Developers Stories for 2016

Pull Requests Are Accepted At About The Same Rate, Regardless of Gender 94
Facebook Buys Data From Third-Party Brokers To Fill In User Profiles 116
Nevada Website Bug Leaks Thousands of Medical Marijuana Dispensary Applications 55
Millions of Websites Vulnerable Due To Security Bug In Popular PHP Script 104
How Would You Generate C Code Using Common Lisp Macros? 108
Python 3.6 Released 187
Apple Delays App Store Security Deadline For Developers 25
Crytek Closing Five Studios, Will Refocus On 'Premium IPs' and CryEngine 54
Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees 295
Are Remote Offices Becoming The New Normal? 250
Does Code Reuse Endanger Secure Software Development? 148
Building a Coder's Paradise Is Not Profitable: GitHub Lost $66M In Nine Months Of 2016 227
Twitter Blocks Government 'Spy Centers' From Accessing User Data 46
Analysts Tout 'State of The Developer' Survey By Awarding RPG Characters 47
Google Now Lets Developers Write Apps For the Assistant On Google Home 39
AI Will Disrupt How Developers Build Applications and the Nature of the Applications they Build 107
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Makes Game For Third Annual Hour of Code 135
New Stegano Exploit Kit Hides Malvertising Code In Banner Pixels 207
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft Will Create 'Hash' Database To Remove Extremist Content 262
California State Senator Introduces Bill That Would Mandate Reporting of 'Superbug' Infections, Deaths 75
Ask Slashdot: Have You Read 'The Art of Computer Programming'? 381
Drupal Event Apologizes For Giving Out Copies Of Playboy 251
Perl Advent Calendar Enters Its 17th Year 37
Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump 588
Cyanogen Inc and CyanogenMod Creator Steve Kondik Part Ways 75
Google's New Public NTP Servers Provide Smeared Time 179
SourceForge Introduces HTTPS Support For Project Websites 44
Facebook Cuts Off Competitor Prisma's API Access 65
Muni System Hacker Hit Others By Scanning For Year-Old Java Vulnerability 30
AT&T Unveils DirecTV Now Streaming TV Service With Over 100 Channels 80
Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 403
Ask Slashdot: Has Your Team Ever Succumbed To Hype Driven Development? 332
O'Reilly Discounts Every eBook By 50% 47
American Computer Scientists Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton Receive Presidential Medals of Freedom 126
Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? 280
Oracle Buys Dyn DNS Provider 117
MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle 153
A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute 172
FCC Abides By GOP Request To Stop What It's Doing, Deletes Everything From Meeting Agenda 119
Microsoft Announces Visual Studio For Mac 83
Google Joins Microsoft's .NET Foundation 93
Chemical Traces On Your Phone Reveal Your Lifestyle, Scientists Say 80
Charter Customer Sues Over Hidden Fees, Claims 'Massive Billing Fraud' 96
Samsung Really, Really Wants Developers To Build Tizen Apps 122
Microsoft is Bringing Visual Studio To Mac 133
More Code In Movies: Nmap Meets Snowden 73
Java's Open Sourcing Still Controversial Ten Years Later 89
How Stephen Wolfram Devised Interstellar Travel (And Code Samples) For 'Arrival' 102
'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming 497
IMDb Sues California To Overturn Law Forcing Them To Remove Actors' Ages 68
Google Says There Are Now 2 Billion Active Chrome Installs 48
IBM's Project Intu brings Watson's Capabilities To Any Device 17
Ubuntu Budgie Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor 49
Ask Slashdot: Why Are American Tech Workers Paid So Well? 587
Two Critical MySQL Bugs Discovered 70
Adobe Is Working On 'Photoshop For Audio' That Will Let You Add Words Someone Never Said 161
App Developers Spend Too Much Time Debugging Errors in Production Systems 167
Google Moves To Upgrade App Store, Aims To Help Developers Bolster Revenue 25
Facebook Officially Announces Gameroom, Its PC Steam Competitor 116
Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? 435
Bad Code May Have Crashed Schiaparelli Mars Lander 163
Oracle Will Officially Appeal Its 'Fair Use' Loss Against Google 99
'Picat' Programming Language Creators Surprised With A $10,000 Prize 63
Rust Implements An IDE Protocol From Red Hat's Collaboration With Microsoft and Codenvy 49
Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly 176
Mark Cerny, Chief PlayStation Architect, Explains the PS4 Pro 71
China Overtakes the US in iOS App Store Revenue 53
Half of American Adults Are In a Face-Recognition Database 64
The Linux Foundation Helps Launch the JS Foundation 34
Google's Go Language Surges In Popularity 252
Shadow Warrior 2 Developers Say DRM Is a Waste of Time 99
Google Creates AI Program That Uses Reasoning To Navigate the London Tube 76
Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election 367
4Chan Hackers Claim To Have Remotely Wiped John Podesta's iPhone and iPad 269
Inventor of C Dennis Ritchie Honored With Second Death 91
O'Reilly Gives Away Free Programming Ebooks 87
Why Linus Torvalds Prefers x86 Over ARM 150
Melinda Gates Was Encouraged To Use an Apple and BASIC. Her Daughters Were Not. 370
The Real Reasons Companies Won't Hire Telecommuters 269
New AI Is Capable of Beating Humans At Doom 170
BuzzFeed Hacked By OurMine As Group Accuses Site of Publishing 'Fake News' 27
Google Gets Serious About Home Automation: Unveils Google Home, Actions on Google and Google Wifi 91
Splunk CTO Urges Collaboration Against Cyberattacks - And 'Shapeshifting' Networks 88
Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? 531
Federal Prosecutors Actually Prosecute H1-B Fraud 111
Oracle Formally Proposes That Java Adopt Ahead-of-Time Compilation 104
Yahoo Insiders Believe Hackers Could Have Stolen Over 1 Billion Accounts 125
The Psychological Reasons Behind Risky Password Practices 210
Commodore C64 Survives Over 25 Years Balancing Drive Shafts In Auto Repair Shop 290
OVH Hosting Suffers From Record 1Tbps DDoS Attack Driven By 150K Devices 116
Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? 401
California Launches Mandatory Data Collection For Police Use-of-Force 117
A New Programming Language Expands on Google's Go 173
Accenture Patents a Blockchain-Editing Tool 87
VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down 657
Judge Skewers Oracle Attorney For Revealing Google, Apple Trade Secrets 68
TypeScript 2.0 Released 89
W3C Set To Publish HTML 5.1, Work Already Started On HTML 5.2 85
Microsoft Will 'Solve' Cancer Within The Next 10 Years By Treating It Like A Computer Virus, Says Company 259
Larry Ellison Says 'Amazon's Lead is Over' As Oracle Unveils New Cloud Infrastructure 157
Google's New Angular 2.0 Isn't Compatible With Angular 1 121
Apple Releases Swift 3.0, 'Not Source-Compatibile With Swift 2.3' 148
Will Oracle Surrender NetBeans to Apache? 69
Oregon Settles $6 Billion Lawsuit Over Oracle's Botched Healthcare Website 113
Code.org Disses Wolfram Language, Touts Apple's Swift Playgrounds 241
Half Of US Smartphone Users Download Zero Apps Per Month 153
Microsoft Has More Open Source Contributors On GitHub Than Facebook and Google 118
Desktop Apps Make Their Way Into the Windows Store 75
Guccifer 2.0 Releases More DNC Documents 333
World Anti-Doping Agency Says It Was Hacked By Russia 97
Vandalism Detection Contest Sponsored For Wikidata 38
Stephen Wolfram Reveals Ambitious Plan to Teach Computational Thinking 76
Microsoft Hopes To Hire More Coders With Autism 226
Google's DeepMind Develops New Speech Synthesis AI Algorithm Called WaveNet 46
Israeli DDoS Provider 'vDOS' Earned $600,000 In Two Years 74
Google To Buy Apigee For $625 Million To Expand Enterprise 30
Japan To Develop 3D Maps For Self-Driving Cars 25
QtCon Opens In Berlin 38
US Would Be 28th In 'Hacking Olympics', China Would Take The Gold 112
Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower 223
Is Apache OpenOffice Finally On the Way Out? 137
OpenBSD 6.0 Released 94
New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 585
Apple To Remove Abandoned Apps From The App Store 67
400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs? 391
Baidu Open-Sources Its Deep Learning Tools 27
The Slashdot Interview With Ruby on Rails Creator David Heinemeier Hansson 51
Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? 427
Companies Are Developing More Apps With Fewer Developers 163
C Programming Language Hits a 15-Year Low On The TIOBE Index 232
What Jonathan Coulton Learned From The Technology Industry 88
100 Arrested In New York Thanks To Better Face-Recognition Technology 85
Facebook Is Testing Autoplaying Video With Sound 152
20% of Scientific Papers On Genes Contain Conversion Errors Caused By Excel, Says Report 349
Ashley Madison Security Protocols Violated Canada, Austrialia Privacy Laws 29
BHU's 'Tiger Will Power' Wi-Fi Router May Be The Most Insecure Router Ever Made 62
Interviews: Ask Raspberry Pi Founder and CEO Eben Upton a Question 134
Four Code Bootcamps Are Now Eligible For Government Financial Aid 85
100 Unofficial Mods Released for 'No Man's Sky' 72
Fedora 25 To Run Wayland By Default Instead Of X.Org Server 151
Oracle Is Funding a New Anti-Google Group 156
The $5 Onion Omega2 Gives Raspberry Pi a Run For Its Money 124
People Ignore Software Security Warnings Up To 90% of the Time, Says Study 125
Mozilla To Add Screenshot Sharing Feature To Firefox Test Pilot Program 75
Oracle Says Trial Wasn't Fair, It Should Have Known About Google Play For Chrome 182
Intel Unveils Project Alloy 'Merged Reality' Wireless Headset 43
Twitch Acquires Curse, Its Sites, Tools For Gamers, and Databases 25
Windows UAC Bypass Permits Code Execution 79
Intel's Joule is Its Most Powerful Dev Kit Yet 55
FalseCONNECT Vulnerability Affects Software From Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, More 32
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? 674
Internal 'Set Of Blunders' Crashed Australia's Census Site 92
Billionaire Launches Free Code College in California 187
Has The NSF Automated Coding with ExCAPE? 140
One In Five Vehicle Software Vulnerabilities Are 'Hair On Fire' Critical 85
Microsoft's Bill Gates Is Richest Tech Billionaire With $78 Billion Fortune 102
Linux Trojan Mines For Cryptocurrency Using Misconfigured Redis Servers 62
IFTTT Enables 3rd-Party Devs To Integrate the Service Into their Products 18
6 Million Americans Exposed To High Levels of Chemicals In Drinking Water, Says Study 166
White House Releases Federal Source Code Policy To Help Government Agencies Go Open Source 61
'Faceless Recognition System' Can Identify You Even When You Hide Your Face 55
Data Breach At Oracle's MICROS Point-of-Sale Division 33
Is The US Social Security Site Still Vulnerable To Identity Theft? 46
Car Thieves Arrested After Using Laptop and Malware To Steal More Than 30 Jeeps 215
Apple Acquires Machine Learning and AI Startup Turi 14
Kids Can Now Learn To Code With Pocky, the Delicious Japanese Snack 51
Pokemon Go DDoS Attacks Postponed As PoodleCorp Botnet Suffers Security Breach 97
Interviews: Ask Ruby on Rails Creator David Heinemeier Hansson a Question 109
Seymour Papert, Creator of the Logo Language, Dies At 88 68
Microsoft's HoloLens Is Now On Sale To Anyone In The US Or Canada 53
C Isn't The Most Popular Programming Language, JavaScript Is 241
Famed Security Researcher 'Mudge' Creates New Algorithm For Measuring Code Security 77
The End of Gmane? 39
Oracle To Buy Cloud-Software Provider NetSuite For $9.3 Billion 32
C Top Programming Language For 2016, Finds IEEE's Study 315
EU Plans To Create Database of Bitcoin Users With Identities and Wallet Addresses 130
Facebook Open Sources 360 Surround Camera With Ikea-Style Instructions 31
Vine's Source Code Was Accidentally Made Public For Five Minutes 43
Programming Language Gurus Converge on 'Curry On' Conference 88
'High-Risk Vulnerabilities' In Oracle File-Processing SDKs Affect Major Third-Party Products 11
Ask Slashdot: When Do You Include 'Unnecessary' Code? 239
Cyanogen Inc. Reportedly Fires OS Development Arm, Switches To Apps 124
Safari Browser May Soon Be Just As Fast As Chrome With WebP Integration 105
Ex Cardinal's Scouting Director Chris Correa Sentenced To 46 Months For Hacking Astros' Computer System 42
Hacking Group 'OurMine' Claims Credit For Attack On Pokemon Go Servers 48
Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? 326
The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall 167
First Open Source-Based Database Completes U.S. Security Review 49
How (And Why) FreeDOS Keeps DOS Alive 211
Google Decided To Nix Its Oculus Rift Competitor 50
Null Island: The Land of Lousy Directional Data 91
A Smaller Version of Raspberry Pi 3 Is Coming Soon 89
Emirati Man Gets 3-Month Prison Sentence Over Instagram Insult 96
NVIDIA's Releases Its First VR Game, Along With An Interactive Screenshot Tool 'Ansel' 20
Apple Launching Reality TV Show Called 'Planet of the Apps' 62
Ex-Google Engineer Launches Blockchain-Based System For Banks 62
90% Of Software Developers Work Outside Silicon Valley 180
Mozilla Will Ship Its First Rust Component In Firefox 48 167
Sega Saturn's DRM Cracked Almost 23 Years After Launch 96
Leaky Database Leaves Oklahoma Police, Bank Vulnerable To Intruders 16
FBI Has Collected 430,000 Iris Scans In 'Pilot Program' 32
Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments 523
Google To Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers 360
Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Switch Programming Languages? 331
Assembly Code That Took America to the Moon Now Published On GitHub 74
Oracle Asks Judge To Throw Out Java/Google Verdict...Again 122
TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly 348
Researchers Find Over 6,000 Compromised Redis Installations 30
Nintendo Stock Price Up 9% After Pokemon Go Launch 46
Mesa 12.0 Released With OpenGL 4.3 Support, Intel Vulkan and More 24
Oracle Says It Is 'Committed' To Java EE 8 -- Amid Claims It Quietly Axed Future Development 66
Debian Founder's 2015 Death Ruled A Suicide 160
FBI Director: Guccifer Admitted He Lied About Hacking Hillary Clinton's Email 289
Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling 393
DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 801
Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules 165
Man Builds Giant Homemade Computer To Play Tetris 127
Apple To Encourage Organ Donation With Health App 63
MIT's Swarm Chip Architecture Boosts Multi-Core CPUs, Offering Up To 18x Faster Processing 55
Google Twists the Knife, Asks For Sanctions Against Oracle Attorney 78
Oracle May Have Stopped Funding and Developing Java EE 115
Age-Discrimination Suit Against Google Seeks Class Action For Engineers 144
Facebook Messenger Now Has 11,000 Bots 43
Slackware 14.2 Released, Still Systemd-Free 179
Oracle Ordered To Pay $3B Damages To HP 47
Ruby On Rails 5.0 Released 37
Congressman Wants Ransomware Attacks To Trigger Breach Notifications 73
2 Million-Person Terror Database Leaked Online 165
DMCA Notices Remove 8,268 Projects On Github In 2015 116
Clinton Tech Plan Reads Like Silicon Valley Wish List 355
AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights 441
Google's Satellite Map Gets a 700-Trillion-Pixel Makeover 70
Google Launches 'Project Bloks' Toys To Teach Kids To Code 54
.NET Core 1.0 Released, Now Officially Supported By Red Hat 123
New C++ Features Voted In By C++17 Standards Committee 286
ECMAScript 2016: New Version of JavaScript Language Released 165
Why Are Hackers Increasingly Targeting the Healthcare Industry? 111
Java, PHP, NodeJS, and Ruby Tools Compromised By Severe Swagger Vulnerability 97
Oculus Ditches DRM Hurdle, Allows HTC Vive Games On Rift Again 37
HTML5 Ads Aren't That Safe Compared To Flash, Experts Say 108
Google Launches Android Programming Course For Absolute Beginners 98
154 Million Voter Records Exposed Due To Database Error 95
MSI and ASUS Accused of Sending Reviewers Overpowered Graphics Cards 133
Indie Dev TinyBuild Lost $450K To Fraudulent Sales Facilitated By G2A 104
DNC Hacker Releases Clinton Foundation Documents 156
Elon Musk's Open Source OpenAI: We're Working On a Robot For Your Household Chores 64
Slashdot Asks: Does Your Company Have A Breach Response Team? 47
Mattel Sells Out Of 'Game Developer Barbie' 224
Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud? 262
Those 100,000 Lost Air Force Files Have Been Found Again 36

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