Developers Stories for 2016

Microsoft Open-Sources 'Checked C,' A Safer C Version 208
GitHub Presses Big Red Password Reset Button After Third-Party Breach 32
Samsung Buys US Cloud Services Firm Joyent 43
FBI Can Access Hundreds of Millions of Face Recognition Photos 97
Safari 10 In macOS Sierra Deactivates Flash, Silverlight and Other Plug-Ins by Default 114
Hacker Steals 45 Million Accounts From Hundreds of Car, Tech, Sports Forums 47
Adios Apt and Yum? Ubuntu's Snap Apps Are Coming To Distros Everywhere 274
Developer Accuses Apple Of Stealing His Breathe App 170
Apple Introduces New File System AFPS With Tons Of 'Solid' Features 295
Programmer Automates His Job For 6 Years, Gets Fired, Realizes He Has Forgotten How To Code 210
Apple Introduces Swift Playgrounds App To Teach Kids To Code 73
Apple Announces iOS 10, watchOS 3, and new features for tvOS 86
Interviews: Ask Perl Creator Larry Wall a Question 281
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best CMS? 222
Air Force Has Lost 100,000 Inspector General Records 116
DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant 176
jQuery 3.0 Stops Supporting Internet Explorer Workarounds 80
Facebook Now Lets Users Comment With a Video 29
Ready CEO: Coding Snobs Are Not Helping Our Children Prepare For The Future 342
Judge Blasts Oracle's Attempt To Overturn Pro-Google Jury Verdict 106
Visual Studio 2015 C++ Compiler Secretly Inserts Telemetry Code Into Binaries 421
Google Matches Apple's Plan To Give Developers A Bigger Cut of The Revenue 44
Slashdot Asks: Is the App Boom Over? 278
Tor Developer Jacob Appelbaum Allegedly Intimidated Victims Into Silence and Anonymity 337
Firefox 47 Arrives With Synced Tabs Sidebar, Better YouTube Playback 129
Password Autocorrect Without Compromising Security 140
Biden Unveils Open-Access Database To Advance Cancer Research 42
Oracle Whistleblower Suit Raises Questions Over Cloud Accounting 63
Microsoft Declines To Make a 64-Bit Visual Studio 359
Python/Unix Hybrid Demoed at PyCon 181
Wonder Boy Remake Finally On The Way 48
Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation 951
Apple Releases First Preview of Swift 3.0 227
Bill Gates: AI Is The 'Holy Grail' 260
Microsoft Removes 260-Character Path Length Limit In Windows 10 Redstone 260
ASUS Unveils $599 Home Robot 'Zenbo' 39
Iran Forces Messaging Apps To Move Data To Iranian Servers 40
Is Denver The Next High-Tech Center? 151
Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade 352
Op-ed: Oracle Attorney Says Google's Court Victory Might Kill the GPL 357
Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL 217
Finnish Government Criticizes Microsoft For Job Cuts, 'Broken Promises' 161
Google Boosts Mobile Web Speed On Apple Devices With Accelerated Mobile Pages 28
FBI Raids Dental Software Researcher Who Found Patient Records On Public Server 130
Android Is 'Fair Use' As Google Beats Oracle In $9 Billion Lawsuit 243
American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong 369
CentOS Linux 6.8 Released 91
State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server 371
Apple To Open Up Siri To Developers, Release An Amazon Echo Competitor 82
Pastejacking Attack Appends Malicious Terminal Commands To Your Clipboard 89
Facebook Acquires VR Audio Company, Launches 'Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation' 28
FBI Wants Biometric Database Hidden From Privacy Act 81
September: Netflix Will 'Become Exclusive US Pay TV Home of Films From Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar' 175
Code Quality Predicted Using Biometrics 122
Microsoft Urged to Open Source Classic Visual Basic 331
Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? 341
Node.js Now Runs COBOL and FORTRAN 86
'Eat, Sleep, Code, Repeat' Approach Is Such Bullshit 192
A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies 392
Declaring Code Is Not Code, Says Larry Page 405
Humanoid 'Pepper' Robot Needs US Android Programmers 29
Android Wear 2.0 Gets A Keyboard, Standalone Apps, Activity Recognition, New UI 31
Google Turns Firebase Into Its Unified Platform For Mobile Developers 11
Google Announces New Virtual Reality Platform 'Daydream' 24
Theoretical Breakthrough Made In Random Number Generation 152
Twitter To Stop Counting Photos And Links In 140-Character Limit 91
Microsoft Kills Its Game-Building Platform Spark 84
Oracle V. Google Being Decided By Clueless Judge and Jury 436
Brazilian Devs Launch Tiny $1 STEM-Oriented Microcontroller Board On Indiegogo 83
Google Devs Planning Flash's Demise With New 'HTML5 By Default' Chrome Setting 131
Google Open-Sources SyntaxNet Natural-Language Understanding Library, Parsey McParseface Training Model 56
Linux Is the Largest Software Development Project On the Planet: Greg K-H 178
Attackers Targeting Critical SAP Flaw Since 2013 57
'I Know How To Program, But I Don't Know What To Program' 255
Open Source Artificial Pancreas Helps Engineer's Son Survive With Type 1 Diabetes 104
Panama Papers Affair Widens As Database Goes Online 100
Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe 102
Researchers Are Reconstructing Babbage's Analytical Engine 76
NASA Launches Searchable Database Of Public Domain Patents 19
Panama Papers Source Breaks Silence Over 'Scale Of Injustices' 114
Unity 8 And Snaps Are Conquering The Ubuntu Desktop After Ubuntu 16.10 78
No One Should Have To Use Proprietary Software To Communicate With Their Government 154
Facebook Paid $10,000 To A 10-Year-Old For Hacking Instagram 62
Prince Quietly Helped Launch a Coding Program For Inner City Youth 172
China Creates World's First Graphene Electronic Paper 92
Humble Bundle Announces 'Hacker' Pay-What-You-Want Sale 52
Microsoft Buys Into DNA Data Storage 81
HTC Announces $100 Million Fund For Virtual Reality Startups 43
Inside 'Emojigeddon': The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium 226
Node.js Version 6 Released With LTS 58
Software Audits: How High-Tech Software Vendors Play Hardball 162
Interview With Python Creator Guido Van Rossum 222
Slashdot Asks: Have You Experienced Ageism? 561
Turns Out That Snaps Are Not Secure In Ubuntu With X11 133
Comcast To Allow TV Customers To Ditch Set-Top Box 113
Scientist Shrinks Arduino To Size Of An AA Battery 47
Oracle Patches 136 Flaws In 49 Products 23
GameStop Forms Publishing Program GameTrust To 'Revolutionize' the Process 40
Six-Hour Meeting Friday Fails to End Oracle/Google Lawsuit 88
Out-of-Date Apps Put 3 Million Servers At Risk of Crypto Ransomware Infections 34
That Man Who 'Deleted His Entire Company' With a Line of Code? It Was a Hoax 93
MIT Bug Finder Uncovers Flaws In Web Apps In 64 Seconds 24
Apple Considering Google-Like 'Paid Search' On App Store 49
Microsoft Sending Minecraft To Summer School 40
GoPro Announces Third-Party Developer Program With Over 100 Partners 15
Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code 460
Chrome 50 Updates Push Notifications, Drops Support For Old Windows and OS X Versions 168
Facebook's Account Kit Login System Works Via Phone Numbers, No Passwords Needed 116
Jigsaw Ransomware Deletes Your Files If You Don't Pay Or When You Reboot Your PC 108
The Future of Firefox is Chrome 243
Facebook Announces 'Surround 360' Open Source VR Camera 32
Facebook Launches 'Agents On Messenger' Platform With Chatbots 46
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? 523
UbuntuBSD Is Looking To Become An Official Ubuntu Flavor 117
Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere 185
Opinion: DevOps Is Dead 123
Jeff Bezos: AWS Will Break $10 Billion This Year 97
Google Launches Android Studio 2.0 With Instant Run, Faster Android Emulator, and Cloud Test Lab 58
Google May Adopt Apple's Swift Programming Language For Android, Says Report 172
Blizzard Shuts Down Popular Fan-run 'Pirate' Server For Classic WoW 266
OpenStack Mitaka Aimed at Simplifying Cloud Operations 20
Outdated and Vulnerable WordPress, Drupal Versions Contributed To Panama Papers Breach 155
Computer Created A 'New Rembrandt' After Analyzing Paintings 115
Magic Kinder Android App Lets Strangers Send Images, Videos To Your Kids 30
Ubuntu Budgie Could Be The New Flavor of Ubuntu Linux 116
China Censors Online Discussion About Panama Papers 109
Toyota Teams With Microsoft On Connected Cars 116
TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right 334
Turkish Citizenship Database Allegedly Leaked Online 44
Head of Oracle Linux Moves To Microsoft 95
Red Hat Expands Red Hat Developer Program With No-Cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux 50
Steam Hacker Says More Vulnerabilities Will Be Found 37
PHP, Python and Google Go Fail To Detect Revoked TLS Certificates 64
Bitcoin Could Consume As Much Electricity As Denmark By 2020 170
Apple Releases iOS 9.3.1 With Fix For Unresponsive Links 36
Microsoft Makes Xamarin Free In Visual Studio, Will Open Source Core Xamarin Tech 143
Using Adblock Plus to Block Ads is Legal, Rules German Court -- For the Fifth Time 237
Microsoft Extends Its Windows Hello Login Security Features To Apps and the Web 47
Microsoft Launches Cognitive Services Based On Project Oxford and Bing 21
Microsoft Launches HoloLens Emulator, No Headset Required 31
Microsoft Unlocks the Ability To Turn Xbox One Consoles Into 'Development Kits' 73
Microsoft Launches Bot Framework To Let Developers Build Their Own Chatbots 81
Apple's New Safari Technology Preview Browser Is Aimed At Web Developers 42
Torvalds' Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong 273
Researcher Uses Valve Security Bug To Upload Paint Drying Game On Steam 48
Clicking on Links in iOS 9.3 Can Crash Your iPhone and iPad 100
'My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT' 177
New NASA Launch Control Software Late, Millions Over Budget 205
Microsoft Finally Ships $8,999 Surface Hub 109
DARPA's Latest Grand Challenge Takes On The Radio Spectrum 64
Fredkin Gate Breakthrough Brings Quantum Computing Within Closer Reach 52
Oracle Seeks $9.3 Billion For Google's Use Of Java In Android 343
Redbox Plans To Launch New Streaming Service 'Redbox Digital' 62
New Attack Discovered On Node.js Package Manager npm 90
Sony Fixes Flubbed Dash Download 39
Names That Break Computers 372
Why Learning To Code Won't Save Your Job 155
Is Old Tech Putting Banks Under Threat Of Extinction? 208
1.5 Million Verizon Customer Records Put Up For Sale 26
Chromium Being Ported To VC++, Scrubbed of Compiler Bugs 93
Microsoft and HP Enterprise Invest $73.5 Million In Mesosphere Startup 27
Guiding Eyes Moves To IBM Cloud To Continue Mission Of Serving The Blind 7
Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time 281
Google Opens Access To Its Speech Recognition API, Going Head To Head With Nuance 46
Apple Worries Spy Technology Has Been Secretly Added To Computer Servers It Buys 251
Red Hat Becomes First $2 Billion Open-Source Company 116
How One Dev Broke Node and Thousands of Projects In 11 Lines of JavaScript 480
Apache PDFBox Hits 2.0 34
Tor Project Says It Can Quickly Catch Spying Code 34
One Million School Children To Get Free BBC Micro:bit Computers 157
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Join Forces To Create New Encrypted Email Protocol 123
Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL 354
Amazon Employees Launch Matchmaking Startup For Coworkers 170
Research Suggests 'CS For All' May Mean Lower Pay For All 310
Studio Ghibli Animation Software Going "Open Source"; Details Pending 102
Pale Moon Devs Ponder Dropping Current Codebase And Starting From Scratch 167
Apple Hires Corporate Security Chief Amid Legal Battle With FBI 61
Cinema-Quality Unity Engine 'Adam' Demo Claims To Run Real-Time On GeForce GTX 980 59
Laid-Off Abbott IT Workers Won't Have To Train Their Replacements 284
More Devs Now Use OS X Than Linux, Says Survey 532
Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party 586
NSA Suggested Clinton Use A $4,750 Windows CE PDA 109
FTC Warns Android App Developers About Use of Audio-Tracking Code 81
NY Bill Would Provide Tax Credit For Open Source Contributors 54
Emails Show NSA Rejected Hillary Clinton's Request For Secure Smartphone 229
Apple Stores iCloud Data With Google 49
5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories From the Cybersecurity Frontlines 67
Study: Drones Present Minimal Threat To Aircraft 176
Xbox Live Now Supports Cross-Platform Multiplayer With PS4 105
Microsoft to Open Source Minecraft-Based Project AIX 48
Obama Administration Supports Recycling Code and Open Source 100
Sorry, Indie Devs -- Pop Apps Are the Future of App Store 103
GNU Project Introduces Gneural Network AI Package 95
Why Do We Work So Hard? 282
Code.org Hacked, Emails and Locations Data of Volunteers Compromised 33
2 Years Later, Java Security Still Broken By Faulty Oracle Patch 41
An Inside Look At How Netflix Builds Code 48
'Serious Sam 1' Engine Released As Open Source 82
Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco 729
One Solution to MITRE's Overworked CVE System: Build a New One 47
A California Jury Finds Copyright Infringement In an Interface 125
MIT Creates Algorithm That Speeds Up Page Load Time By 34% 169
Google Launches Android N Developer Preview And Beta Program 24
Microsoft Releases First Public Preview of RTVS Under MIT and GPLv2 Licenses 57
1 in 3 Developers Fear AI Will Replace Them 337
Open Source-happy Microsoft Joins Eclipse Foundation 131
A New Reality For IT: the 18-Month Org Chart 246
Crossword Database Analysis Spots What Looks Like Plagiarism 44
BorgBackup 1.0.0 Released 64
Hundreds of Hackers Celebrate Open Data Day 21
EFF On Why FBI Can't Force Apple To Sign Code 252
Bitcoin's Nightmare Scenario Has Come To Pass 306
$500K NSF Grant Boosted Girls' CS Participation At Obama Daughters' $37K/Yr HS 187
Buffer Sees Clear Benefits To Transparent Employee Salary Policy 137
Incident Raises Concerns About a More Formal Spec For Bitcoin 80
Windows' Built-In PDF Reader Exposes Edge Browser To Hacking 97
Reports Coming In Of Mass IBM Layoffs Underway In The US 252
Google Says Angular 2 Will Support Python, Java 92
Security Talent Shortage Hits Cybercrime Groups, Too 40
Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally 707
HoloLens For Developers Available For Pre-Order 58
Ardupilot To Continue As Non-Profit 10
Raspberry Pi 3 Brings Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 97
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Shelved OSS Project Fixes? 122
Chicago Public Schools Make Computer Science a Requirement For a HS Diploma 209
Microsoft To Acquire Xamarin 130
New GitHub Upgrades Respond To Recent Complaints 84
Multimedia Powerhouse FFmpeg Hits 3.0 67
Linux's Open Mainframe Project Announces Areas of Focus 47
Computer Engineer Wes Clark Dies at 88 16
Ask Slashdot: Good Technical Guide To Windows 10? 199
Database Error Exposes Sensitive Information On 1,700 Kids 62
The Story Behind the Worst Computer Game In History 157
Cyanogen Tackles How Developers Interact With Mobile Devices 39
Programming Languages For Coding the Physical World 97
Kotlin 1.0 Released 121
LinkedIn Is Open Sourcing Their Testing Frameworks 77
Htop 2.0 Released, Runs Natively On BSDs and Mac OSX 37
Interviews: Ask Author and Programmer Andy Nicholls About R 187
The Way VCs Think About Open Source: Mostly Wrong 102
IBM Bequeaths the Express Framework To the Node.js Foundation 47
First Steps Towards Network Transparency For Wayland 154
AWS Terms of Service Offer a Break If Zombie Apocalypse Occurs 57
Women Get Pull Requests Accepted More (Except When You Know They're Women) 293
DjangoCon 2016 To Be Held In Philadelphia In July 19
Uborne Children's Books Release For Free Computer Books From the '80s 119
Amazon Launches Free Game Engine Lumberyard 56
Java Installer Flaw Shows Why You Should Clear Your Downloads Folder 64
GitHub Open Sources Their Internal Testing Tool 62
Researcher Finds Tens of Software Products Vulnerable To Simple Bug 162

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