A man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack is a cyber attack where the attacker secretly intercepts and relays messages between two parties who believe they are communicating directly with each other.

In the first of a series of articles about the development of computing languages, we look at the struggle to create the first high level languages.

The 2023 Stack Overflow Survey reveals that over three quarters of Professional Developers respondents feel favourable towards using AI tools as part of their development workflow and 44% are already using tools such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. However, only 42% trust the accuracy of the output these tools.

The new Dev Kit for VS Code brings many of the missing features to creating C# projects. This is welcome, but it brings something new and perhaps undesirable - you have to sign in.

Until now getting hold of a free Oracle database was a struggle - requiring account registration, negotiating pages full of legalese and safeguarded downloading bays. Does this "Free For Developers" product change that, or is it a rebranding of Oracle XE to make its use case clearer.

Grafana Labs, creators of the Grafana open-source metrics analytics & visualization suite, has announced the release of Grafana 10 alongside the start of celebrations for the open source project's 10-year anniversary, including the annual GrafanaCON community conference.

Grasshopper is a great library for automated load testing. It is made with Python and is open source.

Apache has announced that SeaTunnel has graduated to be an Apache top level project. SeaTunnel is described as a next-generation cloud-native, high-performance, distributed, massive data integration tool.

This video product announcement from Boston Dynamics showcases new features in Spot that improve its capabilities vis-a-vis the role of autonomous site inspector. Hardware updates make it more suitable for working safely alongside humans.

A survey of Coursera learners reveals that over three quarters of them had experienced a career benefit as a result of their online studies. At the moment Coursera Plus has a very special offer for anybody who doesn't have an active account - you can try Coursera Plus Monthly for just $1.

The Map Of Github lays out Github as a Graph. This gives rise to a few interesting and valuable properties. Let's discover them.

JetBrains has updated its Aqua, its test automation product that provides powerful tools, along with a combination of language-specific features from IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and WebStorm, for test automation engineers.

Microsoft has announced that Cosmos DB, its distributed multi-model database, is being improved with more elasticity and support for vector search for MongoDB.

Author: Jack A. Hyman
Publisher: For Dummies
Pages: 416
ISBN:978-1119898061
Audience: Azure novices?!
Rating: 1 or 4.5 (see review)
Reviewer: Ian Stirk

This book aims to provide a gentle yet thorough introduction to Microsoft Azure, how does it fare?

This book teaches PL/SQL skills through real-world labs and extensive examples. Now fully updated for the newest version of PL/SQL 21c, Elena Rakhimov covers everything from basic syntax and program control through the latest optimization and tuning enhancements. Once you've done an exercise, the author doesn't just present the answer. She also offers an in-depth discussion introducing deeper insights and modern best practices.

This book sets out to smooth the complexity curve of functional programming, making it simple to understand the basics and intuitive to progress to more advanced topics. Michael Pilquist, Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason provide concrete examples and exercises to show FP in the real world and reveal how it can improve everyday coding practices. This second edition comes packed with the latest standards of FP, as well as full code updates to Scala 3, and its new language features.

This book, subtitled "50 Years of Apple and Other Tech Adventures" by former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée is a behind-the-scenes memoir of his career encompassing his time at Apple, as well as at Be Inc., creators of the BeOS computer operating system, and as chairman of PalmSource and Computer Access Technology Corporation (CATC). Gassée shares anecdotes from his career, his moments of doubts, and general important moments of the tech world.