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Facebook, it's cool to see you using Rust and joining the foundation, but please don't Zuck it up for all of us

Video Vows to make safe C++-alike 'a mainstream language of choice' as hundreds of devs wield it

Devops30 Apr 2021 | 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

Devops29 Apr 2021 | 6

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

Devops21 Apr 2021 | 21

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

Devops13 Apr 2021 | 68

'Our hosted pools are under attack by abusers': Azure DevOps enjoys a midweek TITSUP*

Crypto-mining jerks at least partly to blame

Devops07 Apr 2021 | 8

Microsoft welcomes 'raddest' and most 'feature-dense' Kubernetes release to AKS, shows 1.17 the door

Mere months to go before 1.21 arrives

Devops01 Apr 2021 | 12

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

Programming pioneers bag $1m prize

Devops01 Apr 2021 | 26

Rails waves goodbye to mimemagic, welcomes Marcel to fix GPL MIME drama

If the license doesn't fit, you must commit

Devops29 Mar 2021 | 5

OpenCollective opens cash conduit between tech biz and unappreciated developers

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

Devops26 Mar 2021 |

'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

Devops25 Mar 2021 | 91

Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million projects

Updated Devs scramble for replacement mimetype data package

Devops25 Mar 2021 | 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

Devops19 Mar 2021 | 24

SaaSy move: GitLab floats a new company over the Great Firewall of China

Who's looking after my code? JiHu, that's who...

Devops18 Mar 2021 | 8

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

Devops11 Mar 2021 | 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

Devops10 Mar 2021 | 51

Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service

Cryptographic software assurance backed by Google, Red Hat, Purdue U

Devops09 Mar 2021 | 10

Python Package Index nukes 3,653 malicious libraries uploaded soon after security shortcoming highlighted

Unauthorized versions of CuPy and other projects flood PyPI

Devops02 Mar 2021 | 10

Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?

Who, Me? We'll never know but he was spared the whiteboard of shame

Devops01 Mar 2021 | 151

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

Devops01 Mar 2021 | 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

Devops23 Feb 2021 | 28

Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old this week: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time

Devops20 Feb 2021 | 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'?

Devops16 Feb 2021 | 10

Accenture, Capita, IBM jump on £800m framework to make the NHS more agile as UK.gov announces further reforms

Fail fast, fail often

Devops15 Feb 2021 | 24

Looking for a new IT job? This week's list includes roles for software engineers, DC managers, cloud experts and support specialists

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Devops12 Feb 2021 | 1

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

Devops10 Feb 2021 | 33

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

Mozilla moves Rust under a non-profit foundation

Devops08 Feb 2021 | 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'

Devops08 Feb 2021 | 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

Devops05 Feb 2021 | 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

Devops04 Feb 2021 |

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

Devops02 Feb 2021 | 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'

Devops02 Feb 2021 | 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

Devops29 Jan 2021 | 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?

Devops28 Jan 2021 | 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'

Devops27 Jan 2021 | 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'

Devops26 Jan 2021 | 27

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'

Devops24 Jan 2021 | 105

Over long US weekend, GitHub HR boss quit after firing Jewish staffer who warned Nazis were at the Capitol

Microsoft-owned code silo admits 'significant errors of judgment and procedure'

Devops19 Jan 2021 | 80

It's been a day or so and nope, we still can't wrap our head around why GitHub would fire someone for saying Nazis were storming the US Capitol

Questions go unanswered as CEO, COO launch probe

Devops14 Jan 2021 | 138

Netherlands minnow Red Kubes releases open-source Community Edition of its Otomi Kubernetes wrangler

Easy to use with no big vendor lock-in? Nice idea but it's still early days

Devops12 Jan 2021 | 3

Developers! These 3 weird tricks will make you a global hero

Column Good for users and good for you

Devops11 Jan 2021 | 70

React team observes that running everything on the client can be costly, aims to fix it with Server Components

Server-side React solves 'many other problems we have had for a while' says Core developer

Devops07 Jan 2021 | 51

Be careful where you log into GitHub: Dev visits Iran, opens laptop, gets startup's entire account shut down

Service restored, code silo gets license to serve Iranian programmers

Devops05 Jan 2021 | 50

GitHub will no longer present a cookie notification banner – because it's scrapping non-essential cookies

Privacy turns out to be fairly easy

Devops17 Dec 2020 | 61

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

Docker support deprecated in Kubernetes will break your clusters, says CNCF ambassador. It's only the runtime, says Docker

Admins have until late 2021 to move away, but Windows containers need caution

Devops03 Dec 2020 | 9

COVID-19 coronavirus captive coders create copious code, claims GitHub: Open-source projects mushroom amid pandemic

Microsoft's cloud repo rental biz finds a silver lining in 2020

Devops03 Dec 2020 | 4

GitHub's journey towards microservices and more: 'We actually have our own version of Ruby that we maintain'

Interview The Reg talks to Software Engineering veep Sha Ma

Devops01 Dec 2020 | 15

Marmite of scripting languages PHP emits version 8.0, complete with named arguments and other goodies

Hallucinate, Desegregate, Mediate, Try not to hate: INXS of 25 years on, PHP liberates the number eight

Devops26 Nov 2020 | 74

Docker finally enforces pull rate limits, but reckons only 1.5% of users are affected

Amnesty period ends, time to control those 'runaway processes' or pay up

Devops19 Nov 2020 | 2

DataStax releases K8ssandra, the Kubernetes peace offering to the open-source community

'Like any good family, you're going to have fights,' says dev relations bloke

Devops19 Nov 2020 | 1

Python swallows Java to become second-most popular programming language... according to this index

Coincidentally, Python creator Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

Devops12 Nov 2020 | 147

GitHub's new security scanner definitely works, says Jenkins: It found 7 flaws in our plugins

DevOps tool's maintainer says he's 'very happy with the results'

Devops05 Nov 2020 | 1

Malicious backdoored NPM package masqueraded as Twilio library for three days until it was turfed out

Dodgy JavaScript code downloaded hundreds of times

Devops03 Nov 2020 | 5

Google Project Zero to GitHub: You've had 104 days to sort out injection vuln – now we're telling world-plus-dog

Code shack describes issue as 'moderate' security flaw, plans to disable risky commands gradually

Devops03 Nov 2020 | 14

AWS to create its own public container registry in response to Docker pull rate limit

Plus: Faster on-demand supercomputing. P4d VMs with Nvidia A100 and GPUDirect RDMA

Devops03 Nov 2020 | 7

Travis CI complains of 'significant abuse' of its free deal, creates new pricing that has developers riled

Open-source coders to get 'upgraded' to a trial plan that's not great

Devops02 Nov 2020 | 15

Ever wondered what exactly is going on in those containers? OpenTelemetry edges toward GA, emits tracing specification release candidate

Open source observability for debugging and tracing

Devops22 Oct 2020 | 2

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Facebook, it's cool to see you using Rust and joining the foundation, but please don't Zuck it up for all of us

JetBrains shoves TeamCity into the cloud, pitches Kotlin for build pipelines because YAML is 'really a pain'

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'

Key Perl Core developer quits, says he was bullied for daring to suggest programming language contained 'cruft'

'Our hosted pools are under attack by abusers': Azure DevOps enjoys a midweek TITSUP*

Microsoft welcomes 'raddest' and most 'feature-dense' Kubernetes release to AKS, shows 1.17 the door

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

Rails waves goodbye to mimemagic, welcomes Marcel to fix GPL MIME drama

OpenCollective opens cash conduit between tech biz and unappreciated developers

'Agile' F-35 fighter software dev techniques failed to speed up supersonic jet deliveries

Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million projects

Trail of Bits security peeps emit tool to weaponize Python's insecure pickle files to hopefully now get everyone's attention

SaaSy move: GitLab floats a new company over the Great Firewall of China

GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'

This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders

Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service

Python Package Index nukes 3,653 malicious libraries uploaded soon after security shortcoming highlighted

Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?

Splunk junks 'hanging' processes, suggests you don't 'hit' a key: More peaceful words now preferred in docs

IT contractor caught charging Uncle Sam expert rates for newbies, agrees to pay back $6m in settlement

Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old this week: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time

People actually write novels about DevOps – and an author spoke about his take at Dynatrace's Perform event

Accenture, Capita, IBM jump on £800m framework to make the NHS more agile as UK.gov announces further reforms

Looking for a new IT job? This week's list includes roles for software engineers, DC managers, cloud experts and support specialists

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Over long US weekend, GitHub HR boss quit after firing Jewish staffer who warned Nazis were at the Capitol

It's been a day or so and nope, we still can't wrap our head around why GitHub would fire someone for saying Nazis were storming the US Capitol

Netherlands minnow Red Kubes releases open-source Community Edition of its Otomi Kubernetes wrangler

Developers! These 3 weird tricks will make you a global hero

React team observes that running everything on the client can be costly, aims to fix it with Server Components

Be careful where you log into GitHub: Dev visits Iran, opens laptop, gets startup's entire account shut down

GitHub will no longer present a cookie notification banner – because it's scrapping non-essential cookies

GitHub turns on money tap for corporate open-source donations, turns off the lights with dark mode design

Docker support deprecated in Kubernetes will break your clusters, says CNCF ambassador. It's only the runtime, says Docker

COVID-19 coronavirus captive coders create copious code, claims GitHub: Open-source projects mushroom amid pandemic

GitHub's journey towards microservices and more: 'We actually have our own version of Ruby that we maintain'

Marmite of scripting languages PHP emits version 8.0, complete with named arguments and other goodies

Docker finally enforces pull rate limits, but reckons only 1.5% of users are affected

DataStax releases K8ssandra, the Kubernetes peace offering to the open-source community

Python swallows Java to become second-most popular programming language... according to this index

GitHub's new security scanner definitely works, says Jenkins: It found 7 flaws in our plugins

Malicious backdoored NPM package masqueraded as Twilio library for three days until it was turfed out

Google Project Zero to GitHub: You've had 104 days to sort out injection vuln – now we're telling world-plus-dog

AWS to create its own public container registry in response to Docker pull rate limit

Travis CI complains of 'significant abuse' of its free deal, creates new pricing that has developers riled

Cisco uncrates Kubernetes for Intersight, debuts a dashing dashboard

Upcoming Linux 5.10 release will love you longterm, pushing support out to 2026

Your IT department should behave like a jellyfish, says Gartner

Ever wondered what exactly is going on in those containers? OpenTelemetry edges toward GA, emits tracing specification release candidate

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