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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 | 7

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

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 | 44

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

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

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

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

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

Do you prefer to learn about theory, tools – or both? Continuous Lifecycle Online puts it all on your desktop

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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

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'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture

Move comes days after firm acquired by Muse Group

Visual Basic 6 returns: You've been a good developer all year. You have social distanced, you have helped your mom. Here's your reward

(Almost) Why? Kickstarter and nostalgia of those who have forgotten the pain

China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing

Satellite shootdown test still causing operational and diplomatic hassles after 14 years

The quest for faster Python: Pyston returns to open source, Facebook releases Cinder, or should devs just use PyPy?

Official CPython is slow, but there are many ways to get better performance

Google will make you use two-step verification to login

World Password Day returns to remind us how much passwords suck

Bug of the week

How Berkshire Hathaway broke Nasdaq's 32-bit code with its monster share price

Now that's a Buffett overflow error

The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)

I'll talk you through the steps... oh sh-

Which? warns that more than 2 million Brits are on old and insecure routers – wagging a finger at Huawei-made kit

Default passwords, no updates, and your data's flowing through these

NHS Digital booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status

Wanna find out if your employee has had a shot? Just lob her postcode and DoB into this website

Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices

'There is scant evidence to support manufacturers’ justifications for restrictions'

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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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The best in DevOps, Containers and CI/CD, at a venue of your choice

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

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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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

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