Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge Memory safety vulnerabilities need to be crushed with better code Public Sector07 Dec 2023 | 147
Microsoft .NET MAUI devs vent over bugs backlog, response times New features are great and all, but maybe fix some of the issues too? Software29 Nov 2023 | 27
Atlassian users complain of cloud migration dead ends, especially in UK Lack of local clouds and inflexible offers see users depart. Maybe the new ‘Compass’ developer experience tool will be more to their liking Software18 Oct 2023 | 29
Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in future release It's PowerShell or something similar in the not too distant future OSes10 Oct 2023 | 48
Unity CEO 'retires' in the wake of fee fiasco Ex-Red Hat CEO James M Whitehurst takes the big chair in the interim Software10 Oct 2023 | 46
Forcing Apple to allow third-party app stores isn't enough Opinion You're excited about Meta offering iOS apps via Facebook ads? Really? Applications09 Oct 2023 | 75
Make-me-root 'Looney Tunables' security hole on Linux needs your attention What's up, Doc? Try elevated permissions Patches04 Oct 2023 | 47
If you want to fund open source code via Patreon with GitHub, well now you can Exploited open source maintainers get broader payment pleading options Devops03 Oct 2023 | 4
And now for something completely different: Python 3.12 Nobody expects more flexible string parsing Devops03 Oct 2023 | 29
Unity apologizes, tweaks runtime install fees after gaming world outrage Is this the engine maker's final continue? Software22 Sep 2023 | 16
The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust Turns out we can have nice things? Software02 Sep 2023 | 141
Meta lets Code Llama run riot under almost-open terms Was this source-generating model used to bang out Threads in a week or something? AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 4
Magento shopping cart attack targets critical vulnerability revealed in early 2022 Really? You didn't bother to patch a 9.8 severity critical flaw? Patches11 Aug 2023 | 7
Microsoft wants you to think inside the Dev Box from July If you like the idea of building software on Windows in the cloud, this may be for you Devops23 May 2023 | 8
Rust Foundation so sorry for scaring the C out of you with trademark crackdown talk Should have wrapped proposed rules on name and logo use in unsafe {} ? Software17 Apr 2023 | 35
Open source Socket Runtime arrives, with aim to drop cloud as a dependency Interview Web code-based cross-platform app kit offers a P2P alternative Devops11 Apr 2023 | 3
Pentagon advised to get agile if it wants to keep up with evolving threats I feel the need, the need for code speed Public Sector07 Apr 2023 | 14
OpenAI claims GPT-4 will beat 90% of you in an exam Weirdly coy about the AI model's size and what went into making it, tho AI + ML14 Mar 2023 | 59
Core-JS chief complains open source is broken, no one will pay for it Being in Russia and going to jail might have something to do with it, tho Devops15 Feb 2023 | 62
Memory safety is the new black, fashionable and fit for any occasion Calls to avoid C/C++ and embrace Rust grow louder Software26 Jan 2023 | 73
Flutter now has less stutter and plays nicer with the web Version 3.7 shows Google's cross-platform, Dart-based UI framework maturing Software25 Jan 2023 |
Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name Open source org called out for ignoring own code of conduct Software11 Jan 2023 | 282
Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy At the same time, tools like Github Copilot and Facebook InCoder make developers believe their code is sound Software21 Dec 2022 | 61
RIP Fred 'Mythical Man-Month' Brooks: IBM guru of software project management Obit Turing Award winner who helped spread the eight-bit byte Software28 Nov 2022 | 62
IBM updates desktop mainframe emulator For just $5,500 and the cost of a quad-core x86 box, z/OS 16 for test and dev on the desktop can be yours Systems28 Sep 2022 | 21
Oracle brews Java 19. Mmmm, kinda tastes like RISC-V Upstart CPU integration, incremental improvements – just the way cautious corporate customers like it Software20 Sep 2022 | 1
Go programming language arrives at security warnings that are useful Low-noise tool hopes to highlight vulnerabilities imported into projects Patches06 Sep 2022 | 6
Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier Move over, GitLab, this purge begins in October Devops25 Aug 2022 | 15
W3C's planned transition to HTTPS stymied by legacy laggards Timing for plan to redirect HTTP requests now indeterminate to allow for further feedback Networks22 Aug 2022 | 41
GitLab versus The Zombie Repos: An old plot needs a new twist Opinion Git back, git back, git back to where your files belong Devops08 Aug 2022 | 58
Data processor Hazelcast goes serverless: Viridian platform hits beta For the real-time developer that really hates thinking about infrastructure and provisioning Devops28 Jul 2022 |
Meta approves four programming languages for workers and developers Rust never sleeps and is henceforth welcome for backend services and CLI tools Software27 Jul 2022 | 17
Node.js prototype pollution is bad for your app environment Boffins find common code constructs that may be exploitable to achieve remote code execution Research25 Jul 2022 | 5
Microsoft delays controversial ban on paid-for open source, WebKit in app store Embrace, extend, excuses Applications08 Jul 2022 | 34
If you can find and fix this subtle Chromium bug that breaks some extensions, there's $8k waiting for you Unlucky few percent of netizens affected by weird timing issue Applications05 Jul 2022 | 9
OpenSSL 3.0.5 awaits release to fix potential worse-than-Heartbleed flaw Updated Though severity up for debate, and limited chips affected, broken tests hold back previous patch from distribution Patches27 Jun 2022 | 10
Now Amazon debuts an AI programming assistant – CodeWhisperer Did they get GitHub Copilot to write it? AI + ML23 Jun 2022 | 6
GitHub's AI code assistant Copilot takes flight. And that'll be $10 a month, please You wanna bug fix and chill? AI + ML21 Jun 2022 | 19
Scribble to app: Microsoft's Power Apps VP talks us through 'Express design' Interview Recognizing your doodles and building some software – or that's the idea Applications01 Jun 2022 | 10
Perl Steering Council lays out a backwards compatible future for Perl 7 Sensibly written code only, please. Plus: what all those 'heated discussions' were about Devops26 May 2022 | 42
Google's Flutter app development framework now stable across platforms Google I/O v3.0 has also gained a Casual Games Toolkit Software11 May 2022 | 3
Half of developers still at screens even during breaks Going for a walk: Good. Doomscrolling: Bad Software11 May 2022 | 33
RAD Basic – the Visual Basic 7 that never was – releases third alpha Spend your weekend wallowing in the good old days Software06 May 2022 | 69
Red Hat uncorks Application Foundations for cloud-native development Ready-to-implement components that make the business easier, firm claims Applications26 Apr 2022 |
GitLab issues critical update after hard-coding passwords into accounts Fixed passphrases for OmniAuth users not such a great idea Security01 Apr 2022 | 6
Microsoft starts 2022 with big bundle fixes for 96 security bugs in its software Patch Tuesday Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and programming errors Security12 Jan 2022 | 11
We've only gone and got our hands on an early preview of Fleet, the forthcoming JetBrains IDE First look Rough edges, but ground-up design makes sense Software09 Dec 2021 | 5
AWS previews SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, Swift, and Amplify Studio for rapid web apps Re:invent Plus: Why company foresees growth of Rust, already widely used internally Applications03 Dec 2021 |
Apps made with Google's Flutter may fritter away CPU cycles. Here's what the web giant intends to do about it Chocolate Factory's cross-platform framework seems to struggle to craft efficient desktop software Applications12 Nov 2021 | 40
It's that time of the year again when GitHub does its show'n'tell of features – some new and others kinda new Universe event reveals iterative improvements but no big bang Devops27 Oct 2021 | 5
Google trims the cut its Play Store takes from digital subscriptions, ebooks, music streaming But with 97 per cent of Android devs offering free software, web giant's share of mobile ad spend matters more Software21 Oct 2021 | 4
Google fiddles with cross-platform Flutter and Dart to boost performance, tooling Devs also urged to ditch 'pedantic' lint rules Applications08 Sep 2021 |
Perl's Community Affairs Team chair quits as org put on ice by code language's foundation Previous statements yanked while charter is 'formalized' Software09 Aug 2021 | 75
Everyone cites that 'bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production' research, but the study might not even exist It's probably still true, though, says formal methods expert Software22 Jul 2021 | 83
Ad tech ruined the web – and PDF files are here to save it, allegedly One publisher's attempt to roll the internet back to a more innocent time Software20 Jul 2021 | 94
‘What are the odds someone will find and exploit this?’ Nice one — you just released an insecure app Feature Who’s to blame: devs or management? And how do we cure application vulnerability epidemic Security25 Jun 2021 | 72
What you need to know about Microsoft Windows 11: It will run Android apps The operating system they said shouldn't exist OSes24 Jun 2021 | 258
Perl changes dev's permaban for 'unacceptable' behaviour to a year-long lockout after community response 'Discriminatory or harassing conduct will not be tolerated' Software07 May 2021 | 69
If Google and Apple won't help us, we'll sort it out the Linux way: 21 companies form Mobile Native Foundation Lyft, Microsoft, Slack, Capital One, Airbnb become bedfellows Applications04 Mar 2021 | 6
Google's multi-platform app framework Flutter reaches version 2, expands to the web The same tech inside Google Pay, Shopping, Analytics, Ads, etc Applications03 Mar 2021 | 7
ASEAN bloc's five-year ICT Masterplan was too big to be a winner, says final report Good tech policy vital as Asian states climb out of the COVID-19 crunch Off-Prem03 Mar 2021 | 1
GitHub turns on money tap for corporate open-source donations, turns off the lights with dark mode design Welcome to the GitHub Universe Devops08 Dec 2020 | 5