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New ‘StoatWaffle’ malware auto‑executes attacks on developers

The newly observed malware abuses VS Code’s “runOn:folderOpen” feature to execute automatically from trusted projects, enabling near-frictionless compromise.

By Shweta Sharma

Mar 24, 20263 mins

DeveloperMalwareSecurity

.Net Standard 2.1 roadmap: The new features you can expect

Thousands of APIs will be added, including the Span<T> type to represent memory

By Paul Krill

Nov 9, 2018 2 mins

Microsoft .NET Software Development

Docker unveils Windows Server app migration program

Apps running on obsolete Windows Server systems can be containerized and ported out, even if they depend on platform-specific components

By Serdar Yegulalp

Nov 8, 2018 2 mins

Software Development

YotaScale puts predictive analytics into cloud ops

Now working on AWS, the platform provides insights into cloud deployments

By Paul Krill

Nov 8, 2018 1 min

Cloud Computing Cloud Management Predictive Analytics

What’s new in NativeScript 5.0

The framework that turns JavaScript, TypeScript, and Angular into native mobile apps adds starter templates, has direct Vue.js support

By Paul Krill

Nov 7, 2018 4 mins

JavaScript Mobile Development Software Development

What’s new in Gradle 5.0

The Java and Android build tool adds Kotlin support and updated Java support

By Paul Krill

Nov 6, 2018 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development Technology Industry

GraphQL gets its own foundation

The intent is to grow a neutral ecosystem for the Facebook-developed technology for API development

By Paul Krill

Nov 6, 2018 2 mins

APIs Mobile Development Open Source

What’s new in the ASP.Net Core 3.0 web framework

Microsoft will tighten up .Net Core integration, changing and removing several capabilities

By Paul Krill

Nov 2, 2018 4 mins

Microsoft .NET Technology Industry Web Development

What’s new in Kotlin 1.3

Kotlin 1.3 introduces contracts to the type system

By Paul Krill

Oct 30, 2018 8 mins

JavaScript Software Development Technology Industry

Oracle’s Wookiee brings microservices to Scala developers

The open source framework is tailored to building concurrent, message-driven applications

By Paul Krill

Oct 30, 2018 2 mins

Open Source Scala Software Development

Qt Design Studio reaches production status

UI prototyping and development tool links developers and designers

By Paul Krill

Oct 29, 2018 1 min

Development Tools Software Development

Oracle’s Wookiee brings microservices to Scala developers

The open source framework is tailored to building concurrent, message-driven applications

By Paul Krill

Oct 26, 2018 2 mins

Open Source Scala Technology Industry

Java SE’s OpenJDK could be headed to GitHub

Developers could see more automation if the project moves from Oracle’s Mercurial server

By Paul Krill

Oct 25, 2018 2 mins

Development Tools Open Source Technology Industry

Java SE’s OpenJDK could be headed to GitHub

Developers could see more automation if the project moves from Oracle’s Mercurial server

By Paul Krill

Oct 23, 2018 2 mins

Java Technology Industry Version Control Systems

What’s new in Ubuntu Linux 18.10 ‘Cosmic Cuttlefish’

Ubuntu 18.10 “Cosmic Cuttlefish” arrives with the Linux 4.18 kernel, the Gnome 3.30 desktop, and improved support for gaming-level graphics

By Serdar Yegulalp

Oct 19, 2018 3 mins

Open Source Software Development

Atlassian retools Jira project management tool

Cloud-based tool is reworked with small teams in mind

By Paul Krill

Oct 18, 2018 1 min

Development Tools Software Development

PostgreSQL 11 taps LLVM and parallelization for speed boost

The powerful open source database now offers more features for data sharing, JIT-accelerated queries, and transactions inside stored procedures

By Serdar Yegulalp

Oct 18, 2018 2 mins

Databases Open Source SQL

So long, JCP: Eclipse has a new Java spec process in mind

The Eclipse Foundation seeks an open source, lightweight, code-first approach to evolving enterprise Java

By Paul Krill

Oct 18, 2018 2 mins

Java Open Source

So long, JCP: Eclipse has a new Java spec process in mind

The Eclipse Foundation seeks an open source, lightweight, code-first approach to evolving enterprise Java

By Paul Krill

Oct 17, 2018 2 mins

Java Open Source

GitHub Actions to let developers do CI/CD in GitHub

Beta workflow tool supports cloud deployments, code containers

By Paul Krill

Oct 16, 2018 1 min

Build Automation Software Development Version Control Systems

WebAssembly, JavaScript links get faster in Firefox

The Firefox Nightly beta makes these calls run faster than non-in-lined JavaScript-to-JavaScript function calls

By Paul Krill

Oct 15, 2018 2 mins

Software Development Web Development

Puppet builds project and vulnerability assessment tools for devops

The beta tools are designed to help assess devops results and automate security remediations

By Paul Krill

Oct 11, 2018 1 min

Development Tools Devops Software Development

Microsoft open-sources Infer.Net machine learning

The technology will become part of the ML.Net framework for statistical modeling and online learning

By Paul Krill

Oct 9, 2018 2 mins

Machine Learning Microsoft .NET Technology Industry

Swift, Go, and R vie for Tiobe Top 10, but for how long?

Emerging languages claim top slots in the Tiobe index, but will they withstand the test of time?

By Paul Krill

Oct 9, 2018 2 mins

Golang Java R Language

Microsoft smartens up the ML.Net machine learning API

Microsoft’s TensorFlow-compatible machine learning framework debuts a reworked API for more flexible pipelines and improved prediction performance

By Serdar Yegulalp

Oct 9, 2018 2 mins

Machine Learning Microsoft .NET Open Source

Topped out? Swift, Go, and R vie for Tiobe Top 10

All three languages face limitations that could cap developer enthusiasm for the long term

By Paul Krill

Oct 9, 2018 2 mins

Golang R Language Swift

PyTorch 1.0 accelerates Python machine learning with native code

The PyTorch 1.0 release candidate introduces Torch Script, a Python subset that can be JIT-compiled into C++ or other high-speed code

By Serdar Yegulalp

Oct 3, 2018 2 mins

Machine Learning Open Source Python

Nuitka Python-to-C compiler readies big performance gains

Nuitka 0.6 lays the groundwork for major code optimizations — and faster and more portable Python applications

By Serdar Yegulalp

Oct 2, 2018 2 mins

Development Tools Open Source Python

Eclipse takes over all Java EE reference components

Oracle has contributed 100 percent of Java EE and GlassFish application server components to the foundation

By Paul Krill

Oct 1, 2018 2 mins

Java Open Source Technology Industry

Meet Wasmjit, your future embeddable WebAssembly runtime

Wasmjit, now a proof of concept in beta, is intended to be a Linux kernel module

By Paul Krill

Oct 1, 2018 2 mins

Software Development Web Development

Java JDK 11: All the new features now available

CORBA, Java EE, and JavaFX support are removed, but more than a dozen major new features have been added

By Paul Krill

Sep 25, 2018 8 mins

Java Software Development

Azure’s new machine learning features embrace Python

New tools for Azure ML include integration with Python environments and self-tuning training for machine learning models

By Serdar Yegulalp

Sep 25, 2018 2 mins

Microsoft Azure Python Technology Industry

Revised proposal could solve longstanding C++ bugs

Prominent C++ developer Herb Sutter has proposed eliminating many dangling and null reference bugs in C++

By Paul Krill

Sep 25, 2018 2 mins

C++ Software Development

What’s new in Apple’s Swift 4.2 language

The programming language for MacOS and iOS apps offers an improved package manager, new source-code compatibility option, and many language improvements

By Paul Krill

Sep 21, 2018 6 mins

Software Development Swift

Next.js 7 framework compiles faster, supports WebAssembly

Better error reporting and support for the React context API are also added

By Paul Krill

Sep 21, 2018 2 mins

JavaScript Open Source Web Development

Removed from JDK 11, JavaFX 11 arrives as a standalone module

Developers must now explicitly include JavaFX modules in applications

By Paul Krill

Sep 20, 2018 2 mins

Java Technology Industry Web Development

Removed from JDK 11, JavaFX 11 arrives as a standalone module

Developers must now explicitly include JavaFX modules in applications

By Paul Krill

Sep 20, 2018 2 mins

Software Development Technology Industry Web Development

LLVM 7 improves performance analysis, linking

The compiler framework that powers Rust, Swift, and Clang offers new and revised tools for optimization, linking, and debugging

By Serdar Yegulalp

Sep 19, 2018 3 mins

Open Source Programming Languages Software Development

Microsoft’s SignalR real-time service moves to the cloud

The cloud service is geared to apps including social networks and GPS

By Paul Krill

Sep 18, 2018 2 mins

Microsoft Azure Technology Industry Web Development

Microsoft’s ML.Net framework adds TensorFlow scoring

This capability enables use of an existing model from Google’s TensorFlow deep learning and machine learning toolkit

By Paul Krill

Sep 17, 2018 3 mins

Development Tools Microsoft .NET Technology Industry

HackerRank launches tool to help hire developers

The service for employers promises to assess their hiring practices and assessment tests

By Paul Krill

Sep 14, 2018 2 mins

Careers Engineer

LinkedIn open-sources a tool to run TensorFlow on Hadoop

The Tony project uses Hadoop's native scheduler to run TensorFlow jobs, making fault tolerance and GPU usage easier

By Serdar Yegulalp

Sep 13, 2018 2 mins

Development Tools Machine Learning Open Source

Oracle forges a Java microservices framework

The Helidon framework supports the MicroProfile technology and is intended to make it easier to develop microservices

By Paul Krill

Sep 12, 2018 2 mins

Development Tools Java Technology Industry

TensorFlow.js puts machine learning in the browser

The WebGL-accelerated library works with the Node.js server-side JavaScript runtime, but isn’t on par with Tensorflow’s Python API

By Paul Krill

Sep 11, 2018 2 mins

Development Tools JavaScript Web Development

New Python app profiler uses Rust for speed and safety

The Py-Spy profiler can profile Python applications without modifying source code, and it installs using Python’s native package management

By Serdar Yegulalp

Sep 10, 2018 3 mins

Devops Open Source Python

Microsoft Azure Devops Services puts devops in the cloud

Azure Devops replaces Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), providing services for CI/CD, testing, and kanban project boards

By Paul Krill

Sep 10, 2018 2 mins

Build Automation Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Jenkins CI/CD is in trouble, so its founder wants to split it up

The autonomous nature of the Jenkins community has made it unable to solve some issues, which are becoming more pronounced with the project now more than ten years old

By Paul Krill

Sep 10, 2018 4 mins

Build Automation Devops Open Source

Jenkins CI/CD is in trouble, so its founder wants to split it up

The autonomous nature of the Jenkins community has made it unable to solve some issues, which are becoming more pronounced with the project now more than ten years old

By Paul Krill

Sep 10, 2018 4 mins

Build Automation Devops Open Source