Deal: Stack Overflow Sold To Prosus For $1.8B
If you’re a software developer, chances are you know Stack Overflow, the go-to Q&A site for developers. Well, there’s big news in that regard, …
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My apps were listed at the top of Developers Tools (iOS and Mac App Stores), I made around $60
I love building developer tools and utilities. And, I believe the reason is simple, because I am a developer, and those tools I …
Google Course: Technical Writing for Software Engineers
Every engineer is also a writer. This collection of courses and learning resources aims to improve your technical documentation. Learn how to plan …
Google Hash Code — When failure teaches you much more than winning does
Last year, a couple of my friends and I participated in the Google Hash Code 2020 Competition. We met physically, had a large …
New Spectre attack once again sends Intel and AMD scrambling for a fix
Since 2018, an almost endless series of attacks broadly known as Spectre has kept Intel and AMD scrambling to develop defenses to mitigate …
We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
The late nineties dream of search engines was that they would use grand-scale Artificial Intelligence to find everything, understand most of it and help us retrieve the best of …
EU charges Apple with breach of competition law
The iPhone maker unfairly puts music-streaming rivals at a disadvantage due to its App Store rules, the EU’s competition commissioner has said. Read …
Microsoft joins Bytecode Alliance to advance WebAssembly – aka the thing that lets you run compiled C/C++/Rust code in browsers
The Bytecode Alliance, formed by Fastly, Intel, Mozilla, and Red Hat to move WebAssembly beyond the browser, has created a non-profit organization with …
University of Minnesota security researchers apologize for deliberately buggy Linux patches
The abashed University of Minnesota researchers apologized for their blunders, but the issues are far from resolved. And, Linus Torvalds briefly addresses the …
Bad software sent postal workers to jail, because no one wanted to admit it could be wrong
For the past 20 years UK Post Office employees have been dealing with a piece of software called Horizon, which had a fatal flaw: bugs …