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AI phishing is the use of generative technologies to create hyper-personalized, contextually accurate, and highly convincing social engineering attacks that compromise human credentials and trust. We look at what the risks are and provide some pointers for introducing controls and guardrails.

Computer scientists are mathematicians? With AI threatening both programming and mathematics, we need to ask what is math and what, if anything, does it have to do with programming. We need to teach programming so that the math seems easy.

Programming News and Views

It could have been good news that Qualcomm had taken over Arduino. Adding its financial muscle and processor resources to the very popular development environment could have, and still could, produce something rewarding for everyone. But Arduinophiles are panicking over some changes to the licensing.

GitHub saw tremendous growth in 2025 with more than one new developer on average joining GitHub every second - over 36 million in the past year, bring the total for the GitHub community to over 180 million developers. Due to the explosion in the use of AI-assistance, Typescript is now the most used language on GitHub.

Scrimba has added a Backend Developer Path, focused on the JavaScript ecosystem, to its catalog. It is very project-focused, which is perfect for building a portfolio. It is one of Scrimba's Pro courses so now is the time to take advantage of Scrimba's Black Friday deal - save 35% on a Pro subscription.

The Android workgroup has announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android. The Android workgroup is open group, free for anyone to join, that aims to expand Swift to Android.

The official release of Vaadin MCP server is a reality.
What does it make different?

Google has released a Log Analytics query builder, a new tool designed to ease access to observability data in Google Cloud.

Google is now providing users of Google Search, Gemini and Pixel Weather faster, more accurate and higher resolution weather forecasts thanks to WeatherNext 2, a forecasting model based on a new Functional Generative Network.

Researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland have demonstrated robotic batteries and actuators that can be ingested without causing problems.

Coursera is currently offering a whopping 40% discount on the cost of an annual subscription to Coursera Plus. And we've found yet another reason to recommend it - Coursera Coach powered by Google Gemini.

DPAI is an open platform for benchmarking AI coding Agents. Haven't we got enough benchmarks and evaluations already?

Itential, which specializes in intelligent network and infrastructure orchestration, has announced FlowAI. This is an extension to the existing Intential Automation Platform which is intended to safely integrate AI agents and reasoning systems into enterprise-grade, auditable automation.

Book Watch

In this book, Google's Go team member Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian Kernighan, co-author of The C Programming Language, provide hundreds of interesting and practical examples of well-written Go code to help programmers learn this flexible, and fast, language. The book is meant to help you start using Go effectively right away and to use it well, taking full advantage of Go’s language features and standard libraries to write clear, idiomatic, and efficient programs.

In this book José Haro Peralta shows reliable methods you can use to counter cracks, hacks, and attacks on your internal and external APIs. The book illustrates each vulnerability with extended code samples and shows how to mitigate them in your own APIs. You’ll find insights into emerging AI-powered security threats, along with tips and patterns for using LLMs in your own security testing.

Subtitled "Learn Assembly and Master the Original 8-Bit Handheld", this is a hands-on guide to programming the Nintendo Game Boy. Maximilien Dagois shows how by using the simplified assembly language of this retro machine, readers can learn how to control every aspect of the Game Boy’s 8-bit hardware. The book shows how to build tile-based graphics, sprite animations, sound effects, input handling, and timers to illustrate how hardware behaves­, and how software components work together to run interactive programs.

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