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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation assert that C, C++, and other memory-unsafe languages contribute to potential security breaches. Continue reading Software Makers Encouraged to Stop Using C/C++ by 2026
Writing code without having some way to easily organize sets of variables or data would be a real bother. Even if in the end you could totally do all of …read more Continue reading Programming Ada: Records and Containers for Organized Code
In the previous installment in this series we looked at how to set up an Ada development environment, and how to compile and run a simple Ada application. Building upon …read more Continue reading Programming Ada: Packages and Command Line Applications
Who doesn’t want to use a programming language that is designed to be reliable, straightforward to learn and also happens to be certified for everything from avionics to rockets and …read more Continue reading Programming Ada: First Steps on the Desktop
A new report promotes preventing cyberattacks by using memory-safe languages and the development of software safety standards. Continue reading White House Recommends Memory-Safe Programming Languages and Security-by-Design
From the consumer space it often would appear as if Intel’s CPU making history is pretty much a straight line from the 4004 to the 8080, 8088 and straight into …read more Continue reading The i960: When Intel Almost Went RISC
Have your say on three deep questions posed by this week’s podcast. Read or listen as suits you best… Continue reading S3 Ep104: Should hospital ransomware attackers be locked up for life? [Audio + Text]
Hacking on actual computers is one thing, but hacking purposefully on imaginary computers is, these days, something we can only imagine. Continue reading Move over Patch Tuesday – it’s Ada Lovelace Day!
Back in the last century, the US Department of Defense declared that Ada was going to be used everywhere and for everything. Books were published, schools build curriculum. Working programmers, however, filled out waivers to continue working in their languages of choice. As a result, only a little bit of …read more
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams get caught up on the most interesting hacks of the past week. On this episode we take a deep dive into radiation-monitor projects, both Geiger tube and scintillator based, as well as LED cube projects that pack pixels onto six PCBs with parts …read more