The Pi 5 has SPI but for direct access to its hardware you need to use GPIO 5. This is an extract from the Raspberry Pi 5 IoT In C: Drivers and Gpio5.

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Computational grammar is a subject that is sometimes viewed as a form of torture by computer science students, but understanding something about it really does help ....

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This finding comes from the latest IEEE Spectrum ranking of programming languages. But the rise of generative AI raises a lot of doubts for the future - including the need for a meaningful metric.

It isn't the first time that an AI has claimed sucess in a coding competition, but this one is impressive and highlights what the coming AI revolution my be all about.

Rust 1.90 has been released. The new version uses LLD as the default linker, meaning linking and incremental builds are much faster. It also has native support for workspace publishing in Cargo, and the x86_64-apple-darwin target has been demoted to tier 2.

It's about infrastructure as well, something that although not attracting the limelight, is as important as the open source software it hosts. Today the stewards of the largest open source registries in the world have issued an open letter demanding urgent reform in how open source infrastructure is funded, maintained, and operated.

GitHub has just announced the GitHub MCP Registry, a new home base for discovering and building with MCP servers.

Web Assembly (WASM) 3 has been released with a number of improvements, including support for 64-bit address space; the ability to use multiple memory objects from a single module; and a garbage collector.

The very first successful FORTRAN program ran on September 20, 1954. Invented at IBM by a group led by John Backus, FORTRAN, standing for "FORmula TRANslator" was to first language to crack the problem of converting mathematical expressions to code.

Unicode 17 has been released, with new characters and code charts, updated data files, an updated Core Specification, and updated annexes and synchronized standards that cover implementation details for important aspects of text processing.

Apache has unveiled its new logo to replace the long-standing feather logo. The organization will also be moving to using the name "ASF" rather than "Apache Software Foundation".

Windows 10 is due to reach its end of support on October 14th, 2025, despite the fact that it still has a substantial share of the Windows Desktop market. Consumer Reports has sent a letter to Satya Nadella arguing that Microsoft should extend this deadline in order not to "strand millions of consumers who have computers that are incompatible with Windows 11".

The MongoDB team has made a number of announcements regarding new features and products at the recent New York staging of its MongoDB.Local conference series.

In this book. subtitled "A Friendly Approach to Modern Functional Programming, Type Theory, and Artificial Intelligence", Anton Antich uses playful metaphors and examples to help teach Haskell through imagination, building on math without relying on imperative crutches or technical complexity. Readers will use math to build completely different Typed Functional patterns from the ground up and understand the link between building mathematics through yypes and constructing Haskell as a programming language.

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This book introduces mathematical techniques, key algorithms, and Python implementations for building machine learning models for unannotated data. It bridges the gap between complex math and practical Python implementations, covering end-to-end model development all the way through to production deployment. Vaibhav Verdhan introduces hands-off and unsupervised machine learning approaches that can still untangle raw, real-world datasets and support sound strategic business decisions.

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