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Retro-Malware: DOS TSRs, Interrupt Handlers, and Far Calls, Part 2
On September 20th, 2016 with 30 comments
The Retro-Malware series is an experiment on original content for SoylentNews,...
Dev Teaches Bot to Talk Spammers' Ears Off
On September 27th, 2016 with 34 comments
rob_on_earth writes: From the register Brian Weinreich has been trolling...
Mirai IoT Botnet Source Code Released
On October 3rd, 2016 with 20 comments
takyon writes:A few hundred thousand cameras want to talk to you:A hacker has...
More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto
On October 11th, 2016 with 43 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:A typeface five years in the making, Google Noto...
UML to be Dropped from Visual Studio
On October 20th, 2016 with 48 comments
jdavidb writes:Microsoft has decided to drop the UML (Unified Modeling...
What Programming Language Should you Learn First?
On November 4th, 2016 with 114 comments
mendax writes:We've had this question asked before I believe but it does no...
Uncle Sam Launches Open Source Trove of Government Code
On November 5th, 2016 with 7 comments
Phoenix666 writes:The United States government has made good on its policy of...
Go: Free Fonts for Go's Emerging Gui Toolkit.
On November 19th, 2016 with 11 comments
RamiK writes:Nigel Tao, Chuck Bigelow and Rob Pike announce:The experimental...
Twice the Bits, Twice the Trouble: Vulnerabilities Induced by Migrating to 64-Bit Platforms
On November 20th, 2016 with 10 comments
CS-batman writes:Adrian Colyer presents a whitepaper by Wressnegger et al. on...
Every Unix Commit from 1970 to Now() as a Pretty Video
On November 28th, 2016 with 19 comments
rob_on_earth writes:
The unix history repo on GitHub has every commit made...
Researchers Develop New Parallel Computing Method
On November 28th, 2016 with 8 comments
Phoenix666 writes:Researchers from Julia Computing, UC Berkeley, Intel,...
Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication
On January 3rd, 2017 with 28 comments
Fnord666 writes:The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks
On January 3rd, 2017 with 15 comments
Fnord666 writes us with news of a new report out of Columbia University on...
Opinion: Should Algorithms Be Regulated?
On January 4th, 2017 with 55 comments
Phoenix666 writes:Accidents involving driverless cars, calculating the...
Q8 - Experiment With Low Level Machine Code Programming in Your Browser
On January 11th, 2017 with 17 comments
randomerr writes:Have you ever wondered what really goes on when your computer...
How to Secure MongoDB
On January 13th, 2017 with 13 comments
Phoenix666 writes:The rise in ransomware attacks on MongoDB installations...
Eric S. Raymond: The Rust Programming Language Severely Disappoints
On January 16th, 2017 with 125 comments
-- OriginalOwner_ writes:Eric S Raymond, author of "The Cathedral and the...
An Explanation of Unix's Most Notorious Code Comment
On January 23rd, 2017 with 19 comments
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:The phrase "You are Not...
Undefined Behavior != Unsafe Programming
On February 16th, 2017 with 55 comments
Phoenix666 writes:John Regehr, Professor of Computer Science, University of...
Microsoft Now Offering Legal Indemnity Program for Azure Users
On March 18th, 2017 with 10 comments
pkrasimirov writes:Microsoft today initiated a new program that promises legal...
Tunneling HTTP over NFC on Android Using Host Card Emulation
On March 25th, 2017 with 2 comments
Phoenix666 writes:Looks like a fun weekend project:This post is to shows how to...
The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions
On March 26th, 2017 with 17 comments
Phoenix666 writes:Ruby 2.4.1 was released this week and included an upgrade to...
A Cyclone Just Left a Shark on the Streets of Australia
On April 1st, 2017 with 9 comments
mrpg writes:A shark was found on the streets of Queensland, Australia, shortly...
The Linux Foundation: Not a Friend of Desktop Linux, the GPL, or Openness
On April 5th, 2017 with 38 comments
MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzardAfter stirring up a ruckus...
MathJax CDN Shutting Down on April 30, 2017
On April 10th, 2017 with 17 comments
martyb writes:The MathJax CDN hosted at cdn.mathjax.org will be shutting down...
Top-Ranked Programming Web Tutorials Introduce Vulnerabilities Into Software
On April 23rd, 2017 with 46 comments
MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzardResearchers have checked...
Banks Should Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die
On April 29th, 2017 with 48 comments
MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzardWe reached out to Daniel...
SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today
On May 4th, 2017 with 54 comments
Phoenix666 writes:SQL and relational database management systems or RDBMS were...
Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You!
On May 4th, 2017 with 41 comments
Phoenix666 writes:NASA wants scientific computer experts to take a look at one...
No Static Analysis
On May 10th, 2017 with 32 comments
isj writes:O'Reilly and Software Improvement Group conducted a survey about...
Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same.
