Developers Stories for 2019

Epic Games Boss Says They'll Stop Doing Exclusives If Steam Gives Developers More Money 239
Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform To Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers 111
Databricks Open-Sources Delta Lake To Make Delta Lakes More Reliable 15
Chrome 74 Arrives With Less Motion Sickness, New JavaScript Features 60
Why Modern C++ Still Isn't As Safe As Memory-Safe Languages Like Rust and Swift 463
Red Hat Takes Over Maintenance of OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 From Oracle 55
Historic 'Summit' with the Creators of Python, Java, TypeScript, and Perl 84
'How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer' 388
Erlang Creator Joe Armstrong Has Died 60
Microsoft Debuts Bosque, a New Programming Language With No Loops, Inspired by TypeScript 261
The Source Code For All Infocom Text Adventure Classics Has Been Released 106
Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Chair For a Software Developer? 255
Mozilla To Bring Python To Browsers 111
VW Says China To Become Global Software Development Hub For Autonomous Tech 186
Overtime Complaints? China's JD.com Boss Criticizes 'Slackers' 180
The Most Loved and Most Disliked Programming Languages Revealed in Stack Overflow Survey 268
NPM Apologizes For the Way It Handled Recent Staff Layoffs 36
Google's Cloud Code Extends IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code To Kubernetes Apps 15
Apple Will Likely Replace iTunes on macOS With Standalone Music, Podcasts, and TV Apps in Next Major Update 51
Most Popular Programming Languages: C++ Knocks Python Out of Top Three in New Study 161
Apple TV+ Includes A Muppet Who Codes 80
Microsoft and Canonical Launch Visual Studio Code Snap For Linux 61
Goldman Sachs Will Open-Source Some Of Its Trading Software 51
Google's Second Android Q Beta Brings Us 'Bubbles' Multitasking 42
Lego Education's Newest Spike Prime Programmable Robots Aim For the Classroom 18
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2019 For Windows and Mac 93
Linux Mint 19.2 'Tina' is On the Way, But the Developers Seem Defeated and Depressed 269
LA County Is Using An Algorithm To Clear 50,000 Pot Convictions Faster 89
Continuing Progress On Babbage Analytical Engine 27
Minecraft Creator Markus 'Notch' Persson Eradicated From Splash Text 342
Startup Coding Bootcamp Modern Labor Says It Will Pay You $2,000 a Month For 5 Months To Learn To Code, and Take Roughly 15% of Your Salary For 2 Years Later 161
Oracle Tells Supreme Court Google Copyright Breach Knocked It Out Of Smartphone Market 290
Once Again, Apple Isn't Following Its Own Advertising Rules 44
Swift 5 Released 56
Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? 330
82-Year-Old Pope Francis Is 'First Pope To Write a Line of Code' 97
Oracle's Surprise Unannounced Layoffs 'Clear-Cut Teams of Engineers' 180
Researchers Created Reprogrammable Molecular Algorithms For DNA Computers 22
TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages 138
Over 100,000 GitHub Repos Have Leaked API or Cryptographic Keys 52
Facebook Knew of Cambridge Analytica Data Misuse Earlier Than Reported 70
Walmart Is Looking Into Launching Its Own Cloud Gaming Service, Report Says 76
Tesla Sues Former Employees For Allegedly Stealing Data, Autopilot Source Code 87
Coders' Primal Urge To Kill Inefficiency -- Everywhere 181
LLVM 8.0 Released With Cascade Lake Support, Better Diagnostics, More OpenMP/OpenCL 36
Researchers Create the First AI-Controlled Robotic Limb That Can Learn To Walk Without Being Programmed 39
Twitter Cracks Down on API Abuse, Will Charge B2B Developers 33
Google's Bad Data Wiped Another Neighborhood Off the Map 76
Valve's Steam Link Will Let You Stream Your PC Games Anywhere 7
Google Launches Android Q Beta 1 33
Amazon's Alexa has 80,000 Apps -- and No Runaway Hit 93
Node.js and JS Foundations Are Merging To Form OpenJS 38
Microsoft Asks Users To Call Windows 10 Devs About ALT+TAB Feature 235
CSS To Get Support For Trigonometry Functions 135
Cringley's Next 2019 Predictions: Only 3.5 Cloud Players Will Survive 148
The Official Android Beta Community Moves From Google+ To Reddit 33
'Java 9, It Did Break Some Things': Oracle Bod Admits To Developers Still Clinging To Version 8 251
A 60 Minutes Story on Gender Equality Accidentally Proved the Persistence of Patriarchy 529
Nintendo To Smartphone Game Makers: You Can Only Gouge Our Players So Much 29
Researchers Uncover Ring of GitHub Accounts Promoting 300+ Backdoored Apps 54
Massive Database Leak Exposes China's 'Digital Surveillance State' 72
MariaDB CEO Accuses Large Cloud Vendors of Strip-Mining Open Source 200
Police In Canada Are Tracking People's 'Negative' Behavior In a 'Risk' Database 207
Dry.io Wants To Democratize Software Development Using AI 122
Drupal 7 Will Reach End-of-Life in November of 2021 46
Bill Gates, Amazon and Google Urge Followers To Share Data On Teacher Friends 65
Apple Expected To Move Mac Line To Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting Next Year, Says Report 356
Lessons From Six Software Rewrite Stories 118
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Programming Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? 137
Experts Find Serious Problems With Switzerland's Online Voting System 63
Oracle Claims a Fighter of Pirated Apps is a Front For Ad Fraud 28
Google Is Expected To Reveal Game Streaming Service At GDC In March 59
Apple To Target Combining iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps by 2021: Report 124
Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database 357
Programming Interview Questions Are Too Hard and Too Short 463
Deep Learning May Need a New Programming Language That's More Flexible Than Python, Facebook's Chief AI Scientist Says 263
US Labor Organization AFL-CIO Urges Game Developers To Unionize In Open Letter 158
Developers Accuse Sony of 'Playing Favorites' With PS4's Cross-Platform Support 20
Google Play Store App Rejections Up 55% From Last Year, App Suspensions Up 66% 23
Researchers Use Intel SGX To Put Malware Beyond the Reach of Antivirus Software 63
Ubisoft And Mozilla Announce AI Coding Assistant Clever-Commit 40
IBM Says Watson AI Services Will Now Work on Any Cloud 16
Google Docs Gets an API For Task Automation 35
Python Developer Survey Shows Data Analysis More Popular Than Web Development 42
Apple Tells App Developers To Disclose Or Remove Screen Recording Code 33
Google Play Store Now Open For Progressive Web Apps 49
Homebrew 2.0 is Here With Official Support For Linux and Windows 76
Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? 519
AI-Driven Python Code-Completion Tool 'Kite' Attracts $17M In Investments 87
The Kremlin's Remote-Access Credentials Left Thousands Of Businesses Exposed For Years 54
India's Largest Bank SBI Leaked Account Data On Millions of Customers 23
Attackers Can Track Kids' Locations Via Connected Watches 33
Google's Also Peddling a Data Collector Through Apple's Back Door 46
Chrome 72 Arrives With Code Injection Blocking, New Developer Features 103
JavaScript Overtakes Java As Most Popular Programming Language 225
Twitter Might Punish Users Who Tweet 'Learn To Code' At Laid-Off Journalists 418
Meet the Bots That Review and Write Snippets of Facebook's Code 29
Do Debian APT and PHP Pear Patches Highlight Vulnerability In Package Management Infrastructure? 48
Intel Is Working On A Vulkan Overlay Layer, Inspired By Gallium3D HUD 71
Google Asks Supreme Court To Rule On When Code Can Be Copyrighted 203
Nearly Half of Game Developers Want To Unionize 115
Program Allows Ordinary Digital Camera To See Around Corners 54
Oracle Systematically Underpaid Thousands of Women, Lawsuit Says 394
GitHub Seeks Feedback on 'Open Source Sustainability' 87
Rust 1.32.0 Stable Release Includes New Debugging Macro, 'Quality of Life' Improvements 96
Red Hat Rejects MongoDB's 'Discriminatory' Server Side Public License 106
Giving Algorithms a Sense of Uncertainty Could Make Them More Ethical 74
Google Play Malware Used Phones' Motion Sensors To Conceal Itself 55
Collection 1 Data Breach Exposes More Than 772 Million Email Addresses 68
Google's Transition To 64-Bit Apps Begins in August, 32-Bit Support To End in 2021 93
Hackers Broke Into An SEC Database and Made Millions From Inside Information, Says DOJ 60
WordPress To Show Warnings on Servers Running Outdated PHP Versions 52
Hack Allows Escape of Play-With-Docker Containers 45
Android Studio 3.3 Now Available To Download On Stable Channel, New Version Focuses On 'Refinement and Quality' 14
200 Million Chinese Resumes Leak In Huge Database Breach 70
You Can Now Profile Python Using Arm Forge 103
Improbable, Epic Games Establish $25 Million Fund To Help Devs Move To 'More Open Engines' After Unity Debacle 80
AWS Launches Fully-Managed Document Database Service 59
Software Developer Tops List of U.S. News & World Report's Annual Best Jobs Rankings 128
GitHub Free Users Now Get Unlimited Private Repositories 74
Eben Upton Remembers The Years Before the First Raspberry Pi 106
Ethereum Plans To Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption By 99 Percent 136
GIMP Developers Outline Plan For 2019 170
The Old Guard of Mac Indy Apps Has Thrived For More Than 25 Years 133

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