India's showpiece software industry is facing a moment of reckoning. The country's biggest private sector employer Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - also its largest IT services company - has announced it will cut more than 12,000 jobs at middle and senior management levels. This will reduce the firm's workforce by 2%. The Mumbai-headquartered software behemoth employs over half-a-million IT workers and is considered a bellwether for business sentiment across India's 283bn software industry. It forms the backbone of formal, white-collar employment in the country.

Software development is currently under a paradigm shift in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) - in particular Generative AI [6] - has taken an increasingly central role in assisting developers in their software creation activities. This is in essence a new form of software reuse in which collections of previously created software artifacts form the basis for generating new ones. Unlike in the past when developers were manually searching for pre-existing software components from libraries and code repositories such as Github, Node Package Manager (NPM) or the Python Package Index (PyPI), in the new model developers are requesting AI-driven assistants to generate suitable pieces of code for them. These generated artifacts can range from small code snippets and module fragments to comprehensive application skeletons or in some cases fully functional applications or even complete end-to-end systems. This new generative approach to software reuse has resulted in a considerable mental model change for developers.

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology such as Large Language Models (LLMs) have become extremely popular in creating code. This has led to the conjecture that future s oftware jobs will be exclusively conducted by LLMs, and the software industry will cease to exist. But soft ware engineering is much more than producing code--notably, maintaining large software and keeping it reliable is a major part of soft ware engineering, which LLMs are not yet capable of. Do not hold your breath. This includes automated code generation from natural language descriptions and automated remediation of code issues [5, 10].

Context. Algorithmic racism is the term used to describe the behavior of technological solutions that constrains users based on their ethnicity. Lately, various data-driven software systems have been reported to discriminate against Black people, either for the use of biased data sets or due to the prejudice propagated by software professionals in their code. As a result, Black people are experiencing disadvantages in accessing technology-based services, such as housing, banking, and law enforcement. Goal. This study aims to explore algorithmic racism from the perspective of software professionals. Method. A survey questionnaire was applied to explore the understanding of software practitioners on algorithmic racism, and data analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics and coding techniques. Results. We obtained answers from a sample of 73 software professionals discussing their understanding and perspectives on algorithmic racism in software development. Our results demonstrate that the effects of algorithmic racism are well-known among practitioners. However, there is no consensus on how the problem can be effectively addressed in software engineering. In this paper, some solutions to the problem are proposed based on the professionals' narratives. Conclusion. Combining technical and social strategies, including training on structural racism for software professionals, is the most promising way to address the algorithmic racism problem and its effects on the software solutions delivered to our society.

Artificial intelligence has taken a big leap lately, and is widely expected to change the world, in particular its economy. How much will that be? A Goldman Sachs study has an answer: an increase of 7% in world GDP. With current global gross domestic product of slightly more than $100 trillion, that would mean a $7 trillion increase over the next 10 years, by the investment firm's estimates. Along the way, labor productivity growth would expand 1.5% yearly, per the report by Goldman economists Joseph Briggs and Devesh Kodnani.

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The digital landscape is evolving due to the rapid changes occurring in the world. Technology has come a long way. Think of the time when it used to take days to receive a letter by post. But now, it gets delivered in a fraction of seconds in the form of an e-mail. With UPI, even a vegetable vendor or a small business owner has access to high-end technology.

Around the time computers were old enough to drink, software engineering guru Gerald Weinberg said: "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." This is not a plotline science fiction authors have ever neglected. Actually, some titles are still worth a trip to the library: for example, Poul Anderson's Sam Hall from 1953, which shows how too much reliance on "infallible" computer surveillance can turn into an autoimmune collapse for a nation-state, or, for that matter, any large organization. At the more obscure end of the spectrum, there is Swedish Nobel Laureate Hannes Alfvén, publishing in Swedish under the pseudonym Oluf Johannesson, with Sagan om den stora Datamaskinen [Tale of the Big Computer] from 1966. As with almost all science fiction pieces, however, they miss the future by a wide margin.

Just over a year has passed since the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme, a brutal and still unsolved handgun murder taking place in the heart of the nation's capital, Stockholm. Head of the ongoing police investigation, Hans Holmér, has just been forced to resign after cooking up increasingly incompetent and theatrical policing methods, lies and conspiracy theories. Cold war activity in the Baltic region is at peak levels. The navy regularly carry out large scale submarine hunts within Swedish territorial waters and the air force routinely scramble JA-37 Viggen interceptors in response to both Soviet and NATO counterparts scouting just outside national airspace. To fill the ranks of the armed forces, military service is mandated by universal conscription of all men aged 18 and above. Those who refuse to partake are punished by jail.

PUNE AI-enabled radiology platform DeepTek is playing an important role in precise diagnosis of diseases like TB and Covid-19. The Pune-based startup has received strategic investment from a clutch of investors so far, and is eying another VC round in next six months. Patil completed his schooling from SSPMS school and engineering from COEP in 1992. He has a Master's degree from IIT-Kharagpur in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Amit Kharat, with a DNB and PhD in Radiology, has been engaged in the radiology space for the last 17 years.