Google is introducing Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that offers lightweight access to Gemini, Google's conversational chatbot that is based on Google's multimodal large language model (LLM), also called Gemini, from terminals. 

With the end of support of Windows 10 just three months away, Windows 11 has finally edged ahead of Windows 10 in terms of  Desktop Windows Version Market Share on a Worldwide Basis. In Europe, however, Windows 10 still stays firmly ahead.

Version 21 of Apache Arrow has been released, including the first official Swift implementation of the platform. Improvements to Arrow 21 include exposing gRPC in the Flight client builder and improvements to Avro read consumers. The Swift implementation has been under development for a couple of years now. 

PNG, the Portable Network Graphics specification, has been updated to add support for HDR (High Dynamic Range) images and for animated PNGs.

Four teams of humanoid robots faced off in fully autonomous 3-on-3 soccer matches in the latest event organized to showcase China’s advances in humanoid robot technology. It was the first such competition in China and a preview for the upcoming World Humanoid Robot Games, set to take place in Beijing.

If you've not visited I Programmer before, this Weekly Digest gives you a taster. It has links to our wide ranging news with its mix of analysis and comment, the week's additions to Book Watch and our latest Book Review. This week's featured articles are an extract from Trick of the Mind by Mike James and a Programmer's Puzzle set by Joe Celko.

What do you need to make a celebration noteworthy? You may automatically think fireworks, especially for Independence Day, but an increasing number of celebrations are turning to drone shows instead. 

Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation and designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" which made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s has completed his MSc from MIT's Sloan School of Management, started in 1979.

The tools contradict each other; the first one allows you to write SQL instead of using Mongo's special syntax, while the other allows you to manipulate the database without having to write SQL and by just employing natural language.

The DeepSpeech project started by Mozilla has updated its GitHub page with the message "This project is now discontinued", and a change in the project status to archived. 

As the demand for "entry-level" programmers declines, established university Computer Science (CS) departments are facing a shortfall of students. How should they adapt their admission policies and what should high school students aspiring to a career in software development do to respond to the era of generative AI.

The CISA and the NSA are urging us to adopt memory-safe languages (MSLs) for the sake of cybersecurity. You probably think they mean Rust but things aren't as clear cut as you might expect.

Google has released a new Python client library for Data Commons based on the V2 REST API. They say the new library enhances how data developers can make use of Data Commons.

Deno has faced a setback in its attempt to get Oracle to relinquish the JavaScript Trademark. The US Patents Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) dismissed Deno's fraud claim which is one the three strands of its case against Oracle. Deno's focus going forward is the other two - genericness and abandonment.

Parasoft has updated its C/C++ Test software with an AI-powered documentation assistant, along with complete support for MISRA C:2025 and auto-suppression of equivalent violations. C/C++ Test can be used for static analysis and unit testing of C and C++ code. 

Rust 1.88 has been released with support for naked functions and for Let chains. In addtion, from now on, Cargo will automatically run garbage collection on the cache in its home directory.

Researchers who break ciphers for fun have been talking about how they broke the coded letters of Mary Queen of Scots using a combination of computer algorithms, linguistic analysis and manual codebreaking techniques.

This week saw the publication of another title in the I Programmer Library published by I/O Press. It was prompted by the recent release of the Pico 2W, the WiFi version of the second generation Pico microcontroller from Raspberry Pi. You'll find details of the new book in BookWatch and we have an extract in which Harry Fairhead deals with a significant problem with the device.