XAML Studio has been made open source thanks to help from the .NET Foundation which has adopted it as a seed project.

Yet another provider jumps on the hardened image bandwagon. But since it's Docker, the main player in the container space, this is very important.

Ruby 4 has been released with new features including a new just-in-time compiler called ZJIT and an experimental sandbox called Ruby Box. The new version also adds features to the experimental parallel execution mechanism, Ractor. As is traditional, Ruby 4.0 was released on December 25th. This also marked its 30th anniversary. 

For the second time in three years, C# has been awarded the accolade TIOBE Programming Language of the Year by virtue of have achieved the largest year-on-year increase in its ranking on the TIOBE Index.

The judges may keep telling the walled gardeners that they have to free things up and throw a few doors open, but they in turn keep finding ways to keep their walls as high as they can get away with.

Coursera is running a  global New Year promotion offering 50% discount on Cousera Plus for new subscribers. For small businesses in the US and Europe there's is a similar 50% discount for "Coursera for Teams". So what better time to discover the latest certifications to boost your resume.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the release of Kubernetes 1.35, with improvements including vertical scaling via in-place pod resize. Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services.

HuggingFace just made the process of fine-tuning open source LLMs much easier through the use of Skills.

A high-severity vulnerability affecting MongoDB Server that was identified last month is now being actively exploited, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Australian Cyber Security Centre.

If you haven't already watched it, The Thinking Game is a fascinating and inspirational video. It tells the inside story of how Deep Mind, led by Demis Hassabis, produced AlphaFold and what this breakthrough in AI means for the future.

Happy New Year to all our visitors and we hope you have enjoyed visiting I Programmer during the Christmas Holiday.
Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace were prominent in our coverage this week - together with AI. And if you looking to acquire new skills do look into Udacity's offer. Now increased to 50% off all its courses and extended until January 5th.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have created what they say are the world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots: microscopic swimming machines that can independently sense and respond to their surroundings, operate for months and cost just a penny each.

PostGIS Day is a chance to learn how others are making use of PostGIS and exchange ideas to make the best out of it.

Apache Beam, the open source programming SDK for defining batch and streaming data-parallel processing pipelines, is now available in a new version. Apache Beam 2.70 has been released with improved support for FLink and Python. 

The online learn-to-code platform, Scrimba, is running an end of year campaign until January 4th offering a 30% discount on its Scrimba Pro Annual plan for new subscribers.

AI is a complex beast, but it is based on some very simple and very powerful ideas that deserve to be better known as they throw much light not only on the way AI works but on the way the universe works.