Collaborate Disseminate
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
Rust’s official survey team released results from their 8th annual survey “focused on gathering insights and feedback from Rust users”.
In terms of operating systems used by Rustaceans, the situation is very similar to the results from 2022, with Linu… Continue reading Rust Survey Finds Linux and VS Code Users, More WebAssembly Targeting
Stack Overflow has launched an API that will require all AI models trained on its coding question-and-answer content to attribute sources linking back to its posts. And it will cost money to use the site’s content. From a report: “All products based on… Continue reading Stack Overflow To Charge LLM Developers For Access To Its Coding Content
Python is one of the easiest programming languages and at the same time, it’s futuristic as it is used in Machine Learning, Data analysis, and more. One of the best IDEs for Python or programming in general is Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code… Continue reading How to install Python in VS Code
Tontoman shares a report: The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged tech companies to switch to memory-safe programming languages, such as Rust, to improve software security by reducing the number of memory safety vulnerabiliti… Continue reading White House Urges Devs To Switch To Memory-Safe Programming Languages
VS Code and Visual Studio C++ IntelliSense may be unable to pick up libraries, especially when working on a large project. We saw the error message “cannot open source file ‘string.h’” (dependency of “wx/wx.h”) when hoveri… Continue reading VSCode and VS C++ IntelliSense not working or picking up libraries
In this Help Net Security interview, Itamar Friedman, CEO of Codium AI, discusses the integration of AI into DevOps practices and its impact on software development processes, particularly in automating code review, ensuring compliance, and improving e… Continue reading AI-driven DevOps: Revolutionizing software engineering practices
The White House is asking the technical community to switch to using memory-safe programming languages – such as Rust, Python, Swift, C#, Java, and Go – to prevent memory corruption vulnerabilities from entering the digital ecosystem. Accor… Continue reading White House: Use memory-safe programming languages to protect the nation