Take a break and catch up with the latest articles, book reviews and news posted on this site. This week we have two tutorials from Mike James. In the first he looks at process managers in Python. The second is programming language agnostic and investigates a classic data structure - trees.

The Unicode Consortium, the standards body that really ought to know better, has come up with this year's list of bizarre additions to the already long and weird list of emojis. As always, the preview list was revealed in honor of World Emoji Day, the annual emoji-fest that has happened on 17 July for the last twelve years.

GitHub has announced For the Love of Code, a summer hackathon for joyful, ridiculous, and wildly creative projects. The idea is that you take the mad ideas you've got sitting on the back burner and actually build them.

The latest version of Apache Doris has taken third place in JSONBench, a benchmark for data analytics on JSON. Doris is an open source real-time analytical database based on massively parallel processing which provides interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and analysis.

Edera has set out a new software security inititative, Hardened Runtime Security, that avoids the problems caused by the industry tendency to 'move fast and break things.'  The company has also joined the NVIDIA Inception Program and is launching on AWS Marketplace. 

Python is a wonderful language, but lack of speed is its main drawback. Can the Python community create a fully threaded Python to be proud of? It's a big challenge.

The 2025 AtCoder World Finals Heuristic Contest was billed a Human vs AI showdown. It is difficult to know which was the more important - that it was Psyho, a Polish human programmer, who topped the leaderboard and was awarded the prize of 500,000 Japanese Yen, around $3,400 USD, or that OpenAIAHC came second, well ahead of all the other human contestants. 

...to secure Java container images that incorporate Azul’s build of OpenJDK.

Latest figures from StatCounter show that Linux achieved a 5.03% share of the Desktop Operating System market in June 2025, something that is being viewed as a pivotal moment for open-source software enthusiasts and industry observers alike.

Agentic AI and MPC are coming to the database. We examine two options that will allow you to diagnose and tweak PostgreSQL, the modern way.

Is Google planning on merging ChromeOS with Android? Last week it looked like the long-standing rumor had been casually confirmed by a Google spokesperson. This week, we're back to a position of 'as you were'. 

Robots that enthusiasts could build for under $500, and that are smart enough to walk off the 3D printer that formed them, have been demonstrated by a team at the University of Edinburgh. 

In this week's top featured article Harry Fairhead shows how to work with IoT devices using the Raspberry Pi 5 and Gpio5. What's Gpio5? It is a new open source library written by Harry specifically to let the Pi 5 work directly with GPIO hardware. It is  based on the Pico SDK for the RP1 microprocessor, the chip that also powers the Pi 5. 

At the moment Coursera Plus has a special offer for new subscribers. If you love learning new skills or keeping your existing skills up to date, it's worth your immediate attention.

Blender Studio has released a free-to-play game on Steam that is designed not just to be fun to play, but as an example of what you can create in the games arena using just open source software.

GitHub Copilot Adventures is a repository that, through fun and educational play, teaches how to use Copilot effectively.