Irrelevant? A dinosaur in an age of refinement? Neither of the above. It is still JavaScript's standard library and has been brought up-to-date and made entirely relevant with this long-anticipated new major version. 

FunctionGemma is an open-source Google model fine-tuned for function calling that aims to revolutionize the way we interact with our devices.

This isn't just a course, it's the complete curriculum of Stanford’s CME295 Transformers and Large Language Models from Autumn 2025.

For a few more days at the beginning of 2026,  Coursera has a special offer - 50% off a Coursera Plus annual subscription. Very worthwhile if you love learning new skills or keeping your existing skills up to date. But don't take my word for it. Results of the 2025 Coursera Learner Outcomes Report, show 91% achieved positive career outcomes

pg-aiguide adds AI-optimized PostgreSQL expertise to coding assistants. What does that mean?

Ncurses 6.6 has been released with improved support for Windows Terminal, along with other enhancements including a better terminal mouse driver and improved error handling. 

The latest incarnation of Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot took to the stage at CES 2026. Hyundai announced that it plans to deploy tens of thousands of the humanoid robot in its own manufacturing facilities and a strategic partnership between Hyundai and Google DeepMind means these robots will possess "physical intelligence".

If you want to get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer, our weekly digest summarizes the news written each day by programmers, for programmers. In this week's featured articles, Ian Elliot looks at how to use typed arrays to access graphical data in JavaScript and Mike James explains exactly how to master the Windows console in C#.

An event for API practitioners from around the world covering everything API-related. We're checking the highlights.

On this day 70 years ago, the US government disclosed its plans for SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), the most ambitious computing project of the Cold War. In response to the prospect of a Soviet bomber attack, this massive network of radar and "super-computers" pioneered real-time processing and the interactive display technologies that defined early computing.

Google has released an open standard that can be used to turn AI interactions into sales. The Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) establishes a common language and functional primitives to enable systems to pass data between "consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers".

Google has changed the schedule for its Android Open Source Project (AOSP) from quarterly to half yearly. Until now, the releases have followed those of Google's closed Android operating system. Security updates will continue to be made more frequently. 

Steve Klabnik, longtime contributor to the Rust language, is working on his own language, called Rue. This is a hobby project being done for fun and to speed up development Steve's co-worker is Claude, Anthropic's AI Assistant.

A very nice analysis of Linux commits reveals some interesting things about bugs - and how long they take to fix isn't the most interesting. 

It may be the depths of winter, but now is the time for Open Source organizations to be preparing their applications for Google Summer of Code. After a record-breaking year in 2025, Google is hoping to attract around 30 new mentoring organizations in 2026.

The latest update of Visual Studio Code has added Agent Skills, which developers can use to provide domain-specific knowledge and teach new skills to the GitHub Copilot coding agent. 

Bun 1.3 has been released with improvements including support for frontend development and increased database support. 

Supabase has released Vector Buckets, specialized storage containers optimized for vector data. This is welcome as it expands your options for storing vectors.