Developers Stories for 2019

Mazda3 Bug Activates Emergency Brake System For No Reason 55
The State of JavaScript 2019 150
Many of Kubernetes 2,000 TODO Comments Appear to Be Forgotten 49
State of Apple's Catalyst 16
WebAssembly Becomes W3C Standard, Reaches 1.0 78
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94 26
Genetic Database That Identified Golden State Killer Acquired By Crime Scene DNA Company 39
Oracle Is Moving Its Massive Conference Out of San Francisco 116
WireGuard VPN Is On Its Way To Linux 48
Former Oracle Product Manager Claims He Was Forced Out For Refusing to Sell Vaporware 81
81-Year-Old Donald Knuth Releases New TAOCP Book, Ready to Write Hexadecimal Reward Checks 39
Are You Ready for the End of Python 2? 130
The Most Copied StackOverflow Java Code Snippet Contains a Bug 71
US Shows a 'Concerning Lack of Regard For the Privacy of People's Biometrics' 58
Ford Will Turn McDonald's Used Coffee Bean Husks Into Car Parts 47
Two Malicious Python Libraries Caught Stealing SSH and GPG Keys 29
The Rise and Fall of the PlayStation Supercomputers 50
Amazon Introduces Fraud Detector and CodeGuru 19
Microsoft is Creating a New Rust-Based Programming Language For Secure Coding 69
Guido van Rossum Explains How Python Makes Thinking in Code Easier 297
2019 Sees More Geeky Advent Calendars 12
Oracle Responds To Wage Discrimination Claims By Suing US Department of Labor 125
Google Addresses Complaints of Sub-4K Image Quality On Stadia 44
What Tech Skills Do Employers Want? SQL, Java, Python, and AWS 121
Facebook Teams With Microsoft On Visual Studio Code's Remote Extensions 38
Apple's Hour of Code Plans Include 'Coding Labs' For 3-Year-Olds 65
Inside Apple's iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut 55
Amazon and Code.org Tap Lil Nas X and Katy Perry To Teach Children To Code 80
EverQuest and Pantheon Developer Brad McQuaid Has Died 52
Apple Announces Special App-Focused Event For December 2nd 5
Supreme Court Will Hear Long-Running Google and Oracle Copyright Lawsuit 60
GitHub Faces More Resignations In Light of ICE Contract 226
The NYPD Kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints For Years 63
GitHub Places Open-Source Code In Arctic Cave For Safekeeping 50
Unusual New 'PureLocker' Ransomware Is Going After Servers 22
Python Finally Overtakes Java on GitHub 61
GitLab Director Resigns, Says It's Engaging In 'Retaliatory Behavior' 44
Microsoft's Rust Experiments Are Going Well, But Some Features Are Missing 33
Mysterious Hacker Dumps Database of Infamous IronMarch Neo-Nazi Forum 186
'Game-Changer' Warrant Let Detective Search Genetic Database 108
Facebook Says 100 Software Developers May Have Improperly Accessed User Data 17
Oracle Revives Charges That Pentagon Bid Was Tainted by Amazon Conflicts 47
Microsoft Launches Public Previews of Visual Studio Online and Power Virtual Agents 43
Apple Now Rejects Electron Apps from Mac App Store 124
Microsoft Announces It's Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK 62
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Retires, Heads To Python Conference 41
DNA Databases Are a National Security Leak Waiting To Happen 35
Python Adopts a 12-month Release Cycle 38
Complaints Mounting About iOS 13.2 Being 'More Aggressive at Killing Background Apps and Tasks' 52
Spain and GitHub Are Blocking an App That Helped Protesters Organize 90
Text Editor Releases 'Free Uyghur' Edition, Gets Swamped With Chinese Spam 245
AI Will Soon Be Able To Decode Your Poop 66
Top Linux Developer On Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're Not Going Away.' 87
Ask Slashdot: How Was the Quality of Your Academic Tech Education? 96
Apple, Your Developer Documentation Is Garbage 95
New in Java 13: Text Blocks 57
Nasty PHP7 Remote Code Execution Bug Exploited in the Wild on NGINX Servers 16
Should JavaScript Be Renamed? 170
Study Identifies the 'Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want' 118
Nearly 7.5 Million Adobe Creative Cloud Users Exposed To Hackers 26
The Iranian Developer Deadlock: Stuck Between Censorship and US Sanctions 52
Open Database Leaked 179GB In Customer, US Government, and Military Records 15
Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy 72
'Codes of Conduct: Speech Bans Are Poor Strategy' 256
US Takes Step To Require DNA Samples From Asylum-Seekers 357
Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd Passes Away 54
School Field Trips: Amazon Warehouses Are the New Smithsonian 24
GitLab Won't Exclude Customers On Moral Grounds, Says That Employees Should Not Discuss Politics At Work 175
Microsoft Launches Two New Open Source Projects for Developers -- OAM and Dapr 34
Hacking 20 High-Profile Dev Accounts Could Compromise Half of the NPM Ecosystem 17
A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In More Than 100 Published Studies 20
Can A New TED-Ed Video Series Teach Students To 'Think Like A Coder'? 94
Larry Wall Approves Re-Naming Perl 6 To Raku 100
Python Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In Over 100 Published Studies 121
Internal Email Shows GitHub Plans To Renew ICE Contract 76
FBI's Use of Surveillance Database Violated Americans' Privacy Rights: Court 23
Apple's Merged iPad, Mac Apps Leave Developers Uneasy, Users Paying Twice 38
Linus Torvalds Isn't Worried About Microsoft Taking Over Linux 141
Oracle Outperformed? TPC Benchmarks Show Alibaba's OceanBase Performs Twice As Well 46
Montreal Law Firm Looks To Launch Class-Action Lawsuit Against Fortnite Developer 90
Apple To Loosen Reins on Outside Messaging, Phone Apps Via Siri 29
US Dept of Education Has Big Payday For K-12 CS, Including Tech-Backed Code.org 47
Top Oracle Lawyer Attempting To Gaslight Entire Software Community: Insists APIs Are Executable 173
Microsoft Launches Free Python Programming Video Series On YouTube 63
Digital Ocean's 6th Annual 'Hacktoberfest' Celebrates Open Source and Environmental Projects 7
Do We Need To Rethink What Free Software Is? 136
Does The Military Need Agile Programming? 141
New Federal Rules Limit Police Searches of Family Tree DNA Databases 40
Alternative iOS App Store Doesn't Require a Jailbreak 55
Researchers Find Mystery Hidden In Early 80's Atari Game 169
Do Coders Crave a Sense of Control? 103
Oracle's New Supercomputer Has 1,060 Raspberry Pis 71
Npm CEO Bryan Bogensberger Exits After Eight Months of Turmoil 26
Facebook Suspends Tens of Thousands of Apps Following Data Investigation 12
Traders Who Can't Code May Become Extinct, Goldman's Tech Pioneer Warns 33
New Eco-Friendly Game Packaging Could Save Tons of Plastic Each Year 63
Programmers Complain that Huawei's Ark Compiler is 'Not Even Half-Finished' 42
The Internet Relies on People Working for Free 89
Python 2 Sunsets in 107 Days. JPMorgan Isn't Ready 110
Java EE 'Goes All In' on Open Source with Jakarta EE 8 54
Google Unveils Code Completion Powered by Machine Learning in Dart SDK 20
Discord is Axing its Nitro Games Catalog Since Almost Nobody Plays Them 17
Open-Source Database Scylla Gains DynamoDB Compatibility 8
Microsoft Redesigns To Do App To Make it Look More Like its Wunderlist Predecessor 11
How Apple Stacked the App Store With Its Own Products 52
COBOL Turns 60. Why It Will Outlive Us All 163
Apple Has Copied Some of the Most Popular Apps in the App Store For its iPhone 94
Apple Change Causes Scramble Among Private Messaging App Makers 40
Scottish Developers Announce Subsidy-Free Onshore Wind Farm 101
Don't Get Locked Up Into Avoiding Lock-in 63
An Alternative for 'Less Relevant' Agile: the Studio Model 92
'Why PHP Still Beats Your Next Favourite Alternative' 85
Should the Linux Kernel Accept Drivers Written In Rust? 169
Intel Engineer Launches Working Group To Bring Rust 'Full Parity With C' 111
Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? 119
NPM Bans Terminal Ads 25
Oracle Files New Appeal Over Pentagon's $10B JEDI Cloud Contract RFP Process 48
'Agile Programming is Not Dead, Quite the Opposite' 216
Standard, a Javascript Style Guide Library With 3M Downloads Per Month, Now Showing Ads When Installed Via NPM 82
Is Agile Becoming Less and Less Relevant? 235
UK Cybersecurity Agency Urges Devs To Drop Python 2 50
Oracle Directors Give Blessing To Shareholder Lawsuit Against Larry Ellison, Safra Catz 14
For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic 242
Google Launches Android Studio 3.5 With Improved Memory Settings, Build Speed, and Apply Changes 15
Bitbucket Dropping Support For Mercurial 42
Developers Accuse Apple of Anti-Competitive Behavior With Its Privacy Changes in iOS 13 77
PayPal Builds 'Zoid' JavaScript Library To 'Make IFrames Cool Again' 85
Stack Overflow Touts New Programming Solutions Tool That Mines Crowd Knowledge 40
How Should Schools Grade Unexpected-But-Correct Answers On Coding Tests? 177
YouTube To Allow Everyone To Watch YouTube Originals For Free 57
The Fashion Line Designed To Trick Surveillance Cameras 95
Researchers Found World-Readable Database Used To Secure Buildings Around the Globe 9
Dropbox Engineer Explains Why the Company Stopped Sharing Code Between iOS and Android And Started Using Native Languages on Each Platform 63
Guido van Rossum Looks at Python's Past, Present, and Future 89
Voter Records For 80% of Chile's Population Left Exposed Online 44
C++20 Is Feature Complete 231
NYPD Adds Children As Young As 11 To Facial Recognition Database 76
'5 Programming Languages That Are Probably Doomed' 390
On the Benefits of Speedy Software, and How It Affects User Perception of Engineering Quality and Overall Usability 140
GitHub Confirms it Has Blocked Developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea 100
New AI-Assisted Coding Tool Called 'Amazing' 174
Is Hiring Broken? 397
GitHub Starts Blocking Developers In Countries Facing US Trade Sanctions 143
VLC Developer Debunks Reports of 'Critical Security Issue' In Open Source Media Player 80
Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors 44
Is Object-Oriented Programming a Trillion Dollar Disaster? 782
GitLab Survey Finds Positive Results For Both DevOps and Working Remotely 34
Go Abandons try() Function Proposal, Citing 'Overwhelming' Community Response 124
Is There Tension Between Developers and Security Professionals? 146
Are Millennials Spending Too Much Money On Coffee? 532
Python 3.8 Will Finally Include the Walrus Operator 151
To Foil Hackers, 'Morpheus' Chip Can Change Its Code In the Blink of An Eye 80
Microsoft To Explore Using Rust 146
Justice John Paul Stevens, Dead At 99, Promoted the Internet Revolution 90
Developer Requests Google Remove Their Logo From Re-Designed Golang Page 113
Cloudflare Comes Clean On Crashing a Chunk of the Web Earlier This Month 111
Judge Dismisses Oracle Lawsuit Over $10 Billion Pentagon JEDI Cloud Contract 25
Investigating Some Subscription Scam iOS Apps 50
Amazon Pledges $700 Million To Teach Its Workers to Code 144
Google Unveils 'Code With Google,' Awards $1 Million To CS Teachers Group 51
Bitcoin Mining On an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 Seconds Per Hash 103
Sneaky Chrome Extension Disguises Netflix As a Google Hangout To Help You Slack Off At Work 33
Mozilla is Funding a Way To Support Julia in Firefox 95
'Kerfuffle' Erupts Around Newly-Proposed try() Feature For Go Language 210
India's First CPUs Are Ready For App Development 142
Oracle On Why It Thinks AWS Winning Pentagon's $10 Billion Jedi Cloud Contract Stinks 116
Indie Developers Suggest Steam Summer Sale Confusion is Hurting Their Games 52
Early Soyuz Spacecraft Had a Peculiar User Interface, Says Developer Charles Simonyi 104
Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020 104
China's Biggest Startups Ditch Oracle and IBM for Home-Made Tech 132
Ubuntu Reverses Decision, Says It Will Continue To Support 32-bit Packages 94
Remembering The ENIAC Programmers 85
The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic 217
Intel Developing 'Data Parallel C++' As Part of OneAPI Initiative 81
Prisons Are Banning Books That Teach Prisoners How To Code 193
Meds Prescriptions For 78,000 Patients Left In a Database With No Password 33
Oracle Issues Emergency Update To Patch Actively Exploited WebLogic Flaw 26
Apple's First Four iOS Apps For Mac Are Getting an Upgrade 35
Microsoft's Plan To Split OS From Shell Takes Shape 128
7,000 Developers Report Their Top Languages: Java, JavaScript, and Python 194
New Hampshire Unveils a Historical Highway Marker For The BASIC Programming Language 68
Python Passes C++ on TIOBE Index, Predicted To Pass C and Java 266
Ask Slashdot: Should All OSs Ship With a Programming Language Built In? 307
SwiftUI and Catalyst: Apple Executes Its Invisible Transition Strategy 44
Google Made a Video Game That Lets You Build Video Games 36
Google Maps Will Tell You If Your Taxi Driver Is Veering Off Course To Rack Up a Higher Fare 115
US Customs and Border Protection Says Traveler Photos and License Plate Images Stolen In Data Breach 79
'Swift Finally Matches Objective-C in One Major Way' 131
'Java Web Start Is Dead. Long Live Java Web Start!' 62
'Apple Wants To Kill the Ad Industry. It's Forcing Developers To Help.' 221
Microsoft and Oracle Link Up Their Clouds 69
Apple Asks Developers To Place Its Login Button Above Google and Facebook 124
BlueStacks Inside Turns Mobile Games Into 'Native PC' Games on Steam 64
Apple Replaces Bash With Zsh as the Default Shell in macOS Catalina 462
Apple Limits Tracking and Ads In Kid-Focused Apps 27
Apple Debuts SwiftUI and New Xcode Interactive Development Experience 41
Apple Finally Kills iTunes 93
The iPad Finally Outgrows iOS 65
Apple Introduces Privacy-Focused 'Sign in With Apple' Button For Sites and Apps 75
Ask Slashdot: Is Dockerization a Fad? 252
Google's Go Lead: the Language Belongs To the Community 60
Ask Slashdot: Why Is 3D Technology Stagnating So Badly? 188
Google Struggles To Justify Why It's Restricting Ad Blockers In Chrome 178
Apple Poised To Bring Mac and iPad Closer Than Ever 56
NSF Greenlights $1.1 Million Remake of Microsoft's 2016 'Code Trip' PBS Show 40
DIY Facial Recognition For Porn Is a Dystopian Disaster 532
Docker Bug Allows Root Access To Host File System 76
Apple's Latest Defense of the App Store Just Shows How Hard It is To Compete With Apple 134
Google's Chrome Becomes Web 'Gatekeeper' and Rivals Complain 207
Chinese Developers Fear the Fallout From the Tech War Will Cost Them Access To GitHub 180
Microsoft Teams With Alphabet's X and Brilliant For Online Quantum Computing Class 39
Microsoft Adds Python To Windows -- Sort Of 100
Is Go Google's Programming Language, Not Ours? 172
'How I Cheated On My Microsoft Job Interview' 263
Replacing JavaScript: How eBay Made a Web App 50x Faster With WebAssembly 94
A Group of Independent Linux App Developers Has Asked Wider GNOME Community To 'Stop Theming' Its Apps 179
GitHub Launches Sponsors, Lets You Pay Your Favorite Open-Source Contributors 85
Microsoft Wants To Apply AI 'To the Entire Application Developer Lifecycle' 69
PlayStation Gamers Are Now Authoring Their Own Games With 'Dreams' For PS4 38
College Requires All CS Majors To Take An Improv Class 353
Are Trendy Developers Ignoring Tradeoffs and Over-Engineering Workplaces? 211
Google Pushes Kotlin Over Java for Android Development 117
Mozilla, Cloudflare, Facebook and Others Propose BinaryAST For Faster JavaScript Load Times 125
Twitter Opens Developers Labs Program To Test New API Products 20
Software Executive Decries 'Toxic Certainty Syndrome' 217
MongoDB Database Containing Over 275 Million Personal Records Exposed and Hacked 47
Google Launches Portal, an HTML Tag To Replace Iframe 109
'I Don't Think a Four-Year Degree is Necessary To Be Proficient at Coding', Tim Cook Says 354
Google Is Starting To Reveal the Secrets of Its Experimental Fuchsia OS 75
Google Play Will Weight App Ratings To Favor Those From More Recent Releases 60
Microsoft Wants To Close the UWP, Win32 Divide With 'Windows Apps' 78
Google Finally Updates Android Distribution Dashboard, Pie Passes 10 Percent 31
Android Q Gets Dark Mode, Live Video Captioning, Better Gestures and More 29
Microsoft Teases Its Edge Browser For macOS 76
Microsoft Unveils a New Terminal for Windows 10 and Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 198
Microsoft is Bringing Visual Studio To the Browser, Unveils .NET 5 30
'Why I Prefer Go Over Python or Java' 230
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Blames His Resignation Partly On Social Media 137
Oracle Exec Mocks Google Arguments About Java's APIs 145
'Could TypeScript replace JavaScript?' 140
Why Epic Games Called an Open Platform Truce With Microsoft 24
A Hacker is Wiping Git Repositories and Asking For a Ransom 213
Netflix Says Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream 202
Blender Developers Find Old Linux Drivers Are Better Maintained Than Windows 151
Hackers Steal and Ransom Financial Data Related To Some of the World's Largest Companies 46
Apple Says It Restricted Screen Time-like Apps Due To Concerns Over Children Privacy 52
Do Complex Systems Require Higher Safety Standards From Managers and Engineers? 137
Ask Slashdot: Why Are 3D Games, VR/AR Still Rendered Using Polygons In 2019? 230
Google Bans Developer With Half a Billion App Downloads From Play Store 27
Caffeine Gives Perovskite Solar Cells An Energy Boost, Study Says 77

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