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C++26 The Next C++ Should You Care?
1+ hour, 8+ min ago (390+ words) What you will hear about C++ 26, the latest standard, depends very much on who you ask. Not even committed C++ programmers are happy about everything that has been added, and less than committed C++ programmers are aghast at the extra…...
Build AI-Enhanced Web Apps (Manning)
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (205+ words) Programming book reviews, programming tutorials, programming news, C#, Ruby, Python, C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more. Subtitled "How to get reliable results with React, Next. js, and Vercel", this…...
AI Breakthroughs But At A Cost
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (182+ words) Published this week, the 2026 Stanford HAI AI Index shows that AI models are achieving breakthrough results in science and complex reasoning. AI's workforce disruption has now moved from prediction to reality, hitting young workers first." While reporting on performance breakthroughs,…...
Has Rust Reached Its Level On TIOBE?
23+ hour, 18+ min ago (408+ words) The headline of the TIOBE Index for April 2026 is "Rust's rise shows signs of slowing". In the subsequent analysis the suggestion is that this is due to the language being difficult to learn. As Paul Jansen, CEO of TIOBE and…...
Microsoft Releases Open Source Agent Governance Toolkit
23+ hour, 18+ min ago (283+ words) Microsoft has released an open-source Agent Governance Toolkit ahead of the forthcoming regulations." Microsoft's new Agent Governance Toolkit that the company says is an open-source project released under the Microsoft organization and MIT license that is the first toolkit to…...
The Bloom Filter
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (710+ words) You may never have heard of a Bloom Filter, but this ingenious algorithm is used in Google's Big Table database to avoid wasting time fruitlessly searching for data that isn't there. The algorithm invented in 1970 by Burton Bloom is very…...
Matei Zaharia Awarded 2025 ACM Prize In Computing
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (275+ words) Co-founder and CTO of Databricks, Matei Zaharia, is the'recipient of the 2025 ACM Prize in Computing for his "visionary development of distributed data systems and computing infrastructure, which has enabled large-scale machine learning, analytic, and AI at global scale." The ACM…...
Designing Serious Games (The MIT Press)
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (192+ words) Programming book reviews, programming tutorials, programming news, C#, Ruby, Python, C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more. This book looks at 'serious games', everything from educational, therapeutic, and rehabilitative games…...
Coolest Projects 2026 Now Open
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (317+ words) The Raspberry Pi Foundation's Coolest Projects 2026 competition is now to entrants under 18 worldwide. According to the Foundation, Coolest Projects is a place where young creators share the brilliant things they've made using digital technology, from first-ever Scratch projects and coding…...
Amazon Releases S3 Files
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (127+ words) Amazon has released S3 Files, which makes S3 buckets accessible as file systems. S3 Files provides a shared file system that connects any AWS compute resource directly with your data in Amazon S3. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that…...