On August 14th, 2024 with 47 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called "The AI Scientist"...
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On August 9th, 2024 with 165 comments
There's a rot at the heart of modern software development that's destroying innovation, and infosec legend Moxie Marlinspike believes he knows exactly what's...
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On August 4th, 2024 with 236 comments
America's Defense Department has launched a project "that aims to develop machine-learning tools that can automate the conversion of legacy C code into Rust,"...
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On August 4th, 2024 with 126 comments
Stack Overflow says over 65,000 developers took their annual survey — and "For the first time this year, we asked if developers felt AI was a threat to...
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On August 3rd, 2024 with 12 comments
Thursday Go's long-time tech lead Russ Cox made an announcement:
Starting September 1, Austin Clements will be taking over as the tech lead of Go: both the...
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On August 1st, 2024 with 4 comments
Open-source compliance and security platform FOSSA has acquired developer community platform StackShare, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. From a report:...
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On July 29th, 2024 with 16 comments
The Python Software Foundation's board "was alerted to a defect in our bylaws that exposes the Foundation to an unbounded financial liability," according to a...
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On July 25th, 2024 with 81 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Conversation, written by Michael W. Crowder, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Dean of the Graduate...
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On July 25th, 2024 with 49 comments
Lindsay Clark reports via The Register: Only 14 percent of Oracle Java subscribers plan to stay on Big Red's runtime environment, according to a study...
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On July 23rd, 2024 with 82 comments
Developer and librarian Misty De Meo, writing about her frustrating experience using GitHub: To me, one of GitHub's killer power user features is its blame...
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On July 19th, 2024 with 15 comments
Oracle agreed to pay $115 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the database software and cloud computing company of invading people's privacy by collecting...
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On July 19th, 2024 with 64 comments
The demand for software developers has declined sharply from the peak seen in 2021 and 2022, according to independent analysis by job portal Indeed and...
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On July 17th, 2024 with 22 comments
GitLab, a U.S. provider of cloud-based software development tools whose investors include Google parent Alphabet, is exploring a sale after attracting...
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On July 16th, 2024 with 76 comments
The latest release of MySQL has underwhelmed some commentators who fear Oracle -- the custodian of the open source database -- may have other priorities. From...
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On July 14th, 2024 with 59 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from InfoWorld:
Rust has leaped to its highest position ever in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity, scaling...
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On July 7th, 2024 with 25 comments
"After sixteen years since the introduction of Python 3, the Fedora project announces that Python 2.7, the last of the Python 2 series, will be retired,"...
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On July 6th, 2024 with 135 comments
IEEE Spectrum (the IEEE's official publication) asks the question. "How does an AI code generator compare to a human programmer?"
A study published in the...
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On July 6th, 2024 with 25 comments
"After approximately seven years in development, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available," writes ADT magazine, "emerging from...
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On June 30th, 2024 with 24 comments
USENIX, the long-running OS/networking research group, also publishes a magazine called ;login:. Today the magazine's editor — security consultant Rik...
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On June 15th, 2024 with 142 comments
Last month TIOBE announced its estimate that the four most popular programming languages were:
1. Python
2. C
3. C++
4. Java
But this month C++ "overtook"...
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On June 15th, 2024 with 26 comments
This week the Rust Foundation jointly announced "the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium" with industry partners including Arm, AdaCore, Lynx Software...
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On June 15th, 2024 with 19 comments
Friday the Python Software Foundation published several blog posts about this year's "Python Language Summit" May 15th (before PyCon US), which featured talks...
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On June 13th, 2024 with 21 comments
During its earnings call on Monday, Oracle CEO Safra Catz told analysts that it is shutting down its ads business. "In Q4, we decided to exit the advertising...
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On June 8th, 2024 with 55 comments
"Rust is the fastest-growing programming language, with its developer community doubling in size over the past two years," writes The New Stack, "yet...
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On May 29th, 2024 with 27 comments
Mistral, the French AI startup backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion, has released its first generative AI model for coding, dubbed Codestral. From a...
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On May 26th, 2024 with 26 comments
"While general-purpose languages like Python, C++, and Java remain popular in AI development," writes VentureBeat, "the resurgence of AI-first languages...
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On May 26th, 2024 with 92 comments
A Rust Foundation blog post begins by reminding readers that Rust programs "are unable to compile if memory management rules are violated, essentially...
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On May 26th, 2024 with 88 comments
"Microsoft has confirmed plans to pull the plug on VBScript in the second half of 2024 in a move that signals the end of an era for programmers," writes Tech...
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On May 23rd, 2024 with 43 comments
The AI boom and a growing talent shortage has resulted in companies paying AI software engineers a whole lot more than their non-AI counterparts. From a...
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On May 19th, 2024 with 93 comments
"The TIOBE Index sets out to reflect the relative popularity of computer languages," writes i-Programmer, "so it comes as something of a surprise to see two...
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