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  Devoxx Genie is a fully Java-based LLM Code Assistant plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, designed to integrate with local and cloud LLM providers. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/17300-access-llms-from-intellij-with-devoxx-genie.html

  Having faced doubt, debate and insecurity, Perl is still going after all those years, alive, kicking and making releases. Business as usual. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/222-perl/17298-perl-v5400-shows-that-it-is-too-resilient-to-die-.html

  Amazon has announced Timestream, a fully-managed time series database service that is based on open source InfluxDB. But what is a time series ? A formal definition would sound like:   "A time series is a sequence of data points reported at a       consistent interval over time". https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17291-amazon-timestream-for-influxdb-handles-your-time-series-workloads.html

  Oracle is getting into the coding assistants game. The aptly named "Oracle Code Assist" is going to be optimized for Java, SQL, and Oracle Cloud-based applications. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/17285-let-oracles-coding-assistant-do-the-grunt-work.html

  Mirascope is a Python library that lets you access a range of Large Language Models, but in a more straightforward and Pythonic way. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/17275-mirascope-pythons-alternative-to-langchain.html#google_vignette

  Siren is a new mailing list by the OpenSSF which aims to monitor the threat landscape of open-source project vulnerabilities in order to provide real time alerts to anyone subscribed. This is yet another stepping stone in OpenSSF's ongoing campaign for sane software security.This mailing list is addressed literally to anyone; as we described in " The State Of Secure Software Development - Three OpenSSF Courses " https://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/17268-openssfs-siren-to-warn-about-oss-vulnerabilities.html

  Over recent days, Microsoft has announced both the official OpenAI library for .NET and the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. From self-paced courses, as described in " Microsoft's Generative AI for Beginners ", to adding extensions for turning PostgreSQL into a vector store, or integrating it with Azure's OpenAI services, to partnerships with LLM makers like Mistral AI, Microsoft is upping its GenAI game. To continue that trend we now have news of the general availability of the OpenAI library for .NET and of the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/17272-microsoft-goes-all-out-on-generative-ai.html

  The Microsoft Semantic Kernel (SK) is an open source lightweight foundation that lets you easily mix conventional programming languages with AI "prompts". After a year of work since the initial release, version 1 of the SDK is now generally available. So what's new? https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/17266-semantic-kernel-for-java-now-ga-.html

  There's a self-paced. YouTube-based course by Mycelial on the ins and outs of SQLite. It's short, succinct and free and a must watch for anybody wanting to get started with  SQLite. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17251-the-mycelial-sqlite-for-beginners-course-.html#google_vignette

  A range of self-paced courses on GenAI, for free, released on AWS SkillBuilder, Amazon's online learning center where you can learn from AWS experts to build cloud skills online. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/17259-amazon-releases-free-courses-on-ai.html