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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

In the enterprise, Kubernetes has to play by the same rules as other platforms

Shortcuts? What shortcuts!

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

'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

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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

And the Turing Award for best compilation goes to... Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho

Programming pioneers bag $1m prize

01 Apr 01:03 | 26

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

OpenCollective opens cash conduit between tech biz and unappreciated developers

For organizations inclined to give, there's now some supporting infrastructure

A bespoke approach may be great for the suits – but it’s a terrible fit for software modernization

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'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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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 | 148

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University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired

'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman

China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft

Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress

Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who tweeted complaint about request to promote SQL-on-Azure

Programme members were asked to make noise ahead of Amazon Web Services conference

Would be so cool if everyone normalized these pesky data leaks, says data-leaking Facebook in leaked memo

Blundering mouthpiece sent arrogant line to journalist by accident

We seem to have materialized in a universe in which Barney the Purple Dinosaur is designing iPhones for Apple

Is there a back button for reality?

iPhone XR caught fire after getting trapped in airline passenger's seat

Sulphorous stench was self-immolating Apple product

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

Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world

Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed

China broke into govt, defense, finance networks via zero-day in Pulse Secure VPN gateways? No way

Crucial flaw won't be fixed until next month

UK.gov wants mobile makers to declare death dates for their new devices from launch

IoT security plan suddenly thrusts into the mainstream

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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

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

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

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

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

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Think Kubernetes and persistent storage is complex? Here’s the truth – and trust us, you can handle the truth

Tune in next week and you’ll be able to talk storage like a cloud native

Apple, Microsoft, PayPal among 35 organizations compromised by evil twin dependencies attack

Security researcher finds it's easy to confuse build systems with malicious versions of private software libraries

10 Feb 20:35 | 33

Foundation thrillogy: Rust programming language gets new home and million-dollar spending account

Mozilla moves Rust under a non-profit foundation

08 Feb 17:00 | 43

Humble Apple Pie: Cupertino sweetens pot to get its DTK prototype machines returned after developer backlash

Tosses in extra cash 'to recognize the tremendous effort ... put into creating amazing universal apps'

08 Feb 12:18 | 13

SitePoint hacked: Hashed, salted passwords pinched from web dev learning site via GitHub tool pwnage

If you started off there, best change your reused credentials

05 Feb 19:05 | 4

New CloudBees boss Stephen DeWitt wants to up the SaaS factor, wouldn't say no to IPO

Time to grow up and smell the dollars as founder Sacha Labourey steps back

In Rust we trust: Shoring up Apache, ISRG ditches C, turns to wunderkind lang for new TLS crypto module

Elder server httpd to be revitalized with Google-funded memory-safe add-on

02 Feb 16:30 | 121

Clearing up this mesh: Linkerd creator 'not a fan' of steering committees but went ahead and made one anyway

Group aims to represent 'the voice of the user'

02 Feb 10:07 | 1

It didn't (sob)... even make it (sniff)... to GA: Microsoft to pull the plug on Azure Service Fabric Mesh

A sad-faced engineer leads it round the back of the barn. A single shot rings out

29 Jan 14:13 | 10

Perl-clutching hijackers appear to have seized control of 33-year-old programming language's .com domain

Got a few (thousand) dollars to spare?

28 Jan 18:22 | 60

GitLab removes its 'starter' tier: Users must either pay 5x more or lose features

Customer: 'It feels like a bit of a kick in the teeth'

27 Jan 13:00 | 57

A new take on programming trends: You know what's not a bunch of JS? Devs learning Python and Java ahead of JavaScript

O'Reilly's opinionated survey says low-code on the up and modern web dev is 'chilling'

26 Jan 15:07 | 26

Tesla axes software engineer for allegedly pilfering secret Python scripts after just three days on the job

WARP Drive process automation code said to be 'extremely valuable'

24 Jan 10:04 | 105

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