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  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

  An event for API practitioners from around the world covering everything API-related. We're checking the highlights. Platform Summit is the flagship conference of Nordic APIs, an international community of API practitioners and enthusiasts whose aim is to helping companies make smarter tech decisions using APIs. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/18600-nordic-api-platform-summit-2025.html

Supabase has released Vector Buckets, specialized storage containers optimized for vector data. This is welcome as it expands your options for storing vectors.  https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18585-supabases-vector-buckets.html

  Yet another provider jumps on the hardened image bandwagon. But since it's Docker, the main player in the container space, this is very important. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/240-devops/18579-docker-releases-hardened-images-for-free-what-does-it-do-differently.html