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 Skip is a development tool that allows engineers to create native iOS and Android applications from a single Swift and SwiftUI codebase. The news is that it has now gone open source and free-for-use, even in commercial projects.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/193-android/18660-build-native-ios-and-android-apps-with-skip-now-for-free.html

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

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18650-what-does-the-sonatype-2026-state-of-the-software-supply-chain-report-reveal.html

 Colab integration has arrived for both VSCode and PyCharm.

What does that now make possible?

If you're familiar with Jupyter Notebook, you'll be right at home with Colab too. Colab addresses the limitations of the single-player notebook. Jupyter was created in an era before the cloud and the emergence of AI. Nowadays what is required is modern, collaborative tools that integrate into your existing stack.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18645-colab-is-coming-for-your-favorite-ide.html

 The OpenSSL Conference is the premier event for cryptography and secure communications professionals. In 2025, it ran between October 7-9 in Prague. We check the highlights.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/18630-what-happened-at-the-openssl-conference-2025.html

 A brand new course from the makers of LangSmith themselves, promises to teach you how to observe, evaluate, and deploy your agents. And all that in less than 30 minutes.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18638-langchain-academys-langsmith-essentials-course.html

 Wouldn't it be great to have an interface that could work with any AI agent? Toad is Python's answer to a unified front-end for the many AI coding agents out there.

Toad, not to be confused with the Oracle IDE, aims to provide a more pleasant experience for the user of Agentic coding tools. The notion is that each tool comes with its own interface, its own quirks, and its own limitations. 

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18619-toad-pythonic-universal-terminal-interface-for-ai-agents.html

 Recognizing the importance of AI Agents, industry stakeholders have decided to establish a Foundation that fosters common open standards and collaboration .

Under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) has been co-founded by Anthropic, Block and OpenAI, with support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare and Bloomberg.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18614-agentic-ai-foundation-announced.html

 FunctionGemma is an open-source Google model fine-tuned for function calling that aims to revolutionize the way we interact with our devices.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18608-google-releases-functiongemma-model.html

 This isn't just a course, it's the complete curriculum of Stanford’s CME295 Transformers and Large Language Models from Autumn 2025.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/18604-watch-stanfords-cme295-transformers-and-llms.html

 pg-aiguide adds AI-optimized PostgreSQL expertise to coding assistants. What does that mean?

In With MCP Docs Servers You'll Never Run Out Of Fresh Documentation we found out why documentation is very important for coding assistants:

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18603-pg-aiguide-agentic-coding-for-postgresql.html