Developers Stories for 2017

Major Banks and Parts of Federal Gov't Still Rely On COBOL, Now Scrambling To Find IT 'Cowboys' To Keep Things Afloat 300
DeepMind Open Sources 'Sonnet' Library For Easier Creation Of Neural Networks 17
Eric S. Raymond Unveils New List Of 'Hacker Archetypes' 116
Ask Slashdot: Should I Move From Java To Scala? 245
Should The FBI Have Arrested 'The Hacker Who Hacked No One'? 227
Uber Said To Use 'Sophisticated' Software To Defraud Drivers, Passengers 168
Twitter To Developers: Please Love Us Again 143
More Than a Hoodie: How We Talk About Developers 169
Salary-Comparing Survey Identifies Top-Paid Developers, Discovers North America Pays Better 267
Tor Browser Will Feature More Rust Code 149
Someone on Medium Just Said C++ Was Better Than C 315
There's A New New JavaScript Framework 70
Microsoft Is Shutting Down CodePlex 45
Google Plans To Alter JavaScript Popups After Abuse From Tech Support Scammers 118
Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter 366
App Store Sales For Android To Overtake Apple's iOS, Research Firm Says 53
Oracle Hires Global Specialists To Explore Feasibility of Buying Accenture 63
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? 548
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Working Environment For a Developer? 360
Facial Recognition Database Used By FBI Is Out of Control, House Committee Hears 90
Prominent Drupal, PHP Developer Kicked From the Drupal Project Over Unconventional Sex Life 656
After 20 Years, OpenSSL Will Change To Apache License 2.0, Seeks Past Contributors 110
Apache Hadoop Has Failed Us, Tech Experts Say 150
Stack Overflow Reveals Results From 'Largest Developer Survey Ever Conducted' 139
Blinking Cursor Devours CPU Cycles in Visual Studio Code Editor 236
LastPass Bugs Allow Malicious Websites To Steal Passwords 126
Performance Bugs, 'the Dark Matter of Programming Bugs', Are Out There Lurking and Unseen 266
Android O First Developer Preview Featuring Notification Channels, Background Limits Now Available 64
GitHub Now Lets Its Workers Keep the IP When They Use Company Resources For Personal Projects 75
O'Reilly Site Lists 165 Things Every Programmer Should Know 234
America's Most Affordable Cities For Tech Workers: Seattle, Austin, and Pittsburgh 127
RedMonk Identifies 2017's Most Popular Languages: JavaScript, Java, And Python 125
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? 300
Math Teacher Solves Adobe Semaphore Puzzle 52
Ask Slashdot: How To Teach Generic Engineers Coding, Networking, and Computing? 197
GitLab Acquires Software Chat Startup Gitter, Will Open-Source the Code 28
Commentary On How To Make Novice Programmers More Professional 188
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? 347
Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? 235
Microsoft Continues Porting Visual C++ To Linux 159
Google Launches Official Gmail Add-On Program 32
Apache Servers Under Attack Through Easily Exploitable Struts 2 Flaw 63
The Promise of Blockchain Is a World Without Middlemen 73
Google's Compute Engine Now Offers Machines With Up To 64 CPU Cores, 416GB of RAM 74
Google Can Now Recognize Objects in Videos Using Machine Learning 47
Apple Begins Rejecting Apps With 'Hot Code Push' Feature 149
Developer Proclaims Death of Cyberfox Web Browser 52
Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 195
Researchers Suggest Using Blockchain For Electronic Health Records 70
Local Police Departments Are Building Their Own DNA Databases 50
Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World 300
An 81-Year-Old Woman Just Created Her Own iPhone App 60
Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer 553
Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process 1001
Severe SQL Injection Flaw Discovered In WordPress Plugin With Over 1 Million Installs 61
CloudPets IoT Toys Leaked and Ransomed, Exposing Kids' Voice Messages 64
GitHub Invites Contributions To 'Open Source Guides' 54
Java and Python FTP Attacks Can Punch Holes Through Firewalls 18
Arizona Bill Would Make Students In Grades 4-12 Participate Once In An Hour of Code 142
Security Lapse Exposed New York Airport's Critical Servers For a Year 45
Cloudflare Leaks Sensitive User Data Across the Web 87
Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job 338
PHP Becomes First Programming Language To Add 'Modern' Cryptography Library In Its Core 204
Slashdot Asks: Are Remote Software Teams More Productive? 165
Mozilla Will Deprecate XUL Add-ons Before the End of 2017 225
Google Releases TensorFlow 1.0 With New Machine Learning Tools 20
Apple Announces WWDC 2017, To Be Held in San Jose On June 5-9 63
JavaScript Attack Breaks ASLR On 22 CPU Architectures 157
Google's Not-so-secret New OS 129
How Algorithms May Affect You 85
Is IoT a Reason To Learn C? 374
AI Software Juggles Probabilities To Learn From Less Data 49
Story Of a Country Which Has Built a Centralized Biometrics Database Of 1.1B People But Appears To Be Mishandling It Now 60
H-1Bs Reduced Computer Programmer Employment By Up To 11%, Study Finds 271
Microsoft's Open-Source Graph Engine Takes On Neo4j 17
Chrome's Sandbox Feature Infringes On Three Patents So Google Must Now Pay $20 Million 104
Story of Two Developers Who Are Reporting Growth in Revenue After Leaving Apple's App Store 65
GitHub Commits Reveal The Top 'Weekend Programming' Languages 149
Oracle Refuses To Accept Android's 'Fair Use' Verdict, Files Appeal 155
Valve Is Shutting Down Steam's Greenlight Community Voting System 99
Slashdot Asks: How Do You Know a Developer is Doing a Good Job? 229
The Most Mentioned Books On StackOverflow 92
Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Replaces 600 Traders With 200 Engineers 185
Microsoft Debuts Customizable Speech-To-Text Tech, Releases Some Cognitive Services Tools To Developers 23
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] 312
How Open Sourcing Made Apache Kafka A Dominant Streaming Platform 48
Disney Thinks High Schools Should Let Kids Take Coding In Place of Foreign Languages 328
14,000 Domains Dropped Dyn's DNS Service After Mirai Attack 27
Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval 600
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? 477
IMDb Is Shutting Down Its Long-Running, Popular Message Boards After 16 Years 168
Microsoft Introduces GVFS (Git Virtual File System) 213
GitLab Says It Found Lost Data On a Staging Server 101
GitLab.com Melts Down After Wrong Directory Deleted, Backups Fail 356
Facebook's Parse Is Shutting Down Today 14
Oracle Effectively Doubles Licence Fees To Run Its Stuff in AWS 198
US Intelligence Seeks a Universal Translator For Text Search In Any Language 47
Japanese Government Requires Java and Internet Explorer 11 X86 81
Software Engineers Are the Heroes of New Computer History Museum Exhibit 115
Breach Notification Website LeakedSource Allegedly Raided By Feds 35
Gmail Will Soon Block JavaScript File Attachments 53
Oracle Lays Off More Than 1,000 Employees 171
Slashdot's Interview With Swift Creator Chris Lattner 85
C++ Creator Wants To Solve 35-Year-Old Generic Programming Issues With Concepts 339
Database Attacks Spread To CouchDB, Hadoop, and ElasticSearch Servers 67
The 32-Bit Dog Ate 16 Million Kids' CS Homework 161
Knuth Previews New Math Section For 'The Art of Computer Programming' 176
Oracle to Block JAR Files Signed with MD5 Starting In April 55
New Release Of Nim Borrows From Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp 199
Oracle Scraps Plans For Solaris 12 127
Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More 317
Blockchain Technology Could Save Banks $12 Billion a Year 109
Opera Presto Source Code Leaks Online 71
Raspberry Pi Upgrades Compute Module With 10 Times the CPU Performance 71
Meet Lux, A New Lisp-like Language 205
Hackers Corrupt Data For Cloud-Based Medical Marijuana System 146
Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? 501
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Place To Suggest New Open Source Software? 225
Node.js's npm Is Now The Largest Package Registry in the World 133
App.net is Shutting Down 30
Author of Swift Language Chris Lattner is Leaving Apple; We're Interviewing Him (Ask a Question!) 339
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Job For This Recent CS Grad? 261
Is The C Programming Language Declining In Popularity? 286
Google Boosts Python By Turning It Into Go 129
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Deal With A 'Gaslighting' Colleague? 433
WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info 211
Microsoft Formally Shuts Down Its TechRewards Program 20
Rumors of Cmd's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated 202
Apple App Store Developers Earned $20 Billion in 2016, Up 40 Percent Year Over Year 26
'Forza Horizon 3' Update Accidentally Published Unencrypted Build of the Game 70
Over 1,800 MongoDB Databases Held For Ransom By Mysterious Attacker 115
Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging 258
Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? 343

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