Developers Stories for 2024

Fake Job Interviews Target Developers With New Python Backdoor 14
Oracle Is Moving Its World Headquarters To Nashville 67
Red Hat Upgrades Its Pipeline-Securing (and Verification-Automating) Tools 11
'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 10
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