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Docker Adds MCP Catalog And Toolkit
Written by Kay Ewbank   
Thursday, 05 June 2025

Docker has introduced MCP Catalog, a centralized, trusted registry for discovering, sharing, and running MCP-compatible tools.  An associated toolkit was also launched. 

Last Updated on Thursday, 05 June 2025
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GNU Nano 8.5 Enhances Anchor Positions
Jul 10 | Alex Denham
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GNU Nano 8.5 has been released with improved text anchors and fine-tuned syntax coloring. GNU nano is a command line text editor for Unix and Linux that aims to be simple and easy to use.



Gemini On-Device - Generative AI For Robots
Jul 09 | Sue Gee
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In that same way Gemini can produce text, write poetry,  summarize an article, write code, and generate images, it can also generate robot actions with Gemini Robotics. Now, the new Gemini Robotics On-Device model eliminates the need for a network connection, and its full SDK allows roboticists to train robots with new tasks.



Perl 5.42 Released - Still Going Strong
Jul 09 | Nikos Vaggalis
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Just hot out of the oven, there's a new minor version release of the venerable programming language that is Perl.



Google Introduces Gemini CLI Open-Source Agent
Jul 08 | Kay Ewbank
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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. 



Windows 11 Overtakes Windows 10 - But Not In Europe
Jul 08 | Sue Gee
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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.



Apache Arrow 21 Released
Jul 07 | Kay Ewbank
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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 Gets First Update In Over Twenty Years
Jul 07 | Kay Ewbank
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PNG, the Portable Network Graphics specification, has been updated to add support for HDR (High Dynamic Range) images and for animated PNGs.



Chinese Robots Play Three-a-Side Soccer
Jul 06 | Lucy Black
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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.



June Week 5
Jul 05 | Editor
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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.



Why Drone Shows Are Booming
Jul 04 | Lucy Black
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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 Gains MSc 45 Years After Dropping Out of MIT
Jul 04 | Janet Swift
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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.



Two Tools To Elevate Your MongoDB Experience
Jul 03 | Nikos Vaggalis
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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.



Mozilla Discontinues DeepSpeech
Jul 03 | Kay Ewbank
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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. 



Computer Science Under Threat
Jul 02 | Sue Gee
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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.



CISA and NSA - Use Rust Or Perhaps Java
Jul 02 | Mike James
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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 Releases Python Client For Data Commons
Jul 01 | Alex Denham
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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.


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Practical Deep Learning, 2nd Ed (No Starch Press)
09 Jul

Subtitled "A Python Introduction", this book shows how to build working models for tasks from image analysis to creative writing using Python. Ronald T. Kneusel emphasizes practical skill development and experimentation, building to a case study that incorporates everything covered so far to classify audio recordings. Examples of working code you can easily run and modify are provided, and all code is freely available on GitHub.

<ASIN:1718504209 >



Grokking Relational Database Design (Manning)
07 Jul

This book teaches the art of database design through real-world projects, insightful illustrations, and action-oriented learning. Unlike many beginning database books that focus on the technical details of SQL and formal database theory, in this book Qiang Hao and Michail Tsikerdekis teach how to think about relational database design from the ground up. The authors also explore how generative AI tools such as ChatGPT radically simplify the mundane tasks of database design.

<ASIN:1633437418 >



Coding with AI For Dummies (Wiley)
04 Jul

This book introduces the ways that artificial intelligence can make life as a coder easier. Chris Minnick explains the tools that can produce, examine, and fix code for you and looks at how to automate processes like code documentation, debugging, updating, and optimization.

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