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“The job of the computer is to not require C++ to be useful,” said Huang at NVIDIA GTC 2024. Continue reading NVIDIA GTC 2024: CEO Jensen Huang’s Predictions About the Future of Prompt Engineering
An anonymous reader quotes a report from InfoWorld: C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup has defended the widely used programming language in response to a Biden administration report that calls on developers to use memory-safe languages and avoid using vulne… Continue reading C++ Creator Rebuts White House Warning
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After 20 years of development, the open source GnuCOBOL “has reached an industrial maturity and can compete with proprietary offers in all environments,” said OCamlPro founder and GnuCOBOL contributor Fabrice L… Continue reading Free/Libre ‘GnuCOBOL’ Compiler Reaches Maturity, Can Compete with Proprietary Offerings
C++ guru Herb Sutter writes about how we can improve the programming language for better security.
The immediate problem “is” that it’s Too Easy By Default™ to write security and safety vulnerabilities in C++ that would have been caught by stricter enforcement of known rules for type, bounds, initialization, and lifetime language safety.
His conclusion:
We need to improve software security and software safety across the industry, especially by improving programming language safety in C and C++, and in C++ a 98% improvement in the four most common problem areas is achievable in the medium term. But if we focus on programming language safety alone, we may find ourselves fighting yesterday’s war and missing larger past and future security dangers that affect software written in any language…
theodp writes: Tech-backed nonprofit Code.org on Wednesday fired the latest salvo in its legal battle over $3 million in unpaid licensing fees for the use of Code.org’s free [for non-commercial purposes] K-12 computer science curriculum by WhiteHat Jr…. Continue reading Code.org Tells Court Zuckerberg-Backed Byju’s Undermines Mission To Teach Kids CS
It can autonomously plan and execute thousand-step tasks. It can build and deploy entire software projects all by itself. It can research and fix bugs 7x better than OpenAI’s GPT-4, and it trains and deploys its own custom AIs to solve problems.Continu… Continue reading Next-gen AI software developer spawns and trains its own AIs
In this Help Net Security interview, Omkhar Arasaratnam, General Manager at the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), discusses the evolution of memory-safe programming languages and their emergence in response to the limitations of languages like… Continue reading Transitioning to memory-safe languages: Challenges and considerations
Long-time Slashdot reader garote writes: It’s the year 1991. You’re a teenage computer geek. You’ve just upgraded to an Apple IIgs, your first “16-bit” computer. To relieve the crushing boredom of your High School coursework, you and your friends embar… Continue reading The Apple IIgs: On a Machine This Slow, You Had To Get Weird
Firstly, a quote from a good article about the importance of memory safety by memorysafety.org:
How common are memory safety vulnerabilities?
Extremely. A recent study found that 60-70% of vulnerabilities in iOS and macOS are memory safet… Continue reading Can and should a penetration test report include an informational note about not having used a (by-design) memory-safe programming language?
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: CACM [Communications of the ACM] Is Now Open Access,” proclaims the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in its tear-down-this-CACM-paywall announcement. “More than six decades of CACM’s renowned research a… Continue reading ‘Communications of the ACM’ Is Now Open Access