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 The news is that the German State is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice. Why is this of significance?

That's not the first attempt of the German State to break free of vendors by adopting open source software. We've recently witnessed another attempt in "Is The German State In Love With OSS?" in which the State adopted openDesk, the open source alternative to Microsoft's and Google's office applications.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/17151-one-states-quest-for-digital-sovereignty-.html

 A free, self-paced course about Cybersecurity 101 is on offer by Microsoft's Cloud Security Advocates. It's a 30+ lesson curriculum targeted at complete novices.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/17152-microsofts-cybersecurity-for-beginners.html

 Dev Tunnels is a new Visual Studio option that exposes your localhost to the internet the easiest way possible. But first of all, why would you allow access from the public net to your local machine?

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/89-net/17165-dev-tunnels-an-alternative-to-ngrok-for-net-users.html

 Spring Academy Pro is now freely available and Spring Builders is a new meeting point to discuss everything Spring related.

Last year in "Learn With The Spring Academy" we've laid out some reasons for you to join it:

Surely, there are many courses, blogs and tutorials on Spring develepment, but who knows better than the makers themselves, that is VMWare.

Spring Academy, created by the stewards of the Spring framework, aims to introduce students to the ins and outs of the framework and provide the things that matter to further their careers like preparing for the official Spring Certified Professional exam. The instructors of the Academy work for VMware Tanzu Labs and that includes renowned Dev advocate Josh Long.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/17142-two-new-resources-tailored-to-spring-developers.html

 Bellsoft has added CRaC support to its ready-to-use Alpaquita container images. This will enable developers to seamlessly integrate CRaC into their projects for performant Java in the Cloud.

Is CRaC the magic recipe to Java's warm up problems?

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/17135-liberica-alpaquita-containers-now-come-with-crac.html

 Select AI is a new feature of the Oracle Autonomous Database that transforms your mother language to SQL. This is a big boon for non-developers in extracting value out of their data silos.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17132-query-your-oracle-autonomous-database-with-natural-language.html

 NVIDIA has jumped on the AI bandwagon in a big way. Hardware aside, this means working on training material too. Several self- paced courses have been released and for free too!.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/17128-nvidia-releases-free-courses-on-ai.html

 ZLUDA is a translation layer that lets you run unmodified CUDA applications with near-native performance on AMD GPUs. But it is walking a fine line with regards to legality.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/17124-zluda-ports-cuda-applications-to-amd-gpus-.html

 Syncfusion has provided an in-browser environment where you can write, compile and run code that uses Blazor components and get it previewed live.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/89-net/17118-explore-syncfusions-blazor-playground.html

 WinterJS is a brand new Javascript runtime by Wasmer which comes with the claim that it's the fastest of them all. Let's find out if that holds true.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/17111-the-winterjs-javascript-runtime-is-asking-for-your-attention.html