Software Stories

Android Gets a New Software-Based AV1 Decoder 13
Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash 18
Broadcom Throws VMware Customers On Perpetual Licenses a Lifeline 40
Framework's Software and Firmware Have Been a Mess 17
VMS Software Prunes OpenVMS Hobbyist Program 60
Rickroll Meme Immortalized In Custom ASIC That Includes 164 Hardcoded Programs 9
Developer Hacks Denuvo DRM After Six Months of Detective Work and 2,000 Hooks 37
Google Brings Keyboard Shortcuts, Custom Mouse Buttons To ChromeOS 15
Canonical Now Doing Manual Reviews For New Packages Due To Scam Apps 37
Proxmox Import Wizard Makes for Easy VMware VM Migrations 39
'Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab' 120
Software Industry Calls for More UK Government Support 47
Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event For June 10 24
Broadcom Is 'Holding the Sector To Ransom' With VMware License Changes, Claims CISPE 110
Cloud Software Group Snubs GPL Obligations, Say Critics 31
Motorola Spoiled a Good Budget Phone With Bloatware 56
Formula 1 Chief Appalled To Find Team Using Excel To Manage 20,000 Car Parts 187
Cognition Emerges From Stealth To Launch AI Software Engineer 'Devin' 95
Trying Out Microsoft's Pre-Release OS/2 2.0 98
Ethereum Network Completes Cost-Cutting 'Dencun' Software Upgrade 15
Apple Releases visionOS 1.1 With Improvements To Persona, EyeSight, Virtual Keyboard and More 26
In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men 36
Court Orders Maker of Pegasus Spyware To Hand Over Code To WhatsApp 53
Self-Pay Gas Station Pumps Break Across NZ As Software Can't Handle Leap Day 92
KDE Plasma 6 Released 35
Firefly Software Snafu Sends Lockheed Satellite on Short-Lived Space Safari 25
New Bill Would Let Defendants Inspect Algorithms Used Against Them In Court 47
VMware Admits Sweeping Broadcom Changes Are Worrying Customers 79
Waymo Recalls and Updates Robotaxi Software After Two Cars Crashed 41
Superlist is the New Wunderlist, After Microsoft Killed the Original 18
John Walker, Founder of Autodesk, Dies At 74 19
Apple Officially Splits iTunes For Windows Into Apple Music, TV, and Devices Apps 31
OpenAI Developing Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks 27
Apple Vision Pro To Launch With Over 600 Apps and Games 83
Microsoft Seeks Rust Developers To Rewrite Core C# Code 77
Dell Terminates Distribution Deal With VMware After Broadcom Acquisition 38
After 32 Years, One of the Net's Oldest Software Archives Is Shutting Down 42
Fujitsu is Sorry That Its Software Helped Send Innocent People To Prison 143
'Technical Glitch' In Payroll Software Sparks Riots In Papua New Guinea 40
Broadcom Ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers 70
Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse 135
OpenAI Launches New Store For Users To Share Custom Chatbots 8
Unity Software Cutting 25% of Staff In 'Company Reset' Continuation 25
Ivanti Warns of Critical Vulnerability In Its Popular Line of Endpoint Protection Software 19
Tesla's First Smart Home Partner Is Samsung SmartThings 21
Since the Demise of Atom, 'Pulsar' Offers an Alternative Code Editor 24
What Comes After Open Source? Bruce Perens Is Working On It 89
The Beauty of Finished Software 174
Remembering 'The Tech That Died in 2023' 117
Meet Kosmik, a Visual Canvas With Built-In PDF Reader and Web Browser 10
Rite Aid Banned From Using Facial Recognition Software 60
Accenture Chief Says Most Companies Not Ready for AI Rollout 33
IBM To Buy Software AG's Enterprise Integration Platforms For $2.3 Billion 11
Study Shows 38% of Java Apps Still Affected By Log4Shell 25
Broadcom Is Killing Off VMware Perpetual Licenses, Strong-Arming Users Onto Subscriptions 196
NotePad++ 20th Anniversary Edition Includes New 'Multi-Edit' Feature 56
Unity Software To Cut 3.8% of Staff In 'Company Reset' 45
Broadcom Lays Off VMware Employees After Closing Its $69 Billion Acquisition 51
Meta's Head of Augmented Reality Software Stepping Down 8
'Make It Real' AI Prototype Turns Drawings Into Working Software 50
Apple Delays Work on Next Year's iPhone, Mac Software To Fix Bugs 74
VW Group's Troubled Cariad Software Division To Lay Off 2,000 Workers 34
Windows 11 Adds Native Support For RAR, 7-Zip, Tar Archive File Formats 85
Google Can Turn ANC Earbuds Into a Heart Rate Monitor With No Extra Hardware 20
Mazda's DMCA Takedown Kills a Hobbyist's Smart Car API Tool 28
Tesla Releases Official API Documentation To Support Third-Party Apps 7
Rebuilt Microsoft Teams App Promises Twice the Speed, Half the RAM Usage 121
Unity Dev Group Dissolves After 13 Years Over 'Completely Eroded' Company Trust 23
Apple Releases OS Updates For iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and HomePod 13
Apple Will Update iPhone 12 in France After Regulators Said It Emitted Too Much Radiation 46
GitHub Alienates Developers By Force Feeding Them AI Recommendations 27
Lockheed Risks $800 Million Withheld Over New F-35 Software 141
Dennis Austin, the Software Developer of PowerPoint, Dies At 76 29
China State-Backed Firm Apologizes For 'Home Developed' Software Based On Microsoft Source Code 44
The Future of Open Source is Still Very Much in Flux 49
Apple 'Punishing' iPad Pro Buyers With New Pencil Software Lockdown 73
NYC Subway Using AI To Track Fare Evasion 61
Meta Is Planning To Let People In the EU Download Apps Through Facebook 28
WhatsApp Kills Off the Electron-Based Desktop App 37
PostgreSQL Reconsiders Its Process-Based Model 54
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Tips For Creating Effective Documentation? 108
Apple Accidentally Releases iOS 17 Developer Beta To the Public 13
Apple Announces macOS Sonoma With Desktop Widgets and Game Mode 23
Apple Announces VisionOS, the Operating System For Its Vision Pro Headset 38
MS Paint Gets Its Long-Promised Dark Mode, Along With Other Improvements 25
Windows 11 Is Getting the Ability To Run Win32 Apps In Isolation 63
Australian Stock Exchange Says Software Overhaul Will No Longer Involve Blockchain 31
Apple Publishes First-Ever App Store Transparency Report 4
CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust 34
Apple Launches Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro on iPad with New Subscription Pricing 49
Meet the People Who Use 'Notion' To Plan Their Whole Lives 119
FSF Calls On the IRS To Provide Libre Tax-Filing Software 111
Why Video Editors Are Switching To DaVinci Resolve In Droves 97
Software Firms Across US Facing Massive Tax Bills That Threaten Tech Startup World Survival 77
Crypto's Ethereum Blockchain Completes Its Key Shanghai Software Upgrade 17
IRS-Authorized eFile.com Tax Return Software Caught Serving JS Malware 32
ByteDance-Owned Instagram Rival Lemon8 Hits the US App Store's Top 10 11
Microsoft Says Its New Version of Teams Is Twice As Fast 86
VW Will Support Software Products For Up To 15 Years 23
Duolingo Is Working On a Music App 8
Microsoft Wants Changing Default Apps In Windows To Be Less of a Mess 80
DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay Renderer Code Published 9
Ask Slashdot: What Exactly Are 'Microservices'? 288
GitLab Loses One-Third of Its Value After Weak Revenue Forecast 40
cURL, the Omnipresent Data Tool, Is Getting a 25th Birthday Party This Month 10
Nearly 40% of Software Engineers Will Only Work Remotely 163
Jack Dorsey-Backed Twitter Alternative Bluesky Hits the App Store As An Invite-Only App 89
Atlassian and Envoy Briefly Blame Each Other For Data Breach 6
KDE Plasma 5.27 Released 18
Viral TikTok Challenge Forces Hyundai and Kia To Update Software On Millions of Vehicles 84
Dashlane Publishes Its Source Code To GitHub In Transparency Push 8
Think Twice Before Using Google To Download Software, Researchers Warn 54
BMW Owner Discovers Car's Software Update Won't Install When Parked on Incline 127
AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices For Abuse 107
Google Releases Flutter 3.7, Teases Future of App Development Framework 24
Android 14 Set To Block Certain Outdated Apps From Being Installed 35
Anti-Plagiarism Service Turnitin Is Building a Tool To Detect ChatGPT-Written Essays 69
Microsoft Has Copied the Best Windows Audio App 41
The Lights Have Been On At a Massachusetts School For Over a Year Because No One Can Turn Them Off 202
Discord Acquires Gas, the Popular App For Teens To Compliment Each Other 27
Woman Ordered To Repay Employer After Software Shows 'Time Theft' 167
Native Americans Ask Apache Foundation To Change Name 339
MSI Intends 'To Continue With Afterburner' Overclocking App Despite Not Paying Its Russian Dev 52
Belarus Legalizes Piracy of Movies, Music and Software of 'Unfriendly' Nations 198
'We Found Subscription Menus in Our BMW Test Car. Is That Bad?' 173
Salesforce Guts Tableau After Spending $15.7 Billion in 2019 Deal 16
Southwest Meltdown Shows Airlines Need Tighter Software Integration 59
Sage Accused of 'Strong Arm' Tactics Over Move To Software Subscriptions 98
Police in China Can Track Protests By Enabling 'Alarms' on Hikvision Software 36
Software Engineer Charged For Theft Inspired By the Movie 'Office Space' 99
Waze Tests New Alerts Warning Drivers About Roads With a 'History of Crashes' 35
Ask Slashdot: What Note-Taking App Do You Use? 187
Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Modern Terminal Emulators? 286
AI Art Apps Are Cluttering the App Store Following Lensa AI's Success 7
Poor Software Costs the US 2.4 Trillion 78
UK Arrests Five For Selling 'Dodgy' Point of Sale Software 23
New Winamp Update Adds Features, Fixes, and (Sigh) Support For 'Music NFTs' 47
Microsoft Says Attackers Are Hacking Energy Grids By Exploiting Decades-Old Software 60
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91 16
US Navy Forced To Pay Software Company For Piracy 87
Windows 10 Users With Windows Subsystem For Linux Can Now Use GUI Apps 101
Authors Offer Free Downloads for New Second Edition of 'Designing with LibreOffice' Book 36
Nearly 50% of macOS Malware Comes From One App 74
Thanks To Open Source, 5G Cracks 50% of the Telecom Market 25
DuckDuckGo's Anti-Tracking Android Tool Could Be 'Even More Powerful' Than iOS 31
How Mem Plans To Reinvent Note-Taking Apps With AI 23
Zoom Is Adding Email and Calendar Features 16
Chrome To Drop Support For Windows 7 In 2023 53
Apple Rumored To Be Testing macOS For M2 iPad Pro 35
New Version of Windows 95 JavaScript App Runs On Basically Any Platform 32
Microsoft's PC Manager Is Like CCleaner For Your Computer 41
Company That Makes Rent-Setting Software For Apartments Accused of Collusion, Lawsuit Says 116
Google Announces GUAC Open-Source Project On Software Supply Chains 2
Visitors of Qatar World Cup Need To Install Spyware On Their Phone 110
Is a 'Software Engineer' An Engineer? Alberta Regulator Says No, Riling the Province's Tech Sector 258
VirtualBox 7.0 Adds First ARM Mac Client, Full Encryption, Windows 11 TPM 19
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time 95
IceWM Reaches Version 3 After a Mere 25 Years 38
Robinhood Debuts New Non-Custodial Crypto Wallet 22
Software Makers' Restrictive License Rules Targeted by New Group 31
Senators Introduce a Bill To Protect Open-Source Software 35
Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data 37
Apple To Hike App Store Prices Across Europe and Some Parts of Asia Next Month 28
Crypto's Long-Awaited 'Merge' Reaches the Finish Line 67
Breach of Software Maker Used To Backdoor Ecommerce Servers 9
Software Fees To Make Up 10% of John Deere's Revenues By 2030 48
Linux Foundation Announces the OpenWallet Foundation To Develop Interoperable Digital Wallets 17
Logitech's Webcam Software is a Mess 56
Microsoft's Largest Piece of Software Weighed More Than 40 Pounds 82
Report: 97% of Software Testing Pros Are Using Automation 49
Star American Professor Masterminded a Surveillance Machine For Chinese Big Tech 26
PSA: Update Your iPhone To iOS 15.6.1 For Two Major Security Fixes 17
Curiosity Mars Rover Gets 50% Speed Boost From Software Update 50
NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS That Can Run On Late-1980s Hardware 41
Researchers Find Vulnerability In Software Underlying Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Other Apps 23
Ethereum Software Update Planned for September After Successful Test 34
Excel Esports On ESPN Show World the Pain of Format Errors 35
There Were 19 New GNU Releases Last Month 30
DreamWorks Animation To Release Renderer As Open-Source Software 30
ChromeOS 104 Rolling Out With Dark Theme, Redesigned Launcher, and More 14
Winamp, the Best MP3 Player of the 1990s, Receives Major Update 127
From Software Developer To CEO: Red Hat's Matt Hicks On His Journey To the Top 17
Google Play Store Removes Version Numbers From Android App Listings 35
OpenCAPI To Fold Into CXL - CXL Set To Become Dominant CPU Interconnect Standard 1
Thousands of Lives Depend on a Transplant Network in Need of 'Vast Restructuring' 30
Google Is Adding Flyover-Like Aerial Views To Maps 5
Porsches Postponed by Buggy Software Cost VW's CEO His Job 40
Google Play Store Is Bringing Back the App Permissions List 11
Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand's Pro-Democracy Movement 6
Microsoft Changes Policy Against the Sale of Open Source Software in the Microsoft Store 34
How the FSF Runs Using Nothing But Freedom-Respecting BIOS 54
New Windows Media Player App Travels Back in Time, Gains the Ability To Rip CDs 65
Ex-Google Chief's Venture Aims To Save Neglected Science Software 23
Gtk 5 Might Drop X.11 Support, Says GNOME Dev 145
Thunderbird 102 Released 35
Meta Sparks Anger By Charging For VR Apps 32
FCC Commissioner Wants Apple, Google To Remove TikTok From App Stores 40
Google Hangouts is Shutting Down in November 24
Software Maker Zendesk To Be Bought by Investor Group in $9.5 Billion Cash Deal 5
Adobe Acrobat May Block Antivirus Tools From Monitoring PDF Files 43
Microsoft Updates Store Rules To Ban Paid Copycat Open-Source Projects 37
The Collapse of Complex Software 317
Telegram Says It's Working on a Paid Service 30
GitHub Sunsets Atom, Its Text Editor for Software Development 94
Apple is Finally Adding Some of Gmail's Best Features To Its Own Email Apps 53
Canon Wireless Printers Are Getting Stuck In Reboot Loops 85
Banking Giant Capital One Enters B2B Software Industry With Launch of New Business 7
Google To Combine Meet, Duo Into Single App 19
IBM Must Pay $1.6 Billion in BMC Case, Federal Judge Orders 23
Broadcom To 'Focus On Rapid Transition To Subscription' For VMware 68
Hollywood Designer 6.0 Released: Now a 'Full-Blown Multimedia Authoring System' 20
Google's AI Is Smart Enough To Understand Your Humor 73
Software Freedom Conservancy Wins Big Step Forward For Open-Source Rights 18
White House Joins OpenSSF, Linux Foundation In Securing Open-Source Software 46
FBI Told Israel It Wanted Pegasus Hacking Tool For Investigations 7
Research Finds Over 1.5 Million 'Abandoned' Mobile Apps 46
Microsoft Recommends People Uninstall Optional Windows 11 Update KB5012643 75
Remote Lockouts Reportedly Stop Russian Troops From Using Stolen Ukrainian Farm Equipment 152
Spanish Prime Minister's Mobile Phone Infected By Pegasus Spyware 26
'Speedcam Anywhere' App Allows Anyone To Submit Evidence of Drivers Speeding 323
California Suggests Taking Aim At AI-Powered Hiring Software 34
Uber To Create Travel 'Superapp' By Adding Planes, Trains and Rental Cars 18
Apple Announces Digital WWDC 2022 Event 23
Mac Studio Storage Not User-Upgradeable Due to Software Block 204
False Advertising To Call Software Open Source When It's Not, Says Court 20
Christopher Alexander, Father of Pattern Language Movement, Dies At 86 8
macOS 12.3 Arrives With Universal Control, Spatial Audio Features 121
Russia Mulls Legalizing Software Piracy As It's Cut Off From Western Tech 131
Alarm Raised After Microsoft Wins Data-Encoding Patent 46
Cisco Made $20 Billion-Plus Takeover Offer For Splunk 25
KDE Plasma 5.24 Released 38
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Software Development, Linux, and Git Certification 13
Norton 360 Criticized For Installing a Cryptominer 96
Ruling Party Figures Say Poland Has Pegasus Spyware 27
Adobe Stock Plummets 10%, Its Second-Worst Day In Past Decade 32
Apple Is Rebuilding Apple Music As a Full Native App 38
TikTok Is Testing a Desktop Streaming Software Called TikTok Live Studio 13
Microsoft Tempts Software Pirates With 50 Percent Discount On Office 76
Winamp Prepares a Relaunch 84
Microsoft Will Not Bring x64 Emulation to Windows 10 on ARM 46
'If Apple Keeps Letting Its Software Slip, the Next Big Thing Won't Matter' 116
Penpot, the Vector Design Web-app Taking On Figma and Canva With FOSS, Hits Beta 55
Discord Pushes Pause on Exploring Crypto and NFTs Amidst User Backlash 22
Adobe Brings New Creative Cloud Apps To M1 Macs and The Web 11
Apple Argues Against Allowing App Sideloading By Pointing Out Android's Malware Figures 66
Steve Jobs Tried To Convince Dell To License Mac Software 42
Google Maps Can Now Show You the Most Fuel-Efficient Route 56
Apple Says Apps Must Offer a Way To Delete Your Account Starting In Early 2022 23
Microsoft Opens Its Windows Store Up To Third-party App Stores 27
Windows 11 Setup Warns That You Aren't 'Entitled' To Updates On Unsupported PCs 131

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