DPAI is an open platform for benchmarking AI coding Agents. Haven't we got enough benchmarks and evaluations already?

Itential, which specializes in intelligent network and infrastructure orchestration, has announced FlowAI. This is an extension to the existing Intential Automation Platform which is intended to safely integrate AI agents and reasoning systems into enterprise-grade, auditable automation.

The more elaborate the prompt the better the outcome. But how do I construct a really great prompt? The answer to that question is given by this free, official Anthropic step-by-step guide which shows how to construct prompts that get optimal answers out of the Claude LLM.

Is Rust the solution to all our problems - Google's Android team seems to think so and dubs Rust the "move fast and fix things" language.

The developers of the AI coding editor Cursor have announced a new version that can be used to work with multiple agents and includes its first coding model.

Deepnote, hailed as the Jupyter Notebook successor,
is now open-sourced after 7 years running as a sole cloud offering.

Next.js 16 has been released with This release has improvements to Turbopack, caching, and the Next.js architecture.

InfluxData has released InfluxDB 3.6 for both Core and Enterprise, a  new version which incorporates AI and performance improvements. But, first of all what's the difference between Core and Enterprise?

To mark the “first mass delivery” of its Walker S2 Humanoid Robots, Chinese manufacturer UBTECH posted a spectacular  video of its "Robot Army" on YouTube. Watch and be amazed.

Get up to speed on stuff that affects with our weekly digest. It summarizes the week's news together and includes new titles selected for our Book Watch Archive. One of this week's featured articles is an extract from Harry Fairhead's Applying C for the IoT wih Linux that looks at X Windows graphics. In the other Mike James also looks back to the McCulloch Pitts model of the biological neuron.

Researchers from China have demonstrated soft, magnetically controlled robot "spiders" the size of a vitamin capsule that can move through the digestive tract to avoid the need for invasive endoscopies. 

A Google hackathon on Kaggle is now open for entries showing how to use Tunix, Google's JAX-native library for LLM post-training, to train a model to show its work by laying out a reasoning trace before landing on an answer.

C# 14, the latest Long Term Support release of the .NET language was released this week as part of .NET 10. Currently in fifth position in the TIOBE Index rankings it looks set to overtake Java and it certainly deserves to.

Microsoft has shipped .NET 10, the platform created from a combination of .NET Framework and .NET Core, including C# 14 and F# 10. Visual Studio 2026 has also been released at .NET Conf, the online event that concludes today.

Edera has announced an open source version of Sprout, a bootloader built in Rust. The security specialists also announced success in penetration testing and integration with Falco. The announcements were made at KubeCon Atlanta.

...is entirely justified. While we all go mad for Rust and its steep learning curve, we may have missed the most important thing to happen to C/C++ since they were invented - Fil-C.

How do developers expect their roles and careers to be redefined by AI in 2026? New research reveals that 74% expect to shift from coding to designing technical solutions.

Memgraph has been updated with the addition of two new tools; an AI Graph Toolkit that automates the porting of data into a knowledge graph in Memgraph; and an MCP Client within Memgraph Lab.