Devops
Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language
Community to think outside the pants
15 Jun 06:18 | 212
Devops
Devops
Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither)
Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource
02 Jun 19:35 | 44
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After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for 'policy violations'
Gentoo and Raku call foul
26 May 21:16 | 62
Devops
Surprise! Developers' days ruined by interruptions and meetings, GitHub finds
If you want to be happy at work, never meet more than twice a day
25 May 21:54 | 31
Devops
Open-source developers under corporate pressure to adopt less-permissive licenses, Percona CEO says
Cloud hyperscalers drive projects to slap restrictions on code use
13 May 20:32 | 29
Devops
GitLab's 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies
Biz expected 4,000 signups, got 60,000, system couldn't cope
07 May 18:06 | 9
Devops
Pega set to launch 'context-aware' APIs that let users tweak back-end processes without breaking front end
Updates designed to ease 'expensive and challenging' software, analyst says
04 May 17:30 | 2
Column
House of pain: If YAML makes you swear, shout louder – the agony is there for a reason
Non-quoted string vest? Don't mind if we do
04 May 09:15 | 45
Devops
Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff
Plus: Workers axed at '$4bn' Patreon, techies walk away from Basecamp
30 Apr 23:29 | 22
Video
Facebook, it's cool to see you using Rust and joining the foundation, but please don't Zuck it up for all of us
Vows to make safe C++-alike 'a mainstream language of choice' as hundreds of devs wield it
30 Apr 06:23 | 19
Devops
JetBrains shoves TeamCity into the cloud, pitches Kotlin for build pipelines because YAML is 'really a pain'
No free plan: That's one way to avoid crypto-mining abuse of build minutes
29 Apr 15:50 | 6
Event
Chaos, climate... and Kubernetes top the agenda of our Continuous Lifecycle Online 2021 conference
Must see: Dr Holly Cummins and Liz Fong-Jones to deliver keynotes
28 Apr 07:30 |
Devops
Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'
CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack
21 Apr 06:23 | 21
Sponsored
In the enterprise, Kubernetes has to play by the same rules as other platforms
Shortcuts? What shortcuts!
13 Apr 18:00 |
Devops
Key Perl Core developer quits, says he was bullied for daring to suggest programming language contained 'cruft'
'After saying this, I immediately received hostile messages' says pumpking of version 5.x
13 Apr 11:48 | 67
Devops
'Our hosted pools are under attack by abusers': Azure DevOps enjoys a midweek TITSUP*
Crypto-mining jerks at least partly to blame
07 Apr 16:33 | 8
Event
Do you prefer to learn about theory, tools – or both? Continuous Lifecycle Online puts it all on your desktop
Join us online for three days of DevOps, containers, CI/CD
02 Apr 14:19 |
Devops
Microsoft welcomes 'raddest' and most 'feature-dense' Kubernetes release to AKS, shows 1.17 the door
Mere months to go before 1.21 arrives
01 Apr 15:18 | 12
Devops
And the Turing Award for best compilation goes to... Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho
Programming pioneers bag $1m prize
01 Apr 01:03 | 26
Devops
Rails waves goodbye to mimemagic, welcomes Marcel to fix GPL MIME drama
If the license doesn't fit, you must commit
29 Mar 19:50 | 5
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Feature
Inventor of the graphite anode – key Li-ion battery tech – says he can now charge an electric car in 10 minutes
Dr Rachid Yazami shares his predictions for EV batteries with The Register
Bootnotes
Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request
Ex-Pink Floyd uber-grouch calls social media mandroid 'one of the most powerful idiots in the world'
OSes
Mark it in your diaries: 14 October 2025 is the end of Windows 10
Wasn't it to be the 'last version of Windows'? Maybe not...
Devops
Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language
Community to think outside the pants
Security
Biden to Putin: Get your ransomware gangs under control and don’t you dare cyber-attack our infrastructure
Putin to Biden: чушь! You already attack us way more than we attack you!
In brief
Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans, made it three days before breaking down
Plus: Canon has cameras that only let employees into meeting rooms if they smile, and more
Security
Alibaba suffers billion-item data leak of usernames and mobile numbers
Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed
OSes
Debian's Cinnamon desktop maintainer quits because he thinks KDE is better now
Panic over for users as others step up to take his place
Comment
The AN0M fake secure chat app may have been too clever for its own good
Crims now know what not to trust, and how to stymie future infiltrations
Hands on
Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different
A lot of effort has gone into this release and it shows – everything 'just works'
STORIES
Devops
OpenCollective opens cash conduit between tech biz and unappreciated developers
For organizations inclined to give, there's now some supporting infrastructure
26 Mar 14:01 |
Devops
'Agile' F-35 fighter software dev techniques failed to speed up supersonic jet deliveries
Watchdog bites Uncle Sam and Lockheed Martin over $14bn-and-counting efforts
25 Mar 17:17 | 90
Updated
Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million projects
Devs scramble for replacement mimetype data package
25 Mar 08:24 | 55
Devops
Trail of Bits security peeps emit tool to weaponize Python's insecure pickle files to hopefully now get everyone's attention
Alternatively: Python's pickle pilloried with prudent premonition of poisoning
19 Mar 08:50 | 24
Devops
SaaSy move: GitLab floats a new company over the Great Firewall of China
Who's looking after my code? JiHu, that's who...
18 Mar 15:08 | 7
Event
Feel like it’s time to rebuild? Then it’s time to join us at our Continuous Lifecycle Online
The best in DevOps, Containers and CI/CD, at a venue of your choice
16 Mar 07:00 |
Devops
GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'
Only for new projects, but beware the hardcoded references
11 Mar 14:02 | 120
Devops
This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders
Multiple Object Versionless Architecture is as popular now as it was two decades ago
10 Mar 23:58 | 50
Devops
Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service
Cryptographic software assurance backed by Google, Red Hat, Purdue U
09 Mar 17:00 | 10
Devops
Python Package Index nukes 3,653 malicious libraries uploaded soon after security shortcoming highlighted
Unauthorized versions of CuPy and other projects flood PyPI
02 Mar 20:09 | 10
Who, Me?
Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?
We'll never know but he was spared the whiteboard of shame
01 Mar 08:15 | 151
Devops
Splunk junks 'hanging' processes, suggests you don't 'hit' a key: More peaceful words now preferred in docs
Biased terms can't be ‘grandfathered’ in either – that’s also on vendor's list of language best avoided
01 Mar 03:58 | 272
Devops
IT contractor caught charging Uncle Sam expert rates for newbies, agrees to pay back $6m in settlement
Triple-I worked on Homeland Security and ICE systems
23 Feb 11:32 | 28
Feature
Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old this week: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time
Popular programming language, at the top of its game, still struggles to please everyone
20 Feb 13:10 | 78
Devops
People actually write novels about DevOps – and an author spoke about his take at Dynatrace's Perform event
Be honest, what's YOUR 'bus factor'?
16 Feb 15:22 | 10
Devops
Accenture, Capita, IBM jump on £800m framework to make the NHS more agile as UK.gov announces further reforms
Fail fast, fail often
15 Feb 10:32 | 24
