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The Pico has two cores and it is remarkably easy to make use of them, but there are problems that you need to know about. This extract is from my book all about the Pico/W and Pico 2/W in C.

This is someting I wrote more than 15 years ago and it seems strange in this era of AI doing the coding.

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Programming News and Views

Mythos is a big model in the Claude family from Anthropic that has been trained on a lot of programming-related data to allow it to identify and exploit bugs. Anthropic claims that it is so dangerous that it has to be kept locked up - but it could also be a force for good.

Microsoft has launched the Azure Skills Plugin, a comprehensive toolkit designed to transform AI coding assistants into active cloud deployment agents.

The Eclipse Foundation has launched the Open VSX Managed Registry, describing it as the open source software ecosystem's first foundation-operated managed service for critical developer infrastructure.

The Fortran Package Manager has been updated. The developers say this is a major release introducing features and profiles, a new build customization system for conditional compilation, compiler-specific settings, and platform-dependent behavior.

A collaboration with LangChain establishes MongoDB Atlas as a unified backend for managing vector searches, persistent agent memory, and automated observability.

Module Federation 2.0 has been released, with improvements including performance optimizations, a broader range of deployment scenarios, and significant improvements to the developer experience.

What a difference a year makes! At last year's inaugural Beijing Human v Humanoid half marathon, only 6 of 20 robot entrants finished the course. More than 300 robots were registered and competed in today's event and the winning time was 50 minutes and 26 seconds, which beats the current human world record of 57 minutes and 26 seconds by a significant margin.

Jfokus is a large and well-established Java developer conference, held in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2007. We check this year's highlights.

Apple has seen a 30 percent growth in new apps added to the app store in 2025, reversing the longer term trend that saw submissions fall by 40 percent between 2016 and 2024.

Apache Pinot 1.5 has been released with more improvements across the Multi-stage Query Engine, Upsert, a new Federation / Multi-Cluster Routing framework, Time Series Engine enhancements, and new indexing capabilities among other improvements. Pinot is a real-time distributed OLAP datastore that is purpose-built for low-latency, high-throughput analytics.

Agent Development Kit (ADK) is an open-source framework from Google, designed to streamline the creation and deployment of multi-agent AI systems.

Book Watch

In this book, subtitled "Write High-Performance, Scalable, and Reliable Apps with TCP and UDP", Andrea Leopardi discusses networking and the power of the BEAM to write performant and reliable network applications.  Leopardi shows how to create systems that are scalable, resilient, and efficient, thanks to language primitives and OTP. The book shows how to take advantage of an ecosystem that has been solving network problems for more than thirty years, with discussions of design patterns and common pitfalls for network applications on the BEAM. Learn how to use network protocols, choose or design serialization protocols, and architect systems with servers and clients.

In this book, Volume I, Foundations and Core Engine Systems, the broad range of technologies and techniques used by AAA game studios are each explained in detail, and their roles within a real industrial-strength game engine are illustrated. Jason Gregory covers essential concepts, techniques, tools, and the engine systems that form the core of every game engine. The book offers the experienced game programmer a useful perspective on aspects of game development technology with which they may not have deep experience. Copious references and citations are provided in this edition.

This book contains thirteen builds to inspire you to construct the most inventive maps in Minecraft. Each one brings unique ideas and contraptions designed to test players and make it hard to escape. There’s a zombie prison break, pirate island, haunted house and an underground science lab, plus many more original builds. Each one is presented by its builder – experts eager to share their tips. In addition to showing how to choose blocks and construct amazing builds, readers will also learn pro builder tips like how to terraform the landscape, use redstone and create memorable builds on an epic scale.

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