Development

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 | 39

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

Intel Labs unleashes its boffins with tales of quantum computing, secure databases and the end of debugging

Machine programming and other future technology touted at Chipzilla shindig

Science04 Dec 2020 | 15

DigitalOcean decides to head rivals off at the PaaS, floats App Platform to deploy, run code without juggling servers

If you fear you'll drown in AWS, GCP, Azure, etc, maybe this is a wave you'd like to catch

PaaS + IaaS07 Oct 2020 | 3

Cross-platform app toolkit Flutter lead Tim Sneath aims Dart at an ambient computing future

Interview 'We've made a deliberate attempt to build something that can share source code across all these environments'

Devops01 Oct 2020 | 15

Swift tailored for Windows no longer folklore: Apple's programming language available for Microsoft OS

The Redmond-aligned can try the Cupertino-spawned lingo thanks to a Googler's intervention

Software23 Sep 2020 | 24

Another body for the Google graveyard: Chrome Web Store payments. Bad news if you wanted to bank some income from these apps

Extension developers told to look elsewhere for a sales provider

Software23 Sep 2020 | 12

At the very last Moment.js: Time-and-date JavaScript library fetched 12 million times a week ends development

Programmers put decade-old package out to pasture, advise devs to find alternatives

Software15 Sep 2020 | 15

Oracle's Java 15 rides into town, waving the 'we're number one' flag, demands 25th birthday party

'51 billion' active JVMs can't be wrong

Software15 Sep 2020 | 41

Hidden Linux kernel security fixes spotted before release – by using developer chatter as a side channel

Data mining of code commits and chat gives hackers a cunning edge

OSes04 Sep 2020 | 56

Sigh. Another day, another reason for WordPress users to get patching: Hackers abuse bug in popular plugin

Sites with WP File Manager should update ASAP – exploits in the wild

Security03 Sep 2020 |

Google Chrome 85 to block ads that hog power, CPUs, network: Web ads giant will black-hole 0.3% of web ads

So brave... but not so Brave

Personal Tech01 Sep 2020 | 26

Critical vuln that lets miscreants hijack computers via Slack? *Sucks in air* We'll give you $1,750 for it

Chat app chaps, Electron security, Microsoft Teams under fire

Security31 Aug 2020 | 18

Brave takes brave stand against Google's plan to turn websites into ad-blocker-thwarting Web Bundles

Draft spec reduces pages to inscrutable data blobs, says privacy bod

Software27 Aug 2020 | 95

If you want to hijack widely used JavaScript packages, try phishing for devs through these DMARC-shaped holes in key Node.js domains

npmjs.com, nodejs.org open to spoofing, we're warned

Devops25 Aug 2020 | 11

C++ still rules the Chromium roost though Rust has caught our eye, say browser devs

Chrome engineers experiment with memory-safe language in software that really ought to be memory safe

Software19 Aug 2020 | 37

Pretty wild that a malicious mailto: link might attach your secret keys and files from your PC to an outgoing message

Some OpenPGP, S/MIME-capable email clients vulnerable to attack

Security19 Aug 2020 | 17

Robust Rust trust discussed after Moz cuts leave folks nonplussed: Foundation mulled for coding language

Cannot infer an appropriate lifetime, indeed

Software18 Aug 2020 | 11

Class move, Java. Coding language slips to third place behind Python in latest popularity contest

Rust enters the top 20, and yes, JavaScript is still number one

Devops28 Jul 2020 | 38

Amazon's auditing of Alexa Skills is so good, these boffins got all 200+ rule-breaking apps past the reviewers

Want your AI assistant to shout obscenities or hate speech at your child? There's a program for that

AI + ML23 Jul 2020 | 24

Babe, I've changed! Twitter wants to try a relationship again with devs after first major API tweaks in years

Shouty social network hopes external coders can make it a better place

Software16 Jul 2020 | 9