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C# SDK for Model Context Protocol Version 2.0 Announced

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:09:16 +0000

Version 2.0.0 of the C# SDK has been updated to implement the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification revision.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/89-net/19065-c-sdk-for-model-context-protocol-version-20-announced.html

CISA's OSS Security Principles and Practices

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:41:53 +0000

As of July 30, CISA released a set of guidelines available as a single file download. We look into its key points.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/19058-cisas-oss-security-principles-and-practices-.html

The Cybersecurity Learning Lab: 70 Hands-On Practical Projects

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:24:00 +0000

Introducing a comprehensive GitHub repository which hosts 70 cybersecurity projects ranging from foundational to advanced difficulty.

This is an educational collection which includes practical tools like hash identifiers, metadata scrubbers and Caesar cipher utilities, each accompanied by detailed "learn" modules. These modules explain security theory, system architecture and step-by-step implementation to help students understand real-world applications.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/19050-the-cybersecurity-learning-lab-70-hands-on-practical-projects.html

Wren AI- The Generative Business Intelligence Engine

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:55:07 +0000

Wren AI is an open-source development framework designed to translate complex business data into trustworthy natural language answers.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/19042-wren-a-i-the-generative-business-intelligence-engine.html

Minimus Releases Hardened Images For Free - What Does It Do Differently?

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:16:13 +0000

Minimus is a specialized platform designed to provide hardened container images and supply chain security for cloud-native environments. Its images are now free.

Minimus' hardening consists of stripping away unnecessary packages and rebuilding from source daily, hence significantly reducing the vulnerability surface compared to standard public images, up to 98% on average. It achieves such magnitudes in reduction through several key structural and operational strategies:

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/19040-minimus-releases-hardened-images-for-free-what-does-it-do-differently.html

Build Flexible AI Agents With The Genkit Framework

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:07:53 +0000

Genkit is Google's open-source framework designed for building full-stack, AI-powered and agentic applications.

Genkit is a set of modular building blocks that help you transition from making simple model requests to creating highly autonomous, reliable and production-ready AI systems.
To understand what it offers you must compare it to how one builds AI applications at the moment.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/19032-build-flexible-ai-agents-with-the-genkit-framework.html

Ask A Java Champion - Gems Ready To Be Discovered

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:44:59 +0000

We take a look at a series of interviews in which Java Champions share their expert advice on career growth, technical mastery and the future of software engineering.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/19020-asking-a-java-champion-contains-gems-ready-to-be-discovered.html

DeepSWE - Best Benchmark For Evaluating AI Coding Agents?

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:41:24 +0000

DeepSWE is a high-fidelity benchmarking platform designed to evaluate the performance of frontier AI coding agents on complex long-horizon software engineering tasks.

Unlike traditional benchmarks that reuse existing GitHub data, this system utilizes original, contamination-free tasks across five major programming languages to prevent models from relying on memorized solutions, creating a much clearer separation between frontier coding models than older public benchmarks like SWE-bench.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/19016-deepswe-best-benchmark-for-evaluating-ai-coding-agents.html

Fyrox Game Engine Reaches Version 1.0.0

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:38:59 +0000

Fyrox, the game engine written in Rust, reaches its first stable version,1.0.0, after 7 years in the making and numerous development releases.

Fyrox is a feature-rich, general-purpose 2D and 3D game engine written entirely in Rust. Formerly known as rg3d, the engine represents a long-term development effort that culminated in its stable 1.0.0 release in March 2026.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/144-graphics-and-games/19015-fyrox-game-engine-reaches-version-100.html

cq: A Shared Knowledge Commons for AI Agents

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:19:22 +0000

Mozilla.ai has introduced cq, an open-source standard and platform designed to facilitate shared learning among AI agents. This promises to eliminate a lot of duplicated effort on the part of AI agents, thereby making savings in terms of cost and resources

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/19009-cq-a-shared-knowledge-commons-for-ai-agents.html

RAMPART and Clarity Secure Your AI Agents

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:09:24 +0000

RAMPART and Clarity are frameworks designed by Microsoft to evaluate the safety and security of agentic AI applications.

RAMPART (Risk Assessment & Measurement Platform for Agentic Red Teaming), is built on top of Microsoft's PyRIT (Python Risk Identification Tool) primitives. Rather than treating AI safety as a one-time post-build review, it allows developers to write safety and security tests as repeatable code th

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/19001-rampart-and-clarity-secure-your-ai-agents.html

pg_durable - Durable SQL Functions And Orchestration For PostgreSQL

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:23:00 +0000

pg_durable is a Microsoft developed PostgreSQL extension that integrates fault-tolerant, long-running execution directly into the database.

To understand why this is useful, think about what normally happens if you run a long, complex database job and the server crashes or your connection drops; you lose your progress, and you have to start all over again.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18984-pgdurable-durable-sql-functions-and-orchestration-for-postgresql.html

What Happened At AI-fokus 2026

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:08:00 +0000

AI-fokus, a spin off of Jfokus, is a conference focusing on the evolution of agentic AI and its practical implementation in software development.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18981-what-happened-at-ai-fokus-2026.html

How to Train Your GPT - A Comprehensive LLM Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:53:38 +0000

We look at a Github repository that provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for constructing a modern Large Language Model from the ground by up using Python and PyTorch.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18970-how-to-train-your-gpt-a-comprehensive-llm-guide.html

What Happened At JNation 2026

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:31:09 +0000

JNation Conference is a software development event held annually in Coimbra, Portugal, that covers various topics relevant to the software development industry.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18966-what-happened-at-jnation-2026-.html

Redis Iris - Real Time Context Engine For AI Agents

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:21:04 +0000

Redis has released Iris, a specialized real-time context engine designed to optimize the performance and reliability of AI agents.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18956-redis-iris-real-time-context-engine-for-ai-agents.html

Melonjs - Browser Based 2D Game Engine

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:36:10 +0000

melonJS is an open-source, lightweight HTML5 game engine designed for building 2D and 2.5D games using JavaScript and TypeScript. The framework offers a Canvas2D-inspired API that simplifies rendering while providing a powerful WebGL backend with automatic fallback capabilities.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/18949-melonjs-browser-based-2d-game-engine.html

Perplexity Releases The Bumblebee Supply Chain Security Scanner

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:00:11 +0000

Bumblebee is an open-source security tool developed by Perplexity AI to identify software supply chain vulnerabilities on developer workstations.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18945-perplexity-releases-the-bumblebee-supply-chain-security-scanner.html

Stanford's CME296 Diffusion & Large Vision Models

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:08:09 +0000

The full materials of the recent Stanford CME296 lecture series, which constitutes a comprehensive technical deep dive into generative modeling, are now available to all and for free.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/18939-stanfords-cme296-diffusion-a-large-vision-models.html

Vercel's Deepsec Scans Your Code With Agentic AI

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:04:04 +0000

Vercel has launched Deepsec, an open-source security tool designed to find complex vulnerabilities in large codebases using autonomous AI agents.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18936-vercels-deepsec-scans-your-code-with-agentic-ai.html

Aurora DSQL Gets Change Data Capture

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:36:17 +0000

Aurora DSQL is Amazon's serverless, fully managed, distributed relational database service optimized for transactional (OLTP) workloads. A significant new capability is the Change Data Capture (CDC) preview, which streams real-time database modifications directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/144-graphics-and-games/18930-aurora-dsql-gets-change-data-capture.html

Spring I/O 2026 Sessions Now Available Online

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:20:00 +0000

This year's premier Spring developer community conference, Spring I/O, ran in Barcelona on 13-15 April; 3 days packed with 60 talks and 9 workshops, 80 speakers and 1200+ attendees. Its sessions are now available online. We pick out some highlights.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18901-spring-io-2026-sessions-now-available-online.html

The Agent Toolkit For AWS

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:19:00 +0000

The Agent Toolkit for AWS is a comprehensive suite of developer tools designed to help AI coding agents build, deploy, and manage cloud applications more effectively.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/141-cloud-computing/18898-the-agent-toolkit-for-aws.html

Monocle: A Framework for Tracing GenAI Application Code

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:07:50 +0000

Monocle is a community-driven, open-source framework designed to monitor and trace generative AI applications by capturing data compliant with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.

Governing its development through the Linux Foundation, the project provides specialized tools for developers and platform engineers to instrument code in Python and TypeScript without requiring extensive manual code decoration.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18892-monocle-a-framework-for-tracing-genai-application-code.html

Integrating Neo4j and Gemini CLI

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:37:29 +0000

We explore a combination that opens new ways of interacting with the Neo4j Graph database.

The Neo4j Gemini CLI extension integrates Gemini's capabilities directly into your terminal by bundling four Neo4j Model Context Protocol servers. This integration bridges the AI's reasoning engine with Neo4j, allowing you to deploy infrastructure, write queries, and build GraphRAG applications using natural language without leaving your terminal.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18886-integrating-neo4j-and-gemini-cli-.html