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Static storage is boring - or is it? Find out in this extract from my latest book Deep C Dives .

You may well never have heard of Konrad Zuse, but he has a better claim than most to be the man who invented the programmable computer in the sense of actually building one. In fact, he built several. Zuse could also be the man who invented the first high-level programming language. So why don't we know more about him and what he did?

Programming News and Views

Plainsight has launched OpenFilter, an open source project for developing, deploying, and scaling production-grade computer vision applications. The launch took place at the Embedded Vision Summit, the conference for innovators incorporating computer vision and AI in products, taking place in Santa Clara, California.

After 5 years of banishment, Fortnite is back in the US App Store.  Has Apple turned over a new leaf and is now playing nice? Probably not.

Use this Neo4J GraphRAG library to build your own knowledge graph-based applications.

Day 1 of Microsoft Build 2025 was, as expected, an AI-focused event with Satya Nadella devoting much of the keynote to artificial intelligence agents giving us a picture of a future in  which these agents perform tasks and make decisions on behalf of users and organization.

LiteCLI, a very handy SQLite client for the CLI diehards, is upgraded by getting a LLM feature that helps you write SQL.

This is a storm in a Rust bucket. Prosimo decided that a good test of Rust was to convert the existing dav1d decoder from C to Rust. Everything seems to have gone well, but the Rust version is still 5% or so slower than the C version. There is $20,000 waiting for you if you can speed it up.

This year the Free Software Foundation is marking its 40th Anniversary and is running a global online Hackathon open to everyone in the free software community. For projects interested in participating the deadline for submissions is May 29th.

Rust reached the milestone of Version 1.0 becoming generally available on May 15, 2015. Version 1.87 has just been released on the 10th anniversary with a celebratory event in Utrecht during Rust week, its annual developer conference.

We continue the lowdown of Java conferences that took place in the first half of 2025. Last week we explored three Voxxed sessions, this week it's Devoxx Greece, Devoxx UK and JavaOne.

NVIDIA adds native support to CUDA for Python, making it more accessible to developers at large.

designed to connect GraphQL APIs to AI models such as Claude and ChatGPT using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Books of the Week

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Full Review

Author: Bob Ward
Publisher: Apress
Pages: 563
ISBN:9798868809736
ASIN:B0DJ6YNPJQ
Audience: SQL Server DBAs
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Ian Stirk

Now with the subtitle The Next-Generation Cloud Database with AI and Microsoft Fabric, this is an updated edition of a popular Azure SQL book, written by an insider with a wealth of knowledge and experience. How does it fare?

Book Watch

This book covers the essential mathematics that will take you from basic coding to serious software development. Ronald T. Kneusel shows how vectors and matrices give you the power to handle complex data, how calculus drives optimization and machine learning, and how graph theory leads to advanced search algorithms.

This book asks the question "Can you trust results from modeling and simulation?" and provides a framework for assessing the reliability of and uncertainty included in the results used by decision makers and policy makers in industry and government. The emphasis is on models described by PDEs and their numerical solution. William L. Oberkampf and Christopher J. Roy consider procedures and results from all aspects of verification and validation, integrated with modern methods in uncertainty quantification and stochastic simulation.

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