Software Stories for 2024

Systemd Announces 'run0' Sudo Alternative 319
Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type 78
Oracle Is Moving Its World Headquarters To Nashville 67
Android Gets a New Software-Based AV1 Decoder 13
Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash 19
Broadcom Throws VMware Customers On Perpetual Licenses a Lifeline 40
Framework's Software and Firmware Have Been a Mess 18
VMS Software Prunes OpenVMS Hobbyist Program 60
Rickroll Meme Immortalized In Custom ASIC That Includes 164 Hardcoded Programs 9
Developer Hacks Denuvo DRM After Six Months of Detective Work and 2,000 Hooks 37
Google Brings Keyboard Shortcuts, Custom Mouse Buttons To ChromeOS 15
Canonical Now Doing Manual Reviews For New Packages Due To Scam Apps 37
Proxmox Import Wizard Makes for Easy VMware VM Migrations 39
'Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab' 120
Software Industry Calls for More UK Government Support 47
Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event For June 10 24
Broadcom Is 'Holding the Sector To Ransom' With VMware License Changes, Claims CISPE 110
Cloud Software Group Snubs GPL Obligations, Say Critics 31
Motorola Spoiled a Good Budget Phone With Bloatware 56
Formula 1 Chief Appalled To Find Team Using Excel To Manage 20,000 Car Parts 187
Cognition Emerges From Stealth To Launch AI Software Engineer 'Devin' 95
Trying Out Microsoft's Pre-Release OS/2 2.0 98
Ethereum Network Completes Cost-Cutting 'Dencun' Software Upgrade 15
Apple Releases visionOS 1.1 With Improvements To Persona, EyeSight, Virtual Keyboard and More 26
In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men 36
Court Orders Maker of Pegasus Spyware To Hand Over Code To WhatsApp 53
Self-Pay Gas Station Pumps Break Across NZ As Software Can't Handle Leap Day 92
KDE Plasma 6 Released 35
Firefly Software Snafu Sends Lockheed Satellite on Short-Lived Space Safari 25
New Bill Would Let Defendants Inspect Algorithms Used Against Them In Court 47
VMware Admits Sweeping Broadcom Changes Are Worrying Customers 79
Waymo Recalls and Updates Robotaxi Software After Two Cars Crashed 41
Superlist is the New Wunderlist, After Microsoft Killed the Original 18
John Walker, Founder of Autodesk, Dies At 74 19
Apple Officially Splits iTunes For Windows Into Apple Music, TV, and Devices Apps 31
OpenAI Developing Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks 27
Apple Vision Pro To Launch With Over 600 Apps and Games 83
Microsoft Seeks Rust Developers To Rewrite Core C# Code 77
Dell Terminates Distribution Deal With VMware After Broadcom Acquisition 38
After 32 Years, One of the Net's Oldest Software Archives Is Shutting Down 42
Fujitsu is Sorry That Its Software Helped Send Innocent People To Prison 143
'Technical Glitch' In Payroll Software Sparks Riots In Papua New Guinea 40
Broadcom Ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers 70
Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse 135
OpenAI Launches New Store For Users To Share Custom Chatbots 8
Unity Software Cutting 25% of Staff In 'Company Reset' Continuation 25
Ivanti Warns of Critical Vulnerability In Its Popular Line of Endpoint Protection Software 19
Tesla's First Smart Home Partner Is Samsung SmartThings 21
Since the Demise of Atom, 'Pulsar' Offers an Alternative Code Editor 24

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