Development

Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started

Hands on In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story

AI + ML22 Jun 2024 | 6

Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain

No wonder most orgs are slowing their spending

AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 132

By 2030, software developers will be using AI to cut their workload 'in half'

Prepare for the HyperAssistant of the future, maybe

Devops28 May 2024 | 97

Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs

Microsoft-backed super-lab gets direct access to answers – and code forum gets its own AI

AI + ML07 May 2024 | 26

Java 17 now developers' favorite brew, with Eclipse Adoptium proving popular, too

New Relic report also sees accelerated uptake of freshly-ground JDK releases

Software01 May 2024 | 6

Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison

The software redemption

Devops25 Apr 2024 | 29

Meet clickjacking's slicker cousin, 'gesture jacking,' aka 'cross window forgery'

Web devs advised to do their part to limit UI redress attacks

Security03 Apr 2024 | 9

Authorities dismantled LockBit before it could unleash revamped variant

New features aimed to stamp out problems of the past

Cyber-crime22 Feb 2024 | 2

Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments

I'd buy that for a $0.00000001

Applications13 Feb 2024 | 105

ANZ Bank test drives GitHub Copilot – and finds AI does give a helping hand

Expert Python programmers saw the most benefit

AI + ML10 Feb 2024 | 40

Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe

Analysis At least web competition will finally be allowed

Software27 Jan 2024 | 80

What is Model Collapse and how to avoid it

Feature We chat to AI expert Ilia Shumailov about the pitfalls of using machines to train machines

Software26 Jan 2024 | 16

Google's AI-fueled IDE Project IDX tries to show you how your app runs on Android, iOS

Work in progress, approach with caution

Software26 Jan 2024 | 3

Simon Willison interview: AI software still needs the human touch

Feature Code assistance is like having a weird intern who memorized the docs

Software24 Jan 2024 | 9

How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers

Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you

AI + ML20 Jan 2024 | 44

Microsoft prepares Visual Studio 2013 for retirement

Tick-tock, developers: End of the road comes on April 9, 2024

Software03 Jan 2024 | 9

Microsoft Forms feature request still not sorted after SEVEN years

Request for time input field was added to project backlog – where it remains

Software13 Dec 2023 | 41

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 | 185

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 | 28

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 | 49

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 | 74

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