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A desktop companion. An open-source education platform. An AI-powered robotics lab. Doly is all that and more. Technology startup Limibit out of Ontario, Canada, has launched on Kickstarter to bring the cute lil buddy bot to life.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Adorable buddy bot aims for the hearts and minds of future roboticists
Even if you have absolutely no tech experience, you can learn how to code from courses that are designed specifically for beginners. In addition to this bundle, you get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional included in the price. Continue reading Learn How to Code From Scratch and Get Microsoft Visual Studio for Only $50
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from SiliconANGLE:
The Rust Foundation, which supports the development of the popular open-source Rust programming language… shared that Google LLC had made a $1 million contribution specifically earm… Continue reading To Help Rust/C++ Interoperability, Google Gives Rust Foundation $1M
When I started my programming journey, the first language that I learned was C++. C++/C should be your pedestal to enter the world of programming. In this post, we are going to learn how you can configure VS Code for Microsoft C++ as it can be a little… Continue reading How to configure VS Code for Microsoft C++
Apple, in a blog post: We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle), a programming language for producing configuration. When thinking about configuration, it is common to think of static languages like JSON, YA… Continue reading Apple Releases Pkl, a Configuration-as-Code Language
theodp writes: Visual Studio Magazine reports on new research on the effect of AI-powered GitHub Copilot on software development which sought to investigate the quality and maintainability of AI-assisted code compared to what would have been written by… Continue reading New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure On Code Quality’
The cybersecurity site SC Media reports that NPM registry users “download deprecated packages an estimated 2.1 billion times weekly, according to a statistical analysis of the top 50,000 most-downloaded packages in the registry.”
Deprecated, archived … Continue reading NPM Users Download 2.1B Deprecated Packages Weekly, Say Security Researchers
“A Canonical engineer has been experimenting with implementing a Linux scheduler within the Rust programming language…” Phoronix reported Monday, “that works via sched_ext for implementing a scheduler using eBPF that can be loaded during run-time.”
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The 2024 Embedded Systems Engineer Bootcamp Bundle offers an introduction to the creation of microcontrollers plus the programming that makes them work. Continue reading Discover How Embedded Systems Technology Works With This $15 Training Package
Interesting research: “Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?“:
Abstract: We conduct the first large-scale user study examining how users interact with an AI Code assistant to solve a variety of security related tasks across different programming languages. Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI’s codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access. Additionally, participants with access to an AI assistant were more likely to believe they wrote secure code than those without access to the AI assistant. Furthermore, we find that participants who trusted the AI less and engaged more with the language and format of their prompts (e.g. re-phrasing, adjusting temperature) provided code with fewer security vulnerabilities. Finally, in order to better inform the design of future AI-based Code assistants, we provide an in-depth analysis of participants’ language and interaction behavior, as well as release our user interface as an instrument to conduct similar studies in the future…
Continue reading Code Written with AI Assistants Is Less Secure