Packt Twitter Account Takeover (@Packtpub Twitter hacked)

As some of our readers would have noticed, our official Twitter account (@PacktPub) was taken over by crypto scammers a few weeks ago. We would like to | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 1 year ago

Learn Transformers for Natural Language Processing with Denis Rothman

We interviewed Denis Rothman about transformers, it's advancement in AI, and his recent book Transformers for Natural Language Processing. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 2 years ago

Why ASP.Net Core is the best choice to build enterprise web applications

Understand the development cycle of ASP.NET Core, its future design directions & more with Kenneth Y. Fukizi, a software developer. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 3 years ago

Rookout and AppDynamics team up to help enterprise debug with Deep Code Insights

AppDynamics and Rookout have partnered on a new debugging tool for enterprise engineering teams. Find out why and what it means for both organizations. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 3 years ago

Kenneth Fukizi on new Blazor framework, gRPC, other features in ASP.NET Core 3.0

In this article, we discuss ASP.NET Core with Kenneth Y. Fukizi, who beleives users should be looking forward to high performance. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 3 years ago

How to become an exceptional Performance Engineer

Read the latest Programming News on the Packt Hub, including Python Programming, Application Development and Microservice Programming | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 3 years ago

Tech Startups for 2020

What tech startups are really going to matter in 2020? And does can they tell us anything about the future of the software industry in general? | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

Teaching GANs a Few Tricks

This tutorial involves basic concepts, best practices of the current state-of-the-art GAN training including network architectures, and much more. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

How to perform exception handling in Python with ‘try, catch and finally’

An integral part of programming in Python is performing exception handling in Python. There are primarily two types of exceptions | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

What do we mean when we say that software is ‘dead’ or ‘dying’?

It's not uncommon to hear people saying this or that software is 'dead' or 'dying'. But what does it really mean when developers use this language? | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

NLP library with deep interoperability between TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch

Transformers library, offering unprecedented compatibility between two major deep learning frameworks, PyTorch and TensorFlow 2.0. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

Why companies that don’t invest in technology training can’t compete

Technology training and wide-ranging learning resources are one of the best ways that organizations can combat the tech skills gap and remain competitive in the marketplace. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

Ixy: Simple user-space network driver written in Rust, Go, and C#

Researchers have developed a new user space network driver called 'ixy', which has been implemented in Rust and other high-level languages. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

What are APIs? Why should businesses invest in API development?

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are like doors that provide access to information and functionality to other systems and applications. APIs | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

Implementing memory management with Golang’s garbage collector

In this article, we present ways to look at certain parameters of implementing memory management with Golang garbage collector process | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

Coil, an open-source Android image loading library backed by Kotlin Coroutines

Yesterday, Colin White, a Senior Android Engineer at Instacart, introduced Coroutine Image Loader (Coil). It is a fast, lightweight, and modern image loading library for Android backed by Kotlin.  | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett (Intel)

At Open Source Technology Summit (OSTS) 2019, Josh Triplett, a Principal Engineer at Intel gave an insight into what Intel is contributing to bring the most loved language, Rust to full parity with C. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

GitHub has blocked an Iranian software developer’s account

GitHub appears to have blocked the account of an Iranian software developers account, citing U.S. trade laws as the reason. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

Facebook released Hermes, an open source JavaScript engine to run React Native

Facebook released Hermes a new JavaScript engine under an open source MIT license. It will speed up start times for native Android apps built with React Native framework. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

Debian GNU/Linux port for RISC-V 64-bits: Why it matters and roadmap

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo, a Debian contributor and developer talked about the Debian GNU/Linux riscv64 port at the RISC-V workshop. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

Mozilla and Google Chrome Refuse to Support Gab’s Dissenter Extension

Earlier this year, Gab, the “free speech” social network launched a browser extension named Dissenter that creates an alternative comment section for any website. The plug-in is now removed from the extension stores of both Mozilla and Google, who claim that the extension violate … | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 4 years ago

Why Ruby Developers Like Elixir

Experienced Ruby coders are turning to Elixir. Why is it so? Let’s find out all about Elixir and what makes it so special for Ruby developers. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Why MongoDB is the most popular NoSQL database today

If NoSQL is the king, MongoDB surely is its crown jewel. With over 15 million downloads and counting, MongoDB is the most popular NoSQL database today | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Western Digital Releases SweRV Core

Last week, Western Digital made Verilog sources for its open source RISC-V core publically available on GitHub under Apache 2.0. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Constant-Time WebAssembly for in-browser cryptography

Researchers from the University of California and the University of Cambridge have come up with Constant-Time WebAssembly (CT-Wasm). It is a type-driven, strict extension to WebAssembly, which aims to address the state of cryptography in the web ecosystem. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

LLVM Officially Migrating to GitHub from Apache SVN

In October last year, it was reported that LLVM is moving from Apache Subversion (SVN) to GitHub. Now the migration is complete and LLVM is available on GitHub. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

8 programming languages to learn in 2019- Agree?

What is the best programming language to learn in 2019? Whether you're a developer or data analyst, find out what language should be your priority. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Cloudflare enables containerless cloud with V8 Isolates and WebAssembly

Cloudflare recently launched a platform called ‘Workers’ that allows cloud computing without containers, better security, solves memory related issues and much more. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Tech Titans, Acquisitions and Regulation – Trick or Treat?

Although data and security breaches are nasty tricks, they have been instrumental in opening the conversation around tech regulation and privacy policies, which if done right, may eventually make it a TREAT to users. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

4 reasons IBM bought Red Hat for $34B

News that IBM is buying Red Hat shocked many across the software world. But there are a number of reasons why the acquisition makes sense from IBM's perspective. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Universal Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (UGAI) Announced at ICDPPC 2018

The Public Voice Coalition, an organization that promotes public participation in decisions regarding the future of the Internet, came out with guidelines for AI, namely, Universal Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence (UGAI), today. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Why is Google risking it all for Project Dragonfly?

Wired has managed to do what Congress couldn’t - bring together tech industry leaders in the US and ask the pressing questions of our times, in a safe and | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

NCCIC finds most threat actors use publicly available tools for cyber attacks

NCCIC, in collaboration with the cyber security authorities of 5 other countries, have released a report on the 5 most widely used, publicly available tools for cyber attacks all over the world. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Privacy experts urge the Senate Committee for a strong federal privacy bill

The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing yesterday on consumer data privacy. The hearing focused on the perspective of privacy advocates and other experts. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

The Haiku operating system has released R1/beta1

The Haiku team has finally announced the release of its R1/beta1 version of its operating system. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

How far will Facebook go to fix what it broke: Democracy, Trust, Reality

Facebook, along with other tech media giants, like Twitter and Google, broke the democratic process in 2016. Facebook also broke the trust of many of its | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

VIAVI's Observer 17.5, a network performance management and diagnostics tool

Viavi Solutions, a San Jose-based network test, measurement, and assurance technology company, released version 17.5 of Observer, a popular NPMD ( Network Performance Managment and Diagnostics) tool earlier this week. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

AN Interview with Augmented Reality Artist Marco Matic Ryan

Marc-O-Matic is the moniker of Marco Matic Ryan. He is a multidisciplinary Artist, Animator, Director, Storyteller and Technologist working across Augmented Reality technologies. He is based in Victoria, Australia. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Web-sys: A crate for standard web platform interaction

The Rust and WebAssembly team has introduced a new crate called web-sys, which provides raw bindings to all the Web APIs. The web-sys crate enables the interaction with all the standard web platform methods. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Medical Hive-Mind turns networked doctors into Super Intelligence

According to a study conducted by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine and Unanimous AI, a small groups of radiologists moderated by AI algorithms achieve higher diagnostic accuracy against individual radiologists or the machine learning algorithms alone. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Dopamine: A Tensorflow-Based Framework for Reproducible Reinforcement Learning

Google recently introduced a new Tensorflow-based framework named Dopamine, which aims to provide flexibility, stability, and reproducibility for both new and experienced RL researchers. This release also includes a set of colabs that clarify how to use the Dopamine framework. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Rigetti plans to deploy 128 qubit chip Quantum computer

Rigetti plans to deploy 128 qubit chip quantum computer, challenging Google, IBM, and Intel for leadership in this emerging technology. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Elon Musk’s tiny submarine is a lesson in how not to solve problems in tech

Elon Musk tried to play a key role in the Tham Luang rescue mission. Yet despite good intentions, it was a lesson in how not to solve problems. | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago

Oracle announces a new pricing structure for Java

Oracle released a new pricing structure for Java SE Subscriptions to make the licensing simpler for business and developers using Java SE | Continue reading


@hub.packtpub.com | 5 years ago