The CM5 has a PIO and now you can use it directly. This is an extract from the newly-published Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 IoT In C.

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Delegates are C#'s original way of allowing you to work with functions as if they were first-class objects. The aim may be simple, but the need to define a type and then an instance of the type can be confusing. Find out more in this extract from my book, Deep C#: Dive Into Modern C#.

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Could it be that all of that computer graphics you had to learn to implement 3D rendering is obsolete? Is this another example of AI doing just about anything you can think of?

Is concern over high unemployment rates among recently graduated Computer Science Majors justified. If so what are the factors?

CouchDB 3.5 has been released with new support for truly parallel reads independent from writes. The new version also adds a conflict finder plugin to the scanner module.

Understand a Github repository by using three different
MCP solutions. Github Chat MCP, Git MCP and the official
Github MCP Server.

Amazon has announced the release of Aurora DSQL, a fast serverless distributed SQL database that Amazon says has virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL was announced last year at Amazon re:Invent..

Microsoft Research has published details of a research prototype that provides a different type of interaction between humans and AI tools. Magentic-UI keeps the human in the loop and more in control.

The world's first Humanoid Robot Kickboxing contest took place on May 25 in Hangzhou, China. While the event aimed to highlight the integration of AI and robotics, the robots weren't acting autonomously, but were being remotely controlled by human operator teams.

Ilias Diakonikolas, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the recipient of the 2024 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for his work in robust algorithms.

Continuing the series highlighting conferences you may have missed we come right up to date with Spring I/O and KotlinConf, both of which took place during May 2025.

GitLab 18 has been released with extensions to the Duo AI-based assistant. The news was followed by reports that Duo had a security vulnerability that provided a route for attackers. The problem has now been fixed.

Apache Gravitino v0.9.0-incubating has been released, with optimizations to the fileset catalogs and model catalogs, making it easier for users to manage their unstructured AI data and model data.

Author: Patricia Kong, Glaudia Califano and David Spinks
Publisher: Pearson
Pages: 320
ISBN: 978-0138196141
Audience: Scrum managers
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This book sets out to "Improvement, Effectiveness and Outcomes". How does it fare?

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Cruising Along with Java (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

This book, subtitled "Modernize and Modularize with the Latest Features" explains the changes to Java, from version 9 to 24, and shows how to apply new features to build enterprise applications faster and with fewer errors. Venkat Subramaniam explains how to get up to speed on how to make your code concise, expressive, and less error prone, and create better OO programs with the newest features. The book also shows how to modularize and create asynchronous applications with ease and proper error handling.

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This book shows how to to build graph neural networks for recommendation engines and molecular modeling.  TKeita Broadwater and Namid Stillman show how to both design and train models, and how to develop them into practical applications, with graph neural networks for node prediction, link prediction, and graph classification. The book includes coverage of the essential GNN libraries, including PyTorch Geometric, DeepGraph Library, and Alibaba’s GraphScope for training at scale.

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This book examines how Apple helped build China’s dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands. Patrick McGee explains how after struggling to build its products on three continents, Apple was lured by China’s seemingly inexhaustible supply of cheap labor.

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