Stack Overflow has launched a new jobs site co-branded with Indeed. It is intended to make thousands of highly-relevant job openings easily discoverable by developers. The job site is currently available in the US, but may expand to more markets in the future.

The MongoDB developers have announced that MongoDB Atlas now has support for stream processing. The news was announced at MongoDB.Local NYC.

The latest addition to the Festo Bionic Learning Network menagerie of bionic robots inspired by the natural world is a bee. Like the Bionic Ant from a decade ago, it has been designed not only look realistic but to demonstrate swarm intelligence.

As well as listing the week's news items, this weekly digest also includes the week's Book Review, and additions to Book Watch. Top of the list come the week's feature articles, starting this week with an extract from the new book by Mike James that helps you combine the speed and power of C with the versatility and ease-of-programming of Python.

Or is it? Depends on which side of the wall you are on. Apple is doing all it can to keep control and more importantly keep the revenuse from its App Store, but from the outside it seems to be losing ground.

Until May 20th, edX is offering up to US$1,000 off some of its boot camp programs and 30% off other selected programs. This discount is to celebrate its Birthday - which is why the relevant code is EDXBDAY24.

The latest version of Pharo, the open-source Smalltalk-inspired language and core library adds a new breakpoint model based on the debug point system.

Version 8 of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit has been released with the addition of TouchBehavior (previously known as the TouchEffect). The major release also has breaking changes for the Snackbar on Windows.

Well, as ready as any of the recent Android Studio's have been. This one boasts an AI assistant called Gemini - shame Android Studio isn't as fast to implement as Gemini is to suggest.

Stack Overflow has announced a partnership with OpenAI that could improve the accuracy of ChatGPT with regard to programming knowledge. This sounds promising, but there are potential problems.

Grafana has announced the release of Loki 3, with improvements including query acceleration with Bloom filters and native OpenTelemetry support.

Amazon has updated Bedrock, its tool for building with generative AI on AWS. The update adds support for importing custom models and evaluating models, as well as support for using Meta Llama 3 models and extra models from Mistral and Anthropic. 

Dev Tunnels is a new Visual Studio option that exposes your localhost to the internet the easiest way possible. But first of all, why would you allow access from the public net to your local machine?

Google has launched Vertex AI Agent Builder, alongside new open-source language models for the Vertex AI platform. The announcements were made at the Google Cloud Next 2024 event.

It was only a matter of time before it happened. A company has created an Alan Turing chatbot and has installed it as its Chief AI officer. A distasteful PR stunt to many, but it's more complicated than that.

Our weekly digest lists the week's news, new titles added to our Book Watch Archive and our weekly book review. In this week's first featured article Mike James looks at Recursion. Then, to mark the 50th anniversary of CP/M, the first personal computer operating system to achieve commercial success, we delve into our archive for the history of its creator, Gary Kildall.