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Hands On With Python 3.7: What’s New In The Latest Release

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Used for general purpose programming, data science, website backends, GUIs, and pretty much everything else; the first programming language for many, and claimed to be the fastest growing in the world, is of course Python. The newest version 3.7.0 has just recently been released.

Naturally any release of Python, no matter how small, undergoes meticulous planning and design before any development is started at all. In fact, you can read the PEP (Python Enhancement Proposal) for Python 3.7, which was created back in 2016.

What’s new in 3.7? Why should you upgrade? Is there anything new that’s actually useful? I …read more

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May 2018 Netsparker Update – New plans, UI & Single Sign-on Support

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Last year we released a Netsparker update on an almost monthly basis. This year we’ve been a little quieter, but we have not been sitting still. We have been working on a major update that we’re delighted to be able to announce today – the … Continue reading May 2018 Netsparker Update – New plans, UI & Single Sign-on Support→

The Sound of (Synthesized) Music

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What’s an ADSR envelope generator? If you are a big music hacker, you probably know. If you are like the rest of us, you might need to read [Mich’s] post to find out that it is an attack-decay-sustain-release (ADSR) envelope generator. Still confused? It is a circuit used in music synthesis. You can see a demo of the device in the video below.

Before the Altair–which was sort of the first hobbyist computer you could actually buy–electronics magazines were full of music synthesizer projects that had a lot in common with the analog computers of old. A lot of people …read more

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BloomAPI locks down $2.4M to fix medical record releases

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 Seattle-based BloomAPI is announcing a $2.4 million seed round this morning for its solution to the broken medical records release process. It’s no secret that the entire US healthcare system is held back by antiquated technology — but unlike many competitors, BloomAPI offers a solution that works with, and not against, the old school technologies that are still the unfortunate… Read More Continue reading BloomAPI locks down $2.4M to fix medical record releases→

ESP32’s Dev Framework Reaches 2.0

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We’ve been watching the development of the ESP32 chip for the last year, but honestly we’ve been a little bit cautious to throw all of our friendly ESP8266s away just yet. Earlier this month, Espressif released version 2.0 of their IoT Development Framework (ESP-IDF), and if you haven’t been following along, you’ve missed a lot.

We last took a serious look at the IDF when the chips were brand-new, and the framework was still taking its first baby steps. There was no support for such niceties as I2C and such at the time, but you could get both cores up …read more

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ShadowBrokers releases more stolen information

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ShadowBrokers shocked the security world again today by releasing another cache of exploits, files, and operational documents purportedly stolen from Equation Group last summer. As you may recall from our earlier publications, Equation Group is repor… Continue reading ShadowBrokers releases more stolen information→