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Undefined behavior is a big and important subject but it really shouldn't be. Find out why  in this extract from my book, Deep C Dives .

Without the microchip it is unlikely that computers would have become commonplace.  Its invention was a key stage in the development of computing and is credited to two individuals - Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.

Programming News and Views

A recent talk at FOSDEM 2026 highlights some of the complexities of trying to write secure code. In this case the fault is entirely due ti GCC - the GNU C compiler. Is this really the evil force that it is made out to be?

The results of the 2025 State of JavaScript Survey are out and tells us that the JavaScript ecosystem is continuing to evolve in a way that developers find pretty satisfactory.

Godot 4.6 has been released, and the developers say this release kicks off a period of polish, quality-of-life improvements, tighter integration of industry standards, and doubled-down effort on performance optimization.

Eve Security has filed the patent for an Interrogation-as-a-Service for AI Agentic Risk Control. Eve Security says the innovation is the first ever of its kind, and establishes "reasoning-before-execution" as the new standard for AI safety and governance in production systems.

GitHub has added more coding agents to Agent HQ, with the addition of Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex being made available in public preview on GitHub and VS Code with a Copilot Pro+ or Copilot Enterprise subscription.

Sonatype has released this year's report with a number of interesting findings. Let's dig into it.

Apple Memorabilia sold at auction during January fetched staggering sums of money. While the Celebration Board had the top Hammer Price it was closely matched by a paper check. The most whimsical inclusion in the auction was a collection of a dozen bow ties.

The Computer History Museum has officially launched OpenCHM, a new digital portal designed to expand access to its its . It's well worth a visit for anyone with an interest in computer hardware and software and the people who are created it and of course you can do it without leaving your desk or sofa and without spending a dime.

A video of a robot unloading and loading a dishwasher in a typical messy kitchen environment has been released by San Jose based robotics company Figure.

Colab integration has arrived for both VSCode and PyCharm.
What does that now make possible?

Microsoft has released Crescent, a cryptographic library that adds unlinkability to widely used identity formats, protecting privacy. The library was developed by researchers at Microsoft Research, and can generate proofs of possession of JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and mobile Driver's Licenses (mDL) credentials.

Book Watch

In this newly revised fifth edition, Richard Blum delivers an up-to-date and authoritative discussion of the fundamentals of shell scripting in Linux, as well as the advanced topics, working examples, and real-world applications that equip you to administer Linux systems. The book includes usable scripts and brand-new coverage for DevOps engineers interested in deploying applications on a variety of Linux distributions and cloud platforms while minimizing compatibility issues.

This book investigates the global rise of teenage hackers, offering an insider's portrait of the dark net and the key players who are disrupting corporations, government institutions and our everyday lives. Joe Tidy argues that there is one area of the criminal underworld that is being underestimated at our peril - the dark digital underbelly where teenage boys are reshaping cybersecurity, cryptocurrency and organized crime under the noses of their parents.

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