Bits are at the bottom of it all but Python is high level so how do you work with bits in Python? Find out how it all works in this extract from Programmer's Python: Everything is Data .

While often integral to an organization's operations, legacy software projects presents challenges with respect to compatibility, security and maintainability. Discover how IT mapping can help.

We may not have flying cars, but we could well soon have robots that match up to predictions for the 21st century. Nvidia has announced GR00T, a cleverly named project to build robots using foundational models.

Two web development frameworks used at Google are planning to be merge. One, Angular is open source and widely known, while the other, Wiz, is an internal web framework developed and used by Google for some of its internal projects, including Search, Workspace and YouTube and is not publicly available.

It's a match made in heaven. The Azure AI extension enables the database to call into various Azure AI services like Azure OpenAI. Combined with pgvector you can go far beyond full text search. Let's get the details.

GitHub has announced a public beta of a code scanner that automatically fixes problems. The new feature was announced back in November, but has now moved to public beta status.

Google has released Android 15 Developer Preview 2 with changes including better handling of automatic language switching and updates for OpenJDK 17.

An upgrade of AWS Lambda to the .NET version 8 runtime
brings major improvements to the platform.

Developed by Google researchers VLOGGER AI is a system that can create realistic videos of people talking and moving from a single still image and an audio clip as input.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced a number of key actions that they hope will improve the open source ecosystem.

The recorded lectures and the written material of a course on Self-Driving Cars at the University of Tübingen have been made available for free. It's a first class opportunity to learn the in and outs of how to develop the software that powers self-driving cars.

Apache Shiro 2.0 has been released. The Java security framework now requires at least Java 11, and has added support for Jakarta EE 10.

With the list of participating organizations now published, it is time for would-be contributors to select among them and apply for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Rust has joined in the program for the first time ever, while Qdrant, which found itself rejected for 2024 having participated last year, has announced its own program.

Author:  Donis Marshall
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pages: 400
ISBN: 978-0137889655
Audience: Programmers wanting to learn Rust
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Mike James
Rust is the language we all want to learn at the moment so this is just in time.

Grokking Algorithms shows that learning algorithms doesn't have to be complicated or boring. In this revised second edition, Aditya Bhargava introduces brand new coverage of trees, including binary search trees, balanced trees, and B-trees. This edition also offers fresh insights on data structure performance that takes account of modern CPUs. Plus, the book’s fully annotated code samples have been updated to Python 3.

This book shows how to improve the way you create, debug, and deploy web applications, and introduces the latest developments in .NET 8 and modern Angular, including .NET Minimal APIs and the new Angular standalone API defaults. Valerio De Sanctis begins with setting up SQL Server 2022 and building a data model with Entity Framework Core. He then moves on to fetching and displaying data, handling user input with Angular reactive forms, and implementing front-end and back-end validators for maximum effect.

Subtitled "Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs" in this book Adam Tornhill looks at how to apply strategies to identify problems in existing code, assess refactoring direction, and understand how your team influences the software architecture. The original Your Code as a Crime Scene from 2014 pioneered techniques for understanding the intersection of people and code. This new edition reflects a decade of additional experience from hundreds of projects. Updated techniques, novel case studies, and extensive new material adds to the strengths of this cult classic.