This first article in a series explains the core AI concepts behind running LLM and RAG workloads on a Raspberry Pi, including why local AI is useful and what tradeoffs to expect.

Once the premium option for data transfers and remote control for high-end audiovisual and other devices, FireWire (IEEE 1394) has been dying a slow death ever since Apple and Sony switched over ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

A large-scale campaign is targeting developers on GitHub with fake Visual Studio Code (VS Code) security alerts posted in the ...

Tom Fenton's benchmark data across the Pi 400, Pi 500, Pi 500+, and Pi 5 shows the Pi 500+ delivering the strongest all-around desktop performance with notable gains in CPU, graphics, and networking.

Everything you may have missed from the past week.

Microsoft is speeding up the delivery of its Visual Studio Code updates. Since last summer, the company has been making monthly releases, each with three or four patches and new functionality, but ...

The Raspberry Pi has brought digital camera experimentation within the reach of everybody, with its combination of an accessible computing platform and some almost-decent camera sensors. If there’s a ...

The Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, allowing agents to be developed and managed directly from the editor. The extension enables software-style workflows for ...

New Feature: Experimental ESP32-WROOM, ESP32-C3, ESP32-S3, ESP32-S3-Pico and Teensy 4.0 support! (Use the Switch Stubs command to get auto-completion for the ESP32 port of MicroPython.) MicroPico is a ...

The Raspberry Pi is a small-factor PC that can easily fit in your palm, but despite its miniature size, these computers can still pack a punch, with the latest Raspberry Pi 5 featuring 16GB of RAM and ...