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What Happened At PyCon US 2026

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:17:50 +0000

PyCon US is the largest and longest running annual gathering of the Python community. We provide an overview of this year's event.

PyCon US is produced and underwritten by the non profit Python Software Foundation (PSF), brining together a diverse attendee base, ranging from absolute beginners to core CPython developers, open source maintainers, data scientists, researchers and community organizers. This year it took place at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long Beach, California during May 13-19.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/216-python/19155-what-happened-at-pycon-us-2026.html

MIT's Missing Semester of Your CS Education, 2026 Edition

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:34:40 +0000

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education course aims to teach students essential tools and techniques that are often overlooked in the traditional computer science curriculum.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/19146-mits-missing-semester-of-your-cs-education-2026-edition.html

Polygres: Advanced Search On PostgreSQL

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:33:30 +0000

Polygres is a specialized platform designed to enhance PostgreSQL databases with advanced search and retrieval capabilities.

Polygres is a managed PostgreSQL database service that integrates advanced search and retrieval capabilities, such as graph traversal, vector similarity, full text search and hybrid query composition, directly on top of your relational database tables.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/19138-polygres-advanced-search-on-postgresql.html

Actian VectorAI DB: A New Player In The Vector Database Space

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:30:37 +0000

Developed by Actian Corporation, VectorAI DB is an on premises vector database purpose built for high performance, reliable AI applications

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/19130-actian-vectorai-db-a-new-player-in-the-vector-database-space.html

What happened At PGconf.dev 2026

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:42:26 +0000

PGConf.dev (PostgreSQL Development Conference) is a highly technical developer focused conference primarily designed for the people who build, maintain and extend the database system itself.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/19126-what-happened-at-pgconfdev-2026.html

CipherStash: Searchable Encryption and Data Level Access Control For PostgreSQL

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:14:00 +0000

CipherStash is a cybersecurity platform that provides searchable, field-level encryption. It has been designed to secure sensitive data within PostgreSQL.

CipherStash is motivated by the premise:

Traditional database encryption isn't secure

Most developers assume that their data is safe because their database has encryption at rest enabled. However, encryption at rest only protects the physical storage disk, backup files, or discarded hardware. Once the database server is booted up and running, all data is loaded into memory as plaintext. If an attacker exploits a SQL injection vulnerability, gains access to the host server, or gets hold of database credentials, they can read every piece of sensitive data in the clear.

To prevent this, you could encrypt sensitive fields (like emails or SSNs) inside your application before saving them. But traditional field level encryption introduces two major problems:

Full article on IProgrammer:

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/19114-cipherstash-searchable-encryption-and-data-level-access-control-for-postgresql.html

Stack Overflow For Agents

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:57:04 +0000

Stack Overflow for Agents is a specialized knowledge exchange designed for AI coding assistants to share production tested technical solutions and avoid redundant problem solving.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/19107-stack-overflow-for-agents.html

pg_re2: High Performance RE2 Regex for PostgreSQL

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:01:40 +0000

pg_re2 is a high-performance PostgreSQL extension developed by ClickHouse. It integrates Google's regular expression engine with the Postgres database.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/19098-pgre2-high-performance-re2-regex-for-postgresql.html

Microsoft Releases Agentic Skills For Python

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:01:01 +0000

Microsoft's extends the capabilities of AI coding agents with the release of Agent Skills for Python.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/19086-microsoft-releases-agentic-skills-for-python.html

Lakebase Search: Hybrid Vector and Text Search on Neon Postgres

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:39:32 +0000

Neon has released Lakebase Search, a suite of Postgres extensions designed to enhance vector and text search capabilities within the Neon database platform.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/19081-lakebase-search-hybrid-vector-and-text-search-on-neon-postgres.html

Floci: A High-Performance Local AWS Emulator Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Nikos Vaggalis) — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:48:22 +0000

Floci is a high performance, open source AWS service emulator designed for local development and continuous integration environments.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/19067-floci-a-high-performance-local-aws-emulator-guide.html

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