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The Uno Q uses Zephyr as a real time operating system. This means it can run multiple functions or tasks  and Harry Fairhead shows you how.  This is an extract from his recent book on the Arduino Uno Q.

How do you debug a program? What approaches and qualities of mind are needed to get the job done? In many ways debugging a program is quite different from the act of programming and we need to be clear about it so that we can both do it better and  teach it better.

Programming News and Views

The building of huge data centers to implement AI is a well-known activity, and you can be for the idea or very much against it. What is a surprise is that such data centers are needed in such numbers. We all thought that the forward pass was easy and cheap - how wrong we were.

Microsoft's extends the capabilities of AI coding agents with the release of  Agent Skills for Python.

Microsoft has shipped the seventh preview release of .NET 11, which is due for release in November. This release includes improvements across libraries, the .NET Runtime, SDK, C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, F#, and Windows Forms.

Microsoft has included improvements to the C++ front end in the latest version of the MSVC Build Tools. The latest updates target Visual Studio v14.52, and alongside the improvements to the C++ front end, other improvements have been made to code generation, debugging, static analysis, and the linker and assembler.

Microsoft has released an open-source, polyglot agent for unit-test generation that writes unit tests, isolates the code under test and mocks external services and other outside dependencies.

Neon has released Lakebase Search, a suite of Postgres extensions designed to enhance vector and text search capabilities within the Neon database platform.

Disney Research has devised an automatic human-to-quadruped puppeteering framework that produces plausible and controllable quadruped motions from ordinary human motion data.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded Magnendo $32 million to develop an autonomous system for treating ischemic strokes.

J-Spring is the Java Spring conference organized by the NLJUG, the Nederlandse Java User Group that brings together top speakers and the Java community to exchange ideas, share knowledge, and drive insightful conversations.

In July 2026 Linux saw a sharp increase in adoption for, particularly in the United States of America where it reached nearly 12% up from 5% a year ago. In the wider region of North America. Linux it also surpassed 10% for the first time.

The Rust developers have announced that the next iteration of the new borrow checker (coined Polonius Alpha) will now be enabled on the nightly releases in preparation for stabilization in the next few months.

Book Watch

This book provides a classroom-tested introduction to exploratory data analysis (EDA), and this revised edition is accompanied by the R package that implements many of the approaches described. As before, Ronald K. Pearson's primary focus is on identifying "interesting" features - good, bad, and ugly - in a dataset, why it is important to find them, how to treat them, and more generally, the use of R to explore and explain datasets and the analysis results derived from them.

Subtitled "LLM alignment and post-training", this book looks at how modern AI models can be adapted to better match the needs and expectations of their users. Rather than surveying the vast field of reinforcement learning, AI researcher Nathan Lambert concentrates exclusively on RLHF and its immediate importance to post-training generative AI models.

This guide is for building games on Roblox using Luau, the upgraded, open-source offshoot of Lua 5.1 that was developed specifically by Roblox for its game platform. Zander Brumbaugh explains the basics of Luau programming, shows how to build two end-to-end games, and add customizations before finally publishing and monetizing them. This edition covers the latest technologies in the space, including AI and Gamebeast’s analytics and LiveOps tools, to deepen your gameplay, speed up production, and boost your game's performance.

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