Our weekly digest lists the week's news, new titles added to our Book Watch Archive and our weekly book review. This week's first featured article is an extract from Raspberry Pi IoT in Python Using GPIO Zero about the complexities of input. In the second, Harry Fairhead prompts the question "What the Hex?"

A two-episode series which debuted on Chinese streaming platforms last week has been described as the first reality competition to focus on programmers.

Red Hat has announced new no- and low-cost programs they're adding to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. These are the first of many new programs.

The Raspberry Pi Pico is a daring venture for the Raspberry Pi Foundation in more ways than one. What exactly is it all about?

There's a brand new Wiki by Google engineers that sets out to educate secuirity developers about cross-site leaks.

A new study throws a lot of light on a mysterious subject - what apps are removed from the iOS App Store? The first big surprise is how many apps were removed. Guess how many were removed in the recent 1.5 years? Go on guess!

Operational software failures, poor quality legacy systems, and unsuccessful IT projects cost the United States
$2.08 trillion last year, which is 10% of the country's GDP.

A PhD-level course, originally provided remotely to Cornell Computer Science students, has now been made available for free to anyone in a self-paced version.

Wing Python has been updated with improvements to code reformatting, better handling of def async statements, and usability improvements to tooltips.

This year's IEEE Medal of Honor has been awarded to Jacob Ziv, who, with  Abraham Lempel, created two lossless compression methods (LZ-77 and LZ-78) which are the basis of a wide range of compressed file types including ZIP and GIF/PNG files.

Tokio, an asynchronous runtime for the Rust programming language, has been released in a 1.0 version. Tokio can be used to write reliable networking applications without compromising speed.

Here's another example of the use of AI for colorizing and breathing new life into photos, or rather in this case early film footage. This one goes an extra step - adding sound effects. While the results are impressive they are also controversial. Does this treatment bring the past alive for us in an authentic way or introduce a false reality?

Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer by reading about the news and books written by programmers, for programmers. In this week featured articles, Mike James explains how parameters make Python functions easier to use and Harry Fairhead looks at why computer memory can be likened to pigeonholes.

In yet another confirmation of its popularity and worth, PostgreSQL has taken the annual accolade awarded by DB-Engines.

The developers at RStudio have announced a number of improvements designed to make it easier to use R and Python together in a single data science project, including more options for native Python coding in the RStudio IDE, including a Python environment and object explorer.

BlocklySQL is a block-based, visual programming tool like Scratch but for SQL. It is the outcome of academic research at the University of Würzburg on the kind of errors that students who are novice in writing SQL queries make.

There's a new release of the D programming language with better Objective-C support, as well as improvements to the compiler, libraries, and tools.

Yes, you read that headline correctly. Despite being out of favor and in maintenance mode, WinForms is still capable of a surprise or two. How can .NET 5.0 introduce new features for something that isn't developing?