If you thought that legacy apps are not used anymore in this day and age, think again. With pre-4 version CheerpJ you could run legacy Java apps on browsers. With version 4+ you can run modern apps too.

Apache Syncope 4.0 Notturno has been released, with improvements including live sync,  OpenFGA integration, and a reworked persistence layer. Apache Syncope is an Open Source IAM (Identity Access Management) system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in Java EE technology and released under the Apache 2.0 license.

AI is not a scam, but the doubters are going to doubt. The latest attack is based on the idea that if you understand how it all works then it should be clear to you that it is a scam. What are they missing?

Stack Overflow was an early victim of generative AI with developers deserting it in droves, preferring to ask ChatGPT for help instead. Now Stack Overflow has a new strategy of integration with AI and monetizing "Knowledge as a Service".

Angular 20 has been released, and the new version has moved a number of APIs to stable, along with new features in the template compiler to align it with TypeScript expressions and to improve the developer experience. 

Bill Atkinson, who pioneered the idea and implementation of the graphical user interface at Apple in the 1970s and 80s and also brought us HyperCard, died of pancreatic cancer on June 5, 2025 at the age of 74. 

This month's TIOBE Index is out and the headline asks the question "Where is SQL Going?" Its chart provides the answer of "down", a fate that also applied to Assembly Language. The language that is most on the "up" is Ada.

Wing Python IDE version 11 has been released with improvements to the AI assisted development UI and support for more providers. It also has improved Python code analysis. 

Alan Turing's personal copy of his PhD dissertation and an original offprint of "On Computable Numbers" together with a  loose-leaf copy of his portrait photograph that bears his signature are the most highly valued lots in an auction to be held on June 17, 2025 by Hansons in Lichfield, Staffordshire and online to wordwide bid bidders.

This week's featured article is an extract from Harry Fairhead's newly published Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 IoT In C: Using Linux Drivers and Gpio5. It introduces the open source library written by Harry specifically to let the Pi 5 work directly with GPIO hardware which is based on the Pico SDK for the RP1 microprocessor, the chip that also powers the Pi 5.

Subtitled "Ultimate Guide To Mastering RAG", this is a course for beginners to learn how to build AI apps utilizing Microsoft products and RAG.

Apple's latest attempt to maintain full financial control over the App Store has failed, allowing Fortite to stay in the App Store and Epic to use external methods for in-app purchases.

Google has announced improvements to BigLake and BigQuery, including with the general availability of BigLake Metastore; new high-performance Iceberg-native Cloud Storage; and native support with Dataplex Universal Catalog, providing unified and fine-grained access controls across all supported engines. 

Could it be that all of that computer graphics you had to learn to implement 3D rendering is obsolete? Is this another example of AI doing just about anything you can think of?

Is concern over high unemployment rates among recently graduated Computer Science Majors justified. If so what are the factors?

CouchDB 3.5 has been released with new support for truly parallel reads independent from writes. The new version also adds a conflict finder plugin to the scanner module.