Developers Stories for 2018

Dev vs. Ops: The State of Accountability 92
Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize For Numerical Software 108
Netflix Permanently Pulls iTunes Billing For New and Returning Users 108
Apache NetBeans 10.0 Now Available 38
Oracle Releases Major Version 6.0 of VirtualBox With Many New Features 77
Python Gets New Governance Model 64
Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS 253
How Microsoft Embraced Python 163
OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' 281
Discord Store To Offer Developers 90 Percent of Game Revenues 47
Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support 202
What Student Developers Want in a Job 195
Driveway Encounter With Microsoft's President Led To $25 Million For Code.org 55
The Friendship That Made Google Huge 57
Electron and the Decline of Native Apps 328
PHP 7.3 Brings C Inlining and Speed Improvements 36
Is Visual Basic .NET More Popular Than JavaScript? 100
Rust 1.31 Released As 'Rust 2018' In Major Push For Backwards Compatibility 81
Google Bridges Android, iOS Development With Flutter 1.0 116
The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House 55
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 For Windows and Mac; Open-Sources WPF, Forms and WinUI 72
2018 Advent Calendars Launched for Computer Programmers and Web Geeks 39
Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief 61
YouTube To Make New Originals Available For Free, Ad-Supported Viewing 63
Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? 227
Microsoft's TypeScript Dominates In 'State of JavaScript 2018' Report 68
That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache 166
PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release 91
GitHub's Four Most Popular Programming Languages Remain: JavaScript, Java, Python, and PHP 144
Amazon Releases A No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK 95
GitHub's Annual Report Reveals This Year's Top Contributor: Microsoft 67
People Sensitive To Caffeine's Bitter Taste Drink More Coffee, Study Finds 60
There Is No Link Between Insomnia and Early Death, Study Finds 58
Microsoft Store Starts Accepting Windows 10 on ARM Apps 35
The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It 663
Deserialization Issues Also Affect Ruby -- Not Just Java, PHP, and .NET 62
Disgruntled Security Researcher Publishes Major VirtualBox 0-Day Exploit 130
Amazon's Consumer Business Has Turned Off Its Oracle Data Warehouse 134
Samsung Opens Its Voice Assistant Bixby To Developers as It Pursues Alexa and Siri 41
Oracle Says China Telecom Has Misdirected Internet Traffic, Including Out of the US, in Recent Years 58
People Who Prefer Black Coffee Are More Likely To Have Psychopathic Or Sadistic Traits, Study Finds 378
Slashdot Asks: Are DevOps, Agile, and Lean IT the Same Thing? 226
Google Won't Let You Sign In If You Disabled JavaScript In Your Browser 172
Tiny Twitter Thumbnail Tweaked To Transport Different File Types 45
'Open Source Creators: Red Hat Got $34 Billion and You Got $0. Here's Why.' 236
Why Jupyter is Data Scientists' Computational Notebook of Choice 58
Twelve Malicious Python Libraries Found and Removed From PyPI 36
With Few US Students Taking CS Classes, Code.org 'Scales Back' Funding For CS Education 162
Microsoft Closes Its $7.5 Billion Purchase of GitHub 87
190 Universities Launch 600 Free Online Courses 82
IBM Open Sources Mac@IBM Code 91
Amazon's Move Off Oracle Caused Prime Day Outage in One of its Biggest Warehouses, Internal Report Says 130
SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct 653
GitHub's Website Remains Broken After a Data Storage System Failed Earlier Today 66
As PHP Group Patches High-Risk Bugs, 62% of Sites Still Use PHP 5 112
Researchers Secretly Deployed A Bot That Submitted Bug-Fixing Pull Requests 87
GitHub Launches 'Actions' -- Code That Can Be Run (and Maybe Monetized) 39
Ask Slashdot: Should Open-Source Developer Teams Hire Professional UI/UX Designers? 249
MongoDB Switches Up Its Open-Source License 141
Magic Leap Expands Shipments of Its AR Headset To 48 US States 23
The Breach That Killed Google+ Wasn't a Breach At All 75
Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator 77
Economics Nobel Laureate Paul Romer Is a Python Programming Convert 106
Microsoft Open Sources Parts of Minecraft's Java Code 79
Microsoft Joins 5th Annual Open Source 'Hacktoberfest' 30
BlackBerry Races Ahead of Security Curve With Quantum-Resistant Solution 39
The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job 415
Former Students Say Steve Wozniak's $13,200 Coding Bootcamp Is 'Broken' and Sometimes Links To Wikipedia 135
Apple Watch Apps Instantly Went 64-Bit Thanks To Obscure Bitcode Option 149
Facebook is Equipping K-8 Classrooms With Robot Sets To Boost Tech Diversity 63
An Open Source Resistance Takes Shape as Tech Giants Race To Map the World 90
Eric S. Raymond Identifies A Common Programming Trap: 'Shtoopid' Problems 189
How Microsoft Rewrote Its C# Compiler in C# and Made It Open Source 85
'Best Open Source Developer Software of 2018' Chosen By InfoWorld 30
New Web Site Will Team Journalists With Programmers 51
Python is a Hit With Hackers, Report Finds 72
Xbox Announces Mouse and Keyboard Support 66
Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. 335
Coding Error Sends 2019 Subaru Ascents To the Car Crusher 183
'Bombe' Replica Code-Breaking WW2 Computer Was Used To Decipher Message Scrambled By An Enigma Machine 37
LLVM 7.0 Released: Better CPU Support, AMDGPU Vega 20; Clang 7.0 Gets FMV and OpenCL C++ 76
The Linux Kernel Has Grown By 225,000 Lines of Code This Year, With Contributions From About 3,300 Developers 88
Google To Kill Its Developer Platform Fabric in Mid-2019, Pushes Developers To Firebase 16
Facebook Creates an AI-Based Tool To Automate Bug Fixes 40
Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms 1342
Microsoft Research Touts Its 'Checked C' Extension For 'Making C Safe' 181
Python Displaces C++ In TIOBE Index Top 3 154
'State of JavaScript 2018' Survey Announced 70
Study Finds 58% of Tech Employees Feel Like Frauds 224
Creator of TempleOS, Terry Davis, Has Passed Away 174
Valve Explains How It Decides Who's a 'Straight Up Troll' Publishing Video Games On Steam 77
Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey 168
50% of Parents in the US Believe Coding Most Beneficial Subject For Their Children, 75% Believe Big Tech Firms Should Be Involved in Helping Schools: Study 219
The State of Agile Software in 2018 315
How Linux's Kernel Developers 'Make C Less Dangerous' 509
Will Unpredictable 'Franken-Algorithms' Have Deadly Consequences and Make Programmers Obsolete? 96
Intel Blocked Collaboration On Spectre/Meltdown Fixes, Says Linux Kernel Developer 83
Linus Torvalds No Longer Knows the Whole Linux Kernel and That's OK 119
Oracle Trying Hard To Make Sure Pentagon Knows Amazon Isn't the Only Cloud Around 72
The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved 382
Locals Reportedly Are Frustrated With Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars 277
Is Julia the Next Big Programming Language? MIT Thinks So, as Version 1.0 Lands 386
What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says 424
Chinese Phone Maker Huawei Risks Alienating Its Loyal Customer Base By Taking a Strong Stand Against Unlocking of Its Handsets, Users Say 148
Half of Audited JavaScript Projects Contained a Vulnerability 62
As PHP 5.6, Still Used By a Large Number of Websites, Approaches Its End of Life Deadline, Some Worry About the Consequences 151
Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store 'Tax' 128
Java and JavaScript Remain the Top Enterprise Developer Languages For the Cloud, Survey Finds 101
Judge Guts FTC's $4 Billion Lawsuit Against DirecTV 57
Twitter's Relationship With Third-Party Apps is Messy -- But It's Not Over 26
Google Releases a Searchable Database of US Political Ads 46
Apple Asked Developers To Adopt Subscriptions and Hike App Prices, Report Says 276
Oracle Accused of Defrauding Investors On Cloud Sales Growth 65
Tesla Will Open Its Security Code To Other Car Manufacturers 143
Researchers Use Machine-Learning Techniques To De-Anonymize Coders 66
Julia 1.0 Released After a Six-Year Wait 131
Baltimore Police Department Is Still Using Lotus Notes 138
Amazon AI Researchers Release a Dataset of 400,000 Transliterated Names To Aid the Development of Natural-Language-Understanding Systems 12
Oracle Challenges Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Computing Contract 101
Hacker Posts Snapchat Source Code To GitHub 49
92 Percent of Enterprises Struggle To Integrate Security Into DevOps 90
Cramming Software With Thousands of Fake Bugs Could Make It More Secure, Researchers Say 179
Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? 473
Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' 409
Microsoft Announces TypeScript 3.0 70
'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' 560
Google-backed Kotlin Gains Adoption in Open Source Android Apps; Scientists Say It Has Improved Code Quality 86
The 2018 Top Programming Languages, According To IEEE 192
Apple Removing iOS and Mac Apps from Affiliate Program 39
Amazon Plans To Move Completely Off Oracle Software By Early 2020 138
Facebook Shuts Off Access To User Data For Hundreds of Thousands of Apps 32
Ubuntu Linux-based Distro Lubuntu To No Longer Focus on Old Hardware 85
Big Tech Warns of 'Japan's Millennium Bug' Ahead of Akihito's Abdication 211
Microsoft Launches Open-Source Quantum Katas Project On GitHub To Teach Q# Programming 37
Bot Tweeted Names And Photos Of Venmo Users Who Bought Drugs 86
Ask Slashdot: Should I Ditch PHP? 341
Bing Now Provides Exact Snippets of Code for Developers' Queries 84
Is Python the Future of Programming? 300
D-Wave's Quantum Computer Successfully Models a Quantum System 60
Google Maps API Becomes 'More Difficult and Expensive' 121
HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week 414
Compromised JavaScript Package Caught Stealing npm Credentials 44
Python Language Founder Steps Down 241
Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? 603
Ask Slashdot: Why Do Popular Websites Add New Features So Sparingly? 190
Apple's App Store Celebrates 10th Anniversary 74
UK Launches National Dashcam Database For Snitching On Bad Drivers 235
Google Allows Outside App Developers To Read People's Gmails, Says Report 96
Scientists Use Caffeine To Control Genes 38
One Misplaced Line of JavaScript Caused the Ticketmaster Breach 44
'Have I Been Pwned' Is Being Integrated Into Firefox, 1Password 111
Oracle Plans To Switch Businesses to Subscriptions for Java SE 217
Valve's Knuckles EV2 Controller Will Let You Squeeze Things In VR 33
GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository 707
Linux 4.18 Preparing Many New Features While Dropping 100k+ Lines of Code 105
Gaming Companies Remove Analytics App After Massive User Outcry 232
America's Former CTO Remembers Historic Coders 93
Eric Raymond Shares 'Code Archaeology' Tips, Urges Bug-Hunts in Ancient Code 109
Microsoft Program Manager Mistakenly Tweets Office 365 Will Be Rewritten in JavaScript 98
Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps 301
Apple Tries To Stop Developers Sharing Data On Users' Friends 21
Four Years On, Developers Ponder The Real Purpose of Apple's Swift Programming Language 262
Should Developers Abandon Agile? 445
Survey: JavaScript is the Most-Used Language, But Java is the Most Popular 136
Linux Foundation Celebrates Microsoft's GitHub Acquisition 162
Facebook Gave Some Developers Access To Users' Friends After Policy Changed 31
Company Takes Over Well-Known OSS Developer's Name Because the Domain Was Free 99
Microsoft Addresses Pressure From Developer Community, Promises To Rename GVFS 158
Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open Sourcing Product 65
Apple Deprecates OpenGL and OpenCL in macOS 10.14 Mojave 269
Apple Brings iOS Apps Into Mac, But Won't Merge Platforms 46
Mobile Devs Making the Same Security Mistakes Web Devs Made in the Early 2000s 96
Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B 493
Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers 256
Programmer Creates Bee Counter Using a Raspberry Pi 60
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub 323
DeepMind Used YouTube Videos To Train Game-Beating Atari Bot 61
Python May Let Security Tools See What Operations the Runtime Is Performing 75
Huawei Will No Longer Allow Bootloader Unlocking On Its Android Handsets 253
Oracle's Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring With Customers 232
Oracle Calls Java Serialization 'A Horrible Mistake', Plans to Dump It 198
A Middle-Aged Writer's Quest To Start Learning To Code For the First Time 183
ACLU Sues ICE For License Plate Reader Contracts, Records 84
The Percentage of Open Source Code in Proprietary Apps is Rising 60
Tesla Releases Some of Its Software To Comply With Open-Source Licenses 24
Fed Up With Apple's Policies, App Developers Form a 'Union' 108
Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Sophisticated Piece of Software Ever Written? 237
California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen 277
Twitter Delays Shutdown of Legacy APIs By 3 Months as it Launches a Replacement 12
Top-Level Domain .App Is Now Open For General Registration 82
Hacker Shuts Down Copenhagen's Public City Bikes System 72
Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree In AI 76
Apple Cracking Down On Apps That Send Location Data To Third Parties 28
In Blocking Autoplay Videos, Chrome Is Breaking Many Web-Based Games 77
Police Drop Charges Filed Against 19-Year-Old Archivist For Downloading FOIA Releases 154
Equifax's Data Breach By the Numbers: 146 Million Social Security Numbers, 99 Million Addresses, and More 69
Microsoft Adds Support For JavaScript Functions in Excel 171
Microsoft Hopes Money Will Entice More Developers 134
GCC 8.1 Compiler Introduces Initial C++20 Support 90
China's Bungled Drone Display Breaks World Record 67
Google Releases Open Source Framework For Building 'Enclaved' Apps For Cloud 21
One Of LLVM's Top Contributors Quits Development Over Code of Conduct, Outreach Program 1235
Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? 214
Researchers Want To Turn Your Entire House Into a Co-Processor Using the Local Wi-Fi Signal 102
As Controversy Swirls, Facebook Dials Down the Swagger On Its Developer Conference 26
Stack Overflow Admits It Hasn't Been Welcoming To 'Newer Coders, Women, People of Color, and Others'; Outlines How It Plans To Change That 618
New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley 292
Oracle Sets End Date for Business Java 8 Updates 85
Go Programming Language Gets A New Logo and Branding 120
Drupal Warns of New Remote-Code Bug, the Second in Four Weeks 50
Apple Open Sources FoundationDB 50
GitHub Launches Bot-Powered Learning Lab for New Developers 9
New Alexa Blueprints Let Users Make Custom Skills Without Knowing Any Code 44
'Login With Facebook' Data Hijacked By JavaScript Trackers 91
Survey Finds 'Agile' Competency Is Rare In Organizations 270
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Make My Own Vaporware Real? 128
Google Appears To Be Testing iPhone X-Style Gesture Navigation In Android P 18
Uber's 2016 Breach Affected More Than 20 Million US Users 6
Apple Starts Alerting Users That It Will End 32-Bit App Support On the Mac 267
Can Ruby Survive Another 25 Years? 195
Programmer Unveils OpenGL Bindings for Bash 47
Ask Slashdot: Should Coding Exams Be Given on Paper? 274
Number of Apps In App Store Declined For the First Time Last Year 63
Twitter Will Break Third-Party Clients in June 53
The Supreme Court Fight Over Microsoft's Foreign Servers Is Over 94
Instagram Suddenly Chokes Off Developers As Facebook Chases Privacy 61
Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? 371
Apple Trains Chicago Teachers To Put Coding In More Classrooms 64
Microsoft Releases New Tool To Get More Distros on Windows 216
Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google 332
Ask Slashdot: How Did Real-Time Ray Tracing Become Possible With Today's Technology? 145
Steve Jobs Tried To Warn Mark Zuckerberg About Privacy In 2010 109
Shodan Search Exposes Thousands of Servers Hosting Passwords and Keys 41
Oracle Releases Java 10, Promises Much Faster Release Schedule 134
NVIDIA RTX Technology To Usher In Real-Time Ray Tracing Holy Grail of Gaming Graphics 159
Magic Leap Lifts the Curtains (A Little) 60
Amazon Is Hiring More Developers For Alexa Than Google Is Hiring For Everything 80
EU Wants To Require Platforms To Filter Uploaded Content (Including Code) 110
Jewelry Site Leaks Personal Details, Plaintext Passwords of 1.3 Million Users 37
Demand For Programmers Hits Full Boil as US Job Market Simmers 272
Developers Love Trendy New Languages, But Earn More With Functional Programming: Stack Overflow's Annual Survey 111
Google and Ubisoft Are Teaming Up To Improve Online Multi-Player Video Games 52
JavaScript Rules But Microsoft Programming Languages Are On the Rise 141
Chrome 65 Arrives With Material Design Extensions Page, New Developer Features 34
A Short Documentary About 81-Year-Old Commodore Amiga Artist, Programmer Samia Halaby 58
Ubisoft is Using AI To Catch Bugs in Games Before Devs Make Them 126
GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded 144
'Java EE' Has Been Renamed 'Jakarta EE' 95
Forget Learning To Code, Bosses Value Collaboration and Communication 197
Code.org Celebrates 5th Anniversary, Success In Changing K-12 Education Policy 36

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Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"