Developers Stories

Oracle Is Moving Its World Headquarters To Nashville 36
Red Hat Upgrades Its Pipeline-Securing (and Verification-Automating) Tools 10
'Women Who Code' Shuts Down Unexpectedly 107
Apple Opens Web Distribution Option for iOS Devs Targeting EU 35
Is PHP Declining In Popularity? 94
Apple Loses Bid To Throw Out UK Lawsuit Over App Store Fees 8
US Lawmaker Proposes a Public Database of All AI Training Material 30
Amazon To Stop Paying Developers To Create Apps For Alexa 28
The World Doesn't Need More Journal Apps 37
Rust, Python, Apache Foundations and Others Announce Big Collaboration on Cybersecurity Process Specifications 42
AI's Impact on CS Education Likened to Calculator's Impact on Math Education 102
Roblox Executive Says Children Making Money On the Platform Isn't Exploitation, It's a Gift 60
Rust Developers at Google Twice as Productive as C++ Teams 121
Core PostgreSQL Developer Dies In Airplane Crash 30
GitHub Introduces AI-Powered Tool That Suggests Ways It Can Auto-Fix Your Code 24
Ask Slashdot: DuckDB Queries JSON with SQL. But Will AI Change Code Syntax? 12
Database For UK Nurse Registration 'Completely Unacceptable' 42
Redis To Adopt 'Source-Available Licensing' Starting With Next Version 44
C++ Creator Rebuts White House Warning 258
Database-Based Operating System 'DBOS' Does Things Linux Can't 104
Free/Libre 'GnuCOBOL' Compiler Reaches Maturity, Can Compete with Proprietary Offerings 49
Code.org Tells Court Zuckerberg-Backed Byju's Undermines Mission To Teach Kids CS 14
Discord Opens Up To Games and Apps Embedded In Its Chat App 7
Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them 27
Apple To Allow iOS App Downloads Direct From Websites in the EU 30
The Apple IIgs: On a Machine This Slow, You Had To Get Weird 69
Warner Bros. is Now Erasing Games As It Plans To Delist Adult Swim-Published Titles 42
Apple Reinstates Epic Developer Account After Public Backlash for Retaliation 41
Feds To Offer New Support To Open-Source Developers 12
'AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead' 68
Google Adds New Developer Fees As Part of Play Store's DMA Compliance Plan 22
Apple Terminated Epic's Developer Account 197
Qualcomm Launches First True 'App Store' For AI With 75 Free Models 20
'Communications of the ACM' Is Now Open Access 25
Rust Survey Finds Linux and VS Code Users, More WebAssembly Targeting 40
A Leaky Database Spilled 2FA Codes For the World's Tech Giants 11
Stack Overflow To Charge LLM Developers For Access To Its Coding Content 32
Apple Backtracks on Removing EU Home Screen Web Apps in iOS 17.4 29
Avoiding Common Pitfalls When First Contributing To Open Source 20
'Paying People To Work on Open Source is Good Actually' 40
White House Urges Devs To Switch To Memory-Safe Programming Languages 228
Apple's Decision To Drop iPhone Web Apps Comes Under Scrutiny in the EU 94
Nvidia CEO Says Kids Shouldn't Learn To Code 165
Julia v1.10 Improves Performance, and Gnuplot Gets Pie Charts 14
'Can a Programming Language Implement Time Travel?' 89
Vending Machine Error Reveals Secret Face Image Database of College Students 100
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control 163
Darwin Online Has Virtually Reassembled the Naturalist's Personal Library 24
The Linux Kernel Prepares For Rust 1.77 Upgrade 49
How Rust Improves the Security of Its Ecosystem 45
Is the Go Programming Language Surging in Popularity? 90
Nginx Core Developer Quits Project, Says He No Longer Sees Nginx as 'Free and Open Source Project For the Public Good' 53
California Bill Would Require Computer Science For High School Graduation 202
To Help Rust/C++ Interoperability, Google Gives Rust Foundation $1M 61
Microsoft Relents, Will Support VS Code On Ubuntu 18.04 For One More Year 47
Meta Cuts Off Third-Party Access To Facebook Groups 25
Apple Releases Pkl, a Configuration-as-Code Language 73
How a Microsoft Update Broke VS Code Editor on Ubuntu 149
Apple Says EU Represents 7% of Global App Store Revenue 67
Apple Vision Pro To Launch With Over 600 Apps and Games 83
Microsoft Seeks Rust Developers To Rewrite Core C# Code 77
New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure On Code Quality' 33
ChatGPT-Powered 'Scalene' Offers Efficiency Suggestions for Python Programmers 36
Oracle's Plans for Java in 2024 75
Shameless Insult, Malicious Compliance, Junk Fees, Extortion Regime: Industry Reacts To Apple's Proposed Changes Over Digital Markets Act 255
Apple Opens App Store To Game Streaming Services 8
Apple is Bringing Sideloading and Alternate App Stores To the iPhone 104
NPM Users Download 2.1B Deprecated Packages Weekly, Say Security Researchers 28
Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Continues Showing Promising Results For Gaming 40
Apple Revises App Store Rules To Let Developers Link To Outside Payment Methods 152
Python Software Foundation Says EU's 'Cyber Resilience Act' Includes Wins for Open Source 18
A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++ 139
Brave Search Can Now Deliver Results For Programming Queries 4
Three Packages Targeting Linux with Crypto Miners Found in Python's 'PyPi' Repository 17
Can AI-Generated Proofs Bring Bug-Free Software One Step Closer? 61
AI-Assisted Bug Reports Are Seriously Annoying For Developers 29
Niklaus Wirth, Inventor of Pascal, Dies At 89 96
Since the Demise of Atom, 'Pulsar' Offers an Alternative Code Editor 24
Code.org Sues WhiteHat Jr. For $3 Million 8
The Beauty of Finished Software 174
Quantum Computing Gets a 'Hard, Cold Reality Check' 67
30 Years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' Are Online - Including 2023's 29
2023's Online 'Advent Calendars' Challenge Programmers With Tips and Puzzles 8
Creator of JSON Unveils New Programming Language 'Misty' 157
Amazon, Etsy, Launch Categories With 'Gifts For Programmers' 20
Intelligence Researchers To Study Computer Code for Clues To Hackers' Identities 4
Lazarus Cyber Group Deploys DLang Malware Strains 13
40 years of Turbo Pascal: Memories of the Coding Dinosaur that Revolutionized IDEs 113
Can IBM's Watson Translate the World's 60-Year-Old Cobol Code? 120
Go Programmers Surveyed: Most Use Linux or MacOS 29
Millions of Coders Are Now Using AI Assistants. How Will That Change Software? 78
150,000 Programmers Tackle 'Advent of Code' in Event's 9th Year 16
Java Tries a New Way to Use Multithreading: Structured Concurrency 96
Rust Foundation Plans Training/Certification Program. Security Initiative Funded Through 2024 4
BBC BASIC Is Back In a Big Way 134
PHP 8.0 End of Life Is Today, November 26, 2023 40
How Python's New Security Developer Hopes To Help All Software Supply Chains 23
GameMaker Ditches Subscription Model For Indie Developers 9
How Mojo Hopes to Revamp Python for an AI World 28
Kotlin Keeps Climbing TIOBE's Programming Language Popularity Index 52
Python Community Announces Podcast, Developer's Survey, PyCharm Discount 19
Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People In Congo 6
Developers Can't Seem To Stop Exposing Credentials in Publicly Accessible Code 59
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft 158
How 'Hour of Code' Will Teach Students About Issues with AI 17
Highly Invasive Backdoors Hidden in Python Obfuscation Packages, Downloaded by 2,348 Developers 50
Why Chrome Enabled WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) By Default 56
GitHub Announces Its 'Refounding' on Copilot, Including an AI-Powered 'Copilot Chat' Assistant 33
Do Programming Certifications Still Matter? 101
Google Plans RISC-V Android Tools In 2024, Wants Developers To 'Be Ready' 47
79% of Developers are At Least Considering a New Job, Survey Finds 36
Experimental Project Attempts a Python Virtual Shell for Linux 62
Pope Francis Encourages More Children To Code 45
SiFive Lays Off Hundreds of RISC-V Developers 17
ICE Uses Tool To Find 'Derogatory' Speech Online 63
Code.org Presses Washington To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement 95
Stack Overflow Cuts 28% Workforce as the AI Coding Boom Continues 36
'OK, So ChatGPT Just Debugged My Code. For Real' 174
C# Challenges Java in Programming Language Popularity 109
Tesla Releases Official API Documentation To Support Third-Party Apps 7
FTX Used Python Code To Fake Its Insurance Fund Figure 104
Man Trains Home Cameras To Help Repel Badgers and Foxes 77
Microsoft Says VBScript Will Be Ripped From Windows In a Future Release 79
John Riccitiello Steps Down As CEO of Unity After Pricing Battle 29
Microsoft Drops Official Support for Python 3.7 in Visual Studio Code 24
OpenAI to Release Its Python SDK 5
States Are Calling For More K-12 CS Classes. Now They Need the Teachers. 114
7% of Python Developers Are Still Using Python 2, Annual Survey Finds 53
Epic Games To Update Unreal Engine Pricing for Devs Outside Game Industry 27
UK Passport Images Database Could Be Used To Catch Shoplifters 67
Can Generative AI Solve Computer Science's Greatest Unsolved Problem? 157
Here's What's New in Python 3.12 39
Microsoft To Excel Users: Be Careful With That Python 46
'Code.org In Farsi' To Bring Tech-Backed Nonprofit's K-12 CS Curricula To Iran 34
Unity Dev Group Dissolves After 13 Years Over 'Completely Eroded' Company Trust 23
Unity Overhauls Controversial Price Hike After Game Developers Revolt 61
JetBrains Previews 'RustRover', a New Dedicated IDE for Rust Developers 48
Maybe ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job 99
GitHub Alienates Developers By Force Feeding Them AI Recommendations 27
IEEE Specctrum Announces Top Programming Languages of 2023: Python and SQL 102
WebAssembly 2023 Survey Finds Enthusiasm - and Some Challenges 34
Ruby on Rails Creator Removes TypeScript From Turbo Framework, Upsets Community 54
Largest Local Government Body In Europe Goes Under Amid Oracle Disaster 110
Are Scrums a Cancer? 293
Saints Row Developer Volition Has Been Shut Down 50
Google Launches BigQuery Studio, a New Way To Work With Data 9
More Developers Are Using the Rust Programming Language, Survey Finds 117
Creators of Python, Java, TypeScript, and SmallTalk Will Make a Joint Appearance for Charity 45
Amazon's Honeycode No-Code App Builder Is No-More 36
Is 'CS In Every School' the 2024 Presidential Campaign's 'Chicken In Every Pot'? 104
72-Year-Old C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Shares Life Advice 47
Scientists Strengthen Concrete By 30 Percent With Used Coffee Grounds 84
Apple's Vision Pro Labs Are Drawing Audible Gasps From Developers, Says Company 81
Epic's New Program Lets Developers Keep Their Revenue In Exchange For Exclusivity 24
Meta Releases Code Llama, a Code-Generating AI Model 20
Bitcoin Developers Push Back Against Craig Wright's Claim to Billions of Dollars in Bitcoin 82
IBM Says Its Generative AI Tool Can Convert Old COBOL Code To Java 108
Microsoft Announces Python In Excel 92
Can You Measure Software Developer Productivity? 157
Rust Users Push Back as Popular 'Serde' Project Ships Precompiled Binaries 17
Why DARPA Hopes To 'Distill' Old Binaries Into Readable Code 54
Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome In SunSpider 40
Stack Overflow 'Evolves', Previewing AI-Powered Answers and Chat Followups 64
ChatGPT's Odds of Getting Code Questions Correct are Worse Than a Coin Flip 119
Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ Go After Red Hat With the Open Enterprise Linux Association 70
Should a Variable's Type Come After Its Name? 321
Do Developers Tend To Scrap Or Ship Their First Drafts? 100
The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away 37
Salesforce Executive Shares 'Four Ways Coders Can Fight the Climate Crisis' 79
Python's Steering Council Plans to Make Its 'Global Interpreter Lock' Optional 21
Ask Slashdot: What Happens After Every Programmer is Using AI? 127
RHEL Response Discussed by SFC Conference's Panel - Including a New Enterprise Linux Standard 66
Is C++ Gaining in Popularity? 106
Roblox Data Leak Sees 4,000 Developer Profiles Including Identifying Information Made Public 10
Roblox Is Going To Let Developers Offer Subscriptions In Their Experiences 8
Most Outsourced Coders In India Will Be Gone In 2 Years Due To AI, Stability AI Boss Predicts 85
Wix's New Tool Can Create Entire Websites from Prompts 35
Should High Schools Require a CS Course Before Students Graduate? 151
Oracle Takes On Red Hat In Linux Code Fight 129
Why Are There So Many Programming Languages? 160
Perl 5.38 Released with New Experimental Syntax for Defining Object Classes 48
FBI Forms National Database To Track and Prevent 'Swatting' 71
Oracle Spending 'Billions' on Nvidia Chips This Year, Ellison Says 27
34% of AP CS Students Couldn't Solve This Java-Based 2D Array Question 226
Intel's New Font For Low-Vision Developers Is Causing Design Drama For Coders 96
KDE Plasma 6 Is Now 'Fairly Livable' 33
Is AI an Excuse for Not Learning To Code? 133
92% of Programmers Are Using AI Tools, Says GitHub Developer Survey 67
Google Home's Script Editor Is Now Live 23
Will Submerging Computers Make Data Centers More Climate Friendly? 138
Does the New 'Mojo' Programming Language Offer a Faster Superset of Python? 71
Will Productivity Gains from AI-Generated Code Be Offset by the Need to Maintain and Review It? 95
Is Self-Healing Code the Future of Software Development? 99
Intel Open Sources New 'One Mono' Font for Programmers 51
Google's Bard AI Can Now Write and Execute Code To Answer a Question 19
Apollo, Popular Reddit App, To Shut Down June 30 Following API Price Surge 59
AI System Devises First Optimizations To Sorting Code In Over a Decade 67
Reddit Will Exempt Accessibility-Focused Apps From Its Unpopular API Pricing Changes 38
Apple Makes Developer Betas Free To Download and Install 8
Reddit on New Pricing Plan: Company 'Needs To Be Fairly Paid' 145
NYT: It's the End of Computer Programming As We Know It 224
CS50, the World's Most Popular Online Programming Class, Turns to AI for Help 22
Stanford Golf Phenom Rose Zhang Turns Pro, Vows To 'Never Code Again' 75
Tears of the Kingdom's Bridge Physics Have Game Developers Wowed 80
AI Means Everyone Can Now Be a Programmer, Nvidia Chief Says 170
PyPi is Reducing Stored IP Address Data 10
Python 3.12 Brings New Features and Fixes 30
PyPI Was Subpoenaed 31
Python's PyPi Package Repository Temporarily Halted New Signups, Citing 'Volume of Malicious Projects' 24
Google Colab Promises 'AI-Powered Coding, Free of Charge' 24
A Crowd-Funded Startup Is Making a Coffee Cup That Can Be Eaten 141
'Mojo May Be the Biggest Programming Language Advance In Decades' 126
Cloudflare CTO Predicts Coding AIs Will Bring More Productivity, Urges 'Data Fluidity' 40
'EU's Cyber Resilience Act Contains a Poison Pill for Open Source Developers' 86
First Rust Code Shows Up in the Windows 11 Kernel 42
'Stack Overflow is ChatGPT Casualty' 150
Google Launches an AI Coding Bot For Android Developers 16
Codon Compiler For Python Is Fast - but With Some Caveats 36
Why the Creator of Ruby on Rails Prefers Dynamic Typing 148
Swift Creator's Company Builds New Programming Language 'Mojo' - a Python Superset 82
'Faster, Leaner' Python 3.12 Released Today with Improvements to Speed, Multiprocessing 53
Hugging Face and ServiceNow Release a Free Code-Generating Model 13
'sudo' and 'su' Are Being Rewritten In Rust For Memory Safety 143
AI Coding Competition Pits GPT-4 Against Bard, GitHub Co-Pilot, Bing, and Claude+ 39
Long-time Slashdot Reader Announces Open Source, Java-Based, Full-Stack Web Development Framework 81
Google Play Has Created a No-Win Situation For the Creators of Icon Packs 41
Python's PyPI Will Sell 'Organization Accounts' to Corporate Projects to Fund Staff 14
Is It Time to Stop Saying 'Learn to Code'? 147
New Version of Rust Speeds Compilation With Less Debugging Info By Default 24
Rust Foundation Apologizes For Proposed Trademark Changes, Promises Improvement 37
ChatGPT Creates Mostly Insecure Code, But Won't Tell You Unless You Ask 80
Linux Foundation Launches New Organization To Maintain TLA+ 16
iOS 17 To Support App Sideloading To Comply With European Regulations 157
Would This OpenJDK Proposal Make Java Easier to Learn? 145
Undercutting Microsoft, Amazon Offers Free Access to Its AI Coding Assistant 'CodeWhisperer' 45
Government Cybersecurity Agencies Unite to Urge Secure Software Design Practices 38
Python Foundation Raises Concerns Over EU's Proposed Cybersecurity Rules 40
Developer Creates 'Self-Healing' Programs That Fix Themselves Thanks To AI 137
Khan Academy Chief Says GPT-4 is Ready To Be a Tutor 58
Rust Foundation Solicits Feedback on Updated Policy for Trademarks 41
Raspberry Pi Launches Online Code Editor to Help Kids Learn 28
C Rival 'Zig' Cracks Tiobe Index Top 50, Go Remains in Top 10 167
ECMAScript 2023 Spec for JavaScript Includes New Methods for Arrays 34
Collabora Developer Explores Rust Support for the Linux Kernel's V4L2/Media Subsystem 5
Samsung Software Engineers Busted For Pasting Proprietary Code Into ChatGPT 65
A Collection of Fun Databases For Programming Exploration 13
ACM Magazine Criticizes Latest Draft of New C Standard, 'C23' 159
Can Codon 'Turbocharge Python's Notoriously Slow Compiler'? 82
'One In Two New Npm Packages Is SEO Spam Right Now' 37
Google Launches Ads Transparency Center As a Searchable Database 7

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