What is the simplest of the TCP protocols? Answer UDP - it's error- prone, but fast. This is an extract from the recent book, Master the Raspberry Pi Pico in C: Wifi

In the mid 70s it was revealed that British Intelligence had been using machines to break the German coded communications - and one of the machines was an early electronic computer called Colossus. Can it lay claim to being the first electronic computer?

Amazon aims to provide free AI skills training to 2 million people  by 2025 with its new ‘AI Ready’ commitment. Building on its existing scholarship program with Udacity, next year Amazon is offering 50,000 scholarships to high school and university students from under-served and under-represented communities globally.

The Pi 5 is an exciting development bringing even more power for not much additional cost, but it also signals a bigger change in the Pi line-up, obscured by secretiveness.

PHP 8.3 has been released with improvements including explicit typing of class constants, deep cloning of readonly properties, and additions to randomness functionality.

Microsoft has previewed .NET Aspire, which they describe as stack for building observable, production-ready cloud-native applications. Aspire is included as part of .NET 8.

AWS Lambda functions can now use all the new and useful language features as well as performance improvements introduced in Java 21 as part of the Amazon Corretto JDK implementation.

Apache Arrow 14 has been released with new view data types for columnar formats, and a wide range of other improvements.

The propensity of AI-powered chatbots to provide misinformation is referred to as "hallucinating" and is something that has come to popular attention - to such an extent that the verb "hallucinate" has been adopted as Word of The Year by the Cambridge  Dictionary. What is this new type of hallucination and how can we eliminate it?

Videos of the lectures taught in Fall 2023 at the University of Tennessee are now available as a YouTube playlist. They provide a complete overview of the concepts of GeoSpatial science using Google Earth Engine, PostgresSQL GIS , DuckDB, Python and SQL.

According to Reuters, Amazon is working on a large language model (LLM), codenamed "Olympus". With, reportedly, 2 trillion parameters, it is twice the size of OpenAI's GPT-4 model.

Microsoft has released the latest version of F#, with changes the team says makes F# programs simpler, more uniform and more performant. The new version also has faster project compilation and upgrades to the FSharp.Core standard library.

PeerDB is an ETL/ELT tool built for PostgreSQL. It makes all tasks that require streaming data from PostgreSQL to third party counterparts as effortless as it gets.

Author: Sean McManus
Publisher: Easy Steps, 7th Ed, 2023
Pages: 228
ISBN: 978-1840789850
Print: 1840789859
Kindle: B0C24YV788
Audience:
Rating: 4
Reviewed by: Sue Gee
Web design without a designer - is it possible?

In this book, subtitled "For Web Scraping, Test Engineering, Data Mining, and Automation", Michael Schrenk shows how to develop bots with Selenium Python. He argues that there isn't a website that you can't scrape, control, or automate with Selenium Python. The book includes ten bot projects that explore specific aspects of Selenium Python. It also sets out techniques for bot architectures, handling big data, how Webdriver works, and fault tolerance.

This book shows how to build fast and secure microservices with the gRPC high-performance messaging protocol and Go language. Hüseyin Babal shows how to utilize these tools to build production-grade microservices. The book also shows how to design backward compatible APIs and apply hexagonal architecture to microservices.

This book, subtitled "17 Experts Share How to Self-Assess and Prepare for the Worst" sets out the case that you will get hacked. Through real-life stories of cyberattacks, data breaches, and digital threats, Chris Wiser and a group of IT and security experts expose the dangers and high costs of inadequate cybersecurity to show how businesses just like yours suffered catastrophic losses from ransomware, phishing, wire fraud, and more.