AI Model DDL that can be used to manage AI models through Flink SQL and the Table API.

In this Github-based course provided by Microsoft, you'll learn how to build GenAI application using JavaScript.

GitHub Spark is now in public preview. The micro-app creator was first announced at GitHub Universe last fall, and is now available for Copilot Pro+ subscribers.

The news is that Langfuse, the LLM observability platform,
has made all it commercial product features available for free and open source. But first of all, what is Langfuse?

A German/US company is working on a hybrid made up of live cockroaches and AI control to produce bio-robotic systems, aka fully controllable living insects, that could be used for "mission-critical operations".