Planet Ingres

 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

 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

 HuggingFace just made the process of fine-tuning open source LLMs much easier through the use of Skills.

Similarly to Claude's Skills, HuggingFace Skills take care of the boilerplate required to fine tune LLMs. That boilerplate consists of validating your dataset, auto-selecting the best GPU hardware for the job, as well as submitting the job for processing, monitoring the training progress, and finally publishing the tuned model to the HuggingFace Hub.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18568-huggingface-skills-fine-tune-llms.html