W3C Technical Architecture Group slaps down Google's proposal to treat multiple domains as same origin
First Party Sets 'harmful to the web in its current form'
08 Apr 2021 | 23
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Website maker Wix embarks on weird WordPress-trashing campaign, sends 'influencer' users headphones from 'WP'
'Creepy' videos liken CMS giant to 'absent, drunken father' – but its market share is only rising
08 Apr 2021 | 22
Gitpod ditches Eclipse Theia for Visual Studio Code under redesign, sponsors new dev experience event
'Allowing everyone to use their favourite IDE just makes a lot of sense'
08 Apr 2021 | 4
AWS straps Python support to its automated CodeGuru tool, slashes prices – just don't go over 100,000 lines
Or the cost triples, which is one way to encourage concise programming
07 Apr 2021 | 9
Update on PHP source code compromise: User database leak suspected
Possible culprit: Ancient code running in production. A vuln 'would not be terribly surprising' says maintainer
07 Apr 2021 | 27
A swarm in May is worth a load of hay, is it? JetBrains Code With Me collaborative programming tool released
Swarm programming with audio, video, and everyone editing at once – what could go wrong?
07 Apr 2021 | 4
Privacy activist Max Schrems claims Google Advertising ID on Android is unlawful, files complaint in France
Tracking ID placed on mobile device without informed consent, says campaign group
07 Apr 2021 | 99
The JavaScript ecosystem is 'hopelessly fragmented'... so here is another runtime: Deno is now a company
Would-be Node.js successor gets $5m cash injection
06 Apr 2021 | 34
It's been a long time coming but AWS has at last enabled an interactive serial console for de-borking VMs
Handy in an emergency, but only for Nitro instances and requires work in advance
01 Apr 2021 | 16
Canonical releases Ubuntu on Windows Preview with early builds, new tools for the brave
But no official Linux GUI support yet
01 Apr 2021 | 31
New systemd 248 feature 'extension images' updates immutable file systems without really updating them
Plus other improvements to the Linux service manager
01 Apr 2021 | 58
X.Org says it's saving a packet with Packet after migrating freedesktop.org off Google Kubernetes Engine
The hidden cost of multi-cloud, and how full open source reduces lock-in
01 Apr 2021 | 16
Microsoft's 0.5 release of Project Reunion dev kit has production support – just don't be touching UWP
Team is 'SUPER EXCITED' but will devs welcome another Windows-only, incompatible framework?
30 Mar 2021 | 9
Island in the Stream: AlmaLinux project issues first stable release of CentOS replacement
New CloudLinux-sponsored distribution hits GA ahead of Rocky Linux
30 Mar 2021 | 16
Cross-platform Windows Presentation Framework, anyone? The short answer: yes. Unpacking Avalonia
Interview Developers liked WPF but Microsoft neglected it. Avalonia is a possible solution
30 Mar 2021 | 14
PHP repository moved to GitHub after malicious code inserted under creator Rasmus Lerdorf's name
Backdoor quickly spotted and reverted
29 Mar 2021 | 27
Shedding the 'bleeding edge' label: If Fedora is only going to be for personal use, that doesn't work for Red Hat
Interview Ahead of Fedora 34 release, we talk to project leader Matthew Miller
25 Mar 2021 | 29
Feeling brave? GNOME 40 is here and you can have a poke around in the Fedora 34 beta
Revamped desktop and shell based on GTK 4.0
25 Mar 2021 | 38
Cockup or conspiracy? Popular privacy extension ClearURLs removed from Chrome web store
Developer appeals decision, saying 'the reasons are ridiculous'
24 Mar 2021 | 39
Total Eclipse team's new start: New Adoptium working group will promote free open source Java runtimes
AdoptOpenJDK is moving to Eclipse Foundation, but it is a slow process
23 Mar 2021 | 3
Backblaze on the back foot after 'inadvertently' beaming customer data to Facebook
Updated Backup company says tracking code now removed, but what info was sent?
23 Mar 2021 | 32
FreeBSD 13.0 to ship without WireGuard support as dev steps in to fix 'grave issues' with initial implementation
Public spat over code quality, reworked code set for 13.1 release, pfSense firewall also affected
23 Mar 2021 | 34
Canonical: Flutter now 'the default choice for future desktop and mobile apps'
Cross-platform appeal outweighs performance penalty, argues Linux flinger
22 Mar 2021 | 22
Richard Stallman says he has returned to the Free Software Foundation board of directors and won't be resigning again
Updated 'Some of you will be happy at this, and some might be disappointed'
22 Mar 2021 | 73
