Developers Stories for 2017

Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails 321
2017: The Year in Programming Languages 117
Blockchain Brings Business Boom To IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft 94
300,000 Users Exposed In Ancestry.com Data Leak 43
Trump's Website Is Coded With a Broken Server Error Message That Blames Obama 168
A Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets 113
Russia Lost a $45 Million Satellite Because 'They Didn't Get the Coordinates Right' 101
FBI Software For Analyzing Fingerprints Contains Russian-Made Code, Whistleblowers Say 174
Nintendo Delaying 64GB Game Cards For Switch Until 2019, Says Report 54
What Amazon's Alexa Economy Pays the People Building Its Skills 101
How Harvard Teaches CS Students How To Code 138
Rust Blog Touts 'What We Achieved' in 2017 153
Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Explain Their Work To Non-Programmers? 340
'State of JavaScript' Survey Results: Good News for React and TypeScript 89
Chrome 64 Beta Adds Sitewide Audio Muting, Pop-Up Blocker, Windows 10 HDR Video 43
Microsoft Considers Adding Python As an Official Scripting Language in Excel 181
Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler For Machine Code 113
Searchable Database of 1.4 Billion Stolen Credentials Found On Dark Web 72
Microsoft Releases Free Preview of Its Quantum Development Kit 31
In-Store WiFi Provider Used Starbucks Website To Generate Monero Coins 30
Did Programming Language Flaws Create Insecure Apps? 100
What Mistakes Can Stall An IT Career? 207
Google Puts Android Accessibility Crackdown On Hold 28
Chrome 63 Offers Even More Protection From Malicious Sites, Using Even More Memory 63
Inside Oracle's Cloak-and-dagger Political War With Google 86
Amazon Opens Registration For .BOT Domain Name 44
Lead Developer of Popular Windows Application Classic Shell Is Quitting 97
'24 Pull Requests' Suggests Contributing Code For Christmas 30
PHP Now Supports Argon2 Next-Generation Password Hashing Algorithm 94
Valuable Republican Donor Database Breached -- By Other Republicans 73
Perl, Perl 6, and Two Application Frameworks Release 2017 Advent Calendars 38
Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? 311
Amazon Will Let Alexa Developers Use Voice Recognition To Personalize Apps 30
Destiny 2 Misrepresented XP Gains To Its Players Until the Developers Got Caught 112
The Pixel 2's Dormant 'Visual Core' Chip Gets Activated In Latest Android Developer Preview 32
Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C 608
Amazon: Heat From Data Centers Will Be Used as a Furnace 52
Legislators Take Aim At Star Wars Battlefront II, EA Over 'Gambling In Games' 72
More Than Half of GitHub Is Duplicate Code, Researchers Find 115
'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality 183
Google Cloud Platform Cuts the Price of GPUs By Up To 36 Percent 28
Google Is Working On Fuchsia OS Support For Apple's Swift Programming Language 54
Why Hackers Reuse Malware 27
Deep Learning Is Eating Software 147
Russia Posts Video Game Screenshot As 'Irrefutable Proof' of US Helping IS 132
ESR Sees Three Viable Alternatives To C 595
This Time, Facebook Is Sharing Its Employees' Data 45
Programming Language Go Turns 8 67
WikiLeaks Starts Releasing Source Code For Alleged CIA Spying Tools 102
Google Wants Google Doodles Taught In Public School, Warns Kids They Best Behave 146
Should Developers Do All Their Own QA? 299
Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say 472
While Equifax Victims Sue, Congress Limits Financial Class Actions 190
Why Do Web Developers Keep Making The Same Mistakes? 335
After 12 Years, Mozilla Kills 'Firebug' Dev Tool 148
US Voting Server At Heart of Russian Hack Probe Mysteriously Wiped 431
Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? 481
Oracle Engineer Talks of ZFS File System Possibly Still Being Upstreamed On Linux 131
Oracle, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook Blow Even More Cash on Lobbying 73
Profile of William H. Alsup, a Judge Who Codes and Decides Tech's Biggest Cases 49
Ask Slashdot: How Can You Apply For A Job When Your Code Samples Suck? 408
Does the Rise of AI Precede the End of Code? 205
Learn To Code, It's More Important Than English as a Second Language, Says Apple CEO 296
The Case Against Biometric IDs 146
New Video Peeks 'Inside the Head' of Perl Creator Larry Wall 106
Java Coders Are Getting Bad Security Advice From Stack Overflow 236
According To Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet Still Runs Microsoft Windows 237
Slack Locks Down Oracle Partnership Targeting Enterprises 43
Code is Too Hard To Think About 397
Chip Reprograms Cells To Regenerate Damaged Tissue 16
Former Female Oracle Employees Sue Company For Alleged Pay Discrimination 121
'Tetris' Recreated In Conway's 'Game of Life' 87
Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? 456
Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code 122
IBM Open Sources 'WebSphere Liberty' For Java Microservices and Cloud-Native Apps 17
Oracle Announces Java SE 9 and Java EE 8 64
Computer Science Degrees Aren't Returning On Investment For Coders, Research Finds 395
Oracle's Larry Ellison Pokes Amazon Again With New Cloud Pricing Plan 65
Stack Overflow Launches Salary Calculator For Developers 102
IBM Open Sources Their Own JVM/JDK As Eclipse OpenJ9 179
Python's Official Repository Included 10 'Malicious' Typo-Squatting Modules 69
First Ever Malvertising Campaign Uses JavaScript To Mine Cryptocurrencies In Your Browser 70
Java EE Is Moving To the Eclipse Foundation 70
Google Publicly Releases Internal Developer Documentation Style Guide 96
Is Python Really the Fastest-Growing Programming Language? 254
Bug In Windows Kernel Could Prevent Security Software From Identifying Malware 75
Following Cheating Scandals, Harvard Dean of Undergrad Ed Visits CS50 Class and Tells Students Not To Cheat 107
Chrome 61 Arrives With JavaScript Modules, WebUSB Support 115
Oracle Staff Report Big Layoffs Across Solaris, SPARC Teams 239
With Android Oreo, Google Is Introducing Linux Kernel Requirements 120
Thousands of Job Applicants Citing Top Secret US Government Work Exposed In Amazon Server Data Breach 115
Why Oracle Should Cede Control of Java SE 110
Solve a 'Simple' Chess Puzzle, Win $1 Million 125
Do Code Bootcamps Work? 139
Petition Asks the Developers of Phoenix OS to Open Source the Kernel 34
Oracle Finally Decides To Stop Prolonging the Inevitable, Begins Hardware Layoffs 177
Coders In Wealthy and Developing Countries Lean on Different Programming Languages 92
China Regulator To Review Apple Antitrust Complaint 30
Google Unveils ARCore, Its Answer To Apple's ARKit 40
OpenJDK May Tackle Java Security Gaps With A Secretive New Group 79
Could AI Transform Continuous Delivery Development? 78
A New Non-Money Oriented Crowdsourcing Platform Based On Code Contributions 84
Employers Want More Open Source Workers, Says Linux Foundation Study 164
Software Is Eating the Auto Industry 101
As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check 179
Apple Is Pulling Apps By Iranian Developers From The App Store To Comply With US Sanctions 101
Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership 338
JavaScript Is Eating The World 349
Iowa Computer Programmer Gets 25 Years For Lottery Scam 131
Ask Slashdot: How Can You Teach Programming To Schoolchildren? 353
Red Hat Gives Ceylon To The Eclipse Foundation 97
Oracle Now Wants To Give Java EE to an Open Source Foundation 106
Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database 310
Developer Accidentally Deletes Three-Month of Work With Visual Studio Code 765
In Defense of the Popular Framework Electron 138
Amazon Will Pay Developers With the Most Engaging Alexa Skills 41
App Developers Should Charge More If They Want People To Buy Subscriptions, Suggests Report 50
Google Hires Former Star Apple Engineer Chris Lattner For Its AI Team 49
New 'Asciidots' Programming Language Uses Ascii Art (And Python) 28
Canonical Needs Your Help Transitioning Ubuntu Linux From Unity To GNOME 111
Oracle Fiddles With Major Database Release Cycle Numbers 69
Developers File Antitrust Complaint Against Apple in China 27
China's VPN Developers Face Crackdown 55
Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says 271
Developers Explain Why iOS Apps Are Getting Bulkier 140
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News 144
Buggy Software Made Us Miss Money Laundering Scam, Says Australian Bank 57
GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers 239
Google's Message To Developers: Fix Your App's Performance Issues Else See Them Demoted On Play Store 65
Cable Giants Step Up Piracy Battle By Interrogating Montreal Software Developer 185
Apple is About To Do Something Their Programmers Definitely Don't Want 315
GitHub Faces 'Major Service Outage' [Update] 39
HackerRank Tries To Calculate Which US States Have The Best Developers 66
It Will Take Fedora More Releases To Switch Off Python 2 94
How Rust Can Replace C In Python Libraries 304
Appocalypse Now - How iOS11 Will Kill Some Of Your Favourite iPhone Apps 177
'Apple's Refusal To Support Progressive Web Apps is a Detriment To Future of the Web' 302
How a VC-Funded Company Is Undermining the Open-Source Community 84
College Students Are Flocking To Computer Science Majors 379
IEEE Spectrum Declares Python The #1 Programming Language 372
Facebook Petitioned To Change License For ReactJS 43
Drupal Developers Still Rebelling Against Drupal Leadership 95
Coding School 'The Iron Yard' Announces Closure of All 15 Campuses 101
Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS 285
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Developer Secrets That Could Sink Your Business? 243
TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust 505
Open Source Contributions More Important Than Tabs Vs Spaces For Salary 164
Apple's Pitch To Indian Developers: Think Local, Stay Up To Date, and Aim For Design Awards 35
Amazon May Give Developers Your Private Alexa Transcripts 166
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? 337
We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source 305
Amazon's Alexa Passes 15,000 skills, Up From 10,000 in February 90
New Research Explodes Myths About Ada Lovelace 107
Modularity Finally Approved For Java 9 94
Is Ruby's Decline In Popularity Permanent? 253
GitHub Urges Companies To Participate In 'Open Source Fridays' 71
Raspberry Pi Wins UK's Top Engineering Award 54
How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms 132
The High-Tech Jobs That Created India's Gilded Generation Are Disappearing 165
Why So Many Top Hackers Come From Russia 263
Should Your Company Switch To Microservices? 118
'Stack Clash' Linux Flaw Enables Root Access. Patch Now 126
32TB of Windows 10 Internal Builds, Core Source Code Leak Online 201
NSA Opens GitHub Account, Lists 32 Projects Developed By the Agency 64
Intel Quietly Discontinues Galileo, Joule, and Edison Development Boards 95
Community Ports 'Visual Studio Code' To Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi 79
What Happens When Software Companies Are Liable For Security Vulnerabilities? 221
Announcing 'build', Auto-Configuration In 1000 Lines Of Makefile 103
The Size of iPhone's Top Apps Has Increased by 1,000% in Four Years 128
Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs 515
Report Reveals In-App Purchase Scams In the App Store 48
Apple's App Store Guidelines Now Allow Executable Code in Educational Apps and Developer Tools 13
Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? 808
Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Move Into AI Jobs? 121
Does Silicon Valley Need More Labor Unions? 187
Developer Accidentally Deletes Production Database On Their First Day On The Job 418
App Store Now Requires Developers To Use Official API To Request App Ratings, Disallows Custom Prompts 34
Ask Slashdot: What Types of Jobs Are Opening Up In the New Field of AI? 133
Google Launches Android O Developer Preview 3 With Final APIs 16
EU Seeks New Powers To Obtain Data 'Directly' From Tech Firms 40
Apple's 'Planet of the Apps' Reality Show Is 'Bland, Tepid, Barely Competent Knock-off of 'Shark Tank' 78
Ubuntu Works With GNOME To Improve HiDPI Support On Linux Desktop 85
Google Releases Chrome 59 72
Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep 608
Apple Piles On the Features, and Users Say, 'Enough!' 191
Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Team Track And Manage Bugs In Your Software? 189
Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of COBOL, Dies at 89 73
Insecure Hadoop Servers Expose Over 5 Petabytes of Data 51
Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Write Working Code By Drawing Flow Charts? 264
Java 9 Delayed Due To Modularity Controversy 79
App Store Earnings For Developers Exceed $70 Billion; App Downloads Up 70% YoY 63
Motorcycle Gang Busted For Hacking and Stealing Over 150 Jeep Wranglers 83
As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating 250
Startup Uses AI To Create Programs From Simple Screenshots 89
Are There More Developers Than We Think? 191
Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? 173
Former Mozilla CTO: 'Chrome Won' 272
Vermont DMV Caught Using Illegal Facial Recognition Program 109
Windows Switch To Git Almost Complete: 8,500 Commits and 1,760 Builds Each Day 221
Airbnb Is Running Its Own Internal University To Teach Data Science 32
Apple Wants To Turn Community College Students Into App Developers 124
When AI Botches Your Medical Diagnosis, Who's To Blame? 200
'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' 359
Java Creator James Gosling Joins Amazon Web Services 90
How AI Can Infer Human Emotions 25
The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? 581
Font Sharing Site DaFont Has Been Hacked, Exposing Thousands of Accounts 17
App Maker's Code Stolen in Malware Attack 73
Android Now Supports the Kotlin Programming Language 91
Developer Creates An Experimental Perl 5 To Java Compiler 94
Open Source SQL Database CockroachDB Hits 1.0 80
Microsoft Is Surprisingly Comfortable With Its New Place In a Mobile, Apple, and Android World 73
Apple is Bringing iTunes To the Windows Store 87
Azure Goes Database Crazy With One New NoSQL, Two New SQL Services 39
Only 36 Percent of Indian Engineers Can Write Compilable Code, Says Study 210
Ask Slashdot: What Should Be the Attributes of an Ideal Programming Language If Computers Were Infinitely Fast? 326
Oracle And Cisco Both Support The FCC's Rollback Of Net Neutrality 136
Should The Government Pay For Veterans To Attend Code Schools? 168
Red Hat And IBM Will Vote Against Java's Next Release 57
In Oracle's Cloud Pitch To Enterprises, an Echo of a Bygone Tech Era 55
How Scratch Is Feeding Hacker Values into Young Minds 48
NASA Runs Competition To Help Make Old Fortran Code Faster 205
China Makes Quantum Leap In Developing Quantum Computer 70
Facebook Rejects Female Engineers' Code More Often Than Male Counterparts, Analysis Finds 450
Power of Modern Programming Languages is That They Are Expressive, Readable, Concise, Precise, and Executable 268
Developer Hacks Together Object-Oriented HTML 184
Developer Shares A Recoverable Container Format That's File System Agnostic 133
Should Banks Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die? 383
Early Nintendo Programmer Worked Without a Keyboard 111
Five Years Later, Legal Megaupload Data Is Still Trapped On Dead Servers 82
Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? 418
Flawed Online Tutorials Led To Vulnerabilities In Software 96
Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? 633
Stack Overflow Reveals Which Programming Languages Are Most Used At Night 99
Microsoft Will Support Python In SQL Server 2017 98
Developer of BrickerBot Malware Claims He Destroyed Over Two Million Devices 88
Amazon Cloud Chief Jabs Oracle: 'Customers Are Sick of It' 81
Facebook Launches Augmented Reality Camera Effects Developer Platform 9
Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cancelled 36
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop The Deployment Of Unapproved Code Changes? 324
Oracle Charged $293M In South Korean Back Taxes 19
Researchers Determine What Makes Software Developers Unhappy 149
'Pragmatic Programmer' Author Andy Hunt Loves Arduino, Hates JavaScript 185
Google Kills Off Octane JavaScript Benchmark Due To 'Diminishing Returns and Over-Optimization' 88
Drupal Developers Threaten To Quit Drupal Unless Larry Garfield Is Reinstated 478
AI Programs Exhibit Racial and Gender Biases, Research Reveals 384
More Americans Now Work Full-Time From Home Than Walk and Bike To Office Jobs 73
Microsoft Kills Off Security Bulletins 89
For Programmers, the Ultimate Office Perk is Avoiding the Office Entirely 207
Canada Hid the Konami Code In Its Commemorative $10 Bill Launch 78

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