Sometimes you just have to go beyond the SDK and work with the hardware - it's not so difficult. This is an extract from the latest book in the I Programmer Library, all about the Pico/W in C.

We often refer to things that are unpredictable as being "random" but this is not the same as truly random behavior - which is something we have to work hard to achieve. Put another way - how can a logical deterministic device like a computer produce a random number?

JavaScript applications have fewer flaws and faster flaw resolution than Java and .NET applications. This finding is from AppSec company Veracode, which recently brought out its annual State of Software Security Report based on an analysis of three-quarters of a million applications, data it has collected over 17 years.

Firefox has been losing users to Chrome for a long time and there seems to be little it can do to catch up - or is there? Chrome is about to adopt Manifest 3 and Firefox has little choice but to do the same - or does it?

Microsoft has released a Visual Studio extension that can be used to upgrade any .NET application to the latest version of .NET inside of Visual Studio.

A new course from the Delft University of Technology on the edX platform takes a  novel approach to generating data for artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Microsoft is increasing the price of the Bing Search API with some prices rising by a factor of ten. This will impact developers and organizations who use Bing Search API in apps to retrieve data.

The latest addition to the Raspberry Pi collection is the Raspberry Pi Debug Probe, but I'm not sure why I'd want one.

Last weekend the fully autonomous Zoox robotaxi made its first run on open public roads - a major milestone in the company's plans for a ride-hailing service designed for riders rather than drivers. While a time-consuming process, the level of testing to ensure passenger safety is impressive.

The 2023 Call for Code competition has been launched with a focus on encouraging the development of AI-powered technology projects that address sustainability issues to help fight climate change.

Teams from ten universities have been selected to take part in the second iteration of Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge. The list comprises five teams that participated in the inaugural challenge, including the three winning teams together with five new entrants, all from the US Universities.

A free course about implementing the most popular machine learning algorithms using only pure Python and Numpy.

Fiberplane is making its WebAssembly-based plugin system open source and available to anyone to connect to observability tools such as Prometheus, ElasticSearch and other data sources.

Author: Grant Fritchey
Publisher: Apress
Pages: 745
ISBN:978-1484288900
Print:1484288904
Kindle:B0BLYD98SQ
Audience: DBAs & SQL Devs
Rating: 4.7
Reviewer: Ian Stirk

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2022, how does it fare?

This book is actually eight books in one, with this edition updated for Java 19. Doug Lowe starts from the basics of Java, then goes deeper, with info on object-oriented programming, Java FX, Java web development, and beyond. Easy-to-follow instructions, fun practice, and a time-tested instructional approach are designed to shorten the learning journey.

Network Automation with Go (Packt)

This book and its hands-on examples are designed to help you become proficient with Go for network automation. In this practical guide Nicolas Leiva and Michael Kashin teach how to automate common network operations and build systems using Go. After a general overview, use cases, strengths, and inherent weaknesses of Go the book continues with a deeper dive into network automation, exploring the common network automation areas and challenges, what language features are used in each of those areas, and the common software tools and packages.

This book sets out to unlock the mysteries of theoretical physics by coding the underlying math in Haskell. Scott Walck shows how to use Haskell’s type system to check that your code makes sense. Walck explains Newtonian mechanics and electromagnetic theory, including how to describe and calculate electric and magnetic fields.