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There are big advantages to using FreeRTOS with the Pico, but getting started isn't easy - unless you read on. This is an extract from our latest book on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2W in C.

WordPress has grown far beyond its origins as a blogging tool and now serves as a core content management system in enterprise environments. When paired with custom development, it supports integration with large-scale business systems, where APIs act as the connective tissue for automation and data flow.

Programming News and Views

ChatGPT stands head and shoulders above all other AI Chatbots, but users engage for longest with Claude. These findings come from the "AI Big Bang Study" conducted by OneLittleWeb.

Despite realizing and ruling that Google was and is a monopoly in search and advertising, Judge Amit Mehta has decided that Google can keep control of one of the biggest tools in maintaining that monopoly, the Chrome browser. How do devs feel about this?

Oracle adds MCP support to two of its flagship tools, SQLcl and
SQL Developer for VS Code, in an attempt to simplify user interaction with the database.

Microsoft has added a new diagnostics toolset for .NET development in Visual Studio. The Copilot Diagnostics for .NET is integrated with GitHub Copilot and aims to cut out the repetitive, tedious work so you can focus on what really matters: solving problems and shipping features.

The Open Data Institute has launched its European Data and AI Policy Manifesto in order to advise policymakers ahead of the rollout of the EU AI Act.

System Initiative has released an AI-native infrastructure automation platform. The company says the platform means engineering teams can work directly with AI agents that not only understand every detail of their infrastructure, but also propose and safely execute real, validated changes.

Would that be 1K woodels? This is a crazy project that almost demands that someone tries to implement an alternative. Of course, you could do it. But first read something about the difficulties.

'Python: The Documentary' is now out and we have it for you all to view right here. The official premiere took place yesterday evening at PyCon Greece 2025 simultaneously with its availability on You Tube. Twenty-four hours later it has already had almost 60K views and has been warmly welcomed by the Python community around the world.

Researchers have developed a soft, wearable robot that can learn the precise movements of the person wearing the kit to maximize the help the robot can provide. The aim is to provide better assistance to people suffering from impaired movement of the shoulder, arm or hands.

AWS has turned S3 buckets into Vector stores. This makes it  the first cloud object store with native support to store and query vectors. What are the advantages?

GitHub has added an agents panel that developers can use to delegate tasks to Copilot from any page on github with a simple prompt.

Books of the Week

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Book Watch

This book shows how adding WiFi to the Raspberry Pi Pico turns this low-cost, small form factor device into a true IoT device. Harry Fairhead explains how the extra capabilities added to the Pico W open up loads of opportunities, but only if you are prepared to do battle with the two libraries that provide networking and security – Lightweight Internet Protocol (lwIP) and Mbed Transport Layer Security (mbedTLS), respectively. This book provides a guide to these libraries along with examples of what you can do with them - information that isn't readily available. This second edition has been updated to cover the second generation Pico 2W as well as the original Pico W and has been extended to cover FreeRTOS, which offers significant advantages when working with lwIP and mbedTLS.

This book is a deeply researched insider’s account of Google’s epic two-decade campaign to dominate online advertising by any means necessary.  Former advertising executive, Ari Paparo, tells the story of how Google, starting in the mid-2000s with its initial near-monopoly on text ads, began to look for ways to obtain a similar stranglehold on the display advertising market.

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